Articles by Mike Overbo
If you bought an iPhone, odds are pretty decent that you replaced another cell phone with it. Odds are also decent that you kept the iPhone over the other cell phone. Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t. Well, as it turns out, you can get a real-time price quote for your old [...]
With the news of free ringtones from GarageBand comes excellent auxiliary news: if you coughed up dough for iToner for macs or iPhoneRingToneMaker for windows, they both have updates available that now work with iPhone v1.1.2, something previously not possible. (via)
The iPhone showed up at #1 on Consumer Reports’ rating of all Smartphones. It’s a slim margin of victory, but it’s a margin nonetheless. They list it as the only chosen phone in the media category, and list the T-Mobile Wing, the Palm Treo 755p, and the Moto Q9m for office-type uses. [...]
The iPhone is on PC World’s “15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007” list. From the brouhaha I’ve been reading, you’d think that they think the iPhone is a piece of junk. Nothing could be farther from the truth — they think it’s “wildly innovative.” What they’re largely griping about is how Apple [...]
Wired has an excellent multimedia interview with Thom Yorke, the singer in Radiohead. They cover a vast array of topics from the changing face of the record industry to Radiohead’s experiment with In Rainbows, their recent album that they released online. It’s a fine interview, well worth your ears and eyeballs.
Jobs and other Cupertino functionaries have apparently been flying to and fro in the hopes of securing a carrier for the iPhone in Japan. It sounds like NTT DoCoMo is their first choice, which is interesting as they don’t really support a 2.5G network — NTT DoCoMo’s network is pretty much all 3G, so [...]
Wired has a quick look at some iPhone clones. Clones is probably an unfair statement, since some of these phones are given the clone moniker just by the fact that they share a similar form factor. They award black turtlenecks to each of the six phones based on how well they compete with [...]
It’s true, I did find the linkbait. Whatever the charts mean, the iPhone is selling well in North America. Whether or not it’s beating Windows Mobile (which it appears to be) or behind the BlackBerry (which it appears to be), the relevant bit is this: it’s a close race, it’s anyone’s game, and [...]
Wow. Just… wow. It’s a mobilewhack day, apparently. They found this video of a person demoing a SonicSIM card 1.0, which shows a person doing some SIM hackery on a jailbroken iPhone. Their method involves cutting the gold parts of your normal SIM card and putting them into a different shell [...]
This is a nice speaker dock system. It was designed by a team of folks that includes former Apple design guru Robert Brunner, who was around during the Newton years. It’s a nice-looking piece of kit. There’s no price yet, as this is a mockup or prototype of some sort. If [...]
