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Retro iPod dock can really rock

An iPod is fine for listening to music on the go, but sometimes people want to cast headsets aside and hear their playlists piped through the living room by a sound system.
Manufacturers offer dozens of devices that do this: The iPod pops into a docking station in an updated version of a boombox and can [...]

Apple Hits The 100 Million Mark With iPod

Apple has sold its 100 millionth iPod and is far outpacing its closest competitors, which have failed to make even a dent in the portable music player’s popularity.
Since its introduction in November 2001, the iPod has spawned an ecosystem of accessories that include cases, earphones, home stereos, and hardware for playing [...]

PDASmart Announces 100gb Upgrade for iPod Video

Provides storage for 25,000 songs or 125 hours of video; First 100gb hard drive on the market for the iPod® Video.
PDASmart , the leading developer of iPod® performance upgrades and accessories, announced today the immediate availability of a 100 gigabyte hard drive upgrade for the iPod® Video. The PDASmart 100gb upgrade [...]

Apple Wants You to Buy Lots of iPods

Has Apple finally sold an iPod to every single person that wants one? The appearance of this sign at an Apple Store would say yes. Now instead of finding new customers, Apple will be working off their existing customer base trying to get you to buy iPods of all shapes, colors, [...]

Three ingenious iPod docking solutions

Altec Lansing created the first portable iPod speaker and the company is continuing in this tradition of innovation with several new products. The most interesting is the inMotion iMV712 which docks your iPod to offer a room filling sound and upsized viewing screen. There’s also the M812 high-end wireless home audio [...]

The iPhone: Mac or iPod?

The Apple iPhone will change the way people use their cell phones. The question is, will it be the new Mac or the new iPod?
Apple has innovated like this twice before, to very different results.
The Mac introduced mainstream users to mice, icons, windows, and menus. It inspired Microsoft’s Windows operating system and pushed the entire [...]

Apple iPhone Copied LG Prada, Not Other Way Around

It seems that the Apple iPhone has stirred up just as much controversy as it has created buzz around the produce-inspired company. According to Woo-Young Kwak, Head of Mobile Handset R&D at LG, Apple copied their LG Prada phone. Now, I’m not the first to say that Apple didn’t create anything particularly new with the [...]

iPhone in 3-Way Canadian Smackdown

In Canada, “bacon” can mean meat that’s crispy or soft. The term “iPhone” could cause similar confusion there with three companies claiming rights to the name.
Toronto-based Comwave Telecom said Monday that it has used the name iPhone since 2004 for a bundle of Internet telephony hardware and services. Comwave president Yuval Barzakay said in an [...]

Will you buy an iPhone?

We want to know! Will you buy an iPhone when they arrive later this year? Answer that poll question at the ElectroGeek.com blog and we’ll compensate you with plenty of technology related reading pleasure as our way of saying thank you.
The Apple iPhone:
* No keyboard. * $500 bucks with a contract.
Sounds like a great deal. [...]