iPhone Hacks

Next Generation iPhones Could Come With RFID Sensors

The next gen iPhone could well help you checkout at retail stores, borrow books from a library or pay at a toll-booth. 

If rumors are to be believed, Apple could be deploying RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) sensors in future iPhones. 

Popular Marvel Comics Now Available on the iPhone

The Astonishing X-Men, Marvel Zombies and Captain America are all coming to the iPhone. 

Folks at MacWorld are reporting that the popular Marvel comics shall now be available from several of the popular comics apps on the iPhone. 

After Verizon, Microsoft Now Makes Fun of Apple in New Humor Video

Perhaps the best indication of a company's success is the amount of ridicule it receives from its competitors. 

A day after Apple posted results from its most profitable quarter ever, the Microsoft mobile development team has released a humorous video poking fun at the Apple app store. 

Indie Movie Releases Via iPhone App - Is This The Future?

Your iPhone could soon be the place where you would be watching all the latest movie releases. 

In a first of its kind, the new indie flick, "Rage" directed by Sally Potter and starring Jude Law and Judi Dench is being released on the mobile platform, and that too, for free. 

iPhone Declared UK's Coolest Brand

Yet another reason to proudly flaunt your iPhone. In its latest list, CoolBrands, an annual initiative to study the latest trends in 'coolness' of brands, has listed iPhone as the coolest brand in UK. With this, iPhone toppled Aston Martin from the top spot which it had held for the past three years. 

Apple Patents Reveal Object-Face Detection, Smart Messaging, Voice Modulcation might be coming to iPhone

Folks at Unwired News have reported some of the Apple's iPhone patents that have surfaced this week.

These Apple patents give us a glimpse of what they are planning and could probably include in its next iPhone Operating System. We found some of the Apple patents very interesting and hence, we decided to cover them in this article.

iPhone 3GS Costs $172.46 to Make

Apple's iPhone 3GS gets torn down again but this time for a completely different reason.

Folks at iSuppli, a market research firm,  carried out this dissection in order to find out the cost of the components used in iPhone 3GS and have come up with some interesting findings.

iPhone 3G S Disassembled: Reveals 833MHz CPU, 256MB RAM & 720p HD Video

Most of us are possessive about the gadgets we own, and more so if it happens to be one of the best smartphones in the market a.k.a the iPhone 3G S.

But we do have folks who do not mind stripping and tearing down their iPhone 3G S and take that extra step to get to know the iPhone 3G S better. Folks at iFixit and RapidRepair have done exactly that and have disassembled their iPhone 3G S to the bone.

Painting created on iPhone makes it to the Cover of The New Yorker!

For the first time, the cover of The New Yorker Magazine (dated: 1st June) will sport the picture created on the iPhone.

The iPhone app used to create this drawing is called Brushes, and is available at App Store for $5.99.

Jorge Colombo, the artist, drew this painting within an hour while standing in line outside Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Times Square.

Is Apple's iPhone 3G "Unslow" Ad Misleading?

Have you seen Apple's iPhone 3G "Unslow" ad which says you can do most things on the internet "twice as fast" with iPhone 3G as in comparison to the first generation iPhone?

The ad has created some controversy in the blogosphere with some folks complaining that the ad is misleading, and that it sets wrong expectations.

Check out Apple's iPhone 3G ad after the jump to see if you agree.