Fancy a new iPhone from AT&T but hate the fact that you’ll have to pay for voice service that you just won’t use? Well, whether you’re hard of hearing or just plain averse to talking to other human beings, AT&T has a new text messaging-based for the iPhone. Dubbed the Text Messaging Accessibility Plan for…
Canadians finally to get the iPhone via Rogers
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,…
Widgetbox announces iPhone widget gallery
Widgetbox has announced its iPhone widget gallery, which “extends the world’s largest gallery of widgets to the screens of millions of iPhone users around the world.” A range of select widgets are immediately available in the Widgetbox iPhone Gallery — including widgets for today’s top ten most interesting flickr images, the Fake Steve Jobs blog,…
AT&T deploying its AT&T WiFi HotSpot service at Starbucks locations – iPhone WiFi portal
I caught a glimpse of the AT&T WiFi HotSpot service at the Starbucks down the street from me the other day. And, it seems that AT&T is now officially gearing up to deploy its AT&T HotSpot service across the nation. starting on May 1, AT&T high-speed internet and WiFi HotSpot customers get free WiFi access…
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…
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…