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iPhone Launches on Vodafone
Jan 14
The iPhone in the UK is now available on three different networks after the iPhone 3G S goes on sale via Vodafone today.
Just 24 hours after cutting the cost of the iPhone by $200, Apple have offered $100 store credit and an apology to those who had bought the device at a higher price. One consumer has described this as ‘a pay-off for being a sucker’, a statement I would readily agree with.
Everyone knows not to buy [...]
Yesterday Apple announced the first major overhaul of its digital music player, the iPod. This is the first big change to the range in almost two years. Steve Jobs, Apples Chief Executive, detailed the iPhone changes and other developments at an invitation-only press conference held in San Francisco yesterday.
The new version of the iPod is dubbed the iPod [...]
Apple Inc’s iPhone outsold all smartphones in the United States during July, and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, according to market research firm iSuppli.
The iPhone is classified as something between a smartphone and a feature phone. The device isn’t quite a smartphone because a user can’t load third-party software, and on [...]
Nokia takes on Apple
Aug 30
Yesterday, at an event in London, Nokia unveiled an array of new devices that customers can use to download music, surf the internet and play games. They also announced that they will soon introduce their own digital music service, along with an easier to use, Apple-style mobile interface and an Apple-style touch screen handset.
Nokia said it will focus [...]
iPhone deal finally done
Aug 23
According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple has signed its first deals with 3 mobile phone operators who will carry the iPhone.
After a period of intense negotiations, 3 operators have signed exclusive deals to sell the iPhone in their respective markets. The 3 companies are:
In Germany, T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH
In France, Orange SA
In Britain, [...]
Used iPhones for $100 less
Aug 21
Apple has started reselling used 4gb or 8gb iPhones. These iPhones, which were either returned or brought in for repair, are priced at $100 less than a new iPhone and they come with a 1 year limited warranty.
Apple is also offering the AppleCare programme, extending the repair coverage on the combination mobile phone, media player and web [...]
A research firm in the US, User Centric, has reported on their study into how effective the iPhones touchscreen keyboard is.
User Centric used 20 test subjects who had never used the iPhone keyboard before. 10 of these subjects had ordinary numeric keypads on their phones (this group did not use predictive text, but used ‘multitap’ text entry) and [...]
Rumours, rumours everywhere…
Orange is rumoured to be carrying the iPhone in France, and T-Mobile in Germany. First Vodaphone was tipped to be the carrier in the UK, then it was O2, and now it seems to be back to Vodaphone again.
There is also supposedly going to be an updated iPod nano release in France, and a [...]
