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 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.

As the UK prepares for the launch of the iPhone on Orange and Vodafone, we have looked at the wider impact. Is a price war coming on the iPhone or is the true winners the mobile networks and Apple themselves? We have looked at the pros and cons of the latest deals.

As iPhone users we are probably getting accustomed to nothing coming for free from Apple, and the next is Apple offering pre-made ringtones through iTunes, charging for them of course. Luckily there are still ways around this issue, although it would be nice of Apple to make thigns easier.

More rumors have surfaced that T-Mobile is offering the iPhone 3G to its top spending UK customers to stop them from leaving. Is this the start of the end to exclusive iPhone deals? Hopefully it is and that we will soon see the current and new iPhones across multiple networks.

Apple delivered above street expectations for Q3 thanks to strong sales of the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and also of the iPod Touch despite overall decline in iPod sales year on year of 7 percent. Over 5.2 million iPhones were sold for the quarter, a massive year on year increase.

With rumors of T-Mobile getting a deal on the iPhone 3G in the UK and the US Senate challenging the exclusive deal between AT&T and Apple we could be closer to a breakdown the the iPhone exclusive mobile network deals in two of the main markets, the US and the UK, finally!

Reports are starting to come in that the new iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade is draining the battery life of your iPhone 3G, making a lot of iPhone 3G owners charge their phones every day, and with heavy use more than once a day. Have you experience similar problems after upgrading?

Personalizing your iPhone with your own created iPhone ringtones have now become easier and FREE thanks to functionality in iTunes 8. Having just upgraded to the new iPhone 3GS i tested this myself, so here is the step by step guide to creating free iPhone ringtones in iTunes 8.

While over 6 million iPhone 3G owners have upgraded to the new iPhone OS 3.0 it has not struck the same cord with iPod Touch owners as sources report that less than 1% of iPod Touch owners have upgraded so far. We have looked at reasons why, and our own experience with upgrading the iPod Touch.

Most of us are now familiar with the main features of the new iPhone OS 3.0, such as copy and paste. But there are many other hidden features that can help you in the day to day use of your iPhone or iPod Touch. Read more to see the list of some of the additional features we have found useful.

It has been revealed that there are ways to get around the expensive tethering bolt on from the networks for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S running OS 3.0 and it does not require hacking your iPhone. If you want to get around the high charges from O2 and AT&T on the tethering bolt-on, read this.

It has been a few months since we wrote about the great new features brought by the new iPhone OS 3.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and today the upgrade is finally available to download through iTunes, and i’m even going to upgrade my iPod Touch despite the charge.

The new iPhone OS 3.0 will bring improved auto-login and connection panel for WiFi to the iPod Touch and iPhone when it is released this summer. This will make it easier for all of us that are regularly using public Wifi connections, such as hotspots, to get quicker access to the internet.

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.

Sennheiser seldom dissapoints when it comes to headphones, and the new Sennheiser MM50iP with integrated microphone is no exception, as they deliver Sennheiser quality sound and comfort in a very stylish little package. The addition of the integrated microphone also makes them the perfect companion for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

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.
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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.

This is the second part of our look into the evolving business model of the iPhone and iPod Touch Apps were we cover the latest usage trends of iPhone apps and discuss one new application that could potentially represent a change in the distribution model of digital music.

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.

The french competition regulators have passed a historical ruling saying that Apple has to offer their iPhone 3G to other mobile operators than just Orange which had the exclusive rights. Now the question is, will the UK follow the french and open the iPhone market?

The iPhone proves extremely popular as it overtakes Motorola Razr as top handset in US according to recent sales figures posted by Los Angeles Times. We are currently trying to find similar sales information for the UK as well.