Okay, so there are some rumors swirling the intertubes that indicate AT&T’s intention to allow current iPhone customers to trade-in or trade-up their first-generation iPhone in exchange for the subsdized, lower $200 (or $300 for the 16GB variant) price-point for the iPhone 3G. I just wanted to give our readers a heads-up (and reiterate my…
Vidcasting on iPhone: Qik and Flixwagon go iPhone – live video streaming for iPhone is go
Who says the iPhone can’t do video recording? Well, actually, it technically can’t record video with the current firmware, but that hasn’t stopped iPhone developers from Qik and Flixwagon from bringing live video streaming to the iPhone. Flixwagon is demonstrating their video-casting application on a jailbroken iPhone, which bodes well for an official application launch…
Apple setting iPhone application size and price limits for AppStore
The Apple AppStore is poised brings iPhone users a whole new level of completely integrated and hassle-free application access/downloads. With Apple’s announcement that the AppStore will launch in “early July,” the consensus seems to be that the iPhone’s application store will launch alongside the iPhone 3G on July 11. In fact, the AppStore defaults an…
iPhone SDK reveals video playlists and portrait-mode video viewing
Well, look what the iPhone SDK-birdy just dropped on our laps? No, not that kind of dropping. It seems that the latest iPhone SDK build has revealed video playlists and portrait-mode video playback. While portrait-view video playback has been possible with Quicktime embedded videos through the iPhone Safari browser, it seems that the iPhone v2.0…
Is this proof that Apple is allowing Flash on the iPhone 2.0 OS firmware?
The best kinds of rumors come straight from the hardware source. The latest Adobe Flash rumor to hit the iPhone-scene is actually based on images shown on Apple’s own iPhone 3G webpage. It seems that a depiction of the website Lonely Planet on an iPhone 3G shows Flash-enabled content flawlessly rendered on the screen. There’s…
Apple looking to hock iPhone 3G on university campuses
As if peddling the latest iPhone 3G hardware through AT&T stores as well as Apple’s retail stores wasn’t enough, Apple is reportedly considering a plan that would have Apple iPhone 3G handsets being sold where Apple is arguably more popular than the general population – college campuses. In a push to extend Apple’s already-tight relationship…
HTC: What iPhone 3G? We’ll be just fine.
HTC doesn’t see the more affordable yet more powerful iPhone 3G as a threat. The company’s CEO Peter Chou said Apple’s new handset will have “limited impact” on HTC’s sales. Mobile operators around the world are offering HTC smartphones with subsidy and most devices are priced bellow $200. Some operators go even further, offering select…
iFob 2.0 real-space social networking for the iPhone
Mobile social networking is booming and we see new entrants hitting the market every day. iFob 2.0 is an interesting service that will enable iPhone owners to location other iFob users around themselves, start conversation and take it from there. The so called “real-space-real-time” approach uses GPS-like cell-tower triangulation and WiFi to sense iBuddies in…
NerveGas details sure-fire method to wipe personal data from iPhones
With the iPhone 3G slated for arrival early next month, I’d imagine that many of you early iPhone-adopters are getting ready to hock that year-old iPhone of yours in preparation for the next-generation iPhone. I’m planning on selling my iPhone on the secondary market (ie. Craigslist, eBay) to help subsidize the already low price of…
Apple to put P.A Semi chips to work in iPhone
The thing about parallel processing is that there’re only so many cores that can be effectively used together. With chips eschewing stratospheric clock-speeds in favor of multiple processing cores, the challenge in reaching faster processing speeds has shifted from hardware problems to software problems. It all boils down to just how effectively any given software…