The Pocket PC Central Hands-On Shure SE115m+ Sound Isolating Headset Review has been posted to the iPhone Edition Review Center.
Jan 20
If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, the XM Skydock easily transforms either device into an XM satellite radio for your car or truck.
The XM Skydock gets its power from a car’s cigarette lighter adapter and charges while you listen. You can listen via FM radio with the built-in FM transmitter, or if your auto has an AUX-in port you can connect via the included patch cable. The XM Skydock app [iTunes link] work with the dock and lets you tag music for purchase in iTunes, set favorite channels and track artists and songs.
Works with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone OS 3.x. Includes a magnetic mount antenna.
Amazon.com has the XM Skydock for $35 less than MSRP.
Nov 12
Spb Wallet [iTunes Link] is high up on our must-have iPhone (and Windows Mobile) app list, but until now users could only sync their iPhone’s Wallet with a PC. The key phrase being “until now.”
Yesterday Spb Software released a Mac OS X version of its Wallet Desktop.
In addition to being able to sync and backup your iPhone’s wallet(s) with the Mac, the new desktop version also makes it much easier to add and edit information. The company has done a good job giving the software a Mac-like feel and the wireless Bonjour sync works as advertised.
So, if you’re an SPB Wallet user with a Mac running OS X 10.5+, this one’s for you.
Nov 09
The Pocket PC Central Hands-On Maximo iMetal iP-HS5 Headset Review has been posted to the iPhone Edition Review Center.
Nov 03
So you’re a company who makes web software that, love it or hate it, most people use, but the company that controls an ever-growing share of the smartphone market refuses to allow your software to be installed on its devices. What do you do?
You rub their faces in it.
Adobe has, according to Gear Diary, begun displaying the message shown left when iPhone users attempt to use certain sites or web pages that requires Flash. The message reads:
Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod touch.
Translation: Apple’s playing games with your phone and won’t let you use our technology even if you want to. We’ve been trying, but hey, Apple’s calling the shots here. Sorry for the arbitrary inconvenience.
There are valid arguments for and against Adobe’s Flash being part of the iPhone, but I think it’s a decision iPhone users should be able to make. Don’t you?
Oct 21
Bibliophiles take notice! If you have eBook files on your PC or Mac, chances are you can read them on your iPhone or iPod touch.
All you need is Stanza installed both on your iPhone/iPod and your computer, a wireless network and Stanza-compatible eBooks.
Interested? Take a look at our latest iPhone tutorial: How to Transfer eBooks to the iPhone to Read in Stanza
Oct 14
The iPhone Edition Hands-On Altec Lansing inMotion Max iMT702 iPhone Speaker Review has been posted in the iPhone Edition Review Center.
Oct 08
Apple has just released a new iPhone OS update, v3.1.2. The new version addresses several issues:
- Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
- Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
- Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming
The 300MB+ update is now available for download via iTunes.
Sep 30
Dropbox is, without question, our favorite online storage and syncing solution. With Dropbox installed on one or more of your PCs or Macs, files created or changed in one computer’s Dropbox folder are automatically synced with with the Cloud and the other PCs and Macs linked with your account (if you have the software installed on multiple computers).
It’s a pretty amazing service – fast, automatic and foolproof (if it’s in the Dropbox folder, it’s synced). And in our months of using Dropbox, we haven’t encountered a single error.
But now the service is even better for iPhone users: Dropbox has added the iPhone to its list of compatible devices with the release of the Dropbox iPhone app.
Once you have a Dropbox account (a 2GB account is free, but you can also purchase 50GB or 100GB of online storage), just download the free Dropbox iPhone app [iTunes Link]. Link the app with your account and you instantly have access to your Dropbox files from the iPhone.
From within the app you can view compatible files stored in your Dropbox (PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint MS Office documents, JPG, TIFF and GIF image files, Keynote, Pages and Numbers Mac documents, text files, music, movies and more), or upload photos or videos taken with the iPhone to your Dropbox, in effect storing them online and syncing them with your linked PCs and Macs. Want to share a file in your Dropbox with someone? You can do that too, right from the app.
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PDF: Dropbox iPhone Introduction
Editor’s Blog: Why I Love (LOVE!) Dropbox File Sync
Sep 16
If you’ve ever seen someone wearing iPod or iPhone video eyewear (a.k.a. Head Mounted Displays, or HMDs), you know they look… to put it in the kindest possible terms… screwy. Still, to be able to enjoy a more natural video viewing experience, some users are willing to endure the chuckles. But two upcoming models from Vuzix aim to take a little social sting out of HMD use by disguising them as sunglasses.
The Vuzix Wrap 310 and Wrap 920, while differing slightly in their feature sets, each share the same traditional eyewear camouflage. And while they’ll obviously be bulkier than the sunglasses most of us own, at least they don’t look as bad as some of the actual sunglasses being sold today.
This isn’t the first attempt at using the “sunglasses look” to make HMDs more palatable to users; the MyVu Shades have been around since 2008, and while they’re more attractive than other HUDs on the market, they don’t actually look anything like sunglasses.
The Vuzix Wrap 310 and 920 models will be available later this year.
