According to Apple’s internal documentation, the iPhone is now available without AT&T contract or ID at any Apple Store. Our contact claims that the iPhone is locked, however, so it will only work with AT&T SIMs. Here are the conditions: • Customers are not required to have an AT&T contract. • Customers can only purchase [...]

Foursquare: If you’ve never used Foursquare, here’s how it works: Whenever you go somewhere, like a restaurant or a hot dog cart, or hell, your friend’s apartment, you check in. Your Foursquare friends can then see where you’ve gone, and vice versa. You can even become the Mayor of a place by going there enough! [...]

A few months back, I heard an iPhone game called Twin Blades was getting a promotion to a full Xbox Live Arcade downloadable. That interested me, as most ports travel in the opposite direction, console to iPhone. So I threw a buck Press Start Studio’s way to see what they did to merit the extra [...]

Yesterday a change to the iPhone SDK allowed for VoIP over 3G and we heard about the first app which’ll offer the functionality. Today another iPhone app, Fring, has begun allowing video and voice calls using Skype over 3G. You don’t need to update your version of the Fring app as it was simply a [...]

In this week’s distracted app roundup: Grand Theft Auto, committed! Live video, streamed over 3G! Photos, psycedelicized! Blocks, stacked, smashed, and squeezed through holes! Casual gaming norms, subtly subverted! Spying spouses, caught! Songs, made with magic! Barack, Obama’d! And more… If you want to view this post as a single page, click here Chomp: Following [...]

An American filmmaker trapped in the Haitian earthquake used his iPhone in some pretty ingenious ways to survive until he could be rescued 65 hours later. It’s like a digital multitool! Dan Woolley was caught under a pile of rubble when the earthquake hit, injuring both his leg and his head. A first-aid app instructed [...]

The iPhone is the most popular cellphone in the country, and with good reason. Despite occasionally awful choices by Apple, it still has the most—and best—applications around. Here are the most popular free iPhone apps (and posts) of 2009. As with our most popular Windows downloads and Mac downloads of 2009, this collection of applications [...]

Thanks to the iPhone and iPod Touch you need never be away from the mass re-killing of hordes of shuffling, reanimated Nazi soldiers. Call of Duty: World At War: Zombies has been released via the iTunes App Store today. Call of Duty: World At War: Zombies consists, according to the official description, entirely of the [...]

The Month’s Best Layar: There’s the obvious reason to be excited about this: Layar, the first camera-based AR app to really blow us (or anyone) away, has quietly slipped into the App Store. As with the Android version, the app overlays all kinds of information onto a live view of the world around you. And [...]

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