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How to Buy an iPod or iPhone for less than full Price

November 7th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

If you’s refer not to pay full price for an iPod or iPhone, consider the alternatives:

  • Buy a fefurbished iPod or iPhone from Apple: Apple sells refurbished iPods and iPhones at a discount – sometimes up to a third off the normal price. To find them, search the Apple store for refurbished iPod or refurbished iPhone. These iPods and iPhones have a one-year limited warranty, which you should read before buying one. You can also buy AppleCare to extend the coverage, although this is typically worthwhile only for the most extensive models.
  • Buy a reconditioned iPod or iPhone from another vendor: eBay and other sites carry reconditioned iPods and iPhones. However, you will not normally get a warranty, and it may be hard to determine the quality of the reconditioning.
  • Grab an old iPhone or iPod when a relative or sibling upgrades: If you know someone who simply must have the latest technology, get ready to jump in line for their existing device.
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The iPod classic and what it does

November 2nd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

iPodThe iPod classic is the sixth generation of regular iPod. The iPod classic is a protable music and video player with a huge capacity, a rechargeable battery good for 8 to 15 hours of music playback (less if you watch a lot of video), and easy-to-use controls.

The iPod classic is built around the type of hard drive used in small laptop computers and comes at this writing only in a 120GB capacity. (The capacity is engraved on the back of the iPod.) Larger hard disks are available, but not yet in the slimline format that the iPod classic needs. So far, as hard-disk manufacturers have released higher-capacity hard disks. Apple has continued to release higher-capacity iPods, so the maximum capacity seems certain to rise. The more space on the iPod’s hard disk, the more songs, video, or other data you can carry on it.

The iPod classic has a 2.5 inch color screen with a resolution of 320*240 pixels, which is called Quarter VGA resolution, or QVGA for short. (VGA resolution is 640*480 pixels – twice as much in each direction, so four times as much overall.) The screen can display videos, photos, and album covers as well as the iPod’s menus, information about the song that’s currently playing, and text-based items, such as your contacts, calendars, and notes.

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The iPod touch and what it does

November 2nd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

iphoneThe iPod touch resembles an iPhone without the phone, the camera, and the waistline. Like the iPhone, the iPod touch has a large, touch-sensitive screen that you use to control most of its functions, from playing back songs and videos to surfing the web via a wireless network and sending mail.

The iPod touch has an on/ off button on the top, a volume rocker button on the side, and the Home button below the screen. It has a minimailst built-in-speaker that’s just about adequote for games, but you’ll want to use headphones or exiternal speakers for listening to any audio you want to hear well

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Knowing an iPhone

October 29th, 2009 iphone News and Updates
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iPhone is one of the most incredible handheld devices. Of course, the iPhone is one heck of a wireless telephone, but it’s actually four awesome handheld devices in one. In addition to being a killer cell phone, it’s a gorgeous widescreen video iPod, a decent 2-megapixel digital camera (original iPhone and iPhone 3G) or 3-megapixel camera/camcorder (iPhone 3GS), as well as the smallest, most powerful Internet communication device yet.

The iPhone has many best-of-class features, but perhaps its most unusual feature is the lack of a physical keyboard or stylus. Instead, it has a 3.5-inch super-high-resolution touchscreen (160 pixels per inch if you care about such things) that you operate using a pointing device you’re already intimately familiar with: your finger. And what a display it is. We venture that you’ve never seen a more beautiful screen on a handhelf device in your life.

iPhone has another feature that can knock your socks off – built-in sensors. An accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape mode and adjusts what’s on the display accordingly. A proximity sensor detects when the iPhone gets near your face, so it can turn off the display to save power and prevent accidental touches by your check. And a light sensor adjusts the display’s brightness in response to the current ambient lighing situation.

The iPhone as a phone and digital camera/camcorder
On the phone side, the iPhone synchronizes with the contacts and calendars on your Mac or PC. It includes a full featured QWERTY soft, or virtual, keyboard, which makes typing text easier than ever before – for some folks.

Granted, the virtual keyboard takes a bit of time to get used to. But we think that many of you eventually will be whizzing along at a much faster pace than you thought possible on a mobile keyboard of this type.

The 2-megapixel (iPhone and iPhone 3G) or 3-megapixel (iPhone 3GS) digital camera is accompanied by a decent photo management applications, so taking and managing digital photos (and videos on iPhone 3GS) is a pleasure rather than the nightmare it can be on other phones. Plus, you can automatically synchronize iPhone photos and videos with the digital photo library on your Mac or PC. Okay, we still wish the iPhone camera took better photos and shot better video but it is still much better than most other phone cameras.

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