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Yep – I upgraded to an iPhone 4. No – I haven’t seen any noticeable signal drop when/if I deathgrip the thing. Then again, AT&T’s coverage has always sucked pretty much anywhere so I haven’t been paying too much attention. But I did just download the iPhone 4 Case Program App, tracked down what looks like a nice case to augment or possibly replace my current iFrogz Luxe Lean. For free. Thank you, Mr. Jobs.

And yes, I’m fully aware of how much the post makes me sound like a fanboi…

Yeah, so the new iOS 4 brought my iPhone 3G to a crawl. Turns out, more than a few other people out there have been having the same problems. The unified Inbox and folders for my apps are really not worth the extreme slowness that I’ve been seeing, so it was on to try and find a way to restore my iPhone to 3.1.3, or the latest version of iPhone OS before iOS showed up.

Turns out, just as I was sitting down to really dig into how to do this Lifehacker posts up the exact process.

A word of warning: I attempted this on a Windows 7 machine and couldn’t get RecBoot to work. Luckily, I was able to download the Intel Mac version of it and kick my iPhone out of recovery mode using the Mac version of RecBoot. My phone was then seen as a new phone, I chose to restore from a backup I’d made back in April, and finally sync’d it up with iTunes (making sure to opt out of the iOS4 upgrade again!).

Way to go, guys! :thumbsup:

I already have a Facebook account, Google. ‘sides, your iPhone web app seems to suck by not even loading…

This is huge for anyone who owns an Apple product and has ever dealt with having to fix, say, a keyboard that your cat puked on (ask me how I know this…): iFixit has released it’s fixit guides for iPhones, iPods, Macbooks, and Mac desktops under a Creative Commons license. For the average person, this basically means that you can access their online guides for free.

via Lifehacker:

We’ve always been impressed with the detailed, step-by-step guides iFixit has posted for MacBooks, iPods, and other devices. Now the site’s put every bit of its content, and future posts, under a Creative Commons license, one that allows for free, non-commercial distribution and modification, with attribution. That doesn’t mean you can go selling your own knocked-off repair guides, but you can rest assured that iFixit will get better international translations, and that its sometimes irreplaceable repair guides will stick around in one form or another for some time.

…I find it funny that AT&T has released “Mark the Spot” for the iPhone [Free - iTunes link], an application made for the sole purpose of telling AT&T when your voice or data service has dropped off the map.

Somehow I think this is not going to end well for AT&T. Do you think that Verizon just might be able to capitalize on this? Maybe? Or is it a potentially-successful attempt at reconciling how the entire United States feels about AT&T’s service?

via Gizmodo

I used to be a Verizon customer – a very satisfied one as my calls would never drop. I ditched them for a device I love just like many have done. Some people claim that AT&T’s network has suffered because of users like me are taking up all the bandwidth or something. Whatever: you get exclusive access to the hottest piece of hardware out there, make sure your network can handle it or you’re going to lose customers, as I will be looking to do in 2011 when my current 2 years are up and when Droid matures even more. But in the meantime, AT&T? The truth hurts:

AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s “There’s A Map For That” advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts.

Smart move, AT&T: all of your customers know your coverage sucks. Your iPhone customers are dissatisfied with your service and would jump ship in a heartbeat. Maybe you have the “Nation’s Fastest 3G Network” but it’s only in the relatively rare cases where my phone can find it. Good move on a lawsuit as a response to something we all know is the truth.

I honestly thought I had gotten past having to actually check the number of bars my phone was getting when I was with Verizon. Not so now that I’ve switched to an inferior network. AT&T? You suck.

Oftentimes I look at my iPhone and wonder why I’m not enjoying it more like all those people on the commercials who link up with 27 of their closest friends in downtown San Francisco for some flashmob Titterific event… or something.

And then I find an app like RedLaser. So incredibly worth the $2 they’re charging for it. In short, point your iPhone at a bar code and it almost instantly will give you price comparisons across Amazon.com and Google Product Search. I started scanning everything in my house. It told me we could replace Anna’s BlackBerry for $249, told me where to purchase Ramen by the case, and even gave me price comparisons for a box of Winchester .308 FMJ. ($14.99? Are you kidding me?) It would seem that if something’s got a UPC barcode, this app will look it up for you. Simply awesome.

1. VirtualBox is much, much faster on my Windows 7 PC than VMWare Workstation 6.5. And cheaper.
2. ted, the torrent episode downloader, is possibly one of the most efficient fixes to an organizational problem I’ve had in quite some time.
3. Videora, while incredibly bloated with ads and general GUI ickiness, is very adept at getting DivX video onto my iPhone.
4. I have to tell you I’m not being paid to shill for any of these products

Ever look at some of the reviews of iPhone apps? Ever actually read the idiocy that people think is okay to put up there?

Get a new system of ratings, or at least moderate the most stupid ones, Apple.