Kim Kardashian, back from Australia and on the West Coast, kept up her style of tweeting things the rest of the world is dying to know this Christmas. As in:
"Stephen, did you know that despite receiving a new iPhone for Christmas, Kim Kardashian finds people with two phones 'shady'?"
"No, Robert, I had no idea!"
"Well, me neither!"
But she does.
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It's quite impressive, really. In a post titled "Too Tired to Name-Drop," XOJane editor in chief Jane Pratt liveblogged on her iPhone yesterday during a conversation she was having in a tea shop.
Which seems kind of...rude? Liveblogging during a conversation? Especially since Ms. Pratt could have used the phone to look up the name of the very famous actress she was talking to. Instead, she just gave readers clues and asked them to solve the mystery for her.
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Apple, the world's leading purveyor of expensive consumer devices with rounded edges, may be developing some downmarket smartphones to compete with Google's Android phones.
Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on an iPhone that's cheaper and smaller than those currently available (are they making iPhones for small children? babies?), and the company is trying to Read More
No more "Droid Does."
Verizon has uploaded its first self-congratulatory iPhone commercial to YouTube, and it's just about the opposite of the ridiculous robot-themed campaigns it's been running to promote Android phones.
The Android ads were dark and scary, with evil-looking machines poking at touchscreens with their creepy Read More
It dropped my call, and it felt like a kiss.
Mobile research firm Zokum released the results of a new study today which found iPhone users are 84% more loyal to their product than consumers who have Android smartphones.
Interestingly, however, Android users are more likely to repurchase an Android phone that iPhone users.
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Everyone knew that Verizon would find some way to differentiate itself from AT&T when it began offering the iPhone today.
But few expected the announcement that the Verizon iPhone would support tethering, acting as a mobile hotspot for up to five other devices.
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The iPhone will finally sever its exclusive relationship with AT&T today when it debuts on Verizon.
These two telco giants share the same mother, Ma Bell that is, but apparently broadband runs thicker than blood. Jenna Wortham breaks it down for The New York Times:
“I’m not sure iPhone users are ready for life in the Read More
Looks like we owe the idiot rumormongers an apology.
The Verizon iPhone that people have speculated about since September 2008 is really coming true.
Really! This time there is really, definitely going to be a Verizon iPhone, like, for sure!
Verizon has a press event tomorrow at Lincoln Center. "Join us as we share the latest Read More
There was hope that Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg would announce a Verizon iPhone during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show today--he didn't.
Tech bloggers and mainstream media outlets have been obsessing over Apple's exclusive deal with AT&T, whose service is notoriously slow and frustrating in New York and San Francisco.
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AT&T has offered free Wi-Fi in Times Square to its customers since May as part of a pilot program to test ways of shoring up its cell coverage in areas with heavy use.
The pilot was apparently successful, because AT&T has expanded the area of Wi-Fi coverage in Times Square and is adding more by Rockefeller Read More
Can't be in Times Square when the ball drops? Here's the next best thing! Or not.
The Times Square Ball App will stream a live video feed of the party in Times Square, with a countodwn clock and Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook Integration, reports Charlie White at Mashable.
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2011 could be a rough year for AT&T.
The carrier is about to drop almost $2 billion to buy spectrum for its 4G network, according to CNET, which will be finished some time in middle of the year.
But it's no help to the millions of iPhone users who put AT&T in last place for customer Read More
Like all things not yet rendered effortless by an Apple product, cooking can be very hard. Impossible, even. Unlucky for us that certain times of the year make it hard to go without preparing elaborate suppers for our families and loved ones -- Christmas, for instance. That holiday is close enough that we should now Read More
Desperately want an iPhone but can't bear the thought of AT&T's nightmarish phone service in NYC?
As Nick Saint notes, the new ZTE Peel case essentially transform any iPod touch into an iPhone running on Sprint's new 4G network.
With the ZTE, any iPod touch can surf the web, run apps that need the net and Read More
Blackberries, once the ne plus ultra of business phones, have been taking a beating in the modern smartphone era.
Today Dell announced that it will be moving its 25,000 employees from Blackberries to its own Dell Venue Pro - a phone running the new Windows Phone 7 operating system.
(The move by Dell stings, but its Read More
