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231: Exceeding Staggerations, iPhones in Space 🚀 and Avoiding a Stray Pet Scam 🐕


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In the News blog post for February 6, 2026
https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2026/02/in-the-news815.html

00:00 ​​Exceeding Staggerations 
07:55 iPhones in Space!
11:14 I’ll Have My iPhone Call Your iPhone
16:02 Cool Charging
22:04 Chewing Up RAW Photos
28:12 In the Vision! Fantastic Frogger
38:09 Where Y’at? Segment - Tracking Things that are Precious to You
47:01 Slinging the Cord
53:41 Stray Pet Scam
55:19 Brett’s Gadget: Have Fun Charging Your Phone!
57:06 Jeff’s Apps: Happy Mardi Gras Parade Tracking

Jeff: Apple 2026 fiscal first quarter — the iPhone and iPad angle
https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2026/02/2026-q1.html

Eric Berger | Ars Technica: NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/nasa-will-finally-allow-astronauts-to-bring-their-iphones-to-space/

Andrew Zucker | The Wall Street Journal: Call Screening Is Aggravating the Rich and Powerful
https://www.wsj.com/style/iphone-call-screening-feature-executives-511e51c4

Jeff’s Review: UGREEN 3-in-1 Foldable MagFlow Wireless Charger
https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2025/10/review-ugreen-3-in-1-foldable.html

Juli Clover | MacRumors: Anker's New 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger With 25W Qi2.2 Fast Charging is Now Available for $120
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/02/anker-prime-wireless-charging-station/

Glenn Fleishman | Six Colors: Remove the RAW photo from a RAW+JPEG pair
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/photos-wont-let-you-remove-the-raw-photo-from-a-rawjpeg-pair/

Hartley Charlton | MacRumors: Apple Vision Pro Launched Two Years Ago Today
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/02/apple-vision-pro-launched-two-years-ago/

Giovanni Colantonio | Polygon: I turned my apartment into a virtual '80s arcade, but I’m still craving the real thing
https://www.polygon.com/retrocade-apple-arcade-impressions/

Andrew Orr | Appleinsider: Apple Watch data pins down abduction time of NBC News anchor's mother
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/04/apple-watch-data-pins-down-abduction-time-of-nbc-news-anchors-mother

Jeff’s Review: Apple AirTag (second generation)
https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2026/02/review-apple-airtag-second-generation.html

Philip Michaels | Six Colors: Sling’s Day Passes are the answer to my streaming prayers
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/slings-day-passes-are-the-answer-to-my-streaming-prayers/

Brett’s Gadget: Have fun charging your phone!
https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/i-bought-this-magsafe-power-bank-to-charge-my-iphone-anywhere-and-it-doubles-as-a-retro-gaming-handheld 

Jeff’s Apps: Happy Mardi Gras - Parade Trackers
https://www.wdsu.com/article/download-wdsu-parade-tracker/37907878?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23512999424&gbraid=0AAAAAo6VzU63PxNHrDO0T82ftnspFl5zO 
https://www.wwltv.com/article/entertainment/events/mardi-gras/download-wwl-tvs-2026-mardi-gras-parade-tracker-app/289-c3bb04e5-980b-4939-aea2-37815b6338fa 

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