Apple announced impressive first week sales figures for the Apple iPad with 450,000 units sold in less than a week. The announcement also included over 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod Touches sold since they were first launched.
Vodafone has joined Orange, Tesco, and O2 selling the iPhone in the UK with day one sales topping 50,000 units and queues forming outside some of their high street stores across the country. Find out more about iPhone 3GS on Vodafone and their tariffs compared to the others here.
Supermarket giant Tesco has announced their iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS price tariffs as the sale starts 14th December. Will they challenge O2 and Orange? At least to some degree including their Tesco Clubcard offers. Find out more about iPhone on TescoMobile here.
Supermarket giant Tesco is to start selling the iPhone 3GS and 3G in the UK through their own Tesco Mobile, maybe as early as this Christmas. With the news that the supermarket giant is entering the market hope is there once again for a price drop.
Never a dull week in the world of the Apple iPhone as the last days have brought a first iPhone worm, a likely O2 unlock when Orange and Vodafone launches the iPhone, and a possible 8gb iPhone 3GS to take up the fight with Motorola Droid for Christmas.
The latest rumors doing the rounds is that Apple is about to release a firmware upgrade that will unlock the dormant FM radio functionality found in the iPhone and the 3rd generation iPod Touch. The FM radio functionality is part of the latest chipset used in both the iPhone 3GS and the iPod Touch 3G.
The iPhone 3GS added another two gadget awards at the recent T3 award, including commuter gadget of the year and gadget you can’t live without, but lost out to the HTC Hero and its Android OS in the coveted Gadget of the Year Award. Find all the winners here.
Apple has released a security patch for the new iPhone OS 3.0, referred to as iPhone OS 3.0.1 to fix SMS security flaw. The security flaw has been known for some time, but it is just recently that Apple has released the new security patch that can be downloaded on iTunes.
Italian iPhone blog iSpazio recently revealed what is rumored to be leaked photos of the next generation iPhone from a yet to be published page on the Apple website. The photos reveal an iPhone that seems to be just a minor upgrade.
With about a month to go before the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco the market is expecting the next generation iPhone to be announced, whether it be called iPhone 3G Pro or iPhone HD, and whether the features will be improved screen or improved speed - hopefully we will see both.
Vodafone has launched a dedicated iPhone portal allowing iPhone users to drag and drop news and feature rich widgets to create their own bespoke page. But the main news in this might lie between the lines, as perhaps the next generation iPhone expected this summer will not be with O2.
With Apple cleaning the market for 8gb NAND flash memory the rumors of memory upgrades to an 32gb iPhone being just around the corner increases, with the expected release date to be at the developers conference in June. A memory upgrade would also support rumors of improved camera and video recording.
If the latest rumors are true there will be plenty to look forward to for iPhone fans in the coming months, including a possible price cut on the iPhone 3G from O2 in the UK, as move that could be considered preparation for the next generation iPhone by clearing stocks of the current iPhone 3G.
It is amazing how much news time such a simple story can get, and i’m of course talking about Bill Gates banning the iPhone and iPod from his household, as the Microsoft guru continues the cold war against Apple.
The fight between Microsoft and Apple has been ongoing for decades now, with Apple taking some important […]
As the Apple and the iPhone 3G is enjoying success across the rest of the world the mobile savvy Japanese market are not warming up to the iPhone. We have looked into why the Japanese market is proving a difficult market for the iPhone and why it probably comes as no surprise to Apple themselves.
If you own an iPhone 3G and live in the UK you might actually be among the majority when it comes to a single phone as O2 reports having sold 1 million iPhone 3G’s since the launch last year, achieving the milestone in less than 6 months and proving record results for the parent company Telefonica Europe.
It turns out that the exclusive iPhone deal with Apple has turned out to be a goldmine for O2 and its parent company Telefonica as the results for 2008 shows increase in sales of 10.6% despite the economy turning sour in the last few months of the year.
While the release of a new or upgraded iPod tends to happen in the later half of the year, often around September time, Apple has tended to go for a mid year cycle for the iPhone, with the 3G iPhone turning 1 in July. The latest rumor hinting at new or upgraded iPhone this summer concerns Apple buying large quantities of flash memory.
Apple’s clear policy of offering the iPhone through just one distributor in each country might be changing following a ruling in France last year and with Apple signing a new agreement with a second Norwegian operator, Telenor, for the Scandinavian market.
Following our earlier post about the expected launch of the new 3G iPhone, we have come across some more news and features we thought we would share with the rest of you.
Several articles are reporting on the expected launch of the new 3G iPhone from Apple on monday the 9th of June, and a few […]
