I would wager that most iPhone owners have felt like shooting their iPhone at one time or another and cursed the name AT&T whilst praying to Jobs that the exclusive period would end. Or maybe that is just me. One man at an Apple Store in Cincinnati took things a bit too far when he threatened to shoot his iPhone in an Apple Store.
We all know that the iPhone is wildly popular and has sold as many units as Apple could make in many countries. To get an idea of how much of the market the average smartphone brand holds, we look at the percentage of mobile ads that are served the devices mobile browser.
I am betting there is more than one home out there with multiple iPods or iPhones that are fighting for the coveted dock space on the bedside alarm clock. If your home is one of these battlegrounds, iHome has a slick new dual dock alarm clock that will force a truce. The product is called the iP88 Dual docking Station for iPhone/iPod.
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.
Unless you live under a rock, you have probably heard about the alleged explosions of a few iPhones in Europe. A new report has surfaced that has the European Commission asking Apple for information on the alleged iPhone explosions.
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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.
We already know that Apple and China Unicom are bringing the iPhone 3G officially to the China Unicom mobile phone network. What we didn’t know until now was a more precise date when that would happen.
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We may well laugh about Apple addicts and their long-queueing ways, but when a survey finds more than a fifth of those asked would happily pay between $500 and $700 for an Apple tablet, sight-unseen, you have to admire the company's hype machine. Analysts RBC Capital Markets asked 3,100 people whether they were interested in buying the tablet, and 21-percent said yes; that contrasts to 9-percent of people asked in April 2007 whether they'd be interested in an iPhone, in a similar survey prior to the smartphone's launch.
I have checked out some DEXIM products before for my iPhone and found them to work very well for keeping me juiced up on the road. The company has today announced a new line of foldable docking stations for the iPhone called the P-Flip line.
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Google have added push-Gmail support to their Google Sync client, meaning Windows Mobile and iPhone users can now receive their new messages as they arrive, rather than when their handset is set to periodically check. The new email addition joins the existing contacts and calendar sync.
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