iPhone

What's a name really all about? I've noticed, you probably have too, that there is some hype over the name of what the newest generation of the iPhone is going to be. Some suggestions that have cropped up are the iPhone 4G, iPhone lite, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 (obviously). Why do we care so much? Reason one:...

Today marks the iPhone's 4th anniversary in the US. Canadians weren't so lucky to have the iPhone available - well sort of. There were ways to get the iPhones for Canadians and ways to unlock your phone to use it in Canada. The guys and girls at Mashable made up this infographic of milestones in...

It was only a few days ago that we reviewed Payfirma, a mobile payment system that is similar to the more popular Square but is available for use in Canada. Now NetSecure Technologies has introduced Kudos. Square, Payfirma and Kudos all have the same premise - to allow any size of business to accept credit cards...

  More and more Canadians are accessing the internet away from their traditional computers and using either Apple's iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The latest report from comScore reports a combined 83% of mobile internet traffic in Canada in May for all three devices. The report covers 13 countries over 5 continents. Canadians use their...

Hasso-Plattner-Institut has developed 'Imaginary Phone', a technology that enables users to control their mobile device without actually touching the device! Instead of holding a mobile device, users simply mimic the interaction of using a device on the palm of their hand. The technology works by having users wear a depth camera that sends input events...

A fresh, new app from the aptly named "The App Boutique" for my peeps in Toronto: Next Streetcar. While I personally don't ride the Red Rocket, I know many iPhone riders that do (well...one anyway!) and this app will definitely come in handy. Using the built-in GPS, the app finds your closest TTC streetcar stop...

In an interesting read from our friends at 9to5Mac, Nokia CEO Stephan Elop speaks candidly about Nokia's position in the smartphone market. I won't quote the whole article but at one point Elop comments, "The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience.". They go...

We all know Steve Jobs/Apple are not big fans of the physical CD. The preferred method, of course, is iTunes digital media. But even with iTunes and many other digital media services, the CD still survives...until today! On the latest episode of Seth Green's stop-motion show Robot Chicken, a Steve Jobs parody shows Jobs becoming the...

File this under the "I'm so above average it's not funny!" file, but an article out of The Unofficial Apple Weblog recently has some interesting stats about your iPhone usage. Based on a survey of 1,000 iPhone users, the average Apple smartphone user has 108 apps and spends close to an hour and a half...

Apple has released beta 2 of iOS 4.3 to developers. Features include the WiFi hotspot, as advertised on the Verizon iPhone 4, and more should be revealed as developers open it up and take a look. If you are a developer wanting to test this firmware, the minimum system version required for iOS 4.3 development...

There have been some tweaks released, in the jailbreak community, to enable AirPlay to work with 3rd party apps. With the beta release of iOS 4.3, we now know that Apple plans to open up this feature to developers, so that they can add it to there own apps. The are still some cool apps...

Some key players in the jailbreak community are feuding again. Members of The iPhone Dev Team and The Chronic Dev Team have been bickering back and forth about who has the best jailbreak and/or unlock for current iDevices. If you follow these folks on Twitter, you know what I'm talking about. In my opinion, this...