Archive for October, 2009

Orange to release iPhone as early as 10 November in UK

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Orange customers could see the iPhone release on the network around 10 November. Orange signed a deal with Apple at the end of September to start offering the iPhone later this year alongside original exclusive supplier O2. After the Orange announcement, Vodafone quickly announced a deal to also supply the iPhone 3G and iPhone3GS. Orange [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 31, 2009

Apple iPhone now with over 100,000 apps

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Apple has now approved over 100,000 applications for its App Store, dwarfing apps offered by competitors Android Marketplace, Windows Mobile Marketplace, BlackBerry App World and the Nokia Ovi Store. Android Marketplace is the closest competitor in terms of number of apps with just over 10,000. Whilst only 93,118 apps are currently available, Apple has actually [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 28, 2009

Nokia to sue Apple over iPhone patent infringements

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Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, is suing Apple in the federal court claiming that the iPhone uses patented wireless technologies. Nokia claims that the iPhone infringes 10 patents it owns covering both mobile phone calls and wireless internet access. The company goes onto say that 40 other phone manufacturers have licensed these [...]

Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 24, 2009

iPhone on Watchdog update

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Further to our announcement last week that the Apple iPhone is to be featured on the UK BBC consumer affairs program Watchdog, we can report that there isn’t much to report. The short feature was based around a handful of viewers iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models freezing under use – not an epidemic by [...]

Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 24, 2009

iPhone on BBC Watchdog tonight

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The iPhone is being featured on the UK’s Watchdog consumer affairs program tonight. The issue they are investigating is alleged freezing, leading to an inoperable phone. If you’re in the UK tune in now. If you’re not then we’ll keep you updated later on. Let’s hope that the report is more credible than their PS3 [...]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Oct 15, 2009

Palm Pre vs iPhone 3GS battle set to commence in UK

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The Palm Pre is launched in the UK tomorrow. The device, which has been in development for some seven years debuts its own operating system – webOS – which aims to operate in a similar way to desktop operating systems allowing users to switch between applications in the same way as  on a home computer. [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 15, 2009

iPhone app saves UK users £250,000 in two weeks!

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The 0870 iPhone application, which launched to UK users at the end of September, has so far saved its 92,000 users over £250,000 in unnecessary call charges. The application lets people look up cheaper local number alternatives to the 08 prefix national rate numbers usually associated with call centres where users can typically expect to [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 13, 2009

Adobe release Photoshop iPhone App

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Adobe has unveiled a slick new Photoshop iPhone app. The add-on is aimed at improving your iPhone3GS pictures. The new Photoshop iPhone app is free but contains enough features to keep the most demanding of photographers happy. As well as basic cropping and rotating skills, it can also do filters, saturation and vibrancy tweaks. The [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 12, 2009

Roack Band coming to iPhone soon

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Electronic Arts (EA) announced on Friday that the popular console game Rock Band will be available by the end of October on Apple’s App Store. This new version, customized the iPhone and iPod Touch will include songs from the Smashing Pumpkins, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foo Fighters and Blink-182. Instead of using the hand-held peripherals found on [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 11, 2009

iPhone 3.1.2 available from today

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Just a month after 3.1, Apple has released iPhone 3.1.2 today. Version 3.1.2 appears to focus on fixing bugs found in iPhone 3.1. Three main fixes are a problem where iPhones may not wake from sleep, an intermittent issue that could interfere with GSM network services (thus requiring a restart) and a bug that could [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 8, 2009

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