Chris Houghton asked:




As any owner of an iPhone will know, the idea of being able to surf the net any time anywhere straight from your iPhone at no extra charge is a luxury that only Apple could have brought about so well. It is a massive step into the future of mobile internet. What is no so great is the fact that surfing the net, or having the Wi-Fi on really eats up the battery life.

The new iPhone 3G external battery can be simply clipped into the charging port, and will easily give a few extra hours of battery life to your iPhone. It looks awesome, as it must to be worthy of being an accessory for any Apple product, and the flashing blue lights on the battery gives it a ‘wow’ factor, making all you’re your friends say, “ooh, what does that do?”

The only real downside to this product is just the fact that it’s there! You’ll be surfing the internet as usual on your iPhone and you’ll have to hold up the extra weight of a battery along with it, not to mention having to be careful not to snap it off and break both the battery and the iPhone socket simultaneously.

All in all though, this is a great product, and a wonderful addition to any iPhone 3G. This external battery will give you many more hours surfing the net from your sofa or anywhere else, for that matter. At a very reasonable price for what it gives, it’s definitely worth a buy.

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Greg Waters asked:




So you’ve gotten your very own Apple iPhone, right? You’ve added all your important contacts, surfed the net on it, and even bought a few of your favorite songs from iTunes. With iTunes, you have access to a modestly sized collection of music and video downloads, and you have to pay per download. What if you want to build up collection of movies? Or maybe you want to catch up on the latest season of Lost or Prison Break? The cost per iPhone download for each episode can really start to add up!

There’s good news for Apple users like us though! Many programs exist that actually offer unlimited iPhone downloads. For a one time fee, you get access to over 100 million movies, music, TV shows, sports, games and programs. It’s overwhelming to say the least, and the list grows bigger and bigger with new files added daily.

These programs were designed specifically with the iPhone in mind and will allow you to safely download and transfer various media to your phone.

I tried several different iPhone download programs until I found one that I was happy with. Out of all the programs I used, my personal favorite was iPhone Magic. It was by far the easiest program to use, and even my 9-year old daughter figured out how to find her favorite kids show with it.

I was also impressed at how fast I was up and running from the checkout, to downloading movies and games. Once I purchased a copy, I immediately received the download link and installed it. After that it was just a matter of choosing which movies, TV shows, and music I wanted to download.

A great bonus is the DVD-to-Phone software that’s included with iPhone Magic. I actually converted and transferred a few home movies I had on DVD. It’s a really nice feature.

Overall, out of all the programs I tried, I give iPhone Magic high praise because it is so simple to use, has a huge selection of media to choose from, and the downloads are extremely fast! The no questions asked money back guarantee sealed the deal for me. If you own one of these great phones, then you have to have a copy of this iPhone download program.

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Tim Pecunia asked:




The iPhone has sparked a whole new range of touchscreen phones in the mobile industry. Since its launch Apple’s iPhone is steadily becoming one of the best selling phones of all time. Besides its cool looks and unique features, the novelty factor is one of the main driving forces of its astronomical sales. With so many of your friends owning an Iphone, one naturally asks if the novelty factor still exist. The LG VU CU920 mobile phone may prove to be a tempting alternative for iPhone fans.

The LG VU CU920 is an elegantly designed touchscreen phone, just like the iPhone. It has a 3-inch screen featuring a range of very intuitive and use friendly controls. The touch-screen is made of plastic (the iPhone screen is made of glass) so you don’t have to worry about it shattering every time you drop it. It has a 2-megapixel camera that takes pictures and can also record videos (a feature not found on the iPhone). It has over 250 hours (over 10 days) of standby time and its dimensions are very similar to the iPhone (4.25 x 2.16 x 0.51 inches).

One of the most unique features of the LG VU CU920 is that is it able to view TV programs using AT&T’s Mobile TV service. The phone comes with a build in antenna to enhance the reception of TV signals. The LG VU CU920 is also able to send MMS and video messages, another feature not found in the iPhone. The LG mobile phone also have excellent internet connectivity, with a built in web browser.

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Thomas Martinez asked:




When Apple announced that they were going to release the iPhone on June 2007, a lot of people could not wait to get their hands on one. Many lined up outside the stores selling the iPhones and waited for hours. Even before the iPhone was released, there have been many press releases and ads showing its many features and capabilities.

Among these capabilities are its digital camera for still pictures and its ability to browse the web. Of course, you will have to pay for browsing the web using your iPhone since AT&T is an exclusive holder of the iPhones plans. All iPhone users are obliged to use AT&T exclusively in order to get an iPhone. Many people are happy with this since AT&T is not the leading mobile phone service provider.

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Many techies have since tried to break down the iPhone and add in some applications that are not included in its features. Many have succeeded in achieving iPhone tether to allow you, the user, to access EDGE internet on your laptop. This means you can use you iPhone to have unlimited internet access.

There is a procedure that some really talented hackers have developed to install a SOCKS proxy server in your iPhone, the srelay. The srelay is free and is a 4/5 protocol proxy server. It supports IPv6 and IPv4 and can support sock connect/bind request in the protocol v4, v4a and v5. This iPhone tether makes you iPhone the source for an internet connection for your laptop.

The only problem with this very enjoyable addition to your iPhone is that it is not included in its job description. AT&T has not allowed this kind of technology to be done to your iPhone and may be in violation with your contract with them. The iPhone tether would have made you enjoy several hours of internet browsing in your laptop but AT&T could also cut off your subscription or charge you a bigger bill for this.

You would also have to consider the speed that the iPhone tether provides. AT&T could possibly be aware of this loophole and may even charge you for using the iPhone tether against the contract that you have. Just be sure to know the consequences when you try to do something which the iPhone is not supposed to do. It’s even possible that the iPhone battery might run out faster than expected due to this.

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Michael Ferrerya asked:




A lot are going crazy about iPhones, one of the newest Apple products launched in the market. Perhaps you’re one of them. But do you know how to work your way through an iPhone?

Let’s start from the basics. The iPhone is famous for its megasize screen display, which allows you to view messages, pictures, and videos vividly. It has a resolution of 320×480 pixels. It’s a Quad-band phone, and is equipped with Wi-Fi and EDGE technology, courtesy of its exclusive carrier Cingular Wireless. Moreover, it’s Bluetooth ready, so you can flash that wireless headset.

One controversy hounding it is the battery life. You’re only given 8 hours of talk time, with a standby period of 250 hours. With its Internet, you can surf for 6 hours and watch videos for 7 hours. Audio playback, however, is close to round the clock.

Aside from its display screen, the iPhone is also famous with its touch screen technology. It doesn’t boast of any stylus but relies on human fingers-literally. With a slight motion and a touch, you can create varied displays and allow the phone to perform varying functions.

Voice messaging is made simpler and more convenient in an iPhone. It follows the same pattern as electronic mails. Instead of having to listen to all voice mails, you get to select those that will somehow matter to you or invoke urgency. You don’t practically waste time on anything. There’s also relative ease provided by its virtual keyboard. Its basically QWERTY type so you can check out any misspellings in sending your text messages. Apple also incorporated the Safari Web browser, which gives you the luxury of viewing Web pages the way they are. This is because you can resize them to fit into your screen.

Iphone is like an iPod. You can play and store music, videos, TV shows, and movies. You just have to take note of the audio and video formats an iPhone supports. You can also find a variety of entertainment sources. For one, you can depend on P2P file sharing programs, though this may be risky as they are prone to contain adware, spyware, and viruses.

Second, you can download videos and music from iTunes Store for a very minimal fee: $0.99 for every song and $9.99 for every movie. However, since iPhones don’t have download capabilities, you need to store these files first in your hard drive and upload them into the phone. Should they not be in the proper format, you can find some great and effective audio and video converters online.

Indeed, there are a lot of things that you don’t know about iPhones. But then again, mystery drives people to them.

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Paul Schmitt asked:




There are not many places where you can get iPhone Software downloads, and the software selections many times don’t even work. I started searching for places on the web, were I can get all of the iPhone downloads that I would need and want. That’s when I came across the iPhone nova site, there was more than just iPhone software downloads.

The iPhone nova site has downloads for games, movies, TV shows, music, software and much more. Here I can get all of the downloads I need for a one time only membership fee. Other sites charge per download, the nova site gives you unlimited downloads for life 24 hours a day with just a one time only small membership fee. They offer free 24 hour technical support witch is second to none. If you ever have any questions or problems, you can contact them with any technical questions. They will walk you step by step, through any problems you may be having with your iPhone wallpaper downloads.

The downloads are very fast with no restrictions. You can download as many games, music, software, ebooks and wallpaper and software as you want. They give you a very easy software that is very quick and easy to install. Their media selection is huge and covers every variety of music, movies and games. While providing a huge selection of digital Quality movies, music and games they come with excellent quality. The nova site also provides you with DVD to PC to iPhone software, along with Step-by-Step Tutorials to get you started immediately.

One very nice benefit this site offers, is that you can start downloading your iPhone software, music, games, movie downloads within minuets after joining. I have not come across any sites that offers this much, you get what you pay for here. I have seen sites pop up all over for other products but this is truly the only site I have found that is geared only towards the iPhone.

Because this site is only for the iPhone they have covered all the bases for easy fast downloads of your software plus great deal more. I would give the iPhone Nova site a very high rating. This site here is a no brainer if you need iPhone software downloads and fun stuff on your iPhone. If you would like to take a look at the site.

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Corey T Bruhn asked:




Both the iPhone and the Tilt are AT&T smartphones (at least in the United States), however, the overall main difference between the iPhone and the AT&T Tilt, according, at least, to the way the two devices are being marketed, is that the iPhone is being targeted more towards the consumer-user and the AT&T Tilt towards the business-user. Both smartphones, however, have excellent qualities appealing to both types of users.

Both the AT&T Tilt and the iPhone are touch screen smartphones, though the iPhone touch screen can be controlled by your fingers whereas controlling the AT&T Tilt touch screen requires using the included stylus. Beyond the touch screen, the iPhone has a single multi-purpose navigator button while the AT&T Tilt has several additional buttons.

Unlike the iPhone, the AT&T Tilt sports a unique screen design that allows users to slide out a full QWERTY keyboard from behind the main casing and tilt the display upwards so the user can view and control the phone similarly to the way one would a laptop or PC. The iPhone is a single candy bar unit with no sliding parts, though both the iPhone and the AT&T Tilt can be turned sideways for a widescreen view of the display screen as an alternative to the standard portrait.

The weaknesses of the feature-rich iPhone are in the way of the basic, essential functions of a smartphone - call quality and speed of the data network. Even though the AT&T Tilt uses the same EDGE data network as the iPhone, the Tilt has a wider array of wireless options available, including access to the 3G network, a feature the current generation of iPhone’s cannot claim (though a 3G iPhone is reportedly in the works). Also, according to a perusal of online customer feedback, the Tilt also boasts superior call quality over the iPhone. Having said that, however, the iPhone has up to 480 minutes of talk-time whereas the max talk time on the AT&T Tilt is only about half that.

In the way of features, the digital camera on the AT&T Tilt is 3.0 megapixels while the iPhone’s is only 2.0 megapixels. The Tilt includes a GPS but the iPhone does not. The call history on the Tilt is more substantial, indicating talk time duration and other details not available in the iPhone’s call history. Likewise, the Tilt displays a distinction between calls received and calls made whereas the iPhone does not. The processor on the AT&T Tilt is significantly slower than that of the iPhone, with a much higher tendency to freeze up and necessitate a reboot. The iPhone has a much larger built-in storage capacity (at 4-8 GB) while the AT&T Tilt can only hold 128 MB.

The major sweeping difference between the two devices is that the iPhone runs on Apple’s Mac OS X while the AT&T Tilt runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which is tantamount to the difference between any Mac PC or laptop and the equivalent Windows PC or laptop. So the AT&T Tilt offers users, for example, the full Windows Office Mobile suite of programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) while iPhone users benefit from all the innovative software resulting from the newly issued iPhone SDK (software development kit). The bottom line here is that, since most computer-users classify themselves as either Mac-people or Windows-people, the decision as to which device is “better” really boils down to one’s personal preference between Mac and Windows.

The AT&T Tilt sells for at least $100 less than the iPhone.

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Rae Edwards asked:




The shake and tilt iPhone clones are very popular right now. At first, consumers didn’t know what to make of them or whether being able to change music and media by shaking the phone was really a feature that was needed. However, the answer to this seems to be a resounding yes since these phones are among the most popular on the market today.

I think their popularity stems from the fact that it truly is very useful to be able to advance the phone only by shaking it. It frees you from having to look down, stumble, or scroll around. It also means you only have to tilt the phone to move to wide screen. This makes using this phone very intuitive and easy.

Also, consumers seem to know that it’s really silly to spend an arm and a leg on the “latest phone” because truthfully, new technology is coming out all the time. What seemed so innovative yesterday is old news today. And, once that happens, it’s going to be a lot more guilt free to move on when you didn’t spend that much to begin with. Plus, in today’s economy, using a more reasonably priced carrier makes sense if you don’t want to be stuck with one company’s mandated expensive service.

The A88 is among the best selling of these shake to the music clones for a couple of reasons. First, it has all of the standard features we’ve come to expect from CECT, like: an oversized (3.2 inches) finger touch screen; the ability to surf the web, email, and text, via GPRS/SMS/EMS/MMS; full MP3/ MP4 capabilities, a built in web cam and a 2.0 mega pixel digital camera; and expandable memory of up to 2GB.

Second, the camera and photos on this phone are particularly good. You can edit pictures using only your fingers. Some of the shake and tilts only have a 1.3 mp camera so the 2.0 mega pixels is an upgrade. And, the sound system and speakers are as sharp as always. I’ve not had any problems whatsoever with mine.

Here’s a tip. This phone is one and the same as the HiPhone i32. The phones are sometimes called different names, but they have the same features. However, most people know this model as the HiPhone, which usually means you will pay more. Try buying it under the name A88 and you will likely pay less - usually in the low $100 range.

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Star Smith asked:




When you look at the iPhone, it’s hard to argue with the notion that it’s really ahead of all the other smartphones when it comes to style, functionality and looks. Yes, the iPhone is in a category all by itself and therefore you’ve also got to find a great looking Bluetooth headset that compliments your phone perfectly.

When it comes to buying Bluetooth accessories for the iPhone, a quality headset is essential to how well you’ll be able to enjoy using your new smartphone. Fortunately, there are several top-notch wireless headsets that will fit your needs.

VXI BlueParrott B100 Wireless Headset

The VXI BlueParrott is a professional headset that is ergonomically designed for comfort. It has a noise canceling microphone, which you’ll appreciate if you’re going to be using your iPhone in an office environment. It has a 75 foot range, but that seems to vary a bit depending on the area. The clarity is pretty good, but you may sound a little muffled to some callers. This headset is also compatible with standard desk phones.

Plantronics Voyager 510 Wireless Headset

The Plantronics Voyager is truly a new age headset. It can switch back and forth between your iPhone, your PDA or laptop. This is really a smart headset that can detect which device you are using at the time, pretty cool, huh?

It’s comfortable and has excellent sound clarity on both ends. If you’re looking for great style, unfortunately, this headset doesn’t have it, in fact, it looks pretty basic, plus it’s a bit bulky, but if you love functionality, this is one you should really consider.

Jawbone Noise Shield Wireless Headset

If you love style, the Jawbone is your kind of headset. It has a very modern, futuristic design that will make you look cool when wearing it. It’s noise canceling system works like a charm to block out surrounding noise. It can also be worn in either ear.

That sleek design comes at a price. The control buttons are hidden on the back, something you’ll get used to once you use these for a day or so. Also, it’s a little bigger than some other headsets, but it’s also very lightweight. A major problem seems to be trying to get a proper fit that’s comfortable. It’s recommended that you try all of the earbuds and hooks that come with the unit until it fits properly.

Gomadic Wireless Headset

Gomadic claims that this is the best iPhone wireless headset around. Indeed, it has a nice, sleek design and digital noise reduction. The talk time is 12 hours. However, these are not specially made for the iPhone, since they are compatible with other phones, as well. The scoop is that Gomadic is attaching itself to the iPhone for marketing reasons. Therefore, don’t buy these because Gomadic claims they’re the best, compare these with all the other models and make up your own mind.

As you can see, there are lots of great wireless headsets that are a good fit with your new iPhone. When choosing one, it’ll come down to your own personal preferences for size, style and functionality. It’s quite possible that you’ll choose more than one headset. Whichever you buy, make sure you’re getting your money’s worth - your iPhone deserves it.

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Philip Nicosia asked:




With the iPhone news of the Apple launch, the number of iPhone hacks has increased exponentially and a great deal of energy has been put into working through the iPhone software to find where the passwords and the “glue” is for a number of apps. The “Holy Grail” at the moment is iPhone unlocking.

iPhone unlocking is in fact most requested hack, and unlocking means that the iPhone can be used on any network and not just AT&T’s. There have been a couple of claims to have managed this iPhone hack ultimate but so far it’s all just rumors though it seems that a couple are indeed getting close and have managed to gain ownership of the file system. Sieving through the iPhone software and especially the gif images that are embedded seems to be the number preoccupation of any self respecting iPhone hack merchant around the globe.

One writer at GigaOM claims that they have gotten all the iPhone functions working except the telephone, voicemail and text features. To be honest I don’t see the point in all of this, getting an iPhone hack to unlock the beast is not going to be of much use unless you use the iPhone overseas and on top of that you’ll have no 3G support.

Where I do see a value in getting the iPhone software opened up, is that once we have the iPhone unlocked then being able to use the device as an ultimately portable minicomputer working over a wifi network then we have something that’s going to be useful.

On the iPhone news grapevine, it’s not just iPhone hacks that are streaming in thick and fast, there are also a series of full-blown web apps which I have to say is pretty impressive - well done guys! Probably the best one at the moment is the iPhone hack “iChat for iPhone” which provides you with IM capability on AIM. More than that, the iPhone software source is available for this hack and you can host it on your own machine. If you are really serious about keeping up-to-date with the latest in iPhone unlocking and iPhone hacks then check out the iPhone Dev Wiki that seems to me to be the closest to getting an iPhone unlocking hack.

iPhone software that you can download onto your new iPhone can be found at iPhone Applications on the web. Here you’ll find all iPhone software and applications such as iWeather and more games than you can shake a stick at. Unfortunately, until we get iPhone hack that will open up the iPhone to third party applications we are going to have to make do with Apple iPhone software that we’re allowed to play with at the moment.

How long before we have an iPhone hack that will help us unlock the iPhone completely is like asking how long is a piece of string, but with the energy that is being devoted to it, I guess it could be any day now.

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