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Make your own iPhone 3G stand with Legos and pencils
Damian Koh | Jan 29, 2009
(Credit: Stephen Sheehan)
Creativity is one of those things they don't teach in schools. It's either you have it, or you don't. Eight year old Patrick Sheehan and the editor of Geeky Gadgets Roland Hutchinson obviously have it in their blood. These dudes made their own iPhone "compatible" stands out of Lego bricks and pencils. Patrick was helping his Dad find the right prop for the iPhone 3G, while Roland simply wanted to watch Barack Obama's inauguration. For the former, you'll need about 40 Lego pieces of various sizes, or five pencils for the latter. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to replicate these models, just peep at the pictures after the break.
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Nokia ships 1 million 5800 XpressMusic handsets
Damian Koh | Jan 28, 2009
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Despite the limited availability of Nokia's first mass-market touchscreen phone, the Finnish outfit said late last week that it has shipped 1 million 5800 XpressMusic models to date since October 2008. This is the handset that is referred to as the Tube and which made a brief appearance in the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger.
Interestingly, Nokia didn't say how many of these models were sold, since shipment and sales figures may not the same. Meanwhile, in Asia, the 5800 XpressMusic currently retails in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, and will be available in Singapore and Australia this quarter with the Comes with Music unlimited music download bundle. We'll have a full review very soon, but first check out our comprehensive hands-on here.
Palm, Sprint accidentally offer clues to Pre's future
Matt Hickey | Jan 28, 2009
(Credit: Corrine Schulze/CNET)
Almost all of Palm's past smart phones have had both CDMA and GSM flavors, and there's no reason to expect anything different from the Pre. And, according to rumors swirling around the Internet, we'll see the first GSM Pre at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, this February.
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Apple awarded key iPhone multitouch patent
Tom Krazit | Jan 28, 2009
Apple has a new weapon when it comes to the iPhone.
(Credit: U.S. PTO, via MacRumors)
Apple has been awarded a patent that appears to cover much of the iPhone's multitouch user interface.
World of Apple (via MacRumors) spotted the patent, which was awarded last Tuesday to several Apple executives, including Steve Jobs, iPhone software chief Scott Forstall, and Wayne Westerman, one of the founders of a company called Fingerworks that Apple acquired in 2005.
The patent is extremely long, and covers many of the methods used by the iPhone to display data, such as pinch-to-zoom Web browsing and swipe-to-scroll.
This patent likely influenced COO Tim Cook's comments the day after it was awarded that iPhone competitors should understand that Apple "will not stand for having our (intellectual property) ripped off, and we'll use whatever weapons that we have at our disposal". Those comments, made during Apple's fiscal first-quarter earnings call, were believed to be intended for Palm even though Cook did not single out any particular company in making his comments.
The full patent is available here.
Via CNET News
New iPhone software improves Safari stability
Tom Krazit | Jan 28, 2009
The latest iPhone firmware update should be available Wednesday in iTunes.
(Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET News)
Apple has released a minor iPhone firmware update that is supposed to help improve the stability of its Safari browser.
The update should be popping up Wednesday if you connect your iPhone to iTunes. Update 2.2.1 is the first tweak released since Apple added Google's Street View to the iPhone's software back in November with the 2.2 release.
Despite the brief list of new features and fixes, this update is just as big as that release, weighing in at 246.4MB. As a result, it's taking awhile to download and install. I'll let you know if I encounter any problems, and likewise, please let us know if you experience any issues downloading and installing the update.
Update 11:15am--iPod touch owners had an additional fix as part of the update. Apple fixed an issue with Apple Lossless files that tended to skip during playback, according to The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Via CNET News
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