Is Apple silently fixing the iPhone 4 antenna issue?

iFixit has reported: Reports started surfacing today that Apple may have quietly revised the iPhone 4 to add a nonconductive coating to the metal band on the sides of the phone. This would fix the sudden signal drop from electrically bridging the antennas by touching the band in the bottom-left corner with your hand. via […]

iPhone 4’s yellow spot issue goes away with a bit of time?

Engadget is reporting that they are starting to hear a few reports of the dreaded yellow spots disappearing from the iPhone 4’s display after a day or so of use. Interestingly, someone posting on the AppleInsider forums seems to know why: Apple is using a bonding agent called Organofunctional Silane Z-6011 to bond the layers […]

UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App

Sussex police are creating a number of iPhone apps for the public, including one to renew your gun license. Unsurprisingly, the plan has some anti-gun groups upset. Lyn Costello, of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression (MAMAA), said, ‘This isn’t suitable, especially in light of what happened in Cumbria. We’ve got to be extra careful giving […]

Sizing up the iPhone 4 for shutterbugs

The original iPhone launched with a fixed-focus lens and a paltry (even for 2007) 2 megapixel sensor. The camera didnt get any improvements with the iPhone 3G, but gained another million pixels, autofocus, and a ‘tap-to-focus’ system—which links the focus control and autoexposure system to a specific point in the image—with the iPhone 3GS. It […]

How Wired.com tracked the iPhone Finder

And so the hunt for clues began — a week after Gizmodo broke its story. By then, Hogan had deleted his Facebook profile, and presumably every other social networking profile he owned, in an effort to hide. That made the search difficult, but his attempt to disappear was already a major clue that he was […]

Fourth Generation iPhone Sees Light of Day

World of Apple has a summary about the Fourth Generation iPhone Leak. Overall, the only surprising item is the resolution of the screen, it’s huge, at 960×460.  But the imrpvoed battery, front facing video camera, camera flash, etc….  That’s been pretty much expected for a while, and are just evolutionary improvements…

Indigo Automatic Polling??

Overall, I love Indigo. But one thing that is very annoying and doesn’t seem to be built in, is the ability to poll all devices on a regular scheduled basis (ie: every 5 mins, 10 mins, etc.) of the status of my devices. This mainly causes a problem when accessing my system via my iPhone. […]

It’s 10 pm, do you know where your iPhone / iPod Touch are?

Has anyone seen my iPhone, or iPodTouch? They asked about going out and picking up some Applications, but I told them no…. Oh well…. If only Indigo, could help me keep track of them… Nah, it’ll never happen… Indigo doesn’t have GPS support… Does it? Anyone with a MobileMe account, and an iPhone, or iPodTouch […]