Apple announced this week that the iPhone 3.0 OS would include support for push background notifications. The iPhone maker was expected to go live with background notifications late last year, but missed that mark as they retooled the background notification system. The push-data service will allow inactive iPhone applications to receive updates from a server…
Apple still talking to China Mobile on iPhone deal
It’s the same old song and dance between Apple and Chinese wireless carriers. In the latest round of we-said they-said negotiations surrounding the iPhone, China Mobile’s CEO Wang Jianzhou confirmed that Apple and China Mobile were still in talks to bring the iPhone to China, but no deal has yet been made. Wang told reporters…
Mobile social address book Xumii launches iPhone app
The mobile social address book, Xumii, has recently released a free application for the Apple iPhone. Those not familiar should know that Xumii brings your contacts from social networks (like Facebook, MySpace, imeem, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, MSN and Flickr) to a single address book. As a result, you can see everyone’s status in…
Next-generation iPhone may pack multi-core graphics processing!
The next-generation iPhone is starting to generate a significant wave of hype – and it hasn’t even been announced yet. Such is the game that Apple and its fan-base love to play. Rumors are swirling around the intertubes that hint at all sorts of high-tech features being crammed into the next hardware iteration of the…
AT&T to offer Apple iPhone 3G sans contract!
Sprint cleaning? Perhaps. AT&T is apparently looking to move a good number of iPhone 3G stock over the next month or so. Internal training documents point to a renewed iPhone 3G sales push that will have Big Blue peddling iPhone 3G’s without contract to existing AT&T customers. The new promotion will give current subscribers with…
iPhone OS 3.0 to Include Video Recording?
Folks have been digging up all sorts of goodies from the iPhone OS 3.0 released just two days ago, including hints of new iPhone models, podcast updates, and theft trackers. Some, like tethering, were publically acknowledged in the presentation, but one that we didn’t see was video recording, a featuring sorely lacking from the iPhone’s…
Ballmer Says iPhone is Too Pricy for Mass Market
Even though the iPhone 3G is down to a somewhat reasonable $199 on most carriers, it’s still too much as far as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is concerned, and thinks the iPhone will ultimately fail at becoming a mass market device. “No one’s going to pay $500 more for a logo… iPhone is a very…
‘Find My iPhone’ feature in iPhone 3.0 OS tracks stolen iPhones!
While there are literally a hundred different new features packed into the iPhone 3.0 OS that’s due to hit market in a few months’ time, the discovery of a new iPhone-tracking feature comes as a genuine surprise. iPhone developers have apparently been teasing apart the developer release of the iPhone OS 3.0 beta, and have…
New iPhone Hardware Dug up in OS 3.0 Code?
After some snooping through the iPhone 3.0 OS, the traces of new Apple devices were spotted. We don’t get much more than idea of how many models will be coming out and in which order, but it’s something for speculators to chew on. iPhone2,1 – 0×1294 iProd0,1 – 0×1295 iPod2,2 – 0×1296 iPhone3,1 – 0×1297…
Next Gen iPhones to get OLED Displays from LG?
Much rumor and speculation has been bouncing around for some time now surrounding the next gen iPhone. Today, more news that LG has been asked by Apple to supply different sizes of organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens. While Apple denied the OLED rumors last year, this rumor certainly comes as no surprise. My only…