Stories by Gary Ng

Ever since the release of JailbreakMe.com, people around the world have been jailbreaking their iPhones with ease (and even those inside Apple Stores). More important, this new jailbreak made it possible for everyone to easily unlock their iPhones with ultrasn0w. Since August 5th, the iPhone Dev Team reports that 784974 ultrasn0w 1.0-1 unlocks as of...

Remember when Rogers last posted about their iPhone 4 updates? On their Redboard, they told customers that stock would be arriving on Saturday, August 7th. Due to this information, many of you lined up outside Rogers stores hoping to get an iPhone 4. However, the exact opposite occurred. There was no stock. You wasted your...

You probably heard about RIM's latest smartphone offering--the Blackberry Torch. The Torch includes a touchscreen coupled with a slider keyboard. The biggest change in the Torch is the inclusion of an improved web browser, based on WebKit (the engine that powers mobile Safari and every other major smartphone web browser). The Blackberry web browser previously,...

It looks like waiting in line on iPhone 4 launch day (and even camping out overnight) has been paying dividends for early iPhone 4 adopters. As for everyone else, right now it looks like the iPhone 4 is sold out coast to coast. People have been waiting in line outside Apple Stores in Vancouver for...

Did you buy an unlocked iPhone 4 from Apple? If you did, here is some very important info for you. Apparently some people who purchased unlocked iPhone 4 units have had issues of being sold locked phones. iPhoneinCanada.ca Forums user draz and iFoneHome have started some threads here and here on this issue. iFoneHome bought...

If you haven't gotten your hands on an iPhone 4 yet, it is becoming quite the challenge to acquire one. People have been waiting in line at the Apple Stores here in Vancouver, hoping that stocks have arrived for unlocked iPhones. If you're looking for an iPhone 4 from Rogers, today is the day you...

**This is an opinion piece by Chris Aceto, contributing writer.** I'm heading to California next week and I thought I'd plan ahead by calling Rogers and activating a US Data Pack. On the Rogers website I noticed some interesting plans on the Smartphone Data Plan page, namely the $40 travel plan. TRAVEL PLAN $40/mo 1...

Are you an iPhone/iPad developer? There's one conference you have to be at--and that's the 2010 iPhone/iPad DevCon in San Diego happening on September 27-29th! We are media partners with the conference and will be there. Here's the media blurb you need to know about! Click here download the course catalogue. The iPhone iPad Developers...

One of the major features introduced with the newest iPhone 4 is the ability to have two way video calling, which Apple calls FaceTime. This new feature allows two iPhone 4 users to connect to each other through either the front or back cameras, over WiFi. However, with the recent jailbreak release of JailbreakMe.com, users...

You should all know by now I love using the invisibleSHIELD on all my Apple toys. It's on my aluminum MacBook, iPad, and iPhone 2G/3G/3GS. Now, my iPhone 4 has joined the club. Earlier we posted about how the new full body iPhone 4 invisibleSHIELD includes side protection, which helps solve the "antennagate" issue. iPhone...

I've been testing FaceTime on my iPhone 4 and I must say it's a pretty sweet feature. It's literally bringing back chatting with humans in real life, instead of texting, tweeting, emailing, etc (that is for those who like to spend time in a dark basement in the summer). With the return of the easiest...

I've been noticing over the past few days that my iPhone 4 seems to vibrate very softly, sporadically throughout day. At first I thought I was crazy. The vibration is barely noticeable and the first few times it happened I simply dismissed it thinking must be going crazy. Luckily I'm not. Anyone else noticing a...