White iPhone bestows immortality?
October 29, 2010
The white iPhone rumors are flying again, this time because Apple has removed it from the iPhone pages on the Apple Web site. Never has so much been said about so small a deal. Or has it?
Archive for October, 2010
Apple selling SIM-free iPhones in Germany
October 29, 2010
A recent rumor that Apple wants to put some distance between itself and carriers in Europe gains solid footing as the company begins selling SIM-less iPhones in Germany. Granted, unsubsidized pricing is still big mouthful, but a future without carrier entanglements is coming into view.
Apple partners with Gemalto on custom SIM card
October 28, 2010
The blogsphere is spinning this as the mothership cutting European carriers out of the loop. However, if you were a carrier and Apple offered to relieve you of thankless hassles of iPhone activation, would you hate the idea?
Apple iPhone password hole on fix list
October 27, 2010
In a week that featured a lot of news on security from apps that pierce it to Web sites that ignore it, Apple has acknowledged a flaw that makes it possible to gain easy access to iPhones, with a fix on the way.
White iPhone 4 delayed until Spring ’11
October 27, 2010
It’s just a color, but Apple and its Asian manufacturing partners just can’t seem to get it together. Whatever the underlying problem is the mothership won’t be delivering it until the second quarter of next year and that perhaps means it won’t be an iPhone 4, but a five.
iPhone security easily defeated [again]
October 26, 2010
It’s as easy as one-two-three, really. And, best (worst) of all, there’s a short, sweet and extremely easy to follow video on how to do it yourself. The haters will rail and the fanbois waffle, and that can only mean one thing — it’s just another day.
VLC Player for iPhone arrives with in-app file deletion
October 25, 2010
This app was disappointing on the iPad when it arrive, but one of the issues that helped create that let down has been rectified. Though still unfinished, this poly-platform app is still a must-have tool for anyone serious about mobile video.
The iPhone is more than half of Apple’s revenue
October 25, 2010
One way to measure the importance of the iPhone is to note that it now accounts for more than half the sales of its increasingly upwardly mobile manufacturer, despite surges in iPad and Mac sales.
Apple passes RIM on the smartphone sales chart
October 22, 2010
With smartphone sales going through the roof for most vendors, the order of preference has changed again, with Apple’s iPhone passing the RIM Blackberry line, but still trailing all Nokia phones worldwide.
iPhone rumors abound despite Back to the Mac
October 20, 2010
Today is the day Apple is supposed to be going back to the Mac in San Francisco, but that is not stopping the tech press from collecting and publishing the latest rumors about the iPhone.
