Well now you can. Following the Giga pets and Nintendogs craze comes Virtual Squirrel from DS Effects, where you have to take care of… you guessed it a virtual squirrel. (Not too creative with the titles over at DS Effects, are we?) You can feed it and care for it or torture the squirrel and starve it, I wonder if you can train it to take nuts out of their shells?

From the official press release:

The objective is to take care of your virtual squirrel. You can clean him, train him, feed him, and make him study, amongst other things. He can die if you let him starve or grow sick if you leave him alone for too long.

The game is available for all java-enabled phones. A free wap version, including Apple’s iPhone, is also available.

If you happened to buy an iPhone before August 22nd, you can now get a $100 electronic rebate form for a future purchase at the Apple Store (either brick-and-mortar or online).

The Cupertino giant posted the online submission form today. Click here to fill it out and get your money back. I got mine already

Looks like the outcry of early adoptors hearing of the price break has worked. The Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs publicy apologized and offered $100 credits this afternoon to customers who had already shelled out the $599 full price for their iPhone. Many were unhappy when the company unexpectedly slashed the price $200 in a push to boost holiday sales. At least a $100 rebate is not a bad compromise and a great show of good faith by Apple, think of the extra $100 you paid as a fee to get them first.

If you’ve been wanting an iPhone but didn’t want to spend the money, you’re in luck. At yesterday’s media event, Steve Jobs announced the 4gb iPhone would be going the way of the 20gb PS3, and the 8gb iPhone would see a price drop to $399. That’s a $200 price drop for those counting.

Sucks for early adopters with this huge price drop just 2 months after release, but this is going to sell a LOT more iPhones for Apple.

Check out our review here if you need some more information. The iPhone is easily the best mobile device I’ve ever had.

So I’ve had my iPhone for about two weeks now and absolutely love it. I moved from Verizon with a BlackBerry 8703e to AT&T with the iPhone. Here’s what I’ve found after using it for personal and business use for the past two weeks. Be warned, this could take a while.

The reception is great with AT&T. I have signal everywhere and more than with Verizon. I had a few issues where I live with some dead zones with Verizon, and I now have signal in most of those with AT&T. There’s no places where I had signal before and don’t now, which is great.

The EDGE speed has been widely discussed as slow. I’m not going to lie, it isn’t blazing fast. Coming from an EVDO device with Verizon, I was expecting it to be brutal, and it’s really not. It’s not that much slower than the EVDO I had for mobile browsing. I’m sure tethering would be a different story, but that’s not an issue for me. For email, EDGE is plenty fast. For web browsing, it’s not the best, but does the job when you need to. Google Maps over EDGE isn’t that bad either. I was honestly expecting a lot worse.

The way to combat the EDGE speed was to include WiFi, and Apple made it very easy to work with on the iPhone. If you’re in range of a wireless network, the iPhone will prompt you to join. Once you join, that network is added to your preferred network list and the iPhone will automatically join when in range. This helps a lot when you’re home or at the office where there’s a WiFi signal.

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If you got your hands on an iPhone in the past few weeks, you can now get your first great iPhone native game. PopCap Games has announced that their hit game Bejeweled is free for the iPhone.

To play the game, just point your Safari browser on your iPhone to PopCap’s website.

Not a downloadable game like many of PopCap’s popular PC games, the Safari web-browser based game still delivers players all the original functionality and gameplay that helped create Bejeweled fever. Making use of the iPhone’s Web 2.0, unique screen options and wireless technologies, Bejeweled for iPhone offers the new mobile platform the first officially produced title by a well-known game developer for Apple and AT&T’s popular cell phone.

This is going to make me less productive with my iPhone, that’s for damn sure.

Yes, I got an iPhone. I didn’t wait in line, I didn’t sell my first-born, and I didn’t have to donate a kidney. For whatever reason, my parents decided this would be a great early wedding gift. Hey, I’m not going to complain

So by now, I’m sure you’ve read countless reviews about this thing and what it can and cannot do. I’m not going to focus on that because, well, everyone else has. I’m going to give you my real world hands on impressions.

I’ve been using a BlackBerry 8700 series for the past few years now. I’m a hardcore email user (without being linked to an Exchange server), so I need something that’s going to hold up to a lot of typing. When I first tried the iPhone, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to type on the keyboard. You’re going to think this is the same bullshit everyone else is saying, but you really need to just trust the software. I went ahead and just hammered away with both thumbs close to the keys of the words I wanted to type. And guess what? There wasn’t a single error. I’ve been doing that since I got the phone now and I pick up maybe one or two small errors in emails and SMS here and there, but nothing major. Because of this, I’m typing a lot faster than I ever did with my Blackberry (and I was pretty fast on that too).

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Check out what I got today.

I didn’t get the pussy 4gb version either.

The keyboard is smarter than you can imagine. I’m typing as fast or faster than my blackberry already.

Impressions and such coming next week when I get back from my weekend away.

With E3 looming around a lot of rumors are circulating. One that caught my attention is a rumor that Apple is already looking to expand it’s product portfolio of phones and add an iPhone Nano. Don’t start drooling yet as this is still unsubstantiated but just think of the possibilities, a tiny phone with iPhone capabilities?? I wonder what kind of contract you will have to sign in order to get one of those, perhaps a 3 year contract that is exclusive to T-Mobil now?

My current phone contract expires in 3 weeks which conveniently coincides with the release of the new iPhone on Friday. And I’m not gonna lie…I’ve had a hard-on for this thing since I first saw the demos for it. And while I still really want one I’m starting to come to terms with a few factors.
1. The phone itself is going to set me back $600 bucks for the 8 gig model…buying the 4 gig for 100 bucks cheaper is like buying a 20 gig PS3.
2. Its first generation…you know that there will be newer models coming out soon with bug fixes, larger hard drives, etc.
3. You’re forced into a minimum 2 year contract. The rates are reasonable…60/month for 450 minutes is $10 more than I’m paying now for the same number of minutes on a regular phone (no web access, etc) but me and a lot of other people don’t want to be forced into a contract that long.
4. Entrepreneurial shit like this

So despite all that I’m still thinking of trying to pick one up, however there are a lot of other options out there that pretty much do the same thing. What do you all think?