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Archives for July, 2010

mSpot brings movie rentals to the iPad, works just fine over 3G

If you find yourself a little unimpressed with Netflix’s Instant selection and you’re needing to rent something a bit newer right now, the new iPad-optimized version of the mSpot movie streaming app should fit all up in your niche. For between $2.99 and $3.99 you can rent and watch a movie streaming right to your …

Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 Best Smartphone Despite Antenna Issues

The iPhone Death-Grip may be getting all the press, but it isn’t enough to stop Apple’s latest handset from knocking it out of the park in Consumer Reports’ latest smartphone round-up. As honey-voiced Gadget Lab editor Dylan Tweney wrote yesterday, the antenna issues, which causes the iPhone 4’s signal to drop calamitously when it is …

BMW to support iOS 4 iPod out

With the iPhone and the iPod being some of the most popular devices on the market when it comes to music and smartphones many cars are now starting to offer accessories specifically for connecting them in the car. Ford’s Sync system supports the iPhone and iPod via USB and Bluetooth streaming for instance. BMW is …

Video: iPhone 4 Native Support for Braille Displays

Musician and geek Victor Tsaran is blind. He also runs the accessibility program at Yahoo, so you might say he knows something about using gadgets without actually seeing them. Victor has hooked up a Braille display/controller to the iPhone 4, and this video shows just what he can do with it. The iPhone OS has …

RemoteScan unveils iPhone and iPad document scanning app

There are lots of reasons that you might need to get a document scanned into your iPhone or iPad. The catch is that you can’t just plug a scanner into your iPhone or iPad like you can a notebook or desktop computer. RemoteScan has announced a new app for the iPhone and iPad that makes …

Apple deleting mentions of Consumer Reports’ iPhone 4 piece on forums, can’t delete your thoughts

…or can they? In case Apple has somehow managed to perfect the art of selective disremembrance across a wide population, here’s a refresher: Consumer Reports has thrown down the gauntlet, stating that it “can’t recommend” the iPhone 4 until the antenna issues are fixed, issues that its labs and ours have verified quite substantially. Apple …

Consumer Reports’ Findings Conflict With Apple’s Statement On iPhone 4

Consumer Reports has confirmed in its own tests that there is a problem with the iPhone 4’s reception and thus does not recommend the device. Save yourself the trouble (and $100) and buy the older iPhone 3GS instead. The findings conflict with what Apple said two weeks ago, that it was simply a software problem …