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Orange iPhone 3GS data limitations looking draconian

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 3rd 2009 No Comments

Color us confused again. While Orange claimed that in offering the iPhone 3GS in the UK in opposition to hitherto-exclusive rival O2 they'd "increase value" to buyers, some bizarre limitations in the terms & conditions have us wondering whether life really was better with O2. As we pointed out earlier this week, Orange define "unlimited data" as 750MB; however there's also a potentially more limiting cap on what streaming and IM services - such as internet radio and Facebook messaging - can be used.

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blacksn0w iPhone 3.1.2 unlock coming November 4th [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 No Comments

blacksn0w iphone unlock Been waiting for an unlock for your iPhone 3GS? Thanks to George Hotz, who goes by the handle of Geohot and offers the blackra1n unlock tool, a new version – blacksn0w – capable of unlocking iPhone OS 3.1.2 will be launched on November 4th. According to Hotz, one unlocking company has gone as far as to offer him $10,000 for the necessary code; however the good news is that the blacksn0w unlock will remain free.

Problem is, that won’t stop various less-than-honest unlock merchants from “borrowing” blacksn0w and charging iPhone owners for what they could readily do themselves for free. Hotz is asking people to share the information about his – and the iPhone Dev Team’s – offerings, to try to reduce the number of people conned into paying unnecessarily.

Video demo of the unlock after the cut

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Orange reveal iPhone 3GS UK pricing: free on £45/mo contract

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 No Comments

While we already knew that November 10th was the magic day when UK would-be Apple iPhone 3GS buyers would have a choice of not just O2 but also Orange as their network, until today we didn’t know exactly what they’d have to pay. Now Orange have revealed iPhone 3GS pricing details, including a free 3GS on 24-month contracts of £45 ($74) upward, or a free 3G 8GB on a £30 ($49) 24-month contract.

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Pay as you go details after the cut

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TomTom Car Kit incompatible with iPod touch, first-gen iPhone

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 29th 2009 No Comments

TomTom have confirmed that their Car Kit – the optional accessory to accompany the TomTom iPhone app – will only fully work with the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, thanks to a limitation in the TomTom application. The app’s limitation means that owners of the first-gen iPhone, together with iPod touch users, won’t be able to take advantage of the Car Kit’s integrated GPS receiver and speakerphone.

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App Store now allowing in-app purchases for free iPhone software

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

Apple have tweaked their App Store policies to allow for in-app purchases in free applications [iPhone developer link]. Contrary to initial rules that only paid applications could offer users paid content, subscriptions and digital services within the software, the change now means that developers can release, say, a free “Lite” version with an option to upgrade, within the app, to the full title.

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Photoshop Mobile for iPhone hits App Store

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 2 Comments

Adobe have released Photoshop Mobile for iPhone, and as you’d expect from the title it offers straightforward on-device image editing for iPhone and iPod touch owners. As well as basic crop, rotate and flip tools, there’s also saturation and tint control, exposure and vibrancy tweaking and various filters and effects.

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iPhone most satisfying smartphone claims J.D. Power

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 No Comments

If you’re a player in the cellphone space then the J.D. Power Wireless Satisfaction Survey is your equivalent of the Miss World contest, and it looks like once again it’s Apple wearing the smartphone crown. The iPhone took first place in the smartphone study, both in the consumer and business segments, and neatly keeping RIM’s BlackBerry range in second place.

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AT&T unlock 3G VoIP on iPhone

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 No Comments

skype iphone1 540x437 AT&T has come in for no small amount of criticism for its network’s ability to cope with avid iPhoners, both in dropped calls and tardy data, so we’re not sure the carrier’s latest news – that it has opened up VoIP support for the iPhone over 3G connections – is 100-percent good. Pushing network capacity to one side for the moment, the announcement means that – assuming Apple approves their software applications – companies like Skype will be free to enable 3G VoIP apps on the iPhone.

What’s unclear from the press release (which you can read after the cut) is whether VoIP use will be included in the standard “unlimited” data package iPhone buyers sign up to. Given one of AT&T’s arguments in the past has been that VoIP consumes significantly more network capacity and data than regular use, it’s possible that they could look to squeeze more money out of subscribers for its use.

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Apple “Apps for Everything” attempts to manage App Store

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 30th 2009 No Comments

When you’ve got 85,000 titles to choose from, having some way of cutting through the selection and finding the right app goes from being a luxury to a necessity, and so Apple have cranked up their “there’s an app for that” offensive with “Apps For Everything“. The new category system aims to further slice up the code-bloated App Store, introducing thirteen new sections.

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Apple pass two billion App Store downloads

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 28th 2009 No Comments

Apple have just announced that there have been an impressive two billion downloads from the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch. The breakthrough comes roughly two and a half months after Apple notched up the 1.5bn mark back in July, a year after the App Store opened its virtual doors for the first time. There are currently in excess of 85,000 applications on offer, with Apple boasting 125,000 developers in their iPhone Developer Program.