Apple has finally managed to agree with Rogers Wireless to push the sales of its flagship handset to Canada. We talked about this on and on in the past, and I’m sad to say we don’t have much of the details today. Roger’s President and CEO, Ted Rogers, issued a statement, saying only: “We’re thrilled…
Colorware’s Stealth iPhone looks mean, yet fails to deliver 3G speeds
Damn Colorware and their awesome painting jobs. For a second I thought this is the long-awaited bad-ass 3G iPhone. It’s all black, looks so mean and comes with a matching earphones and iPhone dock. But no, they just made it look like that, without changing anything in terms of specs. Not that we expected Colorware…
iPhone rumors galore: Haptic / vibration feedback touchscreen, GPS, Jabber, iControl remote iTunes control, new patents
We must be getting closer to the 3G iPhone’s launch. How do we know? Well, aside from the rumored June 9 launch at Apple’s WWDC, the blogosphere is lit up with frenzied rumors of new features in the 3G iPhone as well as speculation at new features to be enabled with the coming iPhone OS…
Use videos as your iPhone wallpaper with vWallpaper
Sure, static wallpaper images help to gussy up the otherwise staid background image on the iPhone’s glorious 3.5-inch multi-touch display. But, if static images are starting to lose their luster, you’ll be glad to hear that you can now use videos as your iPhone’s wallpaper With the help of yet another useful third-party application, vWallpaper,…
Nokia N95 and Apple iPhone headed to Rogers Canada
There are a lot of positives to living in Canada. Unfortunately, access to the newest and higher-end mobile phones is not one of the upsides to living North of the border. Rogers Canada is the country’s premier (read: only) GSM provider, and with a lack of any real competition, the cost of GSM data plans…
Makers of iPhone 1.0, Foxconn, will deliver 3 million 3G iPhones in June
According to Digitimes, Foxconn, the guys who manufactured the first iPhone, are in line to deliver 3 million 3G iPhones in June and around 25 million for the life cycle of the product.
Newest iPhone SDK beta could allow applications and processes to run in background
It’s not everyday that we see even a modicum of concern from Cupertino regarding public (by which I mean the blogosphere’s) opinion on any Apple product. That said, it’s good to see that the newly released iPhone SDK beta could allow applications to run processes in the background – opening the door for true multi-tasking…
Apple iPhone 8GB sold out in UK, meets end-of-life
It looks like the price cut that O2 UK implemented on the 8GB iPhone variant in the UK boosted sales beyond even Apple’s expectations. Reports were trickling in that stores across the country were running low or completely out of stock on 8GB iPhones. Now, we’re hearing reports that all retail channels in the UK…
Nokia to pass Motorola as top AAC customer
AAC Acoustic Technologies Holdings (not to be confused with the AAC that is Advanced Audio Codec) has announced that it expects Nokia to overtake Motorola as it’s largest customer this year: “Revenue from Nokia would account for more than 25 per cent of AAC’s total sales this year….compared with 10 per cent last year, while…
3G iPhone coming to Belgium unlocked?
Following previous rumors that indicated that the next-generation iPhone would be made available in Italy without contract or carrier-lock, we’re hearing that the next destination for an unlocked 3G iPhone could be Belgium. Apple has been open to different business models for its iPhone, and it seems that the company is embracing the notion of…