The leading Latin America’s mobile operator, America Movil, is all proud to announce that it will bring iPhone 3G to 10 more countries in the region on August 22. iPhone 3G will be available through America Movil’s Latin American operations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Details on…
Schmap optimizes website contact info for iPhone users
The iPhone. It’s everywhere. Be it the iPhone or iPhone 3G, webmasters and administrators will probably have already noticed that iPhone traffic to their websites has increased in the past months. Schmap, the iPhone-optimized maps mashup, has announced a new iPhone-optimization service for websites looking to offer iPhone a convenient way to contact or find…
Apple’s lack of respect for iPhone customer wishes pushes jailbreak market to new levels
Apple’s getting better at considering their customer’s wishes and feelings with regard to the company’s services and products. They’ve embraced responsibility for the MobileMess and Steve Jobs even owned up to botching the launch. That’s a great first move from a company that has traditionally been the most locked-down and cold-shouldered company in the tech…
RIM mounting BlackBerry counter-offensive against Apple iPhone
It’s clear that the Apple iPhone and iPhone 3G have been the most sought after handsets in the US smartphone market for some time now. Following on the previous ChangeWave survey that indicated that the iPhone 3G would have a “tsunami like impact” on the smartphone market, ChangeWave has released a new survey that shows…
Qik goes iPhone – Stream video from your jailbroken iPhone
With Flixwagon already launched and bringing live video streaming to the iPhone, rival iPhone-as-video-stream application developer Qik has finally come to market with their very own video streaming solution for jailbroken iPhones. Both Qik and Flixwagon, which respectively have applications bearing their namesake, provide software that allows compatible handsets to broadcast live streaming video to…
iPhone coming to Russia next year?
Russia’s news site Vedomosti has reported that Apple will begin selling iPhones legally in the country during 2009. Apparently, this is coming from Yevgeny Butman, Apple IMC Russia’s director in Moscow and something’s telling me there’s a merit in his words. According to market research, there are currently around 470,000 unlocked iPhones in use in…
iPhone 2.0.1 OS update problems
The iPhone 2.0.1 OS promises to improve overall iPhone functionality, but there are reports coming in that indicate that some users are experiencing problems while trying to update their iPhones. Most notably, users updating their iPhone to the iPhone 2.0.1 OS with Airplane Mode enabled (which turns off all communication radios) have been experiencing problems…
Steve Jobs: My bad, MobileMe launch was a mess
Apple is known as one of the most secretive tech companies in the world. They rarely disclose product plans and never let the public know just what’s going on inside the Cupertino headquarters’ buildings. That is, until the MobileMe launch-fiasco drew the ire of email-less customers and Apple shills David Pogue and Walt Mossberg. In…
Feds approve Verizon Unicel merger – AT&T headed to Vermont wth iPhone 3G in tow
Vermont natives have been missing out on AT&T’s service for years now. The Vermont wireless market was apparently not appealing enough for AT&T to setup shop in the small state, keeping residents from enjoying the latest and greatest hardware that only a GSM carrier like AT&T can provide. And, as the exclusive (until 2010) iPhone…
iPhone 2.0.1 OS breaks PwnageTool jailbreak, possibly kills unlocking hopes
With the iPhone 2.0.1 OS firmware update already being pushed to millions of iPhones and iPhone 3Gs worldwide, it’s clear that keyboard lag has been reduced and overall system speed has been improved. But, are the benefits of iPhone 2.0.1 OS worth the drawbacks? The iPhone Dev Team just recently released their PwnageTool 2.0 (and…