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StudioSix Digital Does Serious DIY Audio Measurement on the iPhone

Powerful, reasonably-priced alternatives to dedicated audio measurement hardware.
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted December 29, 2010
While wandering the aisles of the recent Audio Engineering Society show in San Francisco, I found a great little measurement rig for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that deserved inclusion in my recent article on DIY audio measurement in the January 2011 issue of S+V [on stands now]. Unfortunately, the article had already gone to press, so I thought I'd report on the system here.

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Blackberry Torch 9800

Gary Dell'Abate takes on a very smart phone.
- By Gary Dell'abate
- Posted November 23, 2010
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The iPhone has clearly infiltrated our culture. Its owners are rabidly loyal, and they’ll tell you that every other phone is inferior to theirs. Alas, the many people out there still devoted to BlackBerry can only look longingly at the iPhone, wishing for some of those cool features that Apple has become famous for.

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Review: The Best iPhone Universal Remote Apps

We test four iOS apps that can take control of your home theater.
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted October 12, 2010
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Like some 40 million other people, I love my iPhone. It’s always with me, serving as everything from trail-finder to stock ticker to guitar tuner to, occasionally, mobile phone. While fumbling in the dark with the minimum three or four remote controls that my ever-shifting A/V system requires just to watch a movie, I’ve often wondered if there was “an app for that.”

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Apple iPhone

The iPhone breaks new ground not as a cell phone but as the best iPod to date and as the prototype for the iPod Touch.
- By Michael Antonoff
- Posted October 3, 2007
From the outset the most intriguing thing about the Apple iPhone hasn't been the phone so much as the interface: a high-resolution touchscreen on which your fingers do the talking: Tap an icon to select an application, spread them to enlarge the picture, slide your finger to move the cropped image into view, swipe the screen to reveal the next slide. It all feels so natural.

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