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David Letterman Top 10 Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone 4 (Video)

geo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:28:12 +0000

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Our faves: #7, #6, #4, and #1

Note: To continue with the rest of the Top 10 list, skip to 1:28 when Letterman starts to talk about Larry King.

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iPhone 4 Unlock: Carrier AT&T Unchained by Canadian, First-ever (Video)

geo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:28:17 +0000

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Mission accomplished: the first-ever and only American iPhone 4 has been unlocked from its carrier which would be AT&T. A wily Canadian @KaatjeNL aka planetbeing got his hands on the mobile device and after a long night of work shows off his functioning iPhone 4 in the video above.

iPhone 4 carrier unlock demo video. :) http://bit.ly/aDwZ5yless than a minute ago via webplanetbeing
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He makes a call to 611 to prove that the cracked phone is working. And he uses Skype to call himself to demonstrate incoming calls. He says that the current iteration “sucks” and that it takes 5 minutes to run. PlanetBeing mentions that Twitter Muscle Nerd @iphone_dev is correct that there is need to work on an end-run around the counter measures has put in place to deter unlocking the iPhone 4.

Video of world’s first soft-unlocked iPhone4 http://bit.ly/aDwZ5y .. still more work before a release, but dam is broken!less than a minute ago via webiphone_dev
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Let’s hope he responds “No” to the iOS queries asking to know his mobile location since Apple may send the cops to his house as they did to the home of Gizmodo’s editor during the notorious lost iPhone 4 prototype drama.

Twitpic of world’s first-ever carrier soft-unlocked iPhone 4

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Consumer Reports Pans iPhone 4 Antenna Glitch: Paul Reynolds on CNN (Video)

geo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:02:31 +0000

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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)

geo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:02:18 +0000

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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)

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Apple iPhone4 Antenna Problem Fix: Duct Tape Consumer Reports Says (Video)

geo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:56:21 +0000

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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)

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iPhone 4 FaceTime Commercials: Are Apple’s TV Ads “Heartbreaking?” (Video)

geo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:41:50 +0000

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Above: New iPhone 4 TV Commercial for FaceTime: Smile

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. In any event, the misnomer is evidence of how little premium our society puts on emotional literacy. Or phrased less pretentiously: being able to name what we’re feeling.

Overall the creative approach of these ads is bang-on: intimate, human but never quotidien. While quiet and without music to skew the emotions, the pieces are even a bit awkward. Such is life itself.

We’re a tad disappointed not to see video call communication involving deaf folks not get foregrounded play in this round of spots. Especially with this iPhone 4 FaceTime service coming on line that bridges the gaps between the hearing and the deaf. This video is pretty heartwarming if we do say so ourselves.

As for the spot titled “Meet Her” our take is that the actor playing the grandfather comes off a bit Uncle Remus and seems to have be cast according to an unchecked stereotype. If his performance had knocked it out of the park, that would be one thing. But the character just seems to be out of it. Barely reactive. The awkwardness of messy, human existence is one thing, the alzheimeresque unbelievability of grandpa’s read on the line “incredible” is quite another. It’s almost creepy how he responds to his son’s question. It jangles the transference of son-to-father making those Jurassic feelings well up saying “Um, hello, Dad? I asked you a damn question — how does it feel to be a grandfather. Have you ever really cared about me at all?”

And we note that three out of the four spots have women front and center broadcasting themselves to the men holding the iPhone 4. To git a bit old school feminista here, looks like pops has them ladies in the palm of his hand — right where he wants ‘em *wink*. From a practical standpoint, the ad “Big News” might have come across better were the screens swapped and the new papa reacting to the news. In any event, hey, the first adopters of iPhone 4 units are probably going to be guys — and dads, a marketing target that I resemble with iPhone 4 in my possession at present. So by all means, these ads should target the guy demo and do in fact seem aimed there.

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iPhone 4 Disassembly: Stop Motion Teardown of Unboxed Device (Video)

geo — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:43:08 +0000

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Techrestore presents a stop motion video of the iPhone 4 being disassembled. It’s a nice touch that the vid begins with the unboxing of the device so that you get a sense of really going into the unit for the first time. We’re just glad this vid by Techrestore provides this proxy so we don’t have to crack our own iPhone 4s to have this experience! The sound design alone must have taken as much time as the stop-motion animation.

Apple iPhone 4 Bumper Case Review (Video)

geo — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:30:26 +0000

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With all the hub-bub that the only way to fix the iPhone4 reception problem is to slather duct tape onto the side of the purdy Apple device, iGear360 reviews the bumper case now available to get your quick fix to the death grip.
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Apple iPhone 4 TV Ad FaceTime (Video)

geo — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:12:40 +0000

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Television commercial for the FaceTime video call (currently via WiFi only) feature that’s part of the new iOS4 on the new iPhone 4.

Says Apple:

People have been dreaming about video calling for decades. iPhone 4 makes it a reality. With the tap of a button, you can wave hello to your kids, share a smile from across the globe, or watch your best friend laugh at your stories — iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 over Wi-Fi. No other phone makes staying in touch this much fun.

Apple Cofounder Ron Wayne Found: Has Never Owned an Apple Product

geo — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:25:10 +0000

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This guy has never owned an iPhone 4 let along and iPad or even a Mac IIci — and he’s one of the Cofounders of Apple Computer along side Steve Jobs and Ron Wozniak.

Ron Wayne, now 76, once owned a 10% stake in the 1976 Apple Computer start-up, Wayne sold his position for $800 just 11 days after Apple came into existence, a stake that today would be worth $22 billion. Wayne tells CNN why he wanted out.:

I felt that the way these guys were going, they would bulldoze their way through anything to make this company succeed, but it was going to be a very rough ride and if I wasn’t careful, I’d end up the richest man in the cemetery.

Mercury News quotes Wayne as saying “Unfortunately, my whole life has been a day late and a dollar short.” Ever feel that way yourself? Well at least you’re not this guy! Mercury News describes Wayne’s early collaboration with Steve Jobs:

But he cautioned Jobs never to forget that the money was just a vehicle for creating things. “But he forgot,” Wayne says now. “He probably won’t like me for saying this, but I think he got caught up in the business of business. He became so enamored with succeeding at this stuff that he began doing it for the sake of itself. He began making money for the sake of making money. What can somebody do with $200 million that they can’t do with $100 million?”

Watch the video above for more on Wayne’s stamp and coin collection, his gambling habits as well as a look at the original logo he designed for Apple Computer.

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