It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t work. The phone dropped calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and applications routinely became corrupted and unusable. The list of problems seemed …

FlyTunes is a new kind of music service that is designed for today’s highly integrated and 3G capable cell phones, such as the Apple iPhone. It also works with popular music players such as the iPod family and the Microsoft Zune.

FlyTunes offers users “effortless, personalized music” that they can enjoy anytime, anywhere they go.

How is FlyTunes “better” than Sirius and XM satellite radio?
FlyTunes gives users more of …

speaking during a panel session at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “But it’s a replacement for someone who had a Razr before. They still want their content but there’s no distribution platform in place so there’s a negative impact on the industry,” he said.

Because Apple so far hasn’t allowed iPhone users to download just anything, iPhone users may be giving up games that they played on a phone they previously owned, he said. “These …

Altec Lansing, a division of Plantronics, Inc., is once again amplifying music and multimedia experiences for Apple customers with the debut of the T612™ digital audio system for the iPhone™ and new iPod® family of products. The T612 provides brilliant sound for music and multimedia, while also featuring iPhone incoming call support.

The Altec Lansing T612 furthers the company’s legacy of developing digital audio systems that complement the iPod with rich sound, beautiful design and the ability to …

You can now listen to the music from your iPhone in the car with Belkin’s new TuneBase FM for iPhone and iPod and TuneCast Auto for iPhone and iPod. Featuring ClearScan technology, with one push of a button both FM transmitters will automatically seek out the best FM frequency to play the music from your iPhone or iPod. TuneBase FM also conveniently mounts and powers your iPhone or iPod in the car.

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A majority of MP3 owners listen …

The Joby Zivio™ is an elegant, high performance Bluetooth™ headset with a telescoping microphone boom. The first of its kind, the Zivio’s retractable microphone provides exceptional audio quality in environments that traditionally challenge headsets, such as high-noise public areas and moving automobiles.

Bluetooth Version: 2.0 + EDR with Hands-free profile 1.5
Talk/Standby Time: 10 hours/12.5 days (300 hours)
Charges: via USB connection
Weight: 13 grams
Length (mic retracted): 53.5 mm
Length (mic extended): 137 mm
Width: 15 mm
Depth (thickness w/o earpiece): 7.2 mm
Range (btw. …

The Friends at Mashable.com made an extraordinary effort and collected a bunch of the most important applications for OUR iphone and some for the iPod Touch, install them, test them, share them and why not, visit mashable.com from your iphone to taste it. Enjoy for this list and expect for the third installment of the iPhone Applications Survivor Kit.

iPhoneChat- iChat-like AIM chat application.

OneTrip – Simple shopping-list application.

FlickIM – Multi-featured …

New lifestyle audio product designer and manufacturer Vestalife will debut the Ladybug, the first in its planned series of lifestyle electronic products, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, which runs January 7-10, 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Media and buyers alike, who have been loving the Ladybug since it captured the prestigious CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award in November, will finally be able to get their hands and ears on …

Copy the content of your cell phone to your Mac, iPhone or iPod. So you just received your brand new iPhone and would like to transer your contacts, dates, notes and bookmarks as well as your music, fotos and videos from your old cell phone?

Activate Bluetooth on your cell phone and Macintosh Computer and launch Fone2Phone. This program will take over and do the work for you: from the connection process to copying all data to …

Simplify Media has developed a simple iPhone/iPod Touch application that connects to your computer — and your friends — anywhere you have WiFi internet access. Browse through your music library just as you would at home, just as you would if you actually had the music stored on your iPhone. It can be used with itunes or winamp.

Requirements: 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 on the iPhone and iPod Touch, a jailbreak and the AppTap Installer Simplify Media Mobile then …

Now, iPhone owners have an easy way to transfer important data from a previous device and increase your backup capabilities. With The Missing Sync for iPhone, easily transfer your calendar, contacts, photos and more from your old BlackBerry, Palm OS or Window Mobile smartphone to your iPhone. Then, start power syncing and backup up your SMS messages, call logs and notes in addition to your calendar and contacts data.

Today announced the immediate availability of The Missing Sync …

Here is a list of some of the most attractive iPhone cases and other accesories to protect your little and cute device and give a personal touch in features and style, some of them carry a high luxury price and other do the job for the price.

Apple iPhone Soft Polycarbonate Slim fit Case
The iPhone Polycarbonate Case – the Ergonomic design cover is comfortable and form-fitting, and provides scratch and slip protection for your iPhone. The iPhone …