There's been speculation Apple will dump its exclusive deal with AT&T perhaps as soon as this week - many hope the iPhone will be made available through all US carriers soon. Hand it to Apple's top brass to muddy the waters just a little bit…
You don't need a crystal ball, seer stone, scrying pool or any other spooky stuff to guess what one of the most talked-about design projects of 2010 will be. The tech blogs have been buzzing about it for months. It's the iSlate, iTablet, iProd, Magic Slate, or whatever else Apple finally decides to call its new tablet computer.
Boy Genius scored a sneak peak of a Google Voice client, GV Mobile 2.0, which will be available in the near future on Cydia to anyone with a jailbroken iPhone.
If you've wondered why the marketing world is obsessed with creating apps for the iPhone, take a stroll down the hallways of Kraft Foods, Gannett and German publisher Axel Springer.
T-Mobile has started offering the iPhone in the UK, according to insiders at the firm's Merthyr call centre. V3.co.uk has been contacted by two separate sources, both claiming that T-Mobile was trialling limited stock of the iPhone 3G, having purchased a number of units from Germany, and would start offering UK customers an upgrade from 30 July.
Like it does in most countries, Apple has a preferred wireless carrier in the United Kingdom. In this case the carrier is O2, but that may not be the case for long, at least for the iPhone 3G.
So far as eight-country rollouts go, Friday's iPhone 3G S launch looked non-eventful from this little corner of the world. Oh, there were reports of activation issues, which probably felt like a big deal if they happened to affect you.
The iPhone 3.0 software has been long awaited by users all across the world. For almost 2 years, iPhone users have lacked some of the most basic software functions such as Copy/Paste, MMS, and Search. Basically, functions that other phones have been doing for years were finally brought to the iPhone.
Techcrunch reports that during Google's I/O developers conference they showed off the iPhone version of Latitude - which lets users stalk keep track of their friends via GPS and other location-based services
Oh look, outrage. It's been a few minutes since we last ran into outrage. This time: an evil plot, hatched by the Missouri University School of Journalism, that, in effect, lets students cover the cost of their iPhone or iPod touch with federal student loans. Someone call Superman, or at least Daredevil.
If you want to risk the ire of Apple and AT&T, you can use the Skype iPhone application over a 3G connection. Usage requires "jailbreaking" the iPhone and installing another client app.
Hopes that Apple might be looking to dip its toes in the netbook market were impressively dashed this week with comments from the company's chief operating officer describing the low-cost mini-notebooks as "junky."
When it comes to simplicity, it's hard to beat an app with just one button. Yet, as stripped down as it may appear, Here I Am from Arboretum Software deserves a place on your home screen.
The Palm Pre may be one of the most exciting smartphones to come along in a very long time, but Palm could be in for a world of hurt if Steve Jobs has his way.
Hop-on today announces that its GSM cell phone, the HOP1811, will be available in the United States for $13.99 with a Graffiti Wireless Airtime Plan. Anti-iPhone?
About a month ago Dieter reported about a fairly large security flaw in firmware 2.0.2 that gave access to Safari, Email, and a frightening amount of personal data. Apple patched it in 2.1. Or did they?