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Since the introduction of the iPhone, the cell phone market in the United States has started to shift. Before the iPhone, most smartphone owners in the United States were enterprise users. That means they owned a smartphone for business purposes. They’d check e-mail and browse the Web, often while driving, weaving in and out of [...]

Eager to get in on the whole “using your iPhone to pay for stuff” revolution? Too bad your wallet is vehemently disagreeing right now. At any rate, the folks behind the Square iPhone payment system have finally seen fit to open up their solution to the public, but only in the form of a pilot. [...]

We’ve been playing with PhoneSuit’s Primo micro battery pack on our iPhone 3GS for a few days. As the name suggests, this thumb-sized battery is the smallest we’ve seen in its class, but somehow it still packs 800mAh of juice — almost two-thirds of the iPhone’s built-in cell. Feature-wise you’ll only find battery level and [...]

Rock Band Running Arm Band by Nathan – Nathan Rock Band allows you to rock while you run! A unique wire management pod allows you to wrap wires so they are out of your way. There’s also handy earbud storage when the player is not in use. Designed for either the Apple iPhone or iTouch, [...]

Latest Intel mobile architecture
Powered by the most advanced mobile processors from Intel, the Core 2 Duo-based MacBook Pro is up to 74% faster than the original Core Duo-based MacBook Pro and supports up to 4GB of RAM.
The genius of Multi-Touch
The MacBook Pro trackpad adopts many of the innovative Multi-Touch gestures from the Apple iPhone, so [...]

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If you’re a reader of Engadget (and let’s be honest — you’re reading this, right?) then you surely know Ben Heck’s work. The master modder has been the source of some of our favorite tweaks, hacks, and flat-out crazy gadget manipulations over the years. We recently had a chance to take [...]

Apple has announced that it will now allow products and services to be bought and sold from within free iPhone applications.

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Believe it or not, a device-controlled car isn’t exactly fresh. In fact, we’ve actually seen a PSP control a Civic before Barack Obama was even a glimmer in the media’s eye. That said, we’re always willing to give credit where it’s due, and the iDriver app just might be the most impressive use of Apple’s [...]

Artist David Hockney isn’t afraid of picking up new media — over the years, he’s used Polaroids, photocollages, and even fax machines to create his art — in addition to regular, old-fashioned painting. Now, he’s taken to using his iPhone to create new works of art. The resultant “paintings” have been exhibited at the Tate [...]