San Diego-based Jason Ting started selling an app on 7/7 that turns the LED camera flash on the iPhone 4 into a flashlight. The free version of the app is supported by Apple's iAds.
Samsung UK is paying attention to Twitter to find people complaining about the iPhone 4 and is giving away free (and unlocked) Samsung Galaxy S Android phones. We've seen examples of people using Twitter to surprise customers who complain about or praise a product, but this is the first good example I've seen within telecom. I could see Verizon doing something similar to people complaining about AT&T, like paying for them to get out of contract or offering out-of-contract consumers a reduced rate on new contract.
"Snap. Verizon offers iPhone 4. Forget the slight redesign, forget the lack of multitasking between data and voice, forget the pricing models for unlimited, tethering, and video chat over 3G. Now the store brand is competing directly with the actual iPhone. Naturally the pent-up demand by Verizon contractees will blow out the overall numbers. But much more importantly, Apple is free to ship an iPhone 5 across the board, where existing contractees can be marketed to with bundled services, i.e. the new TV, the new Enterprise, the new Office. One device, with the carriers battling for the most attractive rendering of services."
The number of AT&T's iPhone customers leaving for Verizon Wireless since the rival operator started selling the smartphone last month has been "within expectations," said AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega at an investor conference yesterday.
Touches on the potential of the iPhone 5 to have NFC and how that will popularize NFC in Europe since there is no carrier exclusivity there. Since AT&T/Verizon have iPhone now, could see something similar take place in the US.
Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go-and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.
If you love ironic fashion, fixies, and kerning, then you're going to love Vetica, a new iPhone/iPod Touch game. Combining a love for retro arcade gaming with general font geekery,
Looks like we have again reached a tipping point of sorts in the mobile market in the U.S. The analysts at Nielsen report that in May, smartphones for the first time started to outsell feature phones, at a ratio of 55 percent to 45 percent. And although all the talk for the last several months has been about the rise of Android, Nielsen says that Apple's iPhone was driving the trend.