Report: AT&T’s exclusive hold on iPhone may end next year

AT&T is reputedly negotiating with Apple to extend the exclusive deal for the iPhone until 2011.

New app could set dangerous precedent; is pure promotion ok for iPhone apps?

Wayne Schulz over at Gear Diary has a very good post up yesterday – pointing out a potentially very, very bad precedent for App Store apps. It highlights a new ‘app’ that apparently is very little more than an advertisement for a real estate firm. Wayne raises some fine questions about apps of this kind [...]

AT&T trying to tie up the iPhone through 2011

Yes, we’re hearing the rumors: AT&T really wants to maintain their exclusivity for the iPhone through 2011. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T really wants to “get a deal done” soon. To no one’s surprise, both companies aren’t saying a whole lot about this matter, and Apple is only saying “that the two companies [...]

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Now you can download the third iPhone 3.0 OS beta right now if you’re a paid iPhone developer, and it fixes a few things. From iPod Touch Fans (a blog/website), it seems like speed improvements, spotlight search saving, and minor MMS changes for German networks are the substantive changes, so not a huge patch so far, [...]

Review: Amazon Mobile for iPhone

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War on buttons extends to automotive front with Chrysler’s iPhone-like dashboard

It's no secret that Apple doesn't like buttons, making the iPhone nearly free of the things and then further pushing the offensive by cropping the 3G Shuffle down to one massively overloaded input. Nartron Corporation is Apple's partner in button hate, bringing that bias to Chrysler of all places to develop a next-gen dashboard for the company's 200C concept. The system is called iQ Power and is unabashedly iPhone-inspired, featuring big, colorful controls and even cover-flow album art for media browsing. Interestingly the system will allow "any smartphone" to be used as an intelligent key, unlocking doors and even accessing a video stream of the car's interior -- which should do wonders for your auto's battery life. The system naturally offers UConnect and features a wireless tablet that allows passengers to send music recommendations to the driver's console. Of course, passengers could also just speak up, but when you're as flush with profits as Chrysler is, why not blow some cash researching useless tech like in-car messaging?

[Thanks, Josh, photo courtesy of Adam Bird for The New York Times]

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iPhone, the ‘enterprise netbook’

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