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Jun 2, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:01 PM ET
iPhone in Spain may fall mainly on the plains
How about a little mystery to go with our latest carrier announcement. Earlier today, several sites noted that Spanish provider Movistar, a subsidiary of Telefonica, had changed its front page to announce that they’d signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Spain sometime this year. Then, several...
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,...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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