A report this morning claims Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer will share the spotlight with Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Apple's forthcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) - to announce a joint move on iPhone development…
Singaporean mobile operators MobileOne (M1) and StarHub will start selling Apple's iPhone on Dec. 9, but users won't see big drops in price for monthly plans.
Techcrunch has an interesting "rebuttal" up regarding Apple's response to the FCC over the rejection of Google Voice. I use the quotes because I think the rebuttal part itself is off-target, while the conclusion is fairly spot on.
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.
I'm looking at these images from a Hong Kong blog, and they totally look like The Real Thing™ to me. Sure they are blurry, but those applications' user interface definitely screams Apple design. The gallery shows the video/camera screen, compass, and the autofocus, among other things.
For Apple's iPhone to truly be a world-class smart phone, it needs to be everywhere in the world. But iPhone isn't officially distributed where it needs to be most: China, the world's largest cell phone market. Recent noise about possible future iPhone deals with U.S. carriers shouldn't drown out the silence about China.
Buy.com is offering iPhon 3G, "officially" unlocked, for $799. We're not sure if these are imported units from markets like Hong Kong or Taiwan, where Apple themselves sells unlocked units, or what the deal is, or if $799 is even a deal for you to not have to worry about Jailbreaking or cat and mouse games.
A tasty next-gen iPhone rumor for us this morning. Word has it that a Taiwanese industry report has leaked details of a 3.2 Megapixel camera coming to the next-gen iPhone.
Another day, another iPhone rumor-so is this one for real? The current buzz around the blogosphere is that Apple is preparing to offer its iPhone over Verizon's network, therein ending its thus-far-exclusive arrangement with AT&T. Before you immediately believe the hype, allow me to provide a few reasons to think twice.
In addition to offering songs from iTunes without DRM restrictions, Apple (AAPL) also plans on selling songs to iPhone users "over the air"-that is, you can buy them directly from your handset, from wherever you are. I'm told that Apple has struck deals with the major labels to start selling songs to iPhone 3G owners sometime this spring.
I could go on and on today to you about how Apple is wrong for ignoring the low-end market and why they should be producing a smaller, cheaper version of the iPhone that will be the iPhone nano, but what's the use? I don't see any, especially now that these beautiful cases of a purported, already-in-production, upcoming iPhone nano have been generously leaked. No, sir.
Rumors that Walmart would begin selling the iPhone soon have been around for a few days and we now have an answer thanks to Bloomberg. Yes, you'll be able to get an iPhone at Walmart, and probably by Christmas. Store representatives at several locations confirmed that employees are being trained to sell the handset, which will hit shelves by the end of the month. This makes Walmart the second retail chain to sell the iPhone, and also the largest.