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Renew your old iPhone with Flipswap
Yesterday, we asked iPhone owners who intend to upgrade just what they’ll do with their 1st generation iPhones. Thousands of you answered, with Ebay drawing the top score.
Of course, Ebay will be flooded with iPhones soon, so consider alternatives like Flipswap. They offer cash for iPhones (and other model phones) and even pay for shipping. Once they’ve gotten your phone, they put it back in use.
If you’re the environmentally consicous type, you’ll appreciate this. Phones that cannot be put back into use are disposed of, piece by piece, in “…the greenest methods available today.” Also, in lieu of cash, you can trade in your dead phone for a tree as part of their reLeaf Program. Flipswaps estimates they’ll plant up to 25,000 trees this year (they take old iPods, too!).
It’s free, easy and definitely worth the consideration.
[Via Lifehacker]
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Found Footage: iPhone 2.0 firmware walkthrough, iTunes 7.7 screenshots
Gizmodo has posted a video demoing the new iPhone 2.0 (build 5A345) firmware. In the video they mainly show the new features: Fetch New Data option, Parental Controls, new BBC field when you type an e-mail, and the scientific calculator.
The AppStore icon was on the home screen, but wouldn’t launch because it has not been activated as of yet. In addition to the video walkthrough, Gizmodo also posted 4 screen shots of iTunes 7.7. One of the screenshots reveal a “Look for iPhone & iPod touch Remotes” checkbox in the Advanced > General section of iTunes preferences — something we had mentioned in an earlier post.
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iPhone app submission deadline: July 7th
We’ve been receiving tips all day about an e-mail some iPhone developers got from Apple today. In the e-mail, Apple is asking developers to submit their iPhone applications to the AppStore in order to be available for the iPhone 2.0 firmware / iPhone 3G launch. The deadline? July 7th … as in this coming Monday.
World of Apple received a screenshot of the e-mail which reads, “To ensure your application can be considered for the exciting launch of the App Store, submit your application by 12 PM PDT, on July 7, 2008. We will continue to accept applications after this time, however your application may not be available until after the launch of the App Store”
So, for all the iPhone developers out there: get your apps out by July 7th (especially for the Twitterrific and Super Monkey Ball folks).
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The iPod Gramophone
I like my iPod as much as the next guy (as long as I’m not standing next to Chris Breen, that is. He REALLY likes his iPod, a little too much if you ask me) but I’ve often found the device not to be ‘Olde Timey’ enough for me. Thank goodness the thoughtful people at Hammacher Schlemmer are selling The iPod Gramophone for a little less than $500.
The iPod Gramophone isn’t a fancy set of speakers (we have no need for your woofers nor your tweeters here), but rather a horn to the bottom of which you attach your iPod headphones. Through the power of ‘authentic horn acoustics’ whatever your iPod is playing can be amplified to up to 55 decibels louder, not to mention the exponential increase in your steampunk street cred.
I don’t know about you, but I would like to see more accessories making use of authentic horn acoustics.
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Macworld: iPod touch gets January apps with 2.0 update
Macworld’s Christopher Breen speculates that Mail, Stocks, Maps, Weather and Notes will be available for older iPod touch models as part of the 2.0 update coming on July 11. The apps are no longer available via the January Software Upgrade through iTunes. (Try clicking the link on this page to see what happens: nada.)
If you recall, The Stevinator said during the WWDC keynote that the 2.0 update will be available to iPod touch users for $9.99: half the cost of the January Software Upgrade that brought those apps (officially) to the iPod touch.
This move is sure to perturb the users who already bought the apps, who could be nearly $30 in the hole for something that will cost others (me, for example) a slim Hamilton.
I can think of a worse situation for iPod touch owners: Apple offering the apps individually via the app store, at some undetermined cost for each one. I have no reason at all to believe that will happen, and I really hope that it won’t.
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