The rumor mill is churning again with pictures of the upcoming 3G iPhone. The French iPhone Blog has published pictures of what they claim is the upcoming 3G iPhone. There's no way to tell if this is a Photoshop job or some other fake, but it looks real. We'll just have to wait and see. Stay tuned....read more
T-Mobile is preparing to ship its first cell phones based on Google's Android operating system this year. The release of the gPhone is expected to bring an "avalanche of innovation from users - and radical changes to what customers expect and demand."
Joe Sims, vice president and general manager of T-Mobile's broadband and new business division, said he had already seen prototypes of the company's Android-based phone and says he's "impressed." Sims also says they will have more than one produ...read more
According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple is in discussions with some large music companies about a deal that would give customers free access to the entire iTunes library. Customers would pay a premium for iPods and iPhones to get the unlimted service.
The "all you can eat" model seems to follow Nokia’s "comes with music" deal that they made with Universal Music last year.
The Financial Times says the sticking point is how much Apple will pay the record labels for the access.
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According to recent patent filings it looks like Apple is looking past its current candy bar iPhone design to a future that may include an iPhone flip design. UnwiredView seems to suggest that this new design could even be the iPhone nano. That is pure speculation at this point but it sure would be nice to have a smaller version of the iPhone.
"The main idea with this device is to separate capacitive touch sensor array and the phone display into two separate units. Then put the touch sensor ar...read more
It looks like the iPhone has made a pretty good impression in Korea. According to a recent poll of 590 CEOs conducted by the Samsung Economic Research Institute, 26.4 percent of respondents chose the iPhone as the no. 1 item of inspiration among devices included in Time Magazine's "Inventions of 2007" list.
This is a good sign for Apple because the iPhone is a consumer targeted device unlike the BlackBerry which caters to business customers. If the iPhone can impress business professionals i...read more
Boost Mobile, a wholly-owned division of Sprint, today launched its Unlimited by Boost® flat-rate wireless service in Hawaii. For a fixed monthly price, the service provides Hawaii residents with unlimited local and nationwide long distance calling from within a large home calling area extending over large areas of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Kauai and more. As with all service plans available from Boost Mobile, there are no contracts, credit checks or activation fees.
Unlimited home area calling goes ...read more
The company that produces Palm OS emulators for Windows Mobile, StyleTap, has proof that they're working on a Palm emulator for the iPhone. The emulator allows users to run Palm OS applications on the iPhone. It's still in the experimental stage and there is no public beta planned, but this video clearly shows that they've got something going.
StyleTap says this is "not a product, nor is its presence here a commitment of any kind, express or implied, that StyleTap Inc. will ever release an ...read more
We doubt this is real and it looks like a scam but this web site sure wants you to sign up for a pink iPhone. OnlineConsumerGifts.com which re-routes to another domain claims to be giving away free Pink iPhones just for filling out a survey. This looks very suspicious because we've never heard any word on a pink iPhone being released, and even if there were such a thing we don't believe someone would be giving it away just for fill...read more
In another sad turn of events for the standard brick and mortar stores, Sharper Image has filed for Bankruptcy protection. After several years of declining sales they are finally packing it in.
The company says it "intends to continue to conduct business as usual while it devotes renewed efforts to resolve its operational and liquidity problems and develops a reorganization plan."
Last week Sharper Image got rid of Chief Executive Steve Lightman after less than a year, and brought in Robert ...read more
According to a recent report on 9to5mac, Apple is planning to drop the prices of the iPhone and iPod Touch by $100 within the next 2 months. The move is reportedly intended to clear out inventory and make way for a new 3G iPhone.
9to5mac says a tipster tells them that the 8GB iPhone and 8GB iPod Touch will be phased out from the line.
The new prices are said to be as follows:
8Gb iPod Touch $199
16Gb iPod Touch $299
32Gb iPod Touch $399
8Gb iPhone - $299
16Gb iPhone - $399...read more
This has to be one of the coolest apps we've seen for the iPhone. iAno is a newly released iPhone application that turns your iPHone into a piano. As you can see in the video, iAno provides a multi-touch piano that you can really play (sorta). It has a four-octave keyboard that can play 5 notes at the same time. The keyboard is navigated with arrow keys above the keyboard.
iAno was devloped by a developer going by the name of Mr Aardvark. Very cool!
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iPhone users provide 50 times more search requests to Google than any other mobile handset. In fact, according to a report at Wired, Google had to double-check the numbers because they were so good.
Google's head of mobile operations told the Financial Times, "we thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again."
This is great news for Google. If more mobile handset companies continue to make web access commonplace, the number of searches to Google from mobile phones cou...read more
The Mozilla Corporation has been working on a mobile version of their Firefox browser. Firefox for smartphones is not likely to be out anytime soon, but will likely be out in late 2008.
There will be two versions of Firefox mobile -- one for touchscreen devices, and another for devices without touchscreens.
You can get much more information at the Mozilla Wiki link below. ...read more
engadget says it has some insiders at AT&T that swear we're going to see the 16GB iPhone very soon, even though the wireless inventory shows none in stock. It's about time. We've seen the 16GB iPod Touch but what about the iPhone. If engadget's insiders get it right, we'll see the new iPhone within a week or so. If not, we'll be left waiting around again. Stay tuned....read more
