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May 1, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:03 AM ETStarbucks lets iPhone users surf, gratis
So, the rumors had been floating around that because of Starbucks’s switch to AT&T for their Wi-Fi provider (ditching former partner-in-crime T-Mobile), iPhone users would be able to surf the web without paying a single dime. But anecdotal reports are not enough to sate this blogger—I needed first hand proof....
May 2, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 1:22 PM ET
Photographic evidence shows iPhone is Flickr's top cameraphone
We’ve mentioned a bunch of surveys in the past that have shown that iPhone users lurv surfing the web and using the media functions of their handsets, but there’s another feature that appears to fly under the radar, and that’s the iPhone’s camera. I just had a discussion about this...
May 2, 2008 - Posted by Roman Loyola at 2:02 PM ET
Friday Freebie
If you’re sick and tired of your sleek iPhone slipping out of your hands, or the thought of a scratch defacing the back of your iPhone makes you cringe, the folks over at 1 Sale A Day are offering (for a limited time) a free black silicone case for...
May 5, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:45 PM ET
All the news that's fit to read on your iPhone
I, like plenty of other iPhone users, spend a lot of my time surfing the web. Besides my compulsive Twitter-checking/updating and Wikipedia fact-checking, it’s usually so I can get updated about what’s going on in the world. Now, the Associated Press has made that task even easier by launching an...
May 6, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:18 AM ET
Vodafone can count to ten
Whoa there, Vodafone. You’re just going to come out and say, apropos of nothing, that you’ll be offering the iPhone in ten different countries later this year? Nuts! We know that Apple’s planning on expanding into more European and Asian countries in 2008 on the way to hitting their goal...
May 6, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:45 AM ET
Apple's affair with Telecom Italia ends marriage
Remember those hints Apple COO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer dropped about the company not being “married” to exclusive carrier deals? Here’s what Cook said back in February at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium. We went into Europe and we picked the top carrier in each of those...
May 7, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 10:47 AM ET
iPhone SDK beta five is alive
Another week, another beta version of the iPhone SDK. We know—you can hardly contain your excitement. We were all aflutter over here, so we eagerly tore open the release notes to find out what we can expect in this latest and greatest iteration. The fifth beta fixes bugs and adds...
May 7, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:36 PM ET
Juice Packs no longer just for kids
If you’re a road warrior who relies on having a phone/email device on you at all times, then you know there’s nothing worse than a dead battery, especially on the iPhone, where you can’t swap it out for a fresh one. There have been plenty of top-up solutions that use...
May 7, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:26 PM ET
iPhone bound for Latin America
Yesterday we got Vodafone (and Telecom Italia, don’t forget Telecom Italia!) announcing that they’d be bringing the iPhone to ten countries later this year. Today, it’s América Móvil, the largest mobile operator in Latin America, dropping their own iPhone news (PDF link) by announcing that it’s signed a deal with...
May 8, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:36 PM ET
Swisscom, France Telecom, T-Mobile all talk up 3G iPhone
iPhone carrier fun continues apace. In addition to yesterday’s news that Latin America would be picking up the handset later this year, we have a handful of additional news from the past week about other European countries. First up, France Telecom says that they’re currently in negotiations with Apple to...
May 8, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 1:01 PM ET
AT&T says Wi-Fi hotspots "included" in iPhone plan
Geez, AT&T, make up your mind already. First you’re giving free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. Then you take it away again. Now you’re saying that it’s included in the calling plans? An eagle-eyed reader over at MacRumors.com pointed out that if you go to AT&T’s iPhone page and...
May 8, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:11 PM ET
Free episodes of Office, 30 Rock for iPhone users
NBC may not need no steenkin’ iTunes, but that doesn’t mean they’re prepared to ignore the legion of iPhone/iPod touch users out there. Hence, they’ve decided to make two of their most popular shows, The Office and 30 Rock, available to those on Apple’s mobile platform. In order to watch...
May 12, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:06 AM ET
Where, oh where, have my iPhones gone?
We’ve been hearing about shortages of iPhones from UK provider O2 and reseller Carphone Warehouse, but up until this weekend, the Apple Stores seemed to still have them in stock. Unfortunately, now it seems that this iPhone famine has hit the online Apple Stores in both the US and...
May 12, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:52 AM ET
AT&T page hints at second iPhone model
What are you playin’ at, AT&T? Some tipsters pointed out to Engadget that the My Account page on AT&T Wireless’s site now provides you with two options after you select Apple as your phone manufacturer: the run-of-the-mill, ordinary, “iPhone” and the mysterious “iPhone Black.” Cue the suspenseful music. I snapped...
May 12, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:37 PM ET
iPhone gets Singapore, Philippines deal and second carrier in Australia, India
If you’ve started to get sick of all the iPhone carrier deal announcements, well, that’s probably because you either don’t live in any of the countries already named, or you do and have an unlocked phone. Either way, try to keep in mind those less fortunate than yourself. Adding to...
May 12, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:52 PM ET
AT&T says free Wi-Fi is coming
Son of a—okay, AT&T. You sure you’re done now? Can I talk? Alright. According to AT&T spokesperson Fletcher Cook, the brief appearance of text suggesting that free Wi-Fi access for iPhone users was an included feature of AT&T’s iPhone calling plan was merely a case of “human error.” That said,...
May 13, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 10:35 AM ET
iPhone cleans out your wallet (in a good way)
The iPhone, as we know, is many devices consolidated into one: your music player, your phone, your email and Internet. But aside from meaning that you can save pocket room by getting rid of your other devices, the iPhone can also help you slim down your wallet. Blogger Albert Alberts...
May 13, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:38 PM ET
New Google Reader is iPhonerrific
Attention, mobile RSS junkies. Google’s released a new iPhone-specific version of its Google Reader feed reader. The new version which, unsurprisingly, is in beta, is supposed to bring many of the features available in desktop browsers: you can star items, share them with others, and mark them as unread, and...
May 15, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:04 PM ET
Switzerland to get the iPhone, remain neutral
Many great things have come out of Switzerland: chocolate, clocks, cheese. Many of them, as you might notice, start with “c.” But now something great is coming into Switzerland, and that’s the iPhone. Confirming rumors published in Swiss’s Le Matin last week, a notice appeared on Swisscom’s website with the...
May 15, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 1:06 PM ET
Aliph Jawbone goes double or nothing
You may remember the Aliph Jawbone as the slick Bluetooth headset that seemed a natural fit to the iPhone. Not satisfied with sitting on their laurels, Aliph’s launched the new Jawbone 2, updating the original Jawbone’s design and improving the unit’s much touted features. Not only is the new headset...
May 15, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 7:01 PM ET
AT&T stores are rationing iPhones
If, in light of the current iPhone shortage, you were planning on raiding AT&T stores to stock up on iPhones and resell them at high prices, you might be a little disappointed to find that the mobile operator’s retail locations are now limiting the number of iPhones that customers can...
May 16, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:13 AM ET
Orange to grow iPhones in Europe, Middle East, and Africa
More fun with carriers! Orange, who already has an exclusive deal with Apple for providing the iPhone in France, has now announced that it’s made a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to other countries under their dominion. As of “later this year” (which we are awarding “most favored...
May 16, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:22 PM ET
MegaPhone now PhoneView: an app by any other name would smell as sweet
When you want to get the most out of your iPhone, there’s one app you turn to: iPhoneDrive. Er, wait. MegaPhone. Aw, bugger. PhoneView. Look: we don’t care much what it’s called; what we do care about is the fact that it lets us do things with our iPhone and...
May 16, 2008 - Posted by Philip Michaels at 3:44 PM ET
Google's Vic Gundotra on the iPhone
I've got a story over at the Mothership about Google's iPhone plans, in which Vic Gundotra, the company's vice president of engineering, talks about Google's commitment to producing native apps for the iPhone. (It's part of a larger profile of Google's Mac development efforts that I wrote, just in case...
May 19, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:27 AM ET
iPhone leaves AT&T sitting pretty
The iPhone Central Depart of Statistical Analysis and Strategic Systems (yes, we do have SASS) brings you some more fascinating numbers, courtesy of Rubicon Consulting (the same firm that told us last month that iPhone users are young, rich, and technologically savvy). It seems that getting in the iPhone game...
May 20, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:21 AM ET
T-Mobile Germany and Apple so happy together
So, with all of this hubbub over Apple’s non-exclusive carrier deals in many of the countries they’re moving into, what does this mean for the countries where Apple’s already got deals in place? According to the CEO of T-Mobile, Hamid Akhavan, it doesn’t affect the happy marriage between Apple and...
May 20, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:04 PM ET
This phone was made for talking (your contacts' names)
I’ve heard a few people searching for a solution that would make the iPhone audibly speak the name of their contacts. So I thought I’d pass on this tip from a reader over at our sister site, Mac OS X Hints. While it’s not automated, it does offer a somewhat...
May 20, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:59 PM ET
Newsflash: SMS text messages way too expensive
On the many, many, many lists we’ve compiled of missing iPhone features, the lack of Instant Messaging has consistently been towards the top. Among the theories (conspiracy or otherwise) behind the lack of IM on the iPhone is the suggestion that IM would cut too much into AT&T’s revenue from...
May 21, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:22 PM ET
Rural carriers complain to FCC about iPhone exclusivity
Many potential iPhone customers in the US have been irked by Apple’s exclusive deal with AT&T, but that marriage is now coming under pressure from another source: small, rural cellphone providers. At issue is the the fact that AT&T does not offer the iPhone for sale in many rural areas...
May 21, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 4:08 PM ET
iPhones are like elephants: they never forget
We can’t imagine parting with our iPhone just yet—not until the mythical 3G version comes out, anyway—but it seems that some of the refurbished iPhones that Apple is selling are making their way out to the public with a little extra something: data from their previous owners. A detective from...
May 22, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:36 AM ET
AT&T to "finish" deploying 3G in June
And now for another in the long line of tacit confirmations about the imminent arrival of the 3G iPhone. AT&T announced earlier this week that they will “complete” the rollout of their 3G network by the end of June. The “completion” that AT&Tis bragging about, however, appears to specifically refer...
May 22, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:20 PM ET
A line forms in Manhattan
It’s beginning to look a lot like…Soviet Russia. According to some of Engadget’s informants, a line has formed at the 24/7 Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York City. The purpose of the line? Nobody quite seems sure. Apple reps apparently say that they’re controlling the crowd of iPhone purchasers,...
May 23, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 10:26 AM ET
AT&T cannot keep its mouth shut
You’ll have to pardon the AT&T executives—they’re just too damn excited about this new version of the iPhone they’ve heard so much about. CFO spoke at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit yesterday, and had this to say about the presumably forthcoming new iPhone model: Lindner said AT&T...
May 27, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 10:57 AM ET
iPhone en route to the home of IKEA and more
Let’s kick off this post-Memorial Day week with another international carrier announcement for the iPhone. This time, it’s Sweden-based operator TeliaSonera who’s dropping the bomb. The company is poised to bring the iPhone to a number of Nordic and Baltic countries. TeliaSonera today announced it has signed an agreement with...
May 27, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 1:43 PM ET
iPhoneDevCamp 2 now open for registration
Attention all iPhone developers, and would-be iPhone developers: registration for the second iPhoneDevCamp is now online. This three day not-for-profit gathering takes place August 1-3 at Adobe Systems in San Francisco. Over at the mothership, Jim Dalrymple has more on the conference, including input from one of its founders....
May 28, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 5:13 PM ET
iPhone SDK hits beta 6, picks up sticks
You will no doubt be thrilled to hear about the latest developments in the mystical land of the iPhone SDK. The newest version, beta 6, hit the Apple Developer site today, concurrent with Apple’s release of 10.5.3. Good thing, too, since for unknown reasons, beta 6 of the SDK requires...
May 29, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:55 AM ET
3 deal brings iPhone to China...some parts, anyway
I like to think that over at 1 Infinite Loop there’s some giant room with a huge board in it—a big board if you will—showing all the countries in the world. In the middle of it all sits Steve Jobs in a comfy captain’s chair, calmly dictating who can announce...
May 29, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:55 PM ET
Google pimps out Android
It’s been awhile since we talked about Google’s forthcoming Android OS for mobile phones—well, to be honest, it’s been a while since we heard anything about Android. But the big G recently showed off their latest version of the phone’s system and it looks pretty darn slick—and more than a...
May 30, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:54 PM ET
Senuti helps you get the music out
iPod users have long gotten had to find tricky ways to get music off their iPod once it’s loaded on, turning to third-party programs like PodWorks and Senuti. While the latter former has had the ability to snatch your tunes from the slavering jaws of your iPhone since last fall,...
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