This one will be painful to watch for the good folks over at Precentral.net. Heck, even we feel a bit bad about this one but It seems as if the owner of this particular Pre had some major screen issues that he couldn’t live with any longer – 3 cracked screens in the span of 3 months.

Rest be assured, this device will be replaced with a new iPhone 3GS. At least that’s what his friends told him…

[Via Gizmodo]

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Dunk a Palm Pre and Win an iPhone 3GS

My, oh, my how far we’ve come in so few years. Daring Fireball sums it up beautifully:

Hard to believe this was just four years ago. The demo starts around 2:45; the look of utter contempt comes about a minute later.

(Not iPhone friendly, sorry).

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Monday Fun Video: Steve Jobs Intros 2005 Motorola ROKR

We know it, we get it, Apple uses superlative superlatives when speaking superlatively about their superlative products, and nothing says quickie internet meme than cutting those superlatives together for YouTube.

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Friday Fun Video 1: Apple Amazes, is Amazingly Amazing!

Sorry. Had. To. Be. Memed. But as long as we’re being so predictable, we might as well make it a contest. A caption contest, of course. So let’s set the stage:

iPhone 3GS, blockbuster selling, uber-popular, satisfaction levels off the hook, has just won the smartphone of the year award, and is about to give its heartfelt speech, in front of proud Pappa Jobs, no less, when the boldest of Kanye West-inspired BlackBerrys storms the stage, speaker on full, auto-tune set, and just has to interrupt and say…

??

What? That’s where you come in. Head on over to our TiPb iPhone Forums and let us know. Be creative, be comedic, be original, and the caption we love best will get an iTunes gift certificate!

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Caption Contest: KanyeBerry Says… What?

Repeat, the above video is disturbing and not safe for work due to language. If you choose to hit play, no complaining in the comments later. Some things you can just never un-watch!

Now, if you thought our brief foray into auto-tune was bad… Here’s Walt Mosspuppet with special guest Pogue’s-head-on-a-stick singing an ode to Steve Jobs and Apple’s 2009 music event. Quizzically, at no time does auto-tune sensation Kanye West rush in and demand Fake Steve get an ode as well, though that might be considered a mixed blessing at best…

[Via Fake Steve]

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Tuesday Disturbing Video: Mosspuppet Goes Auto-Tune (NSFW-L)

Everyone, including Steve Jobs, has very reasonable sounding theories as to why the third gen iPod touch camera was removed. Rather than rehash it again, however, we thought we’d let our minds wonder into parody, and consider what might have happened in a world only slightly more cartoonish than ours…

Steve Jobs, fresh from his recent leave of absence, comes crashing back into Apple’s Cupertino campus, and after fixing the typography on the iPhone 3G S 3GS, tweaking some pixels on the Snow Leopard UI, and spending time meditating deep in the iTablet vault, he heads over to the scorched closet that used to be reserved for iPhone A2DP testing…

“64GB a go?” he demands. “Good”

“Is it thinner?” grumble. “Next year…”

“What about those ultra-tiny auto-focus 3 megapixel sensors we received?” Massive frown. “They don’t work? Not any of them? Then what’s this prototype using?”

The room goes dead silent.

“The iPod nano VGA camera? In a premium, flagship product, that runs the iPhone OS and supports gorgeous stills and breathtaking video?”

The silence is broken by the sound of the iPod touch with camera prototype ricochetting off the head of the hapless white-coat who had the temerity to offer it up.

“Yank it, bozos.” Jobs strides from the room, Dark Force lightning blistering the air around him. “And let’s try to raise the intelligence in this room by next spring, shall we?”

And, boom, no camera, not even a nano-style VGA one in the iPod touch this fall. If that’s the case, however, it’s hard to argue with Jobs (or whomever made the final decision?) that an iPod touch class device demands an iPhone 3GS, and not iPod nano class camera.

That’s not the way Apple plays cricket. They don’t do choppy 15-frame a second video on the iPhone 3G, and they won’t put a nano camera in the iPod touch.

[via Engadget and Macrumors]

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Why the iPod touch G3 Camera was Yanked, and Rightly So

As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was taking the stage for a private company meeting at Seattle’s Safeco Field, he saw an employee about to snap his picture with… an iPhone. So, Ballmer decided to snap instead. TechFlash (via Engadget) reports he grabbed the iPhone from the hapless employee, began making “funny comments”, put the iPhone on the floor and pretended to stamp on it, and then continued on, only to remind the employee he hadn’t forgotten about him later.

Maybe Ballmer should just forbid iPhones at Microsoft the way Bill Gates forbids them at home? Or, you know, get Windows Mobile back in order and make a phone so good no one at Microsoft would want to use anything else?

Of course, if it had been an Apple event, and Steve Jobs had caught one of his employees rocking an Windows Mobile device, no doubt Jobs eyes would have glowed and Omega Beams would have shot out and fried the poor soul on the spot.

(Yeah, we know Apple Store employees all use Windows CE devices to process credit card transactions, shhhh!).

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CEOh-Snap! Ballmer Publicly Ridicules Microsoft Employee for Using iPhone

Mosspuppet, the hand puppet parody of Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg, is back and this time once again using satire to speak the truth none dare speak out loud — that freshly resigned Eric Schmidt was a actually a spy sent by Google to steal Apple’s childhood sense of wonder restoration engine. Or not.

For more salty-language laced rants, check out Hoggworks Studios YouTube Channel (and like our pal Phil from WMExperts, we hope we do get old Mosspuppet’s take on WinPho 7, and other smartphone related topics…)

[via Fake Steve]

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Wednesday Fun Video: Mosspuppet Claims Schmidt Was Spy on Apple Board, Asks for Job (NSFW-L)

Either an iPhone 3GS was dropped in a pool and kept on recording, or as Richard Lai demonstrates in this second video [NSFW-L] someone was smart enough to cover it in plastic wrap first.

You can decide for yourselves, but we’re not letting our iPhone’s anywhere near water without full deep sea gear and a mini sub…

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Monday Fun Video: Aqua iPhone or Human Farce?

Gizmodo made our Friday just a little more bizarrely amusing with a story about a British gang whose DJ made some music, got it up on iTunes (and Amazon) with a 40% commission, and then used stolen credit cards to buy it — making them look popular, and $300,000 “richer” at the same time. Strangest part?

the British police won’t know why they did it until they ask them?

Us neither then.

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Gang Buys own Music on iTunes with Stolen Credit Cards