Fake iPhone comes with magical external QWERTY keyboard you’ve always fantasized about

Alright, would you look at this, Apple? We know you require your employees to pay in blood for every single button or moving part that makes it onto a shipping product, but would it really kill you to work in some proper Bluetooth keyboard support for the iPhone so we could enjoy the magical freedom of external QWERTY pads if we so choose? Take this particularly stunning KIRF, for example. Sure, you might find the iPhone-miming handset it's paired with offensive, but is there really so much wrong with this flip-out QWERTY action? Do you enjoy our suffering? Please? iTwinge just isn't cutting it.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals

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Best of Smartphone Experts, 1 Nov 2009

Free Turn By Turn Directions on Android 2.0 Motorla Droid Roundup: Everything in one place Android 2.0 on T-Mobile G1	First Look Video: BlackBerry Tour2! BlackBerry Storm2 Commercial and Key Links Browse and Buy BlackBerry Storm2 Cases
Nokia N97 firmware 2.0 released Ovi Store now supports re-downloads Nokia shutting down N-Gage service Meet Nokia Experts and the N900 in person	Palm Pixi Release and Price: Nov 15, $99 iTunes / Palm Pre Sync Broken. Again. webOS 1.3.1 Seeded to Select Developers
iPhone 3G/3GS Unlock Tool blacksn0w Due November 4th – Beware of Scammers! Apple Releases Multi-touch Magic Mouse, iTunes 9.0.2, and Apple TV 3.0 What Google Navigation Means for iPhone Maps App, and for Turn-by-Turn Competitors	CDMA Touch Pro 2 Unlocked. Let the Custom ROMs Begin! HTC releases official Windows Mobile 6.5 updates for the Touch Diamond 2 Head to Head: AT&T Pure and Tilt 2

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Hunting down 10 iPhone apps for the outdoorsman

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

At least here in Colorado, the big game hunting season is mostly over for another year, except for a few late-season licenses. While many hunters may be nursing deer camp hangovers, maintaining their firearms, or telling yarns about the ones that got away, those who own an iPhone or iPod touch can still be blasting away at Bambi.

There are a huge number of hunting-related apps in the App Store, ranging from various deer and duck hunting simulations to duck and deer calls. Let's take a look at a ten-pack of apps:

Go out and blast at virtual deer, elk, caribou, grizzly bears, and black bears with 3D Hunting Trophy Whitetail [US$0.99, iTunes Link]. Four weapon types (Lever-Action Rifle, Bolt-Action Rifle, Scoped Bolt-Action Rifle, or Bow & Arrow) are available for your shooting enjoyment, and you get to use calls and scents to attract your prey.

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Hunting down 10 iPhone apps for the outdoorsman originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Hunting down 10 iPhone apps for the outdoorsman originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Geohot to Release Blacksn0w for Baseband Unlocking On November 4

Apple amps up iPhone production

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, iPhone

In preparation for the holiday rush, Apple has stepped up iPhone production, according to ITProPortal. Specifically, Apple has supposedly increased orders to both Primax Electronics and Foxconn Electronics (both companies manufacture iPhone components) from 17% to 20%.

In a recent quarterly earnings call, Apple COO Tim Cook noted that iPhone 3GS supplies were short in September, but noted that supply lines have been restored and he expects Apple to meet the demand of this year's shopping season.

In other words, If you're hoping to receive an iPhone this year, know that Apple has done its part. Now it's up to you to badger your gift-giving loved ones.

[Via Macsimum News]

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Apple amps up iPhone production originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone 3G/3GS Unlock Tool blacksn0w Due Out November 4th

George Hotz, aka geohot, posted on his Twitter account that he has found an exploit to unlock any iPhone that contains the 05.11.77 radio baseband found in the 3.1.2 iPhone software. This new unlock tool, blacks0w, will be released to the public on November 4th and yes it does contain hackivation! Something else that everyone should [...]

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iPhone Sync Busted on Windows 7 with Intel P55 Chipset

According to The Register, if you’re running Microsoft’s latest OS, Windows 7, and your PC has an Intel P55 Express chipset, you’re in for a world of iPhone sync hurt: For the past six weeks, complaints from users running this trifecta of pain have been clogging a thread on Apple’s discussion board. The posts [...]

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Quick App Updates: BeeJive IM for iPhone Goes 3.1 with Group Chat and Meta Chat

BeeJive IM [$9.99 - iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch has just gone 3.1 and now includes group chats (on IM services that support the feature, AIM, Yahoo!, GTalk, MSN), and meta chats (allows you to merge contacts with multiple IM services into a consolidated stream — So Bob’s AIM and Bob’s Gtalk just [...]

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iPhone apps that bloggers will love

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store

wpbeginner has posted a terrific list of 10 iPhone apps that every blogger will love. The first item on the list is, as you'd expect, WordPress for iPhone. Version 2.0 was released earlier this week and it's a huge improvement over its predecessor. It supports blogs powered by both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org. WordPress 2.0 for iPhone is free.

Add as many blogs as you like and manage comments, posts and pages all from the app. Adding new pages and posts is as easy as editing existing ones. Best of all, you can delete, edit approve/unapprove and spam comments with a few taps.

Of course, not every blogger uses WordPress, and the other apps on the list acknowledge this. Shape Writer aims to make it easier to enter text by letting you trace the "shape" of a word rather than type its letters. Proper names and acronyms can be "taught" to the app by typing them once. They'll be traceable from that point on. Shape Writer costs $3.99US.

Also on the list is Jott, a voice-to-text app that records your voice, converts it to text and lets you send the result nearly anywhere, including a WordPress or Blogger blog (as well as Twitter, Facebook and more). I haven't tested it, so I can't speak for how well it works. If it does what it claims (speak up if you've used it), Jott for iPhone will make it much easier to publish long posts from your iPhone (provided that it supports your preferred platform). Jott for iPhone is free and requires a Jott Assist Plan, which starts at $3.95/mo. Mel reviewed the similar Voice on the Go service last week.

Visit wpbeginner for the rest of the list. As for me, I get a lot of use out of Instapaper (for reading reference articles when I'm away from my computer) and Evernote (pretty much the same reason) among others. If you want the simplest blog-from-your-iPhone solution, check out Posterous. All you need to do to set up and maintain a Posterous blog is send an email to post@posterous.com. It doesn't get simpler than that.

[Via Wired]

iPhone apps that bloggers will love originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

iPhone apps that bloggers will love originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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