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Update 1: Congrats to the following winners! Expect an email shortly. Jim Mike C. @ScottBlundell Stacey Dempsey Mark Stevens The last giveaway, we gave out five ZAGGsparq 2.0 units thanks to our friends from ZAGG. This time around, it is even better as five ZAGGmate Bluetooth iPad keyboards ($500 total value!) are up for grabs!...

Update 1: Shoppy is now $0.99 in the App Store for an introductory price! Do you use a shopping list when buying groceries? With the iPhone, there's a plethora of 'grocery list' apps out there. One very interesting app popped into my inbox recently--Shoppy. Shoppy is an extremely simple app. While there are other free...

Kik Messenger, based out of Waterloo, has updated their chat app with group messaging and photo sharing. The app made headlines when they were sued by RIM for patent infringement. Kik also raised an additional $8 million dollars on VC funding. While I applaud the new features, Kik still has ways to go before it...

Apple released iOS 4.3 GM to developers last week and recently a few unofficial tutorials have popped up on the web detailing how to jailbreak this GM seed. Big Boss just detailed on his blog a warning to get people to avoid jailbreaking iOS 4.3 GM as it will mess up MobileSubstrate, a requirement for...

The latest iPhone 5 rumour is that Apple will bring an aluminum back casing to the next iPhone, along with a major antenna redesign. This comes from a Chinese source at the Taiwan Economic Daily news, translated by Macotakara.jp: According to a Chinese source, Apple seems to change back form factor of iPhone to aluminum...

The iPhone 4 battery life is pretty decent, but it could be better. If you've been thinking about getting a backup battery, this could be the deal for you. Last December we posted about a killer deal from RichardSolo for the 1800 (RS001). The best-selling 1800 battery is now back on sale until March 31s,...

iOS 4.3 isn't arriving until next week on March 11th, but it appears replacement iPhone 4 units have already started to come shipped with the latest iOS. iPhoneinCanada.ca reader Arif emailed us that his replacement iPhone 4 from Fido came with iOS 4.3 pre-installed. He also mentioned Personal Hotspot works great on Fido. Currently, the...

Update: Rogers contacted us to say this forwarding has stopped. Let us know if you see these changes. We just got a tip about a weird change to the way Rogers handles 404 errors over the 3G network. If you're in Mobile Safari and visit a webpage that is down, you'll get the following message:...

Update 1: More info via this CTV news article. Looks like Telus cut her off, then she called to get it turned back on. Ouch. But Telus spokesman Shawn Hall says that the phone company noticed a spike in Fero's data use almost immediately after she left Canada. The company cut off her service, and...

The Internet got a little worked up today over news that AT&T was apparently "limiting" Personal Hotspot from iOS 4.3 to three WiFi connections. However, it is apparent that AT&T wasn't at fault, but the limiting to three WiFi connections is part of iOS 4.3, as clearly stated on Apple's website. Here is the description...

Justin Luey and I discuss Steve Jobs’ iPad 2 keynote on Episode 29 of The iPhone Podcast. Listen in if you want to hear a breakdown of the keynote and our thoughts on iPad 2! Please rate us in iTunes! Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on...

Update 1: YouTube embed now available. We were one of the first to post about this on the web, and no YouTube rip was available. Enjoy.   Conan O'Brien is awesome. TeamCoco made a hilarious video mocking the iPad 2 launch. Now, they have managed to play a round of life-sized Angry Birds right on...