Stories by Gary Ng

Are you on a contract with Rogers? If you are, after 12 months you are eligible for a Hardware Upgrade Plan (HUP), which means you can upgrade to a new phone. The amount of your discount towards a new handset is based on the annual amount of your cellphone bill (I was unable to use...

In my previous post about what everybody ought to know about iPhone OS 3.0 and jailbroken iPhones, I warned users to not update their firmware until we heard from the Dev Team. Well, low and behold, the iPhone Dev Team the other night responded on their blog already. Their announcement for us all is that...iPhone...

Yesterday Apple previewed the changes that were coming this summer in iPhone OS 3.0. All I can is: it's about time! Apple announced a plethora of features that many of us have been waiting for. The team in Cupertino definitely did not disappoint yesterday. They started us off by telling us about 17 million iPhones...

Today is the day that iPhone OS 3.0 will be previewed by Apple. From what we know so far, it seems as though copy and paste will be in the headlines according to the rumors. While everybody is talking about the possibilities of iPhone OS 3.0 having this and that, what will happen to people...

We're only a day away from the highly anticipated Tuesday Apple Event that will showcase a preview of iPhone OS 3.0! When it comes to any sort of Apple announcement the rumor mills just go absolutely berserkers and into overtime. This time around, one of the last minute iPhone OS 3.0 rumors comes from digg...

We've all heard and experienced too many times the often dismal battery life of the iPhone 3G.  That's when third party solutions emerge on the market to try and help boost the battery life.  So far these have mostly come in the form of accessories that piggy back on the iPhone, and can sometimes double...

Word has gotten out that there will be an Apple Special Event on March 17th. What's going to be announced? Well, for starters we will see a preview of iPhone OS 3.0! On top of this, there will be a new iPhone SDK. The event is going to take place at 10AM PST on Tuesday...

For all you Apple lovers with both an iPhone and iPod Touch, the following news might be important to you: the iPod Touch 2nd generation now can be jailbroken like an iPhone. The iPhone Dev Team previously released a tethered jailbreak, but it was fairly complicated. Yesterday they announced that they have now established an...

The iPhone's touchscreen keyboard is one of the best in the business. Compare it to similar touchscreens and you'll quickly realize they don't even come close (yes, I'm talking to YOU, Blackberry Storm). The iPhone keyboard cannot be mastered in one day. Give it a week and you'll be typing like a pro in no...

When Palm announced at CES and demonstrated their upcoming smartphone, the Pre, many people were excited to see some "real" competition come our way. By now, we all know that despite many attempts from manufacturers such as RIM and HTC, the iPhone is still the phone to beat. Palm Is Ready to Take the Cake...

Hey everyone happy Saturday! Today I'm going to talk about the recent update to xGPS, which was released earlier this week. I was going to post about it earlier but I wanted to actually test it while driving in my car. xGPS is only available for jailbroken iPhones and it is a free turn-by-turn GPS...

For those with jailbroken iPhones, Cydia is the place where you can download 3rd party applications that don't make it into the App Store. Such applications like QIK, PDAnet, Cycorder, Snapture, Winterboard, Clippy, and more. Most applications are free in Cydia, but some can be purchased via PayPal. Well, that process for getting paid apps...