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Archives for June, 2010

iPhone KIRFs up to 4.3-inch screen, claims invincibility from haters

Hey, just because Apple won’t make one doesn’t mean you can’t have a 4.3-inch iPhone. This here product of Chinese ingenuity offers you as much real estate as “the king of HTC HD2″ while also throwing in both digital and analog TV tuners into the mix. When you factor in the dual SIM compatibility, 2 …

Apple Sells 600,000 iPhones Despite ‘System Malfunctions’

If you were wondering why both Apple and AT&T melted down when taking orders for the iPhone 4 on Tuesday, we have the answer. Apple sold 600,000 of the things. According to Apple’s press release, “It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than …

Apple CDMA iPhone 4 rumor given new wings

With the iPad unicorn now slain, what other beast can DigiTimes shackle its rumor mongering machine to? How about Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology (and inspiration for the ASUS company name), galloping forth with promises of a CDMA iPhone. According to the Taiwanese rumor rag, Pegatron (ASUStek’s OEM manufacturing arm) will begin shipping …

Droid made to work with iPod docks using unholy homemade adapter

What, our ultra-special Droid dock’s not enough for you? There’s now another way to avoid buying Motorola’s official accessories, though this one’s a bit more blasphemous. Thijs Bosschert over in the Netherlands has put together a fully fledged adapter for his Milestone (aka Droid European Edition), which allows it to interface with docks designed for …

Ten One Design Particle Case for iPad has integrated stylus slot

Don’t tell Steve, but for all his protestations that a stylus is the sign of a failed tablet, companies just can’t stop offering aftermarket pen-input options for the iPad.  Latest to the table is the Ten One Design Particle Case, a rubber bumper-style iPad case that has an integrated clip for one of the company’s …

New Mac mini gets teardown treatment

Apple’s newest Mac mini has suffered the same undignified fate of all fresh Apple products, and gone under the screwdriver in an iFixit teardown.  Notably including an HDMI port for the first time, the new Mac mini is another masterpiece of packaging from Cupertino’s designers, from its twist-off easy access to the two RAM slots, …

Toshiba 128GB flash perfect for updated iPad & iPhone 4

One minor surprise at the Apple iPhone 4 launch earlier this month was the storage on offer from the new smartphone.  The absence of a 64GB iPhone 4 raised a few eyebrows, especially given Toshiba had already revealed a 64GB NAND chip back in December 2009; now Toshiba has followed up with a 128GB NAND …