April 12, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

It looks like you guys are in luck today, I found a Monoprice Backup Battery pack I bought a long time ago laying around in the office. I myself bought two battery packs wanting to give one away but never got around to it until today. To get a very helpful review on what you can win go HERE as tuaw writer David Winograd wrote a great review on this very convenient product.

Giveaway Rules:

Retweet This Post Saying something like “theiphonespot giving away a backup battery”. I will enter all the twitter user’s names that retweet this post into a random drawing script and let it work its magic. The contest ends Wednesday April 14th.

April 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

As expected, Apple didn’t introduce any new iPhone hardware today; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later this summer. Could one of those surprises be a front-facing camera with iChat support? Read more…

March 15, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Rhapsody has announced that offline listening will be coming to their iPhone application soon.

One thing is clear. You want to hear your music everywhere, whether you’re on a plane, in the subway, with a mouse, in a house, in a box or with a fox. Well, you get the idea. No bars? No problem. Strong signal, weak signal or no signal — soon your Rhapsody music will be able to go ANYWHERE your iPhone or iPod touch goes. Read more…

February 23, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

iPhone power saving features may be the cause of network overloads rather then its high bandwidth consumption, according to an ArsTechnica report.

Normally devices that access data networks use an idling state that maintains an open data channel between the device and the network.

However, in order to get more battery life, Apple configured the iPhone’s radio to simply drop a connection once it received its requested data. If more data is necessary the iPhone sets up a new connection. Read more…

February 21, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Mass production has started and we need to know what device(s) you are planning to use the iControlPad on.

Review units – we have a limited number of iControlPads for review, you will need a jailbroken iPhone, ideally 3GS for N64 emulation, if you are interested please email with details of your website/previous hardware reviews. Read more…

February 10, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Here’s the thing. You know, and I know, that AT&T has not yet enabled tethering in the US, while carriers all across the globe have already given their iPhone customers the ability to use their phones as wireless modems for their laptops. You and I also know that strictly speaking tethering falls outside the normal terms of use for your iPhone data contract — and that there are jailbreak solutions to get around this (hopefully temporary) constraint. Read more…