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Good news for those who bought the Full-Price iPhone before 22nd August. Apple announces that now they can get $100 Apple Store Credit for use online or at an Apple Retail Store. You don’t need a receipt, just enter your phone number and serial number and Apple will SMS you an access code. With this access code you will get the $100 dollars to shop for anything Apple. A couple of interesting things about the program. First, the program doesn’t work with iPhones that haven’t been activated on AT&T. Second, is… Continue Reading»

Apple today announced that it would be selling its new 4GB “iPhone Leper” for as low as $299. This is very good news for iPhone fans. I was myself planning to buy my ‘Dream gadget’ but couldn’t afford it, I think now I can (until I rob a bank). Everybody is talking about iPhone, and I couldn’t stop myself to grab this news… Continue Reading»

It doesn’t appear to be particularly widespread, but according to a couple threads on Apple’s support forums and elsewhere, a small number of iPhones are suddenly getting “dead spots” on their touchscreens — mostly along the bottom, but occasionally affecting the entire surface. Apple is apparently being extremely proactive in dealing with the issue, calling customers who’ve posted in their forums and arranging replacements — the company can’t let anything tarnish the image of The Most Important Device Ever, after all. All of our iPhones are still working great (even… Continue Reading»

This story isn’t for the faint of heart. In fact, we wouldn’t really recommend it for anybody, but we’ll soldier on regardless. Thomas Martel hails from Colorado, and after upgrading to an iPhone, he decided his big hands were just too much of a burden to bear. “From my old Treo, to my Blackberry, to this new iPhone, I had a hard time hitting the right buttons, and I always lost those little styluses,” says Martel. So what’s a man to do? Why, get those digits downsized, of course. Thomas… Continue Reading»

If you worked with pictures on your iPhone Tuesday morning, and again Tuesday afternoon, you may have noticed a peculiar change. In what might just prove the existence of Apple Elves, iPhones everywhere got a magical Web Gallery update; without actually updating.However, you DO need a .Mac account already set up for this to take effect. The last (and only, at the time of writing) update for the iPhone, version 1.0.1, was released last week, and didn’t include this feature. So unless this is some sort of Apple-exclusive timed update in the works, my Elves theory… Continue Reading»

It may be a little slow out of the gate, but Florida-based SP Technologies is now taking aim at Apple over the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard, claiming that it infringes on a patent it has held since 2004. According to MacNN, that patent describes a “method and medium for computer readable keyboard display incapable of user termination,” and the company is saying that Apple was “willful and deliberate” in its alleged infringement of it. As a result, SP Technologies is demanding that Apple pay “reasonable royalties” for each iPhone already sold, along with… Continue Reading»

Don’t say you weren’t warned, iPhone fans. Even when the prerelease fervor surrounding Mac’s mobile messiah-phone was at its highest, security researchers were warning that it would be vulnerable to exploitations like data theft and hijacking.Last Thursday, Charlie Miller proved them right. In a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a gathering of cyber-security researchers, Miller detailed how he had hacked and hijacked the iPhone by exploiting a vulnerability in its Web browser.For iPhone owners, the talk wasn’t as foreboding as it might have been. Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) had released… Continue Reading»