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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-20-08: Top 10 Free iPhone Applications (PICS)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-20-08

Top 10 Free iPhone Applications (PICS)
Here’s the run down for the top ten free iphone application to make your iphone more powerful.
http://content.zdnet.com/2346-11408_22-211365.html


Dude, iPhone 2.0 software is buggin’ the hell out.
While iPhone 3G itself is hard to buy, those who do own the new handset are reporting a number of common problems that range from crash-prone third-party apps to lag, Bluetooth, and GPS.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/18/iphone_3g_and_2_0_affected_by_buggy_software_sensors_wireless.html


Pwnage 2.0 is OUT!!!
Unlock 2.0 2g iPhones and jailbreak 3g
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/42858313/thanks-for-waiting


Beware iPhone App Scams
If you Google “iPhone apps,” the first thing that comes up is iPhoneApps.org, a site selling a bundle of “top 10″ iPhone applications for $25 using “safe PayPal.” Friends, there’s nothing safe about this site. It’s a scam. The iTunes App Store is the exclusive distributor of iPhone apps, period. Don’t get your apps anywhere else. Tell your friends
http://gizmodo.com/5026969/beware-iphone-app-scams


iPhone shortages causing major delays for AT&T, businesses
Apple promised that iPhone 3G and its iPhone 2.0 software would be more suited to business, but a severe shortage of the device could force companies to wait as long as two weeks before they see their orders, and is forcing many home customers to go without at the same time.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/17/iphone_3g_shortages_causing_major_delays_for_att_businesses.html


Sun offers Free alternative to VMWare Fusion and Parallels
Virtualization continues to be a big topic among Mac users with Intel-powered Macs. Products from Parallels and VMware allow you to easily run many different operating systems on your Mac, each within its own protected virtual environment. Recently, a third player entered the market—Sun, with its VirtualBox product.
http://www.macworld.com/article/134584/2008/07/mwvodcast59.html?lsrc=rss_main


Apple Sends Another MobileMe Apology E-mail and Extension
Amidst the rocky .Mac to MobileMe transition last week, Apple made one other mistake that it is now apologizing for. Apple had been preauthorizing charges up to 121 GBP to European customers who signed up for a free MobileMe trial. For debit accounts, this preauthorization charge may actually remove that amount of money from the customer’s availabl
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/19/apple-sends-another-mobileme-apology-e-mail-and-extension/


How to Take Distorted and Psychedelic iPhone Photos
The thing is, the iPhone camera has a bug. No one is ever happy to find that the fancy high-tech gadget that they just bought has a bug. At the same time, every software or hardware engineer can likely tell a good story about that undetected “bug” being spun into a marvelous new undocumented “feature.”
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Take_Distorted_and_Psychedelic_iPhone_Photos


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-19-08: Dark Knight iPhone App Lets You Jokerize Yourself

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-19-08

Dark Knight iPhone App Lets You Jokerize Yourself
It’s essentially just a marketing tool for the Dark Knight movie, but hot damn if we don’t like this. Just run the app, take a picture of yourself, then add Joker elements to your face. Works on iPhone (use the camera) or iPod touch (use a saved picture).
http://gizmodo.com/5026504/dark-knight-iphone-app-lets-you-jokerize-yourself


AT&T mistakenly announces free Wi-Fi for iPhone users..again
AT&T iPhone users will not be getting free Wi-Fi access after all.For the second time in less than six months, AT&T mistakenly published a notice on its Web site indicating that Apple iPhone users would get free access to the wireless operator’s more than 17,000
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-9994170-94.html


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-18-08: iPhone vs Blackberry: The Titanic Struggle for Supremacy

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-18-08

iPhone vs Blackberry: The Titanic Struggle for Supremacy
If you’ve read Ars’ review of the iPhone 3G, you know our opinion on its usefulness as a replacement for the ubiquitous Blackberry family from RIM. (Hint: not quite there yet.) That doesn’t mean the two communication/Internet handhelds aren’t going up against each other for market and mind share.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/07/17/iphone-blackberry-locked-in-titanic-struggle-for-supremacy


IPhone Developer: Apple’s Secrecy Makes Things Difficult
Apple’s insistence on secrecy meant that developers were cut off from their air supply: a large and vocal group of beta testers. Worse still, Apple’s vetting process means that each and every update has to be hand-checked by Apple staff. The result: Although Apple shifted a staggering 10 million apps in the first weekend, many of them were buggy.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/interview-brent.html


Seven Reasons Why the New iPhone Sucks
Look before you leap before buying the new iPhone. This is the iPhone that all of us have been waiting for. It promised to address the deficiencies of the first generation iPhone, but does it really?
http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22279/52271-seven-reasons-new-iphone-sucks?CMP=ILC-BigDddyWdgt


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-17-08: The Ultimate iPhone App: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-17-08

The Ultimate iPhone App: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
You want an iPhone app? We’ll give you an iPhone app. Take a look at Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the iPhone which uses the accelerometer for game play. It should be available in September but we have some cool video over at CrunchGear.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/the-ultimate-iphone-app-star-wars-the-force-unleashed/


The WOZ on THE Price is Right
You can clearly see woz in behind constants row
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5838235


The iPhone Is As Powerful As The Dreamcast
EA said it’s more powerful than the DS, and now Sega—the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform—is saying that it’s just as powerful as the Dreamcast.
http://gizmodo.com/5026065/sega-says-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast


How To Install OSX Leopard on an MSI Wind UMPC [w/VID]
Mac owners often look on with envy at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) in the Windows world. These are truly tiny laptops, often with 10″ or smaller displays and weights that make a MacBook Air seem downright obese by comparison. MoDaCo network founder and Microsoft MVP Paul O’Brien decided to get his OS of choice, Mac OS X 10.5.4 onto a MSI wind.
http://www.modaco.com/content/asus-eee-pc-http-www-eeeasy-com/270099/pauls-complete-guide-to-installing-osx-leopard-on-your-msi-wind-advent-4211/


Yes, the iPhone’s new App Store is a Hit, but….
For the new iPhone 3G, it’s an accepted fact that the Apple App Store is its killer app. With now over 800 applications (200 of them free) it’s a veritable geek toy store. Apple announced Monday that more than 10 million apps had been downloaded since the store opened late last week. But, as I started downloading apps, I noticed a negative trend…
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/07/yes_the_iphones_new_app_store_is_a_hit_but_1.html


Control your PC or Mac Remotely from your iPhone [full demo]
A demo of Mocha VNC for the iPhone. Mocha VNC is a free application from the App Store that provides access to a VNC server. Using your iPhone, you can connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X and see the files, programs, and resources exactly as you would if you were sitting at your desk, just on a smaller screen.
http://www.ismashphone.com/2008/07/vnc-mocha.html


Facebook, MySpace Ignore Location On iPhone At Their Peril
Facebook and MySpace, the two largest social networks, eagerly launched new iPhone applications last Friday. Both quickly shot up the the top apps list. But while both applications are useful for heavy users, they won’t drive new users to the services because they failed to leverage the killer iPhone feature – location awareness.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/facebook-myspace-ignore-location-on-iphone-at-their-peril/


Apple passes Acer to become third largest U.S. PC vendor
Macs garnered an 8.5 percent share of the U.S. PC market during the second quarter of the year, pushing Apple past Acer in the national rankings and into third place overall, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by market research firm Gartner.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/16/apple_passes_acer_to_become_third_largest_u_s_pc_vendor.html


AT&T Employees Hand Out Anti-iPhone Propaganda to Customers
When Dennis’ mom went to the AT&T stand in the Moorestown Mall to ask about iPhone insurance, they laughed in her face. They then handed her a bunch of articles written arguing for the Blackberry over the iPhone, printed from places like Crackberry.com and Pocket PC Magazine. At the end, there was the name and number of an AT&T regional manager.
http://gizmodo.com/5025900/nj-mall-att-employees-hand-out-anti+iphone-propaganda-to-customers


iPhone 3G’s final build price: just $174.33
In a teardown done with production hardware, research firm iSuppli now says a base iPhone 3G costs just $174.33 in pure manufacturing costs, or less than what it took to build the less capable original.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/15/iphone_3gs_final_build_price_just_174_33.html


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-16-08: Round Up: Nine iPhone 3G Battery Life Test Results

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-16-08

Round Up: Nine iPhone 3G Battery Life Test Results
The black art of battery life testing takes time—that’s why every launch day review had some version of “we’ll get back to you”—as well they should. Now, after a weekend of testing, some hard data on battery numbers are starting to trickle in. Here’s testing data from 9 major tech sites and publications.
http://gizmodo.com/5025309/round-up-nine-iphone-3g-battery-life-test-results


Chris Pirillo Launches Digg, For iPhone Applications
The idea is similar to Digg in that you can submit iPhone apps and people can vote them up or down, giving you a nice community snapshot of what app is performing, and what app isn’t at any given time.Sure, you can read reviews in the Apple Store, but you don’t get the full story like you do on a site with simplicity and ease of use.
http://iphone.lockergnome.com/


Free Apps No Longer Dominating iPhone App Store.
When the iPhone App Store launched last Friday along with the new 3G iPhone, free apps made up 24 percent of the 552 apps available. In other words, the most popular price point was free. The rest of the apps ranged in price from 99 cents to $9.99 and even more. The market is already doing that sorting.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/free-apps-no-longer-dominating-iphone-app-store/


iPhone 3G: Sold out in 21 states
“117 Apple stores reported having sold out of all models and only 27 stores indicated they had all three models in stock.”
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/15/iphone-3g-sold-out-in-21-states/?section=money_topstories


Apple, AT&T foiled again: iPhone 3G unlocked
Despite the best efforts of Apple and AT&T, it appears that the latest version of the iPhone has been unlocked via the same method as used on the original iPhone.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9991672-1.html


iPhone 3G Comparison Lab Test: Popular Mechanics Review
From the Steve Jobs keynote to the competitor fears and the fanboy prognostication, Apple’s new 3G iPhone has promised to be more powerful, faster and better than its first-gen predecessor in every way. But is it really? And how does the new mobile powerhouse compare with alternatives to the iPhone 3G?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4273287.html


World’s First Jailbroken iPhone 3G
We can’t say this is a surprise… but it is sweet to see. The iPhone Dev Team has added a video to their blog showing off the latest version of their upcoming PwnageTool 2.0, along with a video of what they claim is the “world’s first” jailbroken iPhone 3G.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/dev-team-shows-off-video-of-worlds-first-jailbroken-iphone-3g/


Is the iPhone Killing Terrestrial Radio?
For years I’ve been saying that the days of radio are numbered. The portable, Internet-enabled entertainment portal is a thing of the present. Not only is radio in mortal danger from all sides, but so is TV.
http://mashable.com/2008/07/14/iphone-radio/


Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on iPhone free!
If you don’t want to shell out $100 for MobileMe and you don’t have a Microsoft Exchange server lying around, you’re stuck pulling data or manually syncing it to your computer. But, if you’re willing to roll up your sleeves, you can set up push email and wireless contact and calendar syncing using the free Microsoft Exchange service Mail2Web.
http://lifehacker.com/398526/set-up-push-email-contacts-and-calendar-on-your-iphone-for-free


Apple: turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone; but copy/paste…
There’s been a lot of random misinformation about the iPhone 3G floating around out there, like David Pogue’s baffling comment that the device’s GPS antenna is “too small” to support turn-by-turn directions, and Apple’s iPod and iPhone marketing head Greg Joswiak recently sat down with AppScout to clear up some of the confusion.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/apple-says-turn-by-turn-gps-coming-to-iphone-copy-paste-not-a/


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-15-08: The Second Coming: Ars goes in-depth with the iPhone 3G

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-15-08

The Second Coming: Ars goes in-depth with the iPhone 3G
The iPhone 3G has been hyped for almost as long as the original iPhone itself. But is it worth the upgrade cost and a whole new two-year agreement with AT&T in order to get one? Ars took an in-depth look at every detail of the newest iPhone—including extensive testing of Exchange and enterprise features—in order to find out.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/iphone3g-review.ars


iPhone App Listens to Music and tells you the name of Song
Have you ever heard some music, be it in the background in a shop, or played on the radio and ever wished you knew the track’s name? That’s the dilemma Shazam sets out to solve.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/13/iphone-app-review-shazam-helps-you-name-that-tune/


Should’ve Bought a Garmin? Testing the iPhone 3G’s GPS
We wanted to see whether the iPhone 3G’s new GPS functionality was worth the cost of admission or if we’d be better off buying one of the many stand-alone navigation units currently on the market. Make the jump to find out if it’s worth your hard-earned cash and a place on your dash.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/shouldve-bought-a-garmin-testing-the-iphone-3gs-gps-capabilit/


Why We Wait In Line for iPhone 3G and You Are Inferior
While waiting in line this weekend at the Apple store I was shocked by the questions posed by passers-by to the line-elites. It was as if we’d crash landed on a Planet of the Apes, where only I and my fellow line-warriors had any conception of modern technology, civilization, and the messianic glory of Father Jobs and the Apple Trinity.
http://www.peoplejam.com/blogs/why-we-wait-line-iphone-3g-and-you-are-inferior


Apple Sells One Million 3G iPhones First Weekend
Despite a few hiccups and stores running out of inventory, Apple was able to sell one million 3G iPhones worldwide across 21 countries its first three days on sale. During that same time, owners of both the new and old iPhone were able to download 10 million apps from the newly launched App Store on iTunes, despite a few hiccups with the iPhone 2.0
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/14/the-mobile-web-is-here-apple-sells-one-million-3g-iphones-first-weekend-ten-million-iphone-apps-downloaded/


Top 5 iPhone 3G Killers
So here we present the devices, that we think, can dethrone the iPhone to become the king of smartphones. All these phones have all the regular features like calling, messaging, email, high speed web browsing etc, so we won’t be elaborating much on those points.
http://www.digitgeek.com/top-5-iphone-3g-killers/


App Store is Like a Sweet, Sweet Drug: Five IPhone Apps
Here are some first impressions of the new iPhone applications.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/app-store-is-li.html


iPhone – BRICKED! by Revision3
What if the iPhone ‘brick’ tragedy extended to other parts of our lives?
http://revision3.com/content/bricked


Apple’s iPhone 3G Launch May Have Sucked But… [COMIC]
What happens when RIM realizes the true power of Apple.
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1128.html


Apple sells 1 million iPhone 3Gs in first weekend
Apple said Monday that it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/14/apple_sells_1_million_iphone_3gs_in_first_weekend.html


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-14-08: Hidden iPhone 3G firmware “fixes” yellow screens

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-14-08

Hidden iPhone 3G firmware “fixes” yellow screens
Early adopters of iPhone 3G have discovered an updated firmware build hidden from iTunes’ update system that appears to fix several issues, including the yellow screen tint that some believe is a flaw.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/13/hidden_iphone_3g_firmware_fixes_yellow_screens.html


Jackass Reports on iPhone Line, Gets Called Jackass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luYvuRoSzTs


Pulling a Wozniak: App Store Developers “Cutting Line”
A few Apple App Store developers have apparently taken a page from the line cutting Steve Wozniak today, and are using a loop hole in the service’s naming conventions to shoot their apps to the top of the list
http://gizmodo.com/5024705/pulling-a-wozniak-apple-app-store-developers-furious-over-crafty-line-jumping-application-names


Apple Customers Insulted by Reporter and they Strike Back
He asks iPhone customers waiting in line whether or not they have ever seen a naked woman. One guy waiting in line puts him in his place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luYvuRoSzTs&eurl=http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/13/morons-vs-the-intelligent-reporter-covers-the-iphone-line/


Developers furious over App Store “Line Cutting”
There’s a bit of bad blood brewing between developers of iPhone Apps these days. It seems several different companies have renamed their iPhone games to begin with either a space, a quotation mark, or some other symbol so that they appear first in the list of 197 games on the iPhone portal to the App Store.
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1494


Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch
To get started, go to the music category of the iTunes App store (in iTunes or on your iPhone/Touch). Find the Last.fm app and download it (for free). Log in or signup to Last.fm and you’ll be presented with a fairly obvious selection of Last.fm functionality. Things with the red circle icon start streaming. You can navigate through the menus and g
http://blog.last.fm/2008/07/13/lastfm-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch


Confessions Of A Guy Who Stood In Line 7hrsTo Buy An iPhone
I used to wonder what kind of person stood in line for the better part of the day to buy a product when it first became available. Now I don’t have to wonder — I am one. I spent most of Friday on line at the Apple Store in Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego.. What kind of person does something like that? A really tired, bad-tempered person with …
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/confessions_of_2.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL


Apple says yellow-tinted iPhone 3G screen deliberate
While many new iPhone 3G owners have griped that the device’s occasionally yellowish hue is evidence of a defect, Apple has now gone on record to say that the tint is a deliberate choice to improve overall usability.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/12/apple_says_yellow_tinted_iphone_3g_screen_deliberate.html


Top 10 Best iPhone 3g Apps!
After finally getting my iPhone 3G yesterday I spent most of my time playing with the Apps and App Store.It’s early days but there already some amazing Apps available for the iPhone. This list features a wide range including task management, social networking, file transferring, location aware fun and even games.
http://www.fluffypig.com/2008/07/top-10-best-iphone-3g-apps/


Sneaky Steve Wozniak Cuts In Line At iPhone 3G Launch
More bad news from the iPhone 3G iPocalypse: Steve Wozniak, creator of the Apple II and a hero of many geeks the world over cut in line at the Apple Store. Nevertheless, if the line cutting story is true, and there’s photographic evidence that suggests it is, then apparently Woz and a posse couldn’t really be bothered with line sitting at all.
http://gizmodo.com/5024648/sneaky-steve-wozniak-with-posse-cuts-in-line-at-san-jose-iphone-3g-launch


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-13-08: Early iPhone 3G adopters bothered by yellow-tinted screens

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-13-08

Early iPhone 3G adopters bothered by yellow-tinted screens
A number early iPhone 3G adopters are finding that their new phone’s display is much warmer, or yellow-tinted, compared to the displays of the original iPhone and have begun lodging complaints.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/11/early_iphone_3g_adopters_bothered_by_yellow_tinted_screens.html


MobileMe: Service Temporary Unavailable
At $99 a year, I expect my online service to function all the time. So perhaps that is why I am a little upset that Apple hasn’t been able to launch their MobileMe service properly and are experiencing outages. The fact that the service was supposed to launch at a time of Apple’s choosing, leaves no room for excuses on today’s problems.
http://gigaom.com/2008/07/10/i-cant-find-mobileme/


iPhone 3G – Wiretap Ready [Political Cartoon]

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoons/MarguJ/2008/MarguJ20080711A_low.jpg


Europe Sells Out at iPhone 3G Launch
European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before stores in the US even opened on Friday, thanks in part to strong marketing from Apple’s mobile partners.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/11/europe_sells_out_at_iphone_3g_launch.html


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-12-08: Get VoIP on your iPhone

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-12-08

Get VoIP on your iPhone
While most iPhone users are stuck with an iBrick this morning as Apple’ servers can’t complete the last step of the upgrade process, those of us smart enough to take the unofficial upgrade route 24 hours ago are happily trying out new App Store Apps. This morning I turned my iPhone into a VoIP phone by installing the new Truphone iPhone app.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/11/voip-on-my-iphone/


iPhone 3G Review
Gizmodo tested the data speed of 3g, wifi range, voice quality, camera quality and case design, said you probably don’t have to buy a new iPhone to get most of the cool stuff.
http://gizmodo.com/5024412/iphone-3g-review


10 Things the 3G iPhone is Still Missing
The new App Store has unleashed a slew of great new apps for the iPhone, but there are still a few standard features we wish Apple’s multimedia phone had. Here’s the short list.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/148250/10_things_the_3g_iphone_is_still_missing.html


Outage hobbles new Apple Web service
Users have trouble accessing new Apple’s $99-per-year MobileMe service, which launches Friday. Apple’s new data-synching service got off to a rocky start Thursday, as some users were denied access to their accounts just hours before the next-generation iPhone is slated to go on sale.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/10/technology/apple_mobileme.ap/


iPhone 3G US review
It’s hard to think of any other device that’s enjoyed the level of exposure and hype that Apple found in the launch of the first iPhone. Who could forget it? Everyone got to be a gadget nerd for a day
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/iphone-3g-review/


10 absurd new iPhone apps
We’ve swooned over Pandora’s new iPhone application, LOL’d at the chat application from AIM, and poked our friends with the new Facebook application. But as we continue to dig deeper into the growing catalog of iPhone applications one thing is clear: there are some stinkers in the mix.
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9987795-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave


Apple Cancels All iPhone 3G Orders, Releases iBrick 3G
In a surprising move that is set to stun consumers all over the world, Apple has cancelled all orders for the iPhone 3G today. People who already bought the phones will get them replaced by Apple’s new wonderproduct, the iBrick 3G.
http://gizmodo.com/5024372/apple-cancels-all-iphone-3g-orders-releases-ibrick-3g


The iPhone 2.0 Software Review
Only some people really need faster browsing and slightly better location services, but everyone can use the new features in the OS. Now that we’ve gotten chance to go through all that updated functionality, we’ve only got one question left. Is iPhone 2.0 so good that you don’t even need to upgrade to an iPhone 3G?
http://gizmodo.com/5024078/the-iphone-20-software-review


In Depth: Pandora’s Streaming Radio App for the iPhone
Pandora has unleashed an iPhone version of their interactive internet radio service that moves beyond what has previously been possible in the portable radio arena. As soon as Pandora heard that Apple would be launching the App Store, its designers and engineers began working on an iPhone version of Pandora using Apple’s apparently excellent SDK.
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/07/sweet-pandora-o.html


iTunes activation servers go down, told to activate at home!
We’re hearing that the servers are now definitely down after being intermittently active for the past few hours, and that customers are either being turned away or sent home from both Apple and AT&T stores to activate at home using iTunes.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/itunes-activation-servers-go-down-iphone-3g-customers-being-sen/


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Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-11-08: Apple’s App Store launches with more than 500 apps

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Apple iPod and iPhone News for July-11-08

Apple’s App Store launches with more than 500 apps
More than 500 native applications are now available on the iPhone’s App Store for use with the new iPhone 3G that goes on sale tomorrow. A good number of the 500 applications are free downloads.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/10/apples_app_store_launches_with_more_than_500_apps.html


iPhone App Impressions Liveblog
There are a total of 552 different apps in the iPhone App Store right now. We’re going to do live impressions of the best ones (and some really, really lousy ones if they’re interesting enough).
http://gizmodo.com/5023924/iphone-app-impressions-liveblog


Complete Visual Preview of Top 10 Free iPhone Applications
Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone App Store launched earlier this morning, spawning a user-generated list of the most popular applications available at no cost. This article previews the top 10 with links, descriptions, and screenshots.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/10/visual_preview_of_top_10_free_iphone_applications.html


Leo Laporte to stream for 24 straight hours!
To celebrate the launch of the iPhone 3g, Leo Laporte is streaming at TWiTlive.tv for over 24 hours straight with 10 iPhone 3g giveaways and special guests. Coverage starts 9am Pacific Thursday and continues through Friday at noon Pacific (or later).
http://www.twitlive.tv


iPhone 3G Activation Process
Retail employees have received instructions on how to activate iPhones, and are given special instructions to let the customer bond immediately with their iPhone….
http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/07/09/iphone-3g-activation-process-give-them-a-chance-to-enjoy-the-feel-of-the-phone/


Saying Goodbye to .Mac
From something useful, to something crappy… to hopefully something useful again.
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/09/saying-goodbye-to-mac/


MobileMe Push Mail Hands-On Shows Why BlackBerry Is Dead
As you can see in the video, MobileMe push mail is now active, fully operative, and perfectly armed. My iPhone is now getting all email in real time, both over a Wi-Fi connection and using a cellphone network. I even use EDGE—not 3G—and a non-official carrier on roaming.
http://gizmodo.com/5023904/iphones-mobileme-push-mail-hands+on-shows-why-blackberry-is-dead


iPhone OS 2.0 Unlocked (YES!): Exclusive!
The new iPhone OS 2.0 software has been unlocked and jailbroken. It was released just hours ago and it already has been cracked by the iPhone Dev Team.
http://gizmodo.com/5023971/iphone-os-20-unlocked-yes


Australian iphone plans break the bank (worse than rogers!)
Our major national telco is offering 200mb of data with not even 30mins of calls included per month for $89.00 (~$85 USD/CAD), if you want 1gb, then be prepared to pay well over $100 on the same call plan! Oh, and excess data? only $2.00 per mb…
http://apcmag.com/breaking_telstra_iphone_plans_leaked__and_theyll_break_the_bank.htm


First iTunes Remote App for iPhone Hands-On (VIDEO)
There’s only one word to describe the new iPhone remote for iTunes: absolutelyperfectomfgthisissocool. As you can see in the video, it just works, giving you full access to all the music, video, podcasts, and movies stored in your computer.
http://gizmodo.com/5023755/video-itunes-remote-app-for-iphone-hands+on


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