Some of the biggest headlines in regards to Apple’s iPhone over the last few weeks revolve around the app store.
Due to the fact that Verizon has been on an all-out assault against AT&T and their precious iPhone, AT&T has responded by promoting the amount of apps that are available on the iPhone. Just about [...]
The iPhone will be available in South Korea for the first time ever later this month. If the overall success is comparable to early pre-order reaction, it seems as though the iPhone will be in just about every hand that carries a cell phone in South Korea. One company has already reported that over 15,000 [...]
There has been a recent push of developers that have not been so secretive about their unhappiness with the whole vetting process that Apple uses to decide who can have an app in the store and who cannot. While it is generally believed that the denials are not supposed to be disclosed, these things have [...]
Just last week we reported that the Apple App Store had rejected an app that showed caricatures of the various political figures and gave a snapshot of their contact information.
Well apparently Apple has been doing some Internet surfing because they have rescinded their earlier decision to deny the application and will now be approving [...]
Rumorville earlier this week had iPhones that were reportedly getting hacked into with a picture of Rick Astley up on the screen.
Apparently the hacker was not to shy about it and has done several interviews about how and why he did the hacking. The hack started out as an experiment to see how far [...]
Over the last few months, Apple seems to be denying more apps than it is accepting. The latest to fall by the wayside for an iPhone app was Tom Richmond. MAD fans will recognize the name as they were looking forward to the app that he has been touting on his personal blog. [...]
It is not taking long for reviewers to pick apart the Droid and they only have themselves to blame. Starting a campaign by stating that this phone is everything that the iPhone is not sets a pretty high bar.
They set themselves up for failure in that everyone was expecting some super phone [...]
In the soon-to-be-dismissed department, AT&T filed a complaint against Verizon for its recent advertising involving the “there’s a map for that” and other iPhone-suggestive taglines in their recent advertising for the Motorola Droid.
The complaint wants an injunction against Verizon for showing a map of 3G coverage with blank spaces where AT&T support is supposed to [...]
In an amazing bit of news today, Apple officially announced the crossing of the 100,000 app available mark in the App Store.
Here’s a snippet from their press release (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/11/04appstore.html):
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“The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,” said [...]
Game giant Nintendo is feeling the effects of the iPhone, as their latest profit report indicates a 50% decline in profits as its portable Nintendo DS system sales fell quite steeply as it fields new competition from the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The sad statistics: Their 133 billion yen profit last year at this time [...]
Apple’s discussion board has been jumping a bit about Windows 7, and it isn’t because they’ve all converted from Apple’s OS to Windows suddenly; it’s because many of them have been experiencing weird errors and issues with their PCs freezing out the iPhone when using Windows 7 in conjunction with the Intel P55 USB chipset. [...]
File this under strange: a website called iPhonedummy.net is selling extremely realistic looking but non-functional iPhone dummies - for $20 each. Yes, take your time, read that again.
As incredibly useless as that sounds, there are a lot of practical uses for this thing. Of course, many of the uses are evil/deceptive, but we’ll ignore [...]
Based on the advertisements for the phone (hinted at with ads this weekend), it appears Verizon and Motorola are taking full aim at the iPhone with their Droid phone, and they’re pulling very few punches.
This handset will come with the Android 2.0 OS and was a joint effort between Google and Motorola, and Boy Genius [...]
It appears that AT&T is backpedaling a bit in regards to supporting (officially anyway) tethering by the end of the year, much to the chagrin of many advanced iPhone users, we’re certain.
9 to 5 Mac, an unofficial site with lots of Apple news, is reporting they believed it was coming later on this year, until [...]
A member of MacRumors forum has reported buying and unboxing the TomTom GPS Car Kit for the iPhone, and MacRumors was nice enough to post about the experience. The kit has been delayed a few weeks, but is now being shipped to stores apparently.
More about the insert details here:
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Also found within the car kit packaging [...]
Yes, there’s now a tool to unlock the latest iPhone version, 3.1.2. It’s called Blackra1n, and it’s been released here: http://blackra1n.com/
With it, Windows now has a tool to jailbreak all current gen iPhones. There is however a warning of sorts now associated with the jailbreak.
“Warning 3g and 3gs unlockers, do not upgrade to 3.1.2 using [...]
AT&T shocked more than a few pundits this week when it said VoiP services could utilize its network to run, such as Skype and Google Voice. However, iPhone data tethering is something it isn’t prepared to offer right now, according to the company.
AT&T had many lengitimate bandwidth concerns with the VoiP feature — and those [...]
Yes, the holiday season is on its way, and Apple (according to industry predictions) is on its way to selling a lot of gadgets, including iPhones by the end of the year.
AppleInsider, popular Apple blog, published a report that indicates big holiday returns for Apple, and even larger sales in 2010 as well. It will [...]
Adobe on Monday announced joining up with many handset operating system makers, including RIM, Nokia and Microsoft among others, to bring Flash Player 10.1 to smartphones. You’ll notice the name you don’t see: Apple.
By early 2010, the newest mobile version of Flash should be available for many smartphone platforms. Not the iPhone.
Here’s more details from [...]
ZDNET has an interesting article about the waves a non-exclusive iPhone could make in the smartphone market.
We agree - it would be a juggernaut, and its agreement with AT&T is seen as holding it back from total domination. It’s other factor ($200 price tag even with contract) is seen as the only other sticking [...]
