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One of the best ways to protect your precious iPhone 3G is with a case, either silicone, plastic, or leather. My current solution is the invisibleSHIELD by ZAGG and just yesterday I installed it on my 2nd replacement unit I received from Rogers (which, funny enough the UPS guy decided to let my neighbour sign...

FINALLY! Apple has a released their first update for firmware 2.0 today. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Ever since I've had my iPhone 3G it's been very slow, sluggish, and would reboot by itself automatically at randome times (FAIL!). The firmware version 2.0.1 update is roughly a 250MB download and will...

Hey all! Today's discussion will be about Visual VoiceMail with the iPhone 3G. Visual Voicemail What is Visual Voicemail? Visual Voicemail is being able to see and access your voicemails in whichever order you want. It provides you with the option to see and directly go to any of your messages without having to listen...

Many people have had this issue with syncing their iPhone 3G's--long sync times. What gives? Well it turns out the delay has been linked to the iPhone's sending of diagnostic data back to Apple. The following procedure does not remove the backup process itself, so your precious iPhone data will still be there. I just...

The invisibleSHIELD has a long standing reputation as one of the premier screenprotectors for electronics out there. When I managed to get my hands on a sample for my first gen iPhone, I wasn't sure what to think. I had heard about them before but never really tried them out. After seeing the positive results...

When I first tasted the speeds of 3G wireless data my mouth salivated like Pavlov's dog. After playing around with an iPhone 3G test unit at the Rogers dealer inside Tillicum Mall in Victoria, I was impressed with how quickly Safari was loading web pages. Waiting at red lights in the car has become even...

Eureka! In about a week's time the latest iPhone firmware 2.0 has been cracked and the Pwnage tool was released yesterday by the iPhone Dev Team. This is great news to people who are using first generation iPhones, iPod Touches, and the iPhone 3G. For all the people who aren't hardcore iPhone users and have...

When this blog was launched last December, it catered to people who had unlocked first gen iPhones. Well, now that the iPhone has officially launched in Canada, a new breed of visitors now visit the site--newly minted iPhone 3G owners. There are some pretty neat tricks and tips that some of the non-hardcore iPhone users...

Do you ever reminisce back to the days of jailbreaking and 3rd party applications on the first gen iPhone? Whenever I wrote reviews of applications or the top iPhone optimized websites I had to take screenshots. The first program I used was ScreenShot, but then Capture ended up becoming the screenshot program of choice. What...

Holy toledo! Can you believe how fast the weeks have gone by? Tomorrow morning at 8am across Canada eager Canucks will be waiting in line for their iPhone 3G (including yours truly) at Rogers Plus locations. Don't forget Fido stores, Rogers kiosks and other authorized dealers too. It started off with Rogers just lambasting Canadians...

**Win a FREE OtterBox Defender “Pink” iPhone Case! Post a Comment to Win!** Safari on the iPhone rocks the big one. It is just awesome for surfing the net on your iPhone (like trying to find out places to eat) and being able to launch multiple windows is a great feature (can't wait to be...

One of the most popular questions asked by forum members and readers of this blog is "I've unlocked my iPhone--now what do I do?" Well, to answer that one of our iPhoneinCanada.ca Forum legendary member, the one and only X1Zero has written a mini guide to assist all you newcomers out there. The following guide...