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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...
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 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 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 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...
Apr 29, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 4:35 PM ET
Rematch of the, er, month: iPhone vs. BlackBerry, round two
You like your iPhone? What do you love about your iPhone? As you may recall, ChangeWave Research did a study back in February to see how the iPhone fared among business users. The unequivocal answer? Pretty darn well. But that does not satisfy the number crunchers at ChangeWave: they want...
Apr 29, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 10:39 AM ET
iPhone coming to the Great White North
One of the most frequent questions we get asked is when the iPhone is coming to Canada. Previously, we’ve had no answer for that query, but according to a recent statement from Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, the iPhone is coming to Canada. “We’re thrilled to announced...
Apr 25, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:40 PM ET
UK running out of 8GB iPhones
It sounds as though iPhones across the pond in the United Kingdom are in short supply, despite Tim Cook’s recent comment in the Q2 financial conference call that Europe’s iPhone stock was largely in supply/demand balance. Carphone Warehouse, one of the major iPhone resellers in the country, is saying that...
Apr 24, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:34 PM ET
Apple financials shed light on iPhone shortage, keep 3G shrouded in darkness
Remember all that fuss about iPhone shortages? The ones that had people convinced—convinced—that a 3G iPhone was all but imminent? Well, the shortages are certainly real, as Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook acknowledged in yesterday’s financial results conference call, though only in the US. The European markets are still...
Apr 23, 2008 - Posted by Philip Michaels at 1:38 PM ET
How many iPhones has Apple sold?
Apple releases its quarterly earnings today in a ceremony the investment community has quickly embraced as Count the iPhones Day. You may recall that during Apple's first-quarter earnings announcement in January, the company announced that it had sold 2.3 million phones during the three-month period, bringing total iPhone sales to...
Apr 22, 2008 - Posted by Philip Michaels at 1:33 PM ET
iPhone Love, Italian-Style
If reports in the Rome daily newspaper La Repubblica are true -- and I've never known a Rome news daily to mislead me, not ever -- than the iPhone should be making its Italian debut. That would add Italy to the ranks of the U.K., Germany, France, Ireland, and --...
Apr 16, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 10:50 AM ET
O2's iPhone sheds pounds
And in the UK today, much rejoicing. As predicted, mobile provider O2 announced that they will be dropping the price of the 8GB iPhone to £169 until June 1st—that’s £100 less than it originally retailed for when it was released in November of last year. The 16GB model, meanwhile, is...
Apr 14, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 5:47 PM ET
iPhone's location feature is spoofable
The iPhone’s location feature is pretty cool; I showed it off to some family yesterday to appreciative “Oohs” and “Ahhs”, despite the relative lack of precision from the cell phone location feature. One academic, however, has cautioned that the Wi-Fi Positioning System used by the iPhone and provided by Skyhook...
Apr 8, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 5:51 PM ET
iPhone SDK goes for lucky beta three
A number of iPhone developers apparently ran into issues today with the beta version of the iPhone OS expiring (yielding what some dubbed a “pink screen of death”). Perhaps someone tripped over an Ethernet cable in Cupertino that controls the expiration dead man switch? Fortunately, it seems to have been...
Apr 8, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:23 PM ET
When is 60 days not 60 days
Pursuant to yesterday’s post on Mr. Schlossberg’s rather blunt appraisal that the iPhone would be going 3G in sixty days, the noted tech journalist has now retracted his comment. Speaking with Silicon Alley Insider, Schlossy said that his estimate was based on the same sort of speculation that the rest...
Apr 7, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:10 AM ET
Tech columnist says 3G iPhone coming "in 60 days"
Generally, we don't put much stock in rumors, but when you get the word from the man who's in a position to know—round these parts we call him Malt Schlossberg—it's impossible to ignore. Speaking at an executive summit on video delivery, Mr. Schlossberg said that the 3G version of the...
Apr 4, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:31 AM ET
T-Mobile offering iPhone for €99; catches apply
Geez, T-Mobile. Offering the iPhone for €99? That's just verrückt (I've really been enjoying Babelfish recently, as you can probably tell). Anyway, if you've been waiting on buying an iPhone until the price went down a bit, perhaps you should consider a change of scenery. May I suggest Germany? Well,...
Apr 3, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:00 PM ET
Survey says: iPhone users are young, rich, and technically savvy
Time again for another survey of iPhone users. Rubicon Consulting talked to 460 iPhone owners to draw a picture of what kind of people are using the iPhone, how they use it, and what that means for the future of Apple as well as the cell phone market. There are...
Apr 3, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:26 PM ET
Department of Mysteries: Is there an iPhone shortage?
There's been some indication in the past few days that iPhones are in short supply in Apple Stores around the country (though, apparently, not internationally). While my sources suggested that Apple Store employees were using the boxes to enact a giant game of Risk in back rooms across the nation,...
Apr 2, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:52 PM ET
Unlocked French iphones not selling like French toast
With all the fuss over unlocked iPhones, you'd think that France provider Orange—the only company who legitimately sells them—would be doing bumper business in legally unlocked iphones. Not so: a spokesperson for the company recently said that sales for the unlocked model were about 12,600 or 14% of the 90,000...
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