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Apple’s WWDC 2011 is going on right now and iOS5 is being announced and demoed. One feature in particular that I am interested in is iMessage. iMessage looks to be Apple’s version of BlackBerry Messenger. It will do standard text messages, but also adds the ability to message any iOS device – iPods and iPads [...]

My contract with Bell ended back in August and I was in the market for some new phones. My wife and I had been using a couple of voice-only Samsung flip phones for the past three years and the time was right to make the jump to a pair of smartphones. Now, we didn’t WANT [...]

Apple has updated its app approval guidelines, much to the relief of many a disgruntled developer. This has allowed GV Mobile to be re-submitted and will likely see the return of the app to the iPhone. Very briefly, Apple’s app approval guidelines were not transparent, were quite arbitrary, and seemed to not be applied consistently. [...]

Everyone else has already covered the Apple music event, but I thought I’d pull out a little tidbit of information that looks promising for VOIP communication. The new iPod touch looks like it’s got everything needed in order to be a fully stand-alone wifi-only VOIP phone without resorting to jailbreaking. With home wifi networks being common, [...]

The cult of Mac is reporting today that the iPhone will be coming to T-Mobile. Referencing a source high up in T-Mobile’s organization, they claim an 80% chance that iPhones will be available on T-Mobile by the end of Q3 this year (late September). Deutsche Telekom, carrier of the iPhone in Germany and T-Mobile’s parent company, was [...]

Something I have suspected since the iPad 3G’s launch but have not been able to confirm has now been verified by another blog: You can activate an iPad 3G SIM card on a $15/mo plan, then put that SIM into an iPhone and run it on a data-only plan. No more $40 restrictive voice plans! [...]

iChat may be coming with the next version of the iPhone and its OS. This story is yet another spinoff of the recent iPhone 4G leak that gizmodo got their hands on. A front-facing camera and upgraded hardware would indeed allow the iPhone to make video+voice calls using iChat over the phone’s data connection. They [...]

Steve Jobs just jailbroke the iPhone. It only took a few years, but it’s finally here: Multitasking for the iPhone. The single biggest drawback keeping the iPhone and iPod touch squarely out of the VOIP game was the lack of multitasking, and this summer, it will be coming. Today, Apple announced OS 4.0 for the [...]

If you head over to the apple.ca iPhone store, and reserve an iPhone for pickup at their local Apple retail store, you now have a “device only” option instead of being required to activate it on a plan. It will still be locked to a particular carrier, but you don’t have to be locked into [...]

Well folks, a day we have all been waiting a long time for has finally come. The new version of the iPhone SDK released today for use with the iPad has removed the longstanding restriction preventing VOIP traffic over 3G. This means you can talk over your data plan for very cheap and not use [...]