DLO VentMount iPhone Car Holder is Practical, Convenient

Using a car’s AC vents to hold cellphones is an old idea. Using a car’s AC vent to hold an iPhone so you can watch movies/Cover Flow your way through your music is a new idea. DLO’s VentMount seems like an incredibly practical way to keep your iPhone/iPod Touch within short reach, especially in cars (like ours) that don’t have a convenient cupholder location to shove it into. It’s not mindblowing, but it’s $24.99 we’d gladly spend for usability’s sake. [DLO]

Gartner Declares iPhone Ready for Business, Promises More Obvious Predictions
Analysts are like Tarot card readers with MBAs, making speculative predictions based on little more than the direction of the wind and bird migration patterns. They follow a similar marketing practice too - the first reading is free, but the second will cost you, and cost you. The brain trust at Gartner Research, a firm […]

Courvoisier Branded iPhone and iPod Make Us Talk Like the Ladies Man

Hello callah. This here is the ladieth man. Today we have an extra special thurprise for you, Courvoisier branded iPhones, BlackBerry 8800 and iPods. You thee, I want to do something thpecial for the ladieth of the world, which is why I’m working with Complex Magazine to auction off these fine thpecimens on eBay come May 19. And if there’s one thing the ladieth man likes, it’s Courvoisier. If there’s two things the ladieth man likes, it’s Courvoisier and iPhones that look like they’re made by Colorware. Oooh, ith’s a lady!

[Complex]

Pwnage updated to 1.1

Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, Hacks, iPhone

Are you an iPhone developer? Sick from missing the command line ever since you upgraded to 5A240d? Good news, everyone! PwnageTool just reached version 1.1. The new tool allows you to add custom packages, logos and fixes EDGE settings under 1.1.4. Either pop over to iPhone-dev.org or choose PwnageTool > Check for Updates (Command-U) directly from the app.

Thanks, eddie m.

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Trivia Why?s Daily Quiz
Specifically created for the iPhone and iPod Touch but playable in any modern web browser, Trivia Why’s Daily Quiz keeps you sharp with a few minutes of exercise for the left side of your brain and a touch of wit for the right. Know all the answers? Congratulations, you’re a trivia genius! Not so sharp […]

Microsoft Puts the Squeeze on Apple with Flash, Silverlight Support for Windows Mobile
Steve Jobs might want to look in his rearview mirror, because there’s a hulking eighteen-wheeler barreling down the highway, belching thick black smoke, and crushing every vehicle in its path. The software giant is working with long time rival Adobe to bring Flash player Lite (yes, THAT Flash player) to Windows Mobile devices, while simultaneously […]

Aluminum MacBook, iMac-like MacBook Pro mocks leaked? [updated]
An unusual .Mac website believed to belong to an Apple employee has been revealed to include promotional images depicting an all aluminum 13-inch MacBook design in addition to a MacBook Pro that takes design cues from the company’s existing line of a…

Crazy Popular Asian Blogstar Prefers Fake Chinese iPhone to the Real Thing

This is either the best or worst iPhone review ever. Wendy Cheng is apparently the most popular blogger in Singapore. Before giving her the real iPhone, her producers tricked her into reviewing a Chinese knockoff. But she actually liked the fake, saying it’s “not bad for a shitass China phone.” The real iPhone? Only “mediocre,” and “I really don’t like the touchscreen…it’s fucking shitty.” Oh, that’s just the tip of this iceberg of awesome. [ClickNetwork.TV via Fake Steve]

Is this the iPhone 3G chip?

Filed under: Rumors, iPhone

Engadget posted about some information they received from the ZiPhone folks. According to ZiPhone, they have spotted some code in the new iPhone 2.0 beta software that suggests Apple will use the Infineon 3G chipset. The code mentions “SGOLD3,” which is a series of chips that Infineon produces. iPhone currently uses the S-GOLD2 EDGE chipset.

S-GOLD3H, also known as “PMB8878,” supports 7.2Mbps HSDPA and has built-in acceleration and media playback features (which, incidentally, the iPhone already has and does well). This chip also includes a higher resolution camera, 5 mega-pixels instead of a 2. Engadget notes that the processor speed stays the same.

[via Engadget]

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DLO VentMount iPhone Car Holder is Practical, Convenient

Using a car’s AC vents to hold cellphones is an old idea. Using a car’s AC vent to hold an iPhone so you can watch movies/Cover Flow your way through your music is a new idea. DLO’s VentMount seems like an incredibly practical way to keep your iPhone/iPod Touch within short reach, especially in cars (like ours) that don’t have a convenient cupholder location to shove it into. It’s not mindblowing, but it’s $24.99 we’d gladly spend for usability’s sake. [DLO]

The iPhone Is Killing the Internet!

The internet’s an exciting, lively place, full of innovation and wonder, right? Wrong. It’s dying. The cancer that’s slowly killing our internets: the iPhone and Xbox. While it sounds like some fool’s jibba-jabba, it must be true, because an Oxford professor with degrees from Harvard and Yale says so.

Basically, Jonathan Zittrain argues that the wild, woolly nature of the web, with viruses, identify theft, Rickrolling, etc., are frightening for people like your mom, who want a neatly tied-up-in-a-bow kind of experience, even if that extra security means less freedom. (Current event analogy alert!) So, he sees people moving to “tethered appliances” controlled by dictatorial manufacturers, like the iPhone or Xbox, rather than good ol’ open PCs. End result, says the prof is the death of innovation and the internet as we know it.

Of course, this ignores the explosion of open source, which is basically everywhere now. And more and more infamously tight-assed companies are claiming or trying to prove how open they are: Verizon, Microsoft and Comcast, just to name some of the biggies. If anything, it looks like we’re moving toward more openness—and hey, don’t forget that iPhone SDK, doc. [PC World]

France’s Orange may be next to cut iPhone price, eat losses - reports
Apple is in talks with its exclusive French wireless carrier, Orange, to lower the price of the iPhone in France following disappointing sales, Les Echos is reporting. The newspaper said Apple is urging the carrier to adopt a subsidized pricing m…