Tip: Bring Siri’s voice to your Mac with Samantha downloadable Voice for Lion
Since the introduction of Nuance speech technology in OS X Lion, which provides several new voice options in system preferences for the System Voice, many have compared the voice of Nuance-powered Siri on iPhone 4S to the improved text-to-speech included as free downloads within Lion. As noted by Reddit user Moosehadley, what you might not have realized is the...
Anyone got a catchy title for a creepy iPhone hand case?
This case comes from Japanese retailer Rakuten (via Reddit user samx18), but it is not quite as elegant as that one-of-a-kind leather creation we showed you earlier. Unlike the one-off leather iPad case, this creepy iPhone 4S case is available to purchase for 4,762 yen ($58 USD); although, it is currently listed as out of...
Five Regional Carriers Launch The iPhone At A Discount While T-Mobile Sits On The Sideline
Earlier this month, five regional U.S. carriers announced that they would begin carrying the iPhone 4 and 4S. All were offering the devices at $50 less than the standard list prices of the larger national carriers...iPhone lands on five more US regional carriers today, iPad launching in 12 more countries
As we mentioned earlier this month, the iPhone launches on five additional regional carriers today: Alaska Communications, Appalachian Wireless, GCL, Cellcom, and nTelos. Regional carriers allow residents in more rural areas to use the iPhone without any service disruption and actually pay a little less for the device. The carriers will offer the iPhone 4s for $50 less...
How To Unlock An Out-Of-Contract AT&T iPhone
On Friday AT&T made an announcement that surprised many of us who had given up waiting: customers with an out-of-contract iPhone can unlock it to work with any other GSM SIM — like from T-Mobile. Now the official unlock is here, and the process...Apple Testing iPhone With 1GB of RAM Internally [Rumor]
While we know a new iPhone is coming this year out of Cupertino, we don’t know exactly when that iPhone will launch or with what specs, but what we do know is that Apple is testing prototypes of the new iPhone in its labs....AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday
Those of you who have purchased your iPhone off-contract, aka for the full price, will be happy to hear that AT&T will begin unlocking iPhones at customers’ request this Sunday. Carrier unlocking will allow customers “in good standing” to switch out the AT&T SIM for...Monolith Makes Your iPhone Look Like It Belongs To Don Draper [Review]
One of the saddest things about tech is that unlike other fashionable things, the aesthetic trend that might dictate what gadgets look like for a few years never gets a chance to come back into style. The...Why nTelos gets the iPhone but T-Mobile must wait
Apple has a new U.S. carrier partner for the iPhone, and once again, it’s not T-Mobile. Instead it’s nTelos, a carrier with only 400,000 customers. Apple isn’t snubbing T-Mobile here. It’s merely following the path of least resistance.
Voice Dictation Works Well On Older iPhones [Review]
Voice Dication, or Voice Dictation – Voice To SMS, Email, Facebook, Twitter And Other Apps to give it its full name, is a voice control app from Europe, designed to offer something vaguely Siri-like to those of...Check out HiDPI mode on your Mac right now with AirDisplay (and a new iPad)
AirDisplay, a $10 application that lets your iPad function as a second (or third, fourth, etc.) display for your Mac/PC, was just updated to allow it to push HiDPI pixels to the new iPad. We explained it all here. Developer Avatron announced its “Air Display” app, which allows iPhones, iPads and Macs to act as a second or third monitor,...
Changewave: New iPad customer satisfaction is off the charts
. The first customer satisfaction survey since the release of the new iPad shows that owners are almost completely smitten with their new devices. . Changewave surveyed 200 new iPad owners from March 22 to March 28 and found that those “Very Satisfied” were up 8 percent from the iPad 2 to an impressive 82...
