Archive for the 'iPhones Talk' Category

Author : Philip King
Date : Jun 22nd, 2009
Comment : 14

Apple announced today that they sold over one million iPhone 3G S’s over the weekend and iPhone 3.0 software downloads have reached six million.

From weird sounds to activation issues, we’ve heard a few things about the iPhone 3GS since it launched. Now we’re curious, and want to know what is (or isn’t) going on with [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Date : Jun 17th, 2009
Comment : 1

A group of U.S. senators this week asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and examine whether exclusive relationships between wireless carriers and handset makers are in the best interest of customers.

Four members of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet fired off a letter to FCC chairman Michael Copps on Monday, [...]

Author : Andrew Wells
Date : Jun 14th, 2009
Comment : 0

Microsoft, on the heels of its big layoffs and other cost-cutting measures enacted earlier this year, has reportedly stopped reimbursing its employees for iPhone, Blackberry and Palm Pre data plans even if they’re being used significantly for work-related purposes.

One odd note with this: Windows Mobile device users will have their data plans reimbursed. It may [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Date : Jun 12th, 2009
Comment : 0

One of Apple’s wireless partners is confirming that the new iPhone 3G S indeed sports an embedded ARM processor that’s 50 percent faster that the one employed by its predecessor.

T-Mobile of the Netherlands is amongst the first to publish full specifications for the iPhone 3G S’s processor and onboard memory, noting that the device includes [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Date : Jun 8th, 2009
Comment : 0

Dismantling a Palm Pre piece by piece has revealed it to be very efficiently designed; so much so that, at points, it appears better put together than the Apple iPhone many see as its role model.

The component teardown by iFixit notes that the smartphone’s thicker shape — necessary to accommodate the slide-out keyboard — gives [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Date : Jun 6th, 2009
Comment : 0

In the same interview he said the Wii could live for eight more years (not likely), Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata remarked that if Apple and Nintendo “were in direct competition, I would not use a Mac in my presentations.” So what kind of computer would he use?

When Dean Takahashi asked about the potential threat of [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Date : Jun 5th, 2009
Comment : 1

Citing only “people familiar with the initiative,” the Financial Times claims that Apple plans to release an iPhone model with a substantially lower retail price in order to boost sales, and that the introduction could happen as soon as the opening day of WWDC.

“The anticipated new phone is likely to start production in July with [...]

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