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Switching between Android 4.0 ICS and iPhone 4S

Chris Burns, Feb 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

When you switch from an Android phone over to the iPhone or vice versa, there are a few adjustments you’ll have to make. The difference between the two, no matter which versions of the software you’re dealing with, are much smaller than the difference between either and any other software. Windows Phone, Symbian, any number of lesser cell phones are much more difficult to switch to or from when the alternative is switching to Android or iPhone from the other. This article is but one of several in a series written by your humble narrator called “I’m switching to iPhone 4S for a week,” this series having the alternate title “iPhone 4S Up Close and Personal.”

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Apple iMessage bug allows others to spy on your convos

Mark Raby, Feb 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

For iPhone users, the iMessage platform is quite a popular alternative to traditional SMS text messaging. But did you know there's a glitch that allows a third party to sneak in, view, and even participate in your iMessage conversations? It doesn't matter if you reset your password, disable your iMessages app, or even perform a remote wipe of your phone. On the flip side, though, it also isn't exactly an easy glitch to exploit. Read The Full Story

KISS frontman Gene Simmons eyes Angry Birds deal

Mark Raby, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

When you think of colorful, odd-shaped birds flinging into a group of circular green pigs, does a man who dresses up in gaudy black-and-white makeup and gothic black outfits come to mind? Well, maybe. But then again, with the number of different promotions and partnerships Rovio has managed to milk out of Angry Birds, pretty much anything sounds like it makes sense at this point. Read The Full Story

RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge app pairs sports and social: Hands-on

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Rugby-loving couch potatoes beware: RBS expects you to flex your brain, if not your muscles, during the Six Nations tournament this year. The sports-sponsoring bank has created an interactive quiz, fixtures and social app for 2012, with game-related questions, score tables and Facebook integration for those particularly competitive. Available in versions for iPad, iPhone, Android and Facebook, we grabbed some hands-on time with the free Live Challenge app before its full release.

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PlayUp Super Bowl XLVI real-time chat to host real NFL stars

Chris Burns, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

In the race to grab the greatest application to work with fans hoping to get the closest to the Super Bowl XLVI action here in 2012, PlayUp has come correct with two real NFL stars aiming to chat with fans. Through the PlayUp live group-chat platform working in all web browsers and on the iPhone in its own unique app, St Louis Rams Running Back Steven Jackson and Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson will high five fans the whole game long. The app and the web-based platform are both free to use and these football stars will be kicking it along with normal citizens like you and I the whole game long. Read The Full Story

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Official 2012 Super Bowl XLVI Guide app Hands-on

Chris Burns, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Both iOS and Android devices will be ready and welcome to watch the Super Bowl live right here in 2012 – just so long as you’ve got a Verizon-based device. While the Super Bowl XLVI Live Feed does have one gigantic button sitting right at the top of all of the main screens here in this guide app, you’ll need Verizon’s NFL Mobile app (built in to most Verizon phones released in the past few months) to watch it. What this guide app offers is everything other than that, complete with a massively impressive 3D map of the area around and inside Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Reviews

Intoxicase Plus for iPhone 4S Review

Chris Burns, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple created a device called the iPhone so that the world could enjoy the world of smartphones with a single vision for greatness in this mobile world of ours – I don’t think they ever had it pegged as the back of a beer bottle opener. That’s what the folks at Spicebox have done, and done well, here with the original Intoxicase and the Intoxicase Plus. Should you want to protect your iPhone at the same time as utilizing it as a tool to bring the cool enjoyment of another cold one to your lips all day long, you’re in the right place.

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Match.com: Android users more willing to put out

Mark Raby, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

In honor of Valentine's Day, Match.com decided to figure out what the correlation was between promiscuity and smartphone platform ownership. That's Match.com for you. The result was that 62% of Android phone owners are willing to have sex after the first date. That sets Google's mobile operating system ahead of all other competitors. The least likely? Those stuffy Blackberry owners. Read The Full Story

iPod Nano 7G with camera leaked in photos

Chris Burns, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Not one whole heck of a lot of news is written or read these days about the iPad Nano, one of the last devices to have been designed and released by Apple since their attention switched to purely iPhone and iPad in that sized market. But what we’ve got here appears very much to be an upgrade to the iPod Nano line, and the folks at Apple.pro have a collection of photos which depict it having a 1.3-megapixel camera! This may seem to the average citizen to be a fool’s errand as the current iPod nano has a clip on the back that would block and camera attempts – but lo! There it is!

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Square mobile payment system hits the Obama, Romney campaigns

Mark Raby, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

If you've ever been to a political rally and thought, "This is cool but I wish there was some way for me to make a donation right now with my credit card," then Mitt Romney is the Republican candidate for you. Or if you happen to play for the other team, Obama's re-election campaign has also begun accepting mobile payments at its fundraising events. It's all possible thanks to the ubiquitous and revolutionary Square card-accepting platform. Read The Full Story

Google’s Android platform is a favorite among bathroom phone users

Mark Raby, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

Do you occasionally use your phone while you're doing your business? If you said "yes," then statistically you are more likely to own an Android phone than a Blackberry or iPhone. That is, at least, if you believe a new report that was just released from marketing agency 11mark. The results are anything but a wash. Oh, so many puns, so little time. Read The Full Story

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iPhone 4S Up Close and Personal: Hardware

Chris Burns, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

In this chapter of our “I’m switching to iPhone 4S for a week” experiment, we’ll be taking an up close look at the hardware that makes up the iPhone 4S. When I say up close, I mean macro photography close – so close you can see the tiny specs of dust and micro-grooves in the metal close. What you’re about to see will prove to you, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the iPhone 4S is not just another smartphone, not just another hunk of plastic, metal, and glass that so many manufacturers toss out on what seems to almost be a weekly basis – the iPhone 4S is a precision built gadget masterpiece.