When I was at school one of my best friends was a bit of a chess whizz.

When I was at school one of my best friends was a bit of a chess whizz.

With all the attention focused on the iPhone 4’s antenna and its related issues, iPhone 3G owners who were struggling with iOS 4 on their phones seemed to have been overlooked and often had their complaints met by a cry of ‘upgrade to an iPhone 4/jailbreak it!’ But the fact is, the iPhone 3G, and occasionally

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In the absence of an official Apple firmware fix, there is a limited amount of things a frustrated iPhone 3G user can do if their phone is having performance problems since upgrading to iOS 4.

Best Buy Mobile has announced that anyone who buys or previously purchased an iPhone 4 from the Best Buy Mobile store will get a free Zagg Side Shield . The Side Shield is the invisibleSHIELD film from Zagg and prevents the infamous antenna issues. According to the WSJ Apple is conducting a probe into the issues iPhone 3G users are seeing with iOS 4 on the smartphone. The main complaint is slow operation after the install. The woes of iPhone 4 users and the antenna design on the new smartphone are legendary at this point. Motorola has taken the rare misstep by Apple and turned it into a chance to poke fun at the iPhone 4 with a new ad leading with a tag line “No Jacket Required.”

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ATTENTION iPhone 3G & 3Gs Unlockers: Baseband 05.14.01+ Makes Ultrasn0w 0.93 Exploit Obsolete Post from: FSMdotCOM Just a quick heads-up: Sherif Hashim confirmed that baseband 05.14.01 ( and above ) makes ultrasn0w 0.93′s exploit obsolete. iPhone 3G and 3Gs users should stay on iOS 4.0 or 4.0.1 and do not update to future iOS releases, otherwise you won’t be able to unlock your iPhone. Probably ultrasn0w will be updated in the future or, who knows, new unlocking tools will be released. But for now, just stay away from that update button.

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Apple’s Magic Trackpad Disassembly [video] Post from: FSMdotCOM We don’t usually cover ‘everything Apple’ here on FSM, but we are always willing to find out what a beautiful industrial package hides inside . So here’s the ‘guts’ of the latest Apple product , the magic trackpad, as shown by iFixit. You can find the whole teardown and info here …

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Walt Mossberg: Despite The Exposed Antenna, The iPhone 4 Does Better Than The 3Gs [video] Post from: FSMdotCOM Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, tested the iPhone 4 for six weeks and came to the conclusion that although i4′s voice call capabilities could’ve been better handled, the devices still does better than its predecessor, the iPhone 3Gs. He also said that the ‘death grip’ is not such a serious issue. It does make the i4 drop bars yes, but it’s not dropping calls. Despite the hot-spot issue and the exposed antenna, the iPhone 4 does better than the 3GS for me in decent coverage. But I still wouldn

The True Story Behind iPhone 4: From The Lost iPhone Prototype To Antennagate [video] Post from: FSMdotCOM Yeah, this pretty much sums it up. And since I don’t understand a single word ( besides iPhone ) , all I could think of during the entire video was ‘holy sh*t, I want a videogame like this’ . Thanks to GreyHam for passing the vid..

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