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There’s been tech talk about using a bumper case or even duct tape to fix the death grip-spot on the iPhone 4, but now comes an elegant fix worthy of Apple’s high standards in design.
Head on over to Etsy and order yourself up a 6-pack of Antenn-aid: a custom-sized vinyl sticker for your iPhone 4 designed to be placed over the lower left corner of the antenna. It may improve signal performance. Note that the sellers caution these bad-boy bandaids are just “for entertainment purposes only, results may vary.”
While were not fans of using toxic vinyl especially when it’s just for fun and not function, if you choose to do so, you get one of each stylish color (gray, light-gray, green, blue, peach, purple), for a total of 6 Antenn-aids. In any event, its a fun concept to enjoy in its digital form. Click to enlarge the photo above.
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Consumer Reports Magazine Does Not Recommend iPhone 4: CNN Money (Video)
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Apple iPhone 4 Bumper
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper Case Review (Video)
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iPhone 4 Antenn-aid, 6-pack
We believe in having all tools possible in your kit — especially when they come free. So supplement your iBooks and Kindle reading apps with the new apps dropping today from Borders. Comes in all the flavors of mobile device: iphone/ipod, ipod, blackberry, android as well as for desktop/laptop Mac or PC. There are over a million Borders eBooks at Borders.com, including a selection of free
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Sony announced their first interchangable lens consumer camcorder the NEX VG10. Release date is set for September retailing at $2000 (including 18-200mm kit lens worth $800 that’s a little slow at F3.5-6.3) and you can pre-order today. The camera records 1920×1080i in AVCHD at 24Mbit and can record high quality 14MP stills. But just what is missing from this camera that makes it miss the mark as unseating DSLRs?
This bad boy is bad in that Sony has only equipped it to record in 30p NTSC or 25p PAL (at 60 interlaced fields per second fixed at that 60i frame rate), ergo no 24p recording. The lack of 24p to the Canon 5D off the table for many professionals with the proclivity to acquire the look of film in their recorded work (that coupled with the Canon 5Ds inability to push out HD to an external monitor). Perhaps like with the Canon, Sony can release a firmware update at a later time which will imbue the NEX VG10 with the superpower of 24p.
Beyond that, the E-mount lens system is a bit underwhelming for those looking to use the Nikon or say Zeiss primes they already have in their kits such as this, this, this or this. Yum.
In the end, the Sony NEX-VG10 seems like a good b-cam, or second camera to use in a pinch. Although it weighs-in at 3 pounds, perhaps it could kick some independent documentary film ass.
Says Sony:
Targeting video enthusiasts and photographers, the NEX-VG10E opens up unprecedented artistic possibilities not achievable with conventional consumer video cameras.
Great insights and rundown over at EOSHD.com and PC World has a hands-on review of the Sony NEX-VG10.
Like Chatroulette the free iPhone 4 app randomly creates video chats between people using their front facing camera. What’s also random is that the audio only works with the headphones in. We believe this programming shortcut was taken to get this bad boy to market and in a hurry. Or perhaps it has to do with distracting male users with cumbersome technology so that they no longer have the mental bandwidth, nor physically available hands, to pull out any funny stuff if you know what we mean.
Here’s the description:
iChatr allows you to video chat with other random iPhone 4 users from around the world!
It’s like Chatroulette for your iPhone!
- Make sure your iPhone is connected to a WiFi network.
- Don’t forget your headphones, or you won’t be able to hear them.
- Getting bored? Swipe the person you’re chatting with to chat with someone else.
Consumer Reports says it is unable to recommend the iPhone 4 until Apple fixes antenna problems. Although Consumer Reports isn’t making a specific recommendation, say Paul Reynolds, you can try using duct tape to cover the lower left hand side of the iPhone 4 to avoid the “death grip” and lose signal strength.
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Consumer Reports Magazine Does Not Recommend iPhone 4: CNN Money (Video)
Consumer Reports Pans iPhone 4 Antenna Glitch: Paul Reynolds on CNN (Video)
Apple iPhone4 Antenna Problem Fix: Duct Tape Consumer Reports Says (Video)
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper Case Review (Video)
David Letterman Top 10 Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone 4
iPhone 4 Antenn-aid, 6-pack
CNNMoney’s David Goldman discusses Consumer Reports magazine’s decision not to recommend the iPhone 4. Perhaps some duct tape might do the trick…
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Consumer Reports Magazine Does Not Recommend iPhone 4: CNN Money (Video)
Consumer Reports Pans iPhone 4 Antenna Glitch: Paul Reynolds on CNN (Video)
Apple iPhone4 Antenna Problem Fix: Duct Tape Consumer Reports Says (Video)
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper Case Review (Video)
David Letterman Top 10 Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone 4
iPhone 4 Antenn-aid, 6-pack
Having reception trouble with the iPhone 4? Consumer Reports says the easiest fix for the death grip antenna glitch may be a sliver of duct tape. CNN.com’s tech reporter John Sutter also says you can get yourself an iPhone bumper that goes around the outside edge of the device. Perhaps instead of the silver duct tape, some black gaffer’s tape might prove to be a more elegant option?
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Consumer Reports Magazine Does Not Recommend iPhone 4: CNN Money (Video)
Consumer Reports Pans iPhone 4 Antenna Glitch: Paul Reynolds on CNN (Video)
Apple iPhone4 Antenna Problem Fix: Duct Tape Consumer Reports Says (Video)
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper Case Review (Video)
David Letterman Top 10 Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone 4
iPhone 4 Antenn-aid, 6-pack
Photography app Camera + is a hit according to its developer tap tap tap reporting a net take of $253,000 for one month in the app store. The company’s blog goes into detail as to how they designed the app and the breakdown of its income. You can purchase Camera + here.
via macnn
With Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna woes, the tech powerhouse is recommending customers purchase a bumper for their device to insulate from the death grip. Buy an Apple iPhone Bumper case here.
More at Ars Technica.
And here’s a video on the Apple iPhone 4 Bumper.
Do you as a consumer think you are “taking it” as it were from Apple? As Grace Jones sings “Pull up to the bumper baby…” Let us know what you think in the comments.
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Consumer Reports Magazine Does Not Recommend iPhone 4: CNN Money (Video)
Consumer Reports Pans iPhone 4 Antenna Glitch: Paul Reynolds on CNN (Video)
Apple iPhone4 Antenna Problem Fix: Duct Tape Consumer Reports Says (Video)
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper
Apple iPhone 4 Bumper Case Review (Video)
David Letterman Top 10 Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone 4
iPhone 4 Antenn-aid, 6-pack
Mashable has a breakdown of WordPress 3 most important new features, they are:
1. Custom Post Types
2. Menu Management
3. Custom Taxonomies
4. New Default Theme: “Twentyten” (we say, “eh”)
5. Multi-site
And under “What Else?” Mashable lists Get Shortlink. Well that’s something we’re quite familiar with as we produced the original Get Shortlink plugin for Wordpress.
Mission accomplished: the first-ever and only American iPhone 4 has been unlocked from its carrier which would be AT&T. A wily Canadian got his hands on the mobile device and after a long night of work shows off his functioning iPhone 4 in the video above.
Consumer Reports says it is unable to recommend the iPhone 4 until Apple fixes antenna problems. Although Consumer Reports isn’t making a specific recommendation, say Paul Reynolds, you can try using duct tape to cover the lower left hand side of the iPhone 4 to avoid the “death grip” and lose signal strength.
CNNMoney’s David Goldman discusses Consumer Reports magazine’s decision not to recommend the iPhone 4. Perhaps some duct tape might do the trick…
Having reception trouble with the iPhone 4? Consumer Reports says the easiest fix for the death grip antenna glitch may be a sliver of duct tape. CNN.com’s tech reporter John Sutter also says you can get yourself an iPhone bumper that goes around the outside edge of the device. Perhaps instead of the silver duct tape, some black gaffer’s tape might prove to be a more elegant option?
First there was the 1-minute wordless Apple FaceTime spot set to Louis Armstrong music featuring the intimate moments in family life which can now be shared over distances thanks to this new iOS4 technology. Fortune online is calling Apple’s new commercials for FaceTime “heartbreaking.” Spolier warning: nobody gets any bad news. As a matter of fact, in two out of the four spots, the characters in fact receive good news. In the other two, things are bittersweet at worst and basically all the ads have happy endings. We think the emotional term the business-minded folks over at fortune were looking for was “heart-warming.” Hey, it’s July — it must have been the heat (wave) going to their heads. Perhaps, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, no matter how good is his depth of knowledge of Apple, is thinking of this heartbreaking iPhone 4 FaceTime ad.
