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Talk about useless crap.  I mean, whoa I totally need this.  I suppose if you were doing a short film about this gadget or the wonders of iPhone video, then it would maybe be cool?  The whole point of shooting video on your phone is to not need something like this.

Priced at $300 I would have trouble holding back malicious laughter if I saw some dude toting this thing around pretending to be professional.  I beg to be proven otherwise as I am continuously amazed at consumerism.

[via BoingBoing]

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You’ve already read about the Hero HTC phone here back in June, but what you don’t know is we’re not the only ones interested in the phone that uses Google technology was just elected Gadget of the Year by the 2009 Stuff Gadget Awards.

The Hero, which uses the Android operating system and features a five megapixel camera and 3.2 inch screen, can make calls, take pictures, and thanks to Android, check your email.  One of the judges at the annual Gadget festival declared that the HTC Hero is “as clever and as sexy as the iPhone”, which is actually pretty awesome unless you take him literally, then it just sounds like he’s hitting on it.

Further highlights of the Stuff Gadget Awards were the iPhone 3GS snagging Phone of the Year and Readers’ Gadget of the Year, Spotify for Audio Gadget, and the Sony KDL-40WE5 as Eco Gadget of the Year.

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At this point every iPhone owner should be aware of the rechargeable battery pack.  Several companies have their own take on the product thus giving the consumer a bevy of choices.  GadgetReview has reviewed the last two incarnations of the Mophie Juice Pack and today we’ll take a look at the Juice Pack Air for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. …Continue reading: Mophie Juice Pack Air Rechargeable Battery Case Review

In fun rumor gargle, EuroGamer Spain believes to have stumbled on some rather staggering PSP2 specifications.  Claiming that the PSP2 is still in the works, it will use a quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP chip from Imagine Technologies.  That chip is supposedly similar to the one in the new iPhone 3gs, but with a couple extra cores thrown in for good measure.  As rumors are merely speculation at any given time, this information (if you can call it that), can morph into something entirely different without notice.  With that said, take this nugget of discharge lightly as a true PSP2 is still ways away.

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If you’re anything like me you’re not willing to Jailbreak your iPhone for the opportunity to tether the device to your computer for go any where Internet surfing.  Additionally, the folks at iPhone-Dev have yet to figure out how to Jailbreak the iPhone 3GS, although word on the street is that it’s coming any day now.

Well, fortunately there is a work around that requires no Jailbreaking or messy hacking to Tether it up.  Just follow the below instructions and you’ll be tethering with your iPhone 3GS or 3G running iPhone 3.0 software in no time flat.

1. Point your iPhone’s browser to help.benm.at
2. Scroll down to the blue button that says “Mobileconfigs’ and click it
3. Next select your country
4. Then choose your carrier
5. You’ll then be prompted with a profile install which you should do
6. Once that is complete click the iPhone’s Home button>Settings>General>Network>Internet Tethering>On
7. Select USB or Bluetooth (I choose USB)
8. Then plug your iPhone into your computer
9. Those on Macs, your Network settings screen should automatically pop up under system preferences
10. Select the iPhone (called Ethernet Adapter (en2) ) and the system will configure the DHCP info accordingly (this will probably happen after you click apply) and click Apply
11. Surf the net!

Note, we still don’t know what kind of action AT&T will take against those who perform heavy Internet surfing on a tethered iPhone, or any tethered iPhone as it’s completely unsanctioned and may either break the contractual terms or cost you some serious dough.

Update: Many people seem to be having trouble getting this to work.  If you’d like some help please email info [at] gadgetreview.com.

Update 2: A German iPhone user on T-Mobile just wrote in and said this is what he/she had to do to get it working: “you have to install the mobile config, restart, delete the config, install the config, restart and then you can use it!”.  Interesting that you should have to install it twice, but who knows and if it works so be it!

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Still skeptical as to whether or not the iPhone 3Gs is really faster?  Sure, you could read up on all the benchmarks (’read’ link) but who has time to do that.  The maker of AirCoaster 3D, a roller coaster simulation application put together a video showing off the latest iPhone’s new processing power.  As you can see, the 3Gs runs a whole lot smoother.

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The iPhone Dev Team has released the necessary tools to unlock your iPhone running OS 3.0.  But, and this is a big but, if you’re looking to jailbreak and use a carrier other than AT&T stop.  Contrary to them saying they’d release Ultrasnow today, the tool necessary to unlock your phone running 3.0, they haven’t and they haven’t stated a release date, but it should be very soon.  A few other things to consider when Jailbreaking your iPhone:

• It won’t work with the latest iPhone, 3GS.
• If you bought an unlocked iPhone 3G than  you can use the latest PWNage tool since it doesn’t depend on baseband updates
• If you have a gen 1 iPhone (like me) then this will work, although they allude to this and don’t outright state that Yellowsnow will continue to work with the Gen 1 iPhone running OS 3.0
• A Windows version is coming soon

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I just scored my iPhone 3GS (yes, it arrived on time) and decided a little unboxing video was in order. I know, I know, it’s far from exciting but seemed like a ‘must do’ considering all the notoriety the iPhone has received since it launched two years ago.  Hate or love it, the iPhone 3GS is here and I’m digging its video capabilities and auto focus.  Expect a short review in the coming weeks.

PS I’ll chose a winner for the contest soon.  Feel free to drop a comment below if you haven’t received your iPhone 3GS yet or if you’re shipping info says it won’t arrive today.

Will my iPhone 3GS arrive by Friday, June 19th?  Based on UPS tracking – it’s currently in Alaska – I’m saying ‘yes’, but Apple’s initial email notification said that it would arrive by June 22nd, well behind the official launch date.  What do you think?  Take a guess to when my iPhone will arrive and I’ll send one lucky commenter a gadget of some sort (yes, you’ll have to wait to see what I send you).

Update: Checkout Joe’s last comment.  He says that he ‘just got off the phone with UPS International Services and she said that they are trying to work with apple to have the packages released cause they dont have alot of room to hold them but she said Guaranteed friday 19th and the end of business day’.  Thanks for the update Joe.

Checkout Belkin’s new line of iPhone cases for the 3GS.  I’m particularly fond of the Grip Ergo since it comes in a chili pepper red that remind me of J-Lo’s costume in The Cell.  Also available in Caviar and Indigo, the Grip Ergo case is out now for $29.95.

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