Gamestop Confirms They Want Your iOS Devices

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href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/gamestop-to-carry-ios-devices/2011/09/06/">Confirming a report from earlier this month, Gamestop has issued a release saying they want to buy your old iPhones, iPods and iPads. Under a program dubbed “href="http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/itrade/default.aspx">iTrades“, Gamestop will take any generation iPod Nano, Shuffle, Mini, Touch, iPhone or iPad.

Keep in mind if you’re interested in doing this that Gamestop is notorious for substantially undervaluing everything under the sun, and you’ll end up with a small fraction of what your gadget is really worth. As commenter href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/gamestop-to-carry-ios-devices/2011/09/06/#comment-85559">Outspoken said last week, they were only offering $200 in-store credit for an iPad 2.

Yeah, you’d be better off going for Craigslist.

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U.S. GameStop Stores To Accept Trades of iPod®, iPhone® and iPad® Mobile Digital Devices

Put your iPod, iPhone or iPad trade toward this year’s hottest releases and more at GameStop

GRAPEVINE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Got an iPod, iPhone or iPad collecting dust? Don’t trash it or let it sit and lose value – trade it for credit toward video games, gaming systems, downloadable content (DLC) and more at GameStop (NYSE: GME), the world’s largest multichannel retailer of video games. Beginning today, customers can take advantage of competitive trade values and earn credit by trading in their iPod, iPhone or iPad at GameStop stores nationwide.

“This is especially significant with the great title line-up slated for this fall.”/> Many iPod, iPhone and iPad trade values are significantly higher than typical game trade-ins, allowing customers to build trade credit more quickly. “By trading in iOS devices, GameStop customers have yet another source of funds to put toward the purchase of new and pre-owned games, DLC, digital PC games and more,” stated GameStop president Tony Bartel. “This is especially significant with the great title line-up slated for this fall.”

Trades of the iPod, iPhone or iPad must be in working condition and free from cosmetic defects. For complete details, including devices accepted, visit www.GameStop.com/iTrades or a local GameStop store.

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HTC Prez Sez “iPhones Are Not That Cool Anymore”

href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Simps010.jpg">class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23605" title="Simps010" src="http://www.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Simps010.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" />HTC America’s acting president Martin Fichter has managed to make a statement so baffling that the very mind itself boggles. href="http://www.geekwire.com/2011/htc-boss-windows-phone-7-patents-iphones-cool-anymore">As GeekWire reports, Fichter talked at the Mobile Future Forward conference, and had this to say about “cool” phones:

“I brought my daughter back to college — she’s down in Portland at Reed — and I talked to a few of the kids on her floor. And none of them has an iPhone because they told me: ‘My dad has an iPhone.’ There’s an interesting thing that’s going on in the market. The iPhone becomes a little less cool than it was. They were carrying HTCs. They were carrying Samsungs. They were even carrying some Chinese manufacture’s devices. If you look at a college campus, Mac Book Airs are cool. iPhones are not that cool anymore. We here are using iPhones, but our kids don’t find them that cool anymore.”

Huh, really? Because last time I looked, iPhones and iPod Touches were still the device of choice among high school and college kids, helped along by Apple’s aggressive and annual back-to-school sales. And are you honestly telling me that any Android device out there has the instant recognizability and cachet that the iPhone does? Sorry Fichter, not buying it.

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Take One – Movie Clapperboard for iPad now available

Take One is a new digital movie clapperboard for the iPad. It is designed to assist with keeping track of your footage and syncing audio with video.

Whether you’re filming your awesome road trip or making the next big-budget blockbuster, Take One is the simplest and easiest digital movie slate to work with.

Take One – Movie Clapperboard for iPad is available for $2.99.

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NBC, TNT, TBS All Bring Streaming Full Episodes To iOS

Ready to get your TV on? Three major networks have updated or released apps over the last week to bring full length streaming episodes to iOS devices. href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/12/nbc-tnt-and-tbs-bring-full-length-tv-episodes-to-ios-devices/">As spotted by MacRumors, NBC last week href="http://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/networks/nbcentertainment/pressreleases?pr=contents/press-releases/2011/09/09/nbcexpandsthenb1315599542834.xml">announced their app would be overhauled and href="http://appshopper.com/entertainment/nbc">now offers streaming full episodes to viewers.

They’re not the only ones, two major Turner stations have done likewise, and the href="http://appshopper.com/entertainment/tnt">TNT href="http://appshopper.com/entertainment/tnt-for-ipad">and href="http://appshopper.com/entertainment/tbs">TBS href="http://appshopper.com/entertainment/tbs-for-ipad">apps for iPad and iPhone will now let you watch full episodes — but they require you to login via your cable provider. If you’re a customer of Comcast, Cox, The Dish Network, SuddenLink, Verizon, AT&T U-Verse, DirecTV and Optimum you should be able to watch the videos for free.

Luckily anyone can watch the NBC episodes, so who’s up for some 30 Rock?

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Dolphin Browser HD now available for iPad

Hot on the heels of last month’s Dolphin Browser for iPhone release, we now have Dolphin Browser HD. As is always the case with browser apps, Dolphin has to use the built-in iOS web view for rendering pages, so it has the same HTML, CSS, and JavaScript engine as Safari, but they do a good job of differentiating themselves via their interface and features.

Dolphin Browser is available on the iPad for free. Anyone saying goodbye to Safari?

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Acting president of HTC America claims the iPhone is no longer cool

Martin Fichter, the acting president of HTC America has been talking at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle. He claims that college kids no longer find the iPhone to be cool. The information that he shares is not exactly based on hard facts; he talked with a few of the kids on his daughter’s floor and came to this rather strange conclusion!

“Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to college — she’s down in Portland at Reed — and I talked to a few of the kids on her floor. And none of them has an iPhone because they told me: ‘My dad has an iPhone.’ There’s an interesting thing that’s going on in the market. The iPhone becomes a little less cool than it was. They were carrying HTCs. They were carrying Samsungs. They were even carrying some Chinese manufacture’s devices. If you look at a college campus, Mac Book Airs are cool. iPhones are not that cool anymore. We here are using iPhones, but our kids don’t find them that cool anymore.”

I discussed this at length with my 12 year old daughter this morning and she sort of agreed with the points being made. Blackberry appears to be the chosen platform at her school although she did say that iPhones were still very  highly desired. The cost and delicate nature of an iPhone does appear to deter many parents from providing them to their kids!

What do you think? Is the iPhone losing the coolness factor with the younger generation?

[GeekWire via 9to5Mac]