Whether the world really needs another way to turn an iPhone 4 or other iOS device into a universal remote control is something for a different argument; Gear4 is just pleased to get its UnityRemote out of the door. The $99 accessory hooks up to your iPhone via Bluetooth and has a 360-degree IR transmitter array to control your HDTV, amp, Blu-ray player and anything else.
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Here's an odd one: Path, which launched an iPhone photo sharing app last month designed to only show your pictures to up to fifty carefully-selected friends, has added video sharing to the v1.2 update. Thing is, only clips ten seconds or shorter can be uploaded, a limit that seemingly addresses both limited mobile bandwidth and the company's ethos of "personal moment sharing".
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EA 99 cent game promotion wins them 8/10 in the iTunes chart
Electronic Arts' $0.99 iOS game sales promotion looks to have been a success, with the company's titles taking eight out of the ten top spots among paid iPhone games, and a full 21 of the top 30. The news will likely mean that EA's games retain prime position among the Apple charts when the company freezes them over the December 22 to December 26 holiday period, giving them a significant attention advantage among new iOS device owners receiving iPads, iPod touches and iPhones this Christmas.
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Sam’s Club Selling iPhone 4 for $147 Until Christmas Day
It seems that Sam's Club is ready to sell the iPhone 4 at a cheaper price, as long as you're ready to sign over a new, two-year contract. Thanks to a leaked document, it's been outed that the wholesale retailer is planning on dropping the price of the latest generation iPhone for a few days, for those lucky enough to call themselves members. The new price, which is only available for the iPhone 4 that's locked to AT&T, will only be around until Christmas Day.
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Foursquare iPhone update adds photos & comments; Android version imminent
Foursquare has pushed out an update to its popular iPhone app, adding photos and comments to the geo-location service. Available on iTunes today [iTunes link], the new update is apparently a response to user feedback over the past few months, and uses Apple's push-notifications to immediately update you to the newest comments.
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Word Lens for iPhone auto-translates foreign text in real-time [Video]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the future is here: at least, a future as partly imagined by Douglas Adams. Word Lens for iPhone and iPod touch takes augmented reality and makes it actually useful, performing real-time instant translations of text as seen through the Apple devices' video camera and overlaying your choice of language on-screen.
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Peel Fruit turns iPhone into show-suggesting universal remote
Another day, another iPhone remote control system that turns your Apple smartphone into a universal remote. Hot on the heels of RedEye's offering comes Peel, with a slightly different approach to the hardware/software hybrid setup. As well as the Peel software app, you get a bright yellow IR dongle called the Peel Fruit which hooks up via a ZigBee connection to an ethernet dongle - called the Peel Cable - on your router, and controls your A/V equipment.
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iOS 4.2.1 Untethered Jailbreak gets video demo
The iPhone Dev Team has announced a new, untethered jailbreak for iOS devices running 4.2.1, including the iPod touch 4G, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPad. The new system takes advantage of the 4.2b3 hashes backed up by Cydia, and is being described as a "backup plan" by team member MuscleNerd, since comex is currently working on "a more extensible" alternative method.
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Google Latitude for iPhone prematurely peeks into App Store
Google has prematurely released and then quickly yanked its first proper Google Latitude app for iPhone, with the software appearing briefly in the Japanese App Store. Like the Android version, the iPhone Latitude app supports tracking nearby friends in real-time on a map, sharing your own location, and various privacy settings so that not everybody knows where you are.
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$25 iPhone 4 at Radio Shack after discount & trade-in deals
Even with its Black Friday deals, Apple is loath to offer money off its range; that's why news that Radio Shack is offering $50 off all iPhones until December 11 2010 and, if you've an iPhone 3G or 3GS to trade in, potentially bringing the cost of a new iPhone 4 down to just $25. The price cut makes the iPhone 3GS $50, a 16GB iPhone 4 $150, and a 32GB iPhone 4 $250.
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iPhone 3GS & 3G get iOS 4.2.1 carrier unlock with new redsn0w tool
The iPhone Dev Team have released a new iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS carrier unlock, taking advantage of a susceptible baseband that Apple itself is still supplying, and allowing the older smartphones to use any SIM with iOS 4.2.1. This new redsn0w version relies on baseband 06.15 still offered as part of the iPad's iOS 3.2.2 firmware; however, there are also some significant provisos that mean this method isn't for everybody.
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Moshi Moshi MM03i Bluetooth handset packs iPhone dock
Native Union won't give up on the idea of traditional handsets for modern smartphones, and their new Moshi Moshi MM03i even gives you somewhere to dock your iPhone. The new model has a MultiPoint Bluetooth-enabled handset and a special charge/sync cradle with a charging bay and an iPhone dock.
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