Australia/Canada running low on iPhone supply?

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Philip King.
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The Globe and Mail reports that Rogers Wireless, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in Canada has run out of stock of all iPhone models, notifying potential customers that they may have to wait several weeks before availability resumes. “Rogers is advising shoppers that it is out of stock of Apple’s latest device, the iPhone 3GS, [...]

Domination: the iPhone accounts for 32% of all Wi-Fi use

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Philip King.
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The first-ever census from network equipment manufacturer Meraki shows Apple’s massive growth in the wireless device market. In the past year, the use of Apple devices on the company’s networks has had a 221 percent increase, bolstered by new Wi-Fi devices like the iPod touch and iPhone. While Apple held just 14 percent of the market [...]

Dell and Apple lock horns in the Chinese smartphone market

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Dell unveiled Monday a prototype of its upcoming cell phone in China, as both it and Apple hope to launch competing smartphones in the nation very soon. The Dell Mini 3i is a capacitive touchscreen device with a 3.5-inch screen. It has a 360×640 pixel display and runs a version of Android known as the Open [...]

Sony recruting iPhone developers for their PSPGo gadget

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Philip King.
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Sony plans to lure iPhone developers to the PSPgo, a revised version of its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming platform, and copy Apple’s low App Store prices to create demand for the relatively expensive new hardware, according to a gaming industry report. The article, published by PocketGamer, indicates that Sony plans to deliver a library of online [...]

New lawsuits target Apple and AT&T over iPhone MMS system

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Philip King.
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Two new class-action lawsuits were filed this week over the lack of multimedia messaging capabilities on the iPhone, and the apparent inability of Apple and AT&T to provide the service to U.S. customers. One complaint was filed in a U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Illinois on behalf of Tim Meeker and other unnamed [...]

About Face: China Unicom denies buying 5 million phones from Apple

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An official with China Unicom confirmed the company is in talks with Apple to be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the nation of over one billion, but denied a report that the company purchased 5 million iPhones. “Talks between us and Apple have been going on for some time, but no agreement has been [...]

More Apple patent news: Mobile motion compensation technology to come?

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Philip King.
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A new patent application revealed this week suggests that Apple could be working on motion compensation features on highly mobile screens like the iPhone. Originally filed in February of 2008, the application describes various methods which might make handling a touchscreen device or viewing a mobile screen easier as the device moves about, whether on a [...]

China Unicom buys 5 million iPhones

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China Unicom intends to sell it first iPhones in September, and has purchased $1.46 billion worth of the devices from Apple, according to new reports. Citing local media’s claims this week, the International Business Times states that Apple sold 5 million iPhones to the company at a cost of 10 billion yuan. That means the custom [...]

Globally speaking, the iPhone is in the lead in smartphone growth

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Philip King.
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Sales of iPhones increased more than sixfold during the second quarter of 2009, helping Apple maintain its ranking as the third largest smartphone maker worldwide, according to a new report. In an international review of mobile phone and smartphone sales, Gartner research director Carolina Milanesi reports that Apple sold more than 5.4 million iPhones in the [...]

Software upgrade for the iRecord Pro PMR-200 now available

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Philip King.
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Streaming Networks, a leader in on-the-go audio and video solutions, has announced the availability of a software upgrade for their iRecord Pro PMR-200, to record movies and music directly to the iPhone 3GS without the need of a computer. With iRecord Pro, users can enjoy video and audio on their iPhone [...]

TV receiver device Seg Clip for iPhone sold in Japan

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Watching live TV on your phone is something that everyone does in Japan, unlike America, so naturally they want to be able to do it on their iPhones. This USB antenna lets them do just that. The SEG Clip works by plugging into your laptop’s USB port and then broadcasting TV to your iPhone via WiFi. [...]

Flash memory in high demand in the future, thanks to Apple and the iPhone

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A new report predicts that demand for NAND flash memory in cell phones will more than triple by 2013, with a majority of that need being driven by Apple and its iPhone. In all, sales of solid state memory in phones are predicted to have a nearly sixfold increase in the span from 2008 to 2013, [...]

TomTom iPhone kit listed for £99.00 for pre-order

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Philip King.
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A U.K Web site has made the TomTom cradle available for pre-order at a cost of 99 pounds excluding VAT, or about $168.50 U.S., though a company spokesman would not confirm that price. The price on handtec.co.uk, discovered by Daniweb.com, is the first possible glimpse at the anticipated product’s retail cost. TomTom spokesman Kevin Carter said the [...]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaves Apple board

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Philip King.
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Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has quit Apple’s board of directors a position he has held since August 2006 because the search giant’s business is increasingly competing with Apple’s. “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. [...]

FCC to look into Google Voice rejection from the App Store

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Philip King.
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Apple’s decision to reject Google Voice apps for the iPhone — possibly at AT&T’s request — has prompted an FCC investigation into the anti-competitive nature of the move. The US government agency on Friday sent letters to Apple, AT&T and Google asking them to explain their roles in both rejecting Google’s own app as well as [...]

SMS vulnerability patch released this morning

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Apple today released the first update to the iPhone 3.0 software to address an SMS vulnerability that threatened the security of your iPhone. From Apple: “We appreciate the information provided to us about SMS vulnerabilities which affect several mobile phone platforms. This morning, less than 24 hours after a demonstration of this exploit, we’ve issued a [...]

iPhone SMS vulnerability patch expected to be released this weekend

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Philip King.
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A day after experts revealed a major text message-based security flaw in the iPhone, the BBC reports that Apple is expected to release a fix for the exploit through iTunes on Saturday. The news that a patch is coming soon came from a spokesperson for O2, the iPhone’s wireless carrier in the U.K. It was not [...]

New China Unicom iPhone model (without Wi-Fi) approved

Posted on by Philip King.
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Reports of regulatory approval of a new model of the iPhone in China seem to confirm that Apple’s hardware will appear on the China Unicom network, and also suggest that a new model was created for the country of over 1 billion. The new iPhone is reportedly a GSM/WCDMA model that operates on the 900MHz, 1700MHz [...]

SMS hack could potentially compromise the security of all iPhones

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Philip King.
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A single character sent by text message could allegedly compromise every iPhone released to date. This accordingy to security experts. Talking at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner say they’ve discovered a bug in the iPhone’s approach to SMS that exposes it completely to remote control through a [...]

Apple gross profit on iPhone almost 60%? That’s true, according to report

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Philip King.
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A new report suggests Apple turns nearly a 60 percent gross profit on the sale of each iPhone, and the device allows the company to lower prices on other products without impacting its bottom line. Meanwhile, another report released Wednesday says there is a “surprising” move by consumers toward the higher-end iPhone 3GS at $199 and [...]