Phone Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Tactile+Plus adds buttons to your iPhone - kind of

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2010)

Steve Jobs dislikes buttons, which is why one of the most premier gaming devices in the world has no tactile feedback whatsoever. But there's still a call for finding buttons on the screen by feel alone, and Tactile+Plus is designed to let you do just that. It's a little plastic sticker sheet that ...

Google Voice for iPhone is finally out on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Nov 16th, 2010)

Turns out, when Apple announced it was a day you'd never forget, maybe it wasn't talking about The Beatles. Last we heard, Google Voice was expected on the App Store "soon" ... and now here it is. Apple has relented in the battle to allow Google Voice functionality on the iPhone, leaving Google open ...

WOWKeys integrates keyboard and iPhone dock

by Mike Schramm (Nov 9th, 2010)

A keyboard called WOWKeys is trying to make good use of your little touchscreen-based iPhone when it's just sitting there charging itself up. The keyboard includes an actual iPhone dock, and with a switch on the device, you can go from controlling your computer wirelessly to using the keyboard on ...

Details on Epic's Project Sword, now called Infinity Blade

by Dave Caolo (Nov 3rd, 2010)

During last September's press event, representatives from Epic Games demonstrated "Project Sword," an impresive title running the Unreal Engine inside iOS. Today, that game has been re-named Infinity Blade and new screenshots have been released. Slide to Play notes that Infinity Blade will be the ...

No fair: Gizmodo editor leaves his phone in a restaurant, gets it back right away

by Chris Rawson (Aug 22nd, 2010)

Stop me if you've heard this one: a geek leaves his phone in a bar, and... oh, you have heard that one? It turns out that Brian Lam, the Gizmodo editor involved in the iPhone 4 "bar heist" saga and one of the biggest tech scandals of 2010, left his cell phone in a restaurant the other day. How did ...

Bluetooth headset comes with its own iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (May 28th, 2010)

The Sound ID is a Bluetooth headset with its own iPhone app. EarPrint is an app created just to control the sound of the headset -- you can tweak the audio in and out, change volume, and even find a lost headset directly from the iPhone itself. Not exactly revolutionary (personally, I've never ...

TUAW's Daily App: 2360: Battle for Cydonia

by Mike Schramm (May 28th, 2010)

We've been doing apps and puzzle games a lot on this feature lately, so let's not forget what makes a game really fun: a big robot blowing up lots of stuff. Fortunately, Battle for Cydonia is full of that, as you control a mech armed with dual machine guns through a series of missions on the future ...

Beautiful retro handset base for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2010)

It's the weekend, which seems like the perfect time for a groovy retro item like this one. The iRetrofone is a handset base for the iPhone that brings an old-school aesthetic to your new-school touchscreen cell phone. We've seen cool handsets before, but this one goes all the way. Any iPhone can ...

Report: One-fifth of smart phone buyers want Android

by Dave Caolo (Jan 5th, 2010)

Those incessant Droid ads are working, as consumer interest is climbing. Last December, ChangeWave Research conducted a study to determine what kinds of smartphones shoppers want. As in previous surveys, the iPhone topped the list. However, 21% of the 4,068 consumers who stated their intention to ...

Study: Android and iPhone users show same usage trends, heavy app usage

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2009)

A study put together by analytics firms comScore and Compete says that while Android and iPhone users probably aren't the same people, they certainly act like it. Usage patterns line up almost exactly across the board, differing by only a few percentage points in categories from social networking ...

Screen sharing is caring: Skype 2.8 goes gold

by Sang Tang (Jul 20th, 2009)

The good folks at Skype have just gone gold with the 2.8 update (link) (previously in beta) of the popular VOIP client for Mac OS X. As TUAW previously noted in the beta release of 2.8, the update brings with it support for screen sharing and Skype Access, the company's pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi service. ...

Talkcast reminder: Potluck night tonight

by Mike Schramm (Jun 28th, 2009)

Our weekly interactive podcast goes live at 10pm Eastern this evening, and it's going to be a potluck night on the show -- you bring whatever you want to talk about, and we'll bring our own casserole of TUAW news from the last week. We'll definitely talk about the new iPhone 3GS: how fast it is, ...

TUAW Interview: OpenFeint, continued

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2009)

Have you seen anything like that already, where developers have said, well we thought about doing it this way, but we're going another way? PR: Too early. The phones aren't even out yet, user experience hasn't occurred yet. I would say July, we'll get a lot of feedback once these games come out ...

Parliant PhoneValet 6.0 now available

by Steven Sande (Jun 2nd, 2009)

In the world of Mac telephony software, there's one leading product -- Parliant PhoneValet. Parliant today released version 6.0 of PhoneValet with some new features that make it even more attractive to small business owners. Those features include: Live receptionist -- Want to have a real person ...

NY Times op-ed on the hate that dare not text its name: iPhone rejection

by Michael Rose (Apr 5th, 2009)

Considering that it's turned out to be one of the most successful products in consumer electronics history, the volume of nay-saying on the iPhone has been constant and ongoing -- many dismissed the phone when it came out, when it was announced, and even when it was just a glimmer of a hint of a ...