If you’re in China, and you’ve got a case of iPhone envy, you really don’t have any other option than to go the knock-off route. CECT, one of the most prolific rip-off artists in China (the world?), has released another Apple iPhone clone. Apparently, the CECT P168 wasn’t enough for the clone factory, they had…
Apple getting incredibly large kickback From AT&T for each new iPhone contract – Apple the Bounty Hunter
Apple is really raking the cash these days. Following today’s reports from AT&T about shorter-than-expected iPhone activations (causing panty-wearing investors to jump ship and offload their Apple stock), we’re hearing rumors that Apple’s kickback from AT&T don’t stop at the $3 per month revenue share. According to TheStreet.com, sources close to the company are claiming…
FlickIM – AIM client for your iPhone
The iPhone really, really needs to have a built-in iChat application. It’s a shame that Apple didn’t give us the feature out of the box, but we’re betting on a future update to enable the app on our iPhones. Until then, iPhone web-app developers are having a great time trying to cash in on the…
Apple stock take a dive on news of iPhone activations falling short of expectations
We were all expecting iPhone sales in the neighborhood of 500,000 units over the launch weekend. So AT&T’s announcement this morning of having activated only 146,000 iPhones in the last 30 hours of Q2 came as something of a surprise. And, as those hyper-reactive Wall Street drones are so prone to do, Apple stock took…
iFuntastic makes adding of custom ringtones to your iPhone more manageable
By now you’re probably aware that it is possible to add custom ringtones on your iPhone. However, as this process isn’t actually supported by Apple, thus it’s not that easy to do it. Luckily, “iPhone hackers” have been working on this and now we have an application called iFuntastic, which simplifies the whole thing. Actually,…
TrafficGauge’s live traffic info now available on iPhone
TrafficGauge, the service which offers live traffic information for 17 metropolitan areas, just added iPhone to its list of the supported devices. As expected, the iPhone version of TrafficGauge’s service works pretty much the same as their “Mobile Web” version – it’s just optimized for iPhone’s larger screen. Now, all you need to do is…
Free newspapers on your iPhone
Here’s something for all the iPhone users who love reading the newspapers, but don’t want to bother with all the paper. NewspaperDirect’s PressDisplay.com is now offering “500 newspapers from 70 countries in 37 languages” — all optimized for your beloved handset. According to NewspaperDirect’s CEO Alexander Kroogman iPhone’s huge touchscreen is ideal for PressDisplay.com because…
iBloglines – Bloglines optimized for iPhone
While there is no real iPhone RSS feed reader application, there are a number of web-based solutions which could be easily used on your shiny new handset — Apple even made its own web-based RSS reader optimized for their phone. Still, you may want to use your current RSS reader on your iPhone, to keep…
Want to check out the iPhone at an Apple Store? It’s going to cost you $5.
Given the huge success of the Apple iPhone, it’s not surprise that throngs of windows shoppers have hit their local Apple Store to get a chance to play with the almost iconic device. What is surprising is Apple’s newest move to help curb the incredible crowds that have started to inundate Apple Stores. Following a…
iPhone Death Watch tells you when your iPhone will kick the bucket – kind of
Those silly geeks over at PC Magazine have put together an “iPhone Death Watch.” Essentially a countdown timer for your iPhone’s battery, the “watch” ticks off the seconds to the day that your iPhone will die. They say their countdown timer is based on “scientific calculations.” Don’t take this “Death Watch” seriously folks. As we…