That’s right. AppStore is live, folks. Update your iTunes to v7.7 (just hit the “Check for updates” option) and you’ll find a shiny, new icon leading you down Apple cash-corridor. There are way to many applications to even try and preview them for you here – especially with a variety of free applications, like AIM,…
Apple launches cloud-based push-computing with MobileMe
Not that cloud-computing is anything new, but Apple’s new MobileMe service has just taken off as the replacement to Apple’s .Mac information synchronization service. Announced last month as a complement to the iPhone 3G launch, MobileMe is expected to give on-the-go Mac users some push-emailing support. MobileMe allows you to keep all your data in…
First iPhone 3G hits market, gets dissected
It was inevitable. As soon as the first batch of Apple iPhone 3G hardware started to hit the streets, a few intrepid iPhone 3G fans from iFixit.com went down to New Zealand to land themselves a new iPhone 3G – with the goal of disassembling the phone and baring all those iPhone 3G guts for…
This might be wrong…
But there’s just something hilarious about the person who thought up this little “passage.” Apparently so enamored with the coming of Steve Jobs’ next-generation iPhone 3G, O2 forum user anthonyb found himself in Apple. “Our Steve, which art in Cupertino, hallowed be thy IPhone; thy corporation come; thy will be profitable, in 22 countries as…
ASUS cancels ASUS Lamborghini ZX1?
Speculation, being what it is, forces us to take both possible sides of a story in to account. Such as this latest rumor regarding the Lamborghini-branded Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone from ASUS. The ASUS ZX1 Lamborghini has been gussied up and shown off for the lux-handset demographic to drool over for the past several months,…
New Nokia patent application gives insight in to haptic feedback technology – More details on Haptikos
Haptic feedback will be the next stage of touchscreen evolution. Apple has revolutionized the mobile industry with their multi-touch display proving that touchscreens work in the mass-market. But, critics of the sleek, flush, and glass-covered touchscreen denounce the multi-touch display’s lack of feedback – and it’s all true. So in an effort to bring the…
Sprint’s Samsung Instinct breaks Best Buy sales record!
Another day, another record. Or so it seems for Sprint’s incredibly popular Samsung Instinct. Priced at $129.99 after $100 mail-in rebate and a 2-year contract, Sprint’s partner, Best Buy, has just announced that the iPhone-fighting Samsung Instinct has set a new record for the big-box retailer. The Sprint Instinct is now the best-selling handset to…
Sprint launching HTC Touch Dual on September 2?
Following on the CDMA HTC Touch Dual’s appearance on the FCC’s website, as the HTC NEON400, we’re hearing that Sprint is lined up to offer the HTC Touch Dual on September 2nd. A leaked Sprint document shows that the No. 3 US wireless carrier is going to offer an “HTC 6950” during the first week…
OpenMoko FreeRunner UI – A closer look
OpenMoko opened up sales of the FreeRunner – the open-source successor to the OpenMoko Neo1973 – last week, and we’d imagine there are a good number of you Linux-fans just itching to lay a finger on the feature-packed handset. Alas, you’ll have to wait it out until OpenMoko can deliver the package to you. Fret…
Study: Apple’s iPhone 3G to have “tsunami” effect on consumer smartphone market
The iPhone 3G will be launching at 8am local time on July 11. And, as soon as sales go live, the US is going to see a tremendous shift in the smartphone market. According to a new survey from ChangeWave Research, consumers are looking more toward the iPhone 3G than either the RIM-made BlackBerry lineup…