Results tagged “iphone”

Tim Schafer (@TimOfLegend) sent out two unnerving Twitter messages this morning. A crime, it seems, occurred on the J Church during the AM commute.

According to this woman, who was in line at 3 a.m. this morning at a Verizon store in order to be the very first owner of a Motorola Droid phone in SF, this is "the phone [she's] been waiting for."

Via B.K.: "Just witnessed on 21: young teen girl snatches something outa the hands of a lady and runs off the bus. The lady, screaming, runs after the girl. This never happens, but we all see the little thief run right into 3 SWAT team looking cops who were standing around drinking coffee (no donuts). They have her on the ground in a sec. What did she steal? The lady's iPhone. Overhear guy saying his friend steals about two a day & that purses are so 1990's. All victims sit close to the door. So obviously, the lesson is, if you're gonna use your iPhone on the bus, carry a gun too =)"

Five months after a liver transplant, Steve Jobs is alive and on stage at Apple's "It's only rock and roll" event this morning. The focus is on music, and the release of iTunes 9, but if there are any huge announcements you can find them here in the next half hour. We're not physically there, but as a service to you we're going to give you a few highlights as we receive them from the fine nerds at Endgadget -- and for the truly Apple-nerdy among you, you can click over there for their moment by moment live blog.

Many AT&T customers, including the legion of iPhone users out there, may be aware of some wonkiness with their wonder devices of late. Dropped calls, delayed voicemails, inability to access voicemail, inability to tweet their Muni woes, etc. It's been a shitty month or two, and it all comes down to the fact that Apple and AT&T struck that single-carrier deal a couple years back, and AT&T can't handle the data traffic anymore. As the NYT reports today (complete with slide show), AT&T is scrambling to expand their network.

If you receive an iPhone text message with a "single square character," be afraid. Be very afraid. It's could be hackers using a iewly discovered iPhone SMS bug to infiltrate your precious phone. According to CBS 5. "Famed hacker Charlie Miller discovered the flaw and told Apple about it six weeks ago. The company has not issued a fix, so Miller will pressure Apple by showing exactly how to hijack the iPhone at a cybersecurity conference on Thursday." Miller warned yesterday, "Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this." IntoMobile explains how it works: "Using the exploit, hackers could send a succession of SMS text messages to an iPhone, allowing them to gain complete control of the handset. Hackers can then commandeer the iPhone to send similar text message strings to other iPhones, spreading like wildfire." If you get this square-character message, there's not much you can do other than turn your phone off.

Greg Dewar of N Judah Chronicles posted this image of an angry sign presumably posted up by an even angrier customer. The shit was snapped up yesterday afternoon at Broadway and Van Ness.

A new iPhone application will allow marijuana aficionados and medicinal mary jane recipients to find a pot dealer on their phone. Yay! "Cannabis," according to , "lets users search by city for their nearest medical cannabis suppliers, doctors, clinics, lawyers and other relevant organisations." But don't get too excited, cocaine and meth users, this Apple-approved app only covers legal pot spots. The Sun goes on to report that "it currently covers 13 US states which have passed laws allowing medical cannabis use, legal cannabis 'coffee shops' across Europe and uses Google Maps for directions." Alas.

Billed at the "first X-rated app approved by Apple," the folks in Cupertino gave the green light to MyPleasure.com’s MyVibe vibrator application. Sex researcher Dr. Debby Herbenick, according to Gizmodo, gave it the thumbs up.

While some of us are more than content with our MetroPCS phones (questionably referred to as GhettoPCS in less esteemed circles), people are finally getting their first iPhones. So much so that Apple sold 1 million of them in just five days after the iPhone 3G S went on sale last Friday. What's more, more than six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software, according to San Francisco Business Times. "After using a 1960's-era Motorola Razr for years, I couldn't be happier with the new iPhone. Now the last five years are starting to make more sense" squees one friend of SFist.) Although stock prices had dipped after news of Steve Jobs' health was made public over the last few months, their stock has shot up since then, "closing up nearly 80 percent from those lows on Friday at $139.48."

Kudos to AP photographer Eric Risberg who snapped this shot of Noonan, a golden retriever poodle mix, standing with his owner, Jay Streets, and others on a bridge inside the downtown SF Apple store. They're waiting to get their paws on the new iPhone 3GS.

              

Here are some scenes from this morning's wait at the downtown Apple store in San Francisco. People stood, sat and squatted in line since late last night.

According to KRON4, folks are lined up outside the downtown Apple store to grab one. And, according to Darya Folsom, it's nuts! But, look, check out this Craigslist ad, which takes all of the line-waiting out of buying a new iPhone. It also takes all of the dough out of your pocket. Behold.

This one goes out to SFist commenter mcgordonliddy...

Perturbed parents groups are demanding answers from Apple after it approved, then dumped, a new 'Baby Shaker' app for the iPhone. The game, which delightfully promoted infanticide for $.99 on Monday, was described by its maker, Sikalosoft, like this: "On a plane, on the bus, in a theater. Babies are everywhere you don't want them to be! They're always distracting you from preparing for that big presentation at work with their incessant crying. Before Baby Shaker there was nothing you could do about it."

Copy / paste. Ta-da. Happy? You shouldn't be. Because every MSM news outlet seems to think this is a story. It's not. This and this is an actual news story-, at least when compared to an iPhone update of this caliber. In other news,. the T-Mobile G1 is 10x the phone iPhone wants to be. Yes huh.

We have nothing against retailers as a whole - really, an afternoon at Target is a culturally-enriched afternoon -- but Wal-Mart is, in a word, well, trash. So it comes as a surprise that mildly elitist Apple plans on selling its popular iPhone at Wal-Mart stores. Apple is bring very quiet about this announcement, but Wal-Mart Stores will be the second independent retail chain to sell the phone. (You can also find the touch pad-happy phone at Best Buy.)

by Evan James

Over on the Apple discussion boards, things are taking a turn for the soap operatic. See, user "Susan042764" poses a worrisome (albeit gullible) question on the "Using iPhone,Camera and Photos" forum: can pictures automatically attach to e-mails in your iPhone?

The arrival of Zizekmania was announced to us this morning on Michael Krasny's Forum. We normally avoid the post-10 a.m. segment of the show, as the inane questions posed by callers tend to stoke our misanthropy in unflattering ways. Thus it was purely by accident that we tuned in this morning just in time to hear a caller ask Slavoj Zizek his opinion of Burning Man.

Wow, did you see the lines STILL growing outside the downtown AT&T and Apple stores this past weekend? The above shot was taken last night, proving that most of you ignored a few bad reviews, and wanted your very own Jobsian doodad. Now.

Ha! It's funny because it's true. But still: Since we're Anil Dash fangirls, and after reading this, we can't stand the thought of you tossing the little gadgets aside. They need love too, you know!

Eeeps, iPhone 3G fans! According to Jordan Golson over at the Industry Standard, today's iPhone 3G has turned into a disaster. A few snafus? Well, iTunes activations are "completely offline" due to a global server crash of sorts, most Apple store workers make you activate the new phone at home (for reals? boo!), some stores allegedly have no shipments yet, and harrowing reports of lackluster customer service. (In other news, the Industry Standard is alive and kicking. Please standby for rooftop party invite info.)

           

Here are people waiting in line. For a phone. The Jobian gadget went on sale today, and Flickr users joe.moore and Steve Rhodes, and Valleywag's Jackson West managed to snap up a few images. Enjoy. Oh, and if you have the brand-spanking new 3G in your grubby little hands, how is it?

CrunchGear allegedly has the first photos on the Internet for the new 3G iPhone. According to Network World:

Already the Kool-Aid drinkers are lined up outside Moscone Center. Why? Because le Jobs is expected to give birth to the latest generation of the iPhone at today's (sold out!) Worldwide Developers Conference.

Coming from the Editor's mobile communication device, we received a text today with the following signature:

It's Saturday the 26th and the iPhone says we have 26 minutes to wait for the 26 Valencia bus. This is the kind of magic we have always associated with the 26 Valencia, the bus line of which we are most inordinately fond. It's not like the 14 Mission, which we need, or the 33 Stanyan, which we respect, or the 38 Geary, which we fear (in a Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit kind of way).

Ours was. And how. It would neither send nor receive email for hours. The horror.

Jonathan Winston of Bikescape sends us this fury-inducing image he caught while wandering the catacombs of the Macworld Expo. It's a "baseball cap mounted iPhone with a handy plastic magnifying strip. Just right for watching youtube while walking down Market Street!