China Unicom to offer amnesty to jailbroken grey market iPhone owners
China Unicom will start selling iPhones in China already next week. And it has already made them available for pre-order since the beginning of October.
But, at prices ranging from $730 for Wi-Fi less iPhone 3g 8GB, to $1000+ for an iPhone 3Gs 32GB, unsubsidized, it does not seem that China Unicom was happy [...]
China Unicom to launch iPhone on Oct. 15th. $293 for 8G, $439 for 16G on a 2 year, $27 a month contract
The talk about when Apple’s iPhone is getting into to China has been going on almost since the day of the launch.
And last month Apple finally managed to clinch the deal with one of the smaller (for China) operators, to start selling it. But no shipping date or price info has been [...]
Apple’s device abuse detection system and the stupid exploding iPod story
An interesting Apple patent became public today on USPTO website.
It’s called “Consumer abuse detection system and method” and is meant to help Apple service reps to see whether the broken device you brought in was your fault or Apple’s.
To do that, Apple proposes placing a number of sensors that can detect liquid, thermal [...]
Next in your iPhone OS: live object identification, face recognition, text filtering, smarter messaging, voice alteration
Apple guys do keep themselves busy thinking up new ways how to improve their iPhone OS software. And Apple’s patent applications give us a glimpse of how they may go about it.
Last we told you about event based modes, intelligent and scheduled communications that could come with your new iPhone 4.0 [...]
iPhone 4.0 OS: event based modes, intellingent and scheduled communications
Now that with 3.0 OS iPhone has basically caught up with the traditional smartphones in functionality, it may be time to look how Apple can make the next generation devices even smarter.
We’ve already seen some of the things, like integration between Mapping and Calendar app in recent Apple patent filings. Some new patent [...]
Russian operators unable to sell iPhone. May be liable for $1 billion in fines to Apple
Russian mobile and business sites have been abuzz about state of the iPhone in Russia these past few weeks. Turns out the Apple phone is not too hot over there.
But that is not the biggest problem.
The worst part is that swayed by the lure of iPhone 3G last fall, Russian mobile operators [...]
Apple is thinking about having water exposure detector in iPhone
What is one of a pretty frequent reasons for your shiny new iPhone, or any mobile phone for that matter, to go bad?
I’d say spilling a coffee on it, or dropping it into a water somewhere. We all know that water is bad for electronics, but this sh$#& happens quite often.
Then, we may try to [...]
Homade’s ChocoCase for first-gen iPhone
We know the iPhone is already pretty delectable without having to put it in a fake jacket that looks like chocolate, and I for one wouldn’t even think of buying something like this, unless I am giving much more importance to protection than style.
Made from regular silicone, the ChocoCase from Homade sure can protect your [...]
T-Mobile Sues Starbucks Over Wi-Fi iPhone Deal
T-Mobile USA has decided to step forward and press charges against Starbucks, the internationally infamous coffee and coffeehouse chain, claiming that they secretly colluded with AT&T to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access in its cafes.
The problem with this is that T-Mobile and Starbucks had already made an exclusive agreement for this matter, with T-Mobile already [...]
Softbank Get iPhone in Japan
The SoftBank Mobile Corporation announced earlier today that they have signed an agreement with Apple that involves bringing the iPhone to Japan later this year.
We already discussed the past rumor of DoCoMo bringing the iPhone to Japan and most of us thought this was a sure thing, but with this announcement there are sure to [...]