iPhone Buzz first covered the Juice Pack for the iPhone way back in early December, and we have been waiting patiently for its arrival. Nearly six months later, I’m thrilled to report that it is finally here. Was the wait worth it? Heck yes! The package arrived directly from mophie earlier today, so I haven’t had adequate time to thoroughly put the Juice Pack through a rigorous test yet.

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AT&T has sent email messages to iPhone customers to remind users that international data usage is not covered under your existing U.S. data plan.

Your iPhone provides access to email, Visual Voicemail, Web browsing and other applications that can use a significant amount of data. It’s no surprise that you might find yourself using more data than you thought. AT&T wants to let you know of some easy ways to help minimize data usage charges when traveling overseas.

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For two weeks now, I’ve been the relatively happy owner of an iPhone. Still, I have some major complaints, and I know the folks in Cupertino are just waiting to hear what I’ve got to say. The problem is that the iPhone is a great gadget and conversation-starter, but not yet a true corporate tool.

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The trend toward standardized platforms for development of embedded systems is almost certain to accelerate, according to a panel of engineers who study consumer behavior. Many of the reasons for their conclusion are embodied in the most influential consumer device of the past year: Apple’s iPhone.

A panelist at the Embedded Systems Conference here this week, Jason Short, director of interaction design at Smart Design, referred to the iPhone as the epitome of “user-centered design.”

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Don’t get too excited just yet. Yes, the next version of the iPhone OS will feature the ability to embed YouTube videos directly into a webpage. What you get is an embedded YouTube video playing on the website like you’d expect from your desktop.

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Since Apple releases firmware upgrades on a regular basis, will I miss out on a lot of fun by choosing an unlocked iPhone operating on T-Mobile, one of our readers ask.

Reader’s question:

I would really like to get Apple’s iPhone, but AT&T’s network performance in my area makes me reluctant to spend the money just yet. Is an unlocked iPhone operating on T-Mobile’s network a viable solution, or will I miss any important firmware upgrades? Ben T.

read it here infosyncworld.com

Not long ago, Phil Lu of Genoco came up with an idea to bring your iPhone and a visit in Starbucks together. The idea was to get your Starbucks coffee quick and fast in ordering and paying just with your iPhone in your palm.

The cool thing, Phil’s idea involved a payment solution with semacodes, which are commonly used in other countries for underground transportation and so on.

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Apple Inc. shares rose as much as 3%, to $152.55 Wednesday after two of the company’s partners in the U.K. cut their prices on the 8-gigabyte version of the iPhone.

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iPhone users should soon be able to capture screenshots of websites on their mobile devices, according to the latest batch of reports.

Gizmodo explains that the mobile version of Safari that will ship within Apple’s in-development iPhone 2.0 software update will let users save images of websites to their photo albums.

read it here macworld.co.uk

Mrmr is an ongoing open-source research project to develop a standardized set of protocols and syntax conventions to control live installations and multimedia performances via mobile devices.

The project is currently spearheaded by Eric Redlinger, researcher-in-residence at Brooklyn Polytechnic University’s Integrated Digital Media Institute.

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Apple in the second of two interesting patent filings revealed this week discusses techniques for improving the iPhone’s ability to serve as a multi-party communication environment, in which participants on conference calls can be assigned to virtual position in order to improve clarity.

The technique is particularly suited for communication devices with at least two speakers available for audio output, such an iPhone with a connected pair of earphones or headset.

read it here appleinsider.com

Greek technology site iPhone Hellas has been combing the text strings in the recent beta of Apple’s iPhone 2.0 firmware. As we’ve seen in the past, the text strings refer to unannounced iPhone features and also mention extra steps included to prevent unlocking.

read it here zdnet.com

As the Second Coming of the JesusPhone looms over the horizon, the rumor pace starts to accelerate, with people digging in the dirt to try to get any clues about what’s awaiting in this incarnation of Apple’s cellphone.

StuffTV is now reporting that—just like Jason wanted—Nike+ will definitely come to the iPhone in a big way, while code detectives have found strings that hint at support of Bluetooth stereo headphones, GPS support, and other iPhone seeeeeecrets:

read it here gizmodo.com

Shawn Zade, who runs a small company called Wireless Imports in New York, is among hundreds of businesspeople who have tried to make a buck from purchasing and reselling Apple’s iPhone at a higher price. But his job has gotten so hard lately that he may exit the iPhone resale business altogether.

read it here economictimes.indiatimes.com

According to NetBlender, iPhone and iPod touch users will be able to control their Blu-ray players using an application called BD Touch. The application will use the network capabilities of Blu-ray hardware and Apple’s handheld devices to transfer data, allowing you to do many different things beyond controlling movie playback. Update: we have spoken with NetBlender about BD Touch. As we imagined, it requires more than just an iPhone application:

read it here gizmodo.com

After reading about the iPhone for a while, memorising facts from its spec-sheet is just an occupational hazard.  So, Apple’s cellphone has a maximum screen resolution of 640 x 480 for compatible content… doesn’t it?  Ars Technica say no, and they’ve been playing with video that encoded at 720 x 576, 25fps on both the iPhone and the iPod Touch, a figure that’s funnily enough exactly the same as a PAL DVD.

read it here iphonebuzz.com

As I may have mentioned, my iPhone is terribly spoiled; always has to have the latest case, the newest earbuds, or the system mysteriously slows down.

Right now, it’s sporting the new Wave case by Griffin, ($24.99) which is a bright red and made of a translucent polycarbonate shell.

read it here popgadget.net

It’s been on the market for just six months, and already the iPhone (plus its Wi-Fi-only variant, the iPod Touch) is the most used mobile browser for Internet access in the U.S., according to Irish researcher StatCounter. At No. 2 is the Symbian OS used in Nokia’s devices. Globally, the two positions are reversed. In either case, Windows Mobile—in all its versions—is just a blip.

read it here macworld.com

Zibri, the brains behind the iPhone cracking application ZiPhone, has been digging around in the code of yesterday’s iPhone SDK update. What did he find inside? A possible reference to the Infineon S-GOLD 3H chip, a 3.5G cellphone processor.

read it here wired.com

Piper Jaffray has introduced new research which shows Apple to be the predominant digital music and device brand among US teenagers.

The researchers identified that 87 per cent of US teens own an MP3 player, and 86 per cent of that group own an iPod.

read it here macworld.co.uk

The public and industry obsession over the iPhone has spawned—and will likely continue to spawn—a fair number of imitators and wannabes. But none of these is likely to have the staying power of the iPhone, thanks to Apple’s creation of an ecosystem filled with third- party developers.

read it here macworld.com

The iPhone’s all-metal casing isn’t always a good match for its much vaunted all-glass display. We recently found this out the hard way.
Since we obtained an iPhone last summer, we’ve sometimes found it difficult to maintain a good grip on it.

In fact, our iPhone recently slipped out of our hands (not for the first time, of course) recently, only to unfortunately land on concrete.

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Fon11 is an application for your iPhone which helps you connect with your contacts. Fon11 has features such as: sharing your mood, sharing your new number, sharing your location, broadcasting short messages, and letting your friends know when you are available to chat. Fon11 is like a social network for your phone.

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When Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and carrier partner AT&T (NYSE: T) dropped the price of the iPhone in the U.S. last year, more than a few consumers got their knickers in a twist. Then again, Steve Jobs did this scarcely two months after launching the coveted device and soon offered $100 refunds to recent purchasers who felt jilted.

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Snapture is a brand new camera app for the iPhone that packs lots of good features.  Just for starters it offers everything that Makayama’s Camera Pro (the first upgrade camera app for the iPhone) provides, but for free rather than for the $29.95 that Camera Pro is listed at.

I’ve been trying out Snapture a little tonight and liking it quite a lot.

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