May 18, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

As loyal readers know, Apple stores are not particularly cash-friendly; in the case of the iPhone and the iPad, they’re downright cash-hostile. Both devices require a credit or debit card for purchase, although you can waltz down the block and buy an iPad with cash at Best Buy if you like (and you can use a gift card for iPhone, but not for iPad).

There are some points on Apple’s side for the pay-with-plastic requirement (the primary one being that it’s hard to enforce the two-per-person purchase limit without some way to track buyers), but it’s clear that the rule is a source of annoyance to some potential customers. Now the annoyance is getting magnified. Read more…

May 14, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

There are countless videos and blog posts telling you how you can take your full size SIM card and cut it down to fit in your iPad, but frankly, that’s idiotic. I mean really, who’s going to cut up the SIM card they’re using in their $85+ a month iPhone to put in their iPad when they could just pay $30 a month for unlimited date on the iPad. Yes, you might be cutting up a T-Mobile SIM, but let’s face it… Do you really want to be using EDGE on an iPad?

Anyhow, that’s not what this post is about. I’m going to show you how to do the exact opposite of that, how to take your Micro SIM and use it in your iPhone for cheap data only service. It’s easier than you might think. Read more…

May 05, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

You’ve probably seen contactless payment terminals before. They’re used in many stores, restaurants, and other locations, with either a smart credit card containing a secure memory card or some sort of fob being used to make the payment. You just wave it at the terminal, and you’ve paid your bill.

Visa and DeviceFidelity are working on a way to let iPhone users make payments by waving their iPhones in front of contactless payment terminals. They’ll be offering an iPhone case with an embedded secure memory card that hosts Visa’s payment application, Visa payWave. Read more…

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

I’ve enjoyed reviewing some of the clever magic tricks that are getting developed for the iPhone over the last year, and I want to be sure to point out Magic Card which is clever and will likely fool the uninitiated.

Here’s what the spectator sees: a person cuts the deck to select a card, which is kept face down. You use your iPhone to take a picture of the card, either alone on the table, or as I prefer at the top of the stack. The spectator sees you select the camera icon and take the picture. To be sure the picture wasn’t taken in advance the spectator can put something in the picture like a ring or tableware next to the card to prove it. Read more…

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

The accessory, goes along with the free app ZoomIt [iTunes Link]:

• Copy or move files from the SD card to a Local File Manager;
• Delete or rename a file in File Manager or SD card;
• View a file in a format thats SDK3.0 compatible;
• Interfacing with the photo album to move / copy pictures to / from SD card to iphone or iphone to sd card.
• Interface with the iPhone camera to take a picture and store to SD card
• Interfacing with Mail to share a file or a picture

Zoomit DS is expected to ship in April for $ 60, but until you can pre-order from the official site.

[Via ispazio.net] Translated by google

December 31, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Coming this CES (which is actually next week): a complete credit card transaction accessory and service for your iPhone. If this thing works as expected, you might actually see it in more than a few places (think: street vendors that will take credit card payments). A company called Mophie is planning to show off an add-on that works with an app to deliver credit card payments through Square, a payment service recently started up by Jack Dorsey, a Twitter alumni. This is one of a couple such systems that will be vying to fulfill the function (and probably take a few cents from each transaction for their troubles), but so far all we’ve really got is demos, no actual releases planned.

But maybe we’ll hear more at CES. There’s all kinds of applications here — a solid, working implementation of a service like this could end up being extremely popular for anybody that regularly needs to conduct transactions out in the field.

Via tuaw.com

December 16, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

We’re sure this will be a hit for the holiday season: Apple recently updated one of the iPhone support articles, explaining how you can continue using an iPhone as a quasi-iPod touch, if you no longer have a cellphone contract with your carrier. Let’s give an example:

Your iPhone 3G contract was eligible for the upgrade pricing not too long ago, so you purchased an iPhone 3GS. You have your old iPhone 3G lying around the house with no purpose. Obviously, you could try and sell it… but maybe your child has been begging you for an iPod touch for Christmas. Read more…

November 03, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The iPhone is slowly making it’s way around the world. In Canada, there are now four major carriers that support the device: Rogers, Fido, Telus and Bell. So how will Apple continue to stock and support the iPhone with that many carriers? That’s where the story get’s interesting.

According to iPhoneInCanada.ca, to make stocking and inventory easier, the iPhones in Apple’s Canadian retail stores will arrive completely unlocked without any SIM card. Read more…

October 19, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

If you were Jack Dorsey, one of the co-founders and current chairman of Twitter, you’d want to think about something else big to follow up on your huge success.

While it doesn’t sound like anything groundbreaking, Dorsey’s new company Square is developing a tiny white cube (see photo above) that plugs into the headphone jack on either an iPhone or iPod touch. The cube is a credit card reader, something missing from all of those credit card apps currently in the iTunes App Store. Read more…

September 23, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

usbfever.com has released a dual SIM card for iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3Gs.

Highlights:
This is a very innovative design, it gives your a DUAL SIM for your iPhone 3G / iPhone 3Gs / iPhone 2G.

With this Dual SIM, you are no longer to hassle with your network problems when you are travelling from one country to another country.

Features:
- One iPhone with 2 SIM Cards (see note below)
- No need to cut your SIM CARD
- STK Menu (see installations below)

This accessory is compatible with:
- iPhone 3G
- iPhone 3GS
- iPhone 2G (1st Generation)

Set-up inside your iPhone:
- Home ==> settings ==> Phone ==> SIM Applications: select your desire SIM card
(If you don’t want it to select SIM card for you when the signal is low, please don’t select “auto/SW)

Note once you’ve chosen to another sim card, it will have a message “No SIM Card installed”, please wait 1 or 2 minutes, it needs aound 1 ~ 2 minutes to search, during this time, “No SIM” will appear in the top right of your iphone’s screen.

Package Contents:
- Dual SIM Card for iPhone / iPhone 3G / iPhone 3Gs x 1

Packaging:
- BULK

Note:
- This Card does NOT support DUAL STANDBY Mode but you can switch between them.

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