Posts Tagged ‘iphone 3g’

BBC’s free iPhone app no longer coming

If you want free BBC news straight to your iPhone then it looks like the much-rumoured app won’t be released anytime soon. The corporation was planning to release free news and sports apps for the iPhone next month, but have put the idea on hold after concerns about unfair market advantage. The BBC Trust heard [...]

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Apple iPhone Apps: Fee for Upgrading to be introduced?

Apple is showing indications that they may allow developers to charge for upgrading the Apple iPhone apps. Customers who own a previous version were allowed a discounted price but this may not be the case in the future. Minor updates on the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone3GS are free of cost but a new major [...]

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New iPhone software 3.1.3 released by Apple

Apple have now released an updated iPhone firmware featuring a series of bug fixes and security updates. The minor upgrade includes an improvement to the iPhone 3GS’s accuracy of the battery level indicator and fixes issues with certain third-party applications refusing to launch. The new firmware also includes five security updates. Firmware 3.1.3 is 228MB [...]

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iPhone developer has had enough over Apple app approvals

Apple’s App Store boasts over 100,000 apps and more than 2 billion downloads. Despite this not all of its developers are as happy and one well-respected developer decided to call it quits. Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis has citing his frustration with the App Store approval process as to why he has quit development of iPhone, [...]

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Orange to release iPhone as early as 10 November in UK

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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iPhone 3.1.2 available from today

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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Canada now gets Google Street View on the iPhone

Google today switch on Street View for Canadians, thus making it available to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users for the first time. The feature covers the following cities: Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Vancouver, Squamish, B.C., Whistler, B.C., Ottawa, Kitchener, Ont., and Waterloo, Ont. Due to concerns brought up by the Privacy Commissioner [...]

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Vodafone to also offer iPhone in the UK

Hot on the announcement yesterday that Orange are to start offering the iPhone in the UK, Vodafone have announced that they are also to start offering Apple’s smartphone. This news further cuts O2′s two-year monopoly on selling the iPhone in the UK. Vodafone already sell the iPhone through 13 of its operators worldwide, whilst Orange [...]

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iPhone 3g and 3GS coming to Orange in the UK

Further to our earlier post about O2′s exclusivity on the Apple iPhone in the UK, it has emerged today that Orange will be bringing the iPhone 3G and iPhone3GS to UK customers later this year. Orange, which already has the largest 3G network, has setup a registration site for potential customers to get their name [...]

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MMS finally live for US customers

AT&T have finally activated the MMS or Multimedia Messaging Service for the iPhone 3G and iphone3GS models. The service went live last Friday via an iTunes update and now allows users to send photos, audio and video using their iPhone. The service has been missing for US customers since the first model arrived in 2006. [...]

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