SIM Card Tray for Next-Gen iPhone Found
Normally a SIM card tray isn’t a very huge deal. It houses SIM cards, so who could care about something as insignificant about that? Rumor chasers, that’s who could care. And they certainly do.
Spotted in the wild, we have photographic evidence of some kind of SIM card tray, quite possibly for a next-gen iPhone or [...]
Telus Launching HSPA Nov 5; iPhone is on the List
When we last mentioned that Telus would be upgrading its network to a full HSPA+ spread in November, we had no idea when exactly during the month we would see it. Finally we know.
The magic date is November 5. This particular day will welcome not only the new network but several handsets to support that [...]
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 [...]
AT&T Posts Q3 Numbers; Admits Possibility of Losing iPhone Exclusivity
To many who have been around AT&T a while, there was a giant nugget of surprise during today’s call announcing the company’s Q3 2009 finances.
CEO of AT&T Mobility Ralph de la Vega admitted that there is always a possibility AT&T will lose iPhone exclusivity sometime in the near future, though he also is confident that [...]
Nokia sues Apple, claims iPhone infringes 10 of its patents
In a surprising announcement, today Nokia said that it has sued Apple for infringing no less than ten patents “for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.”
The patents cover speech coding, wireless data, encryption and security, and Nokia claims that they’re infringed by all of Apple’s iPhones – starting with the 2.5G model launched in [...]
Verizon LTE iPhone Rumored To Be in Testing Phase?
Ready for another Apple rumor? It’s easy to imagine that Apple has more rumors floating around about its R&D projects than any other company on the planet. As I post this, there are rumors floating around about an iTablet, new iMacs, Mac Mini, iPhone Nano, a new FM iPhone app, not to mention countless patents [...]
Bell’s HSPA November Lineup Leaked
No, it’s not your imagination. It’s true that Bell has been a prominent figure in the phone news as of late. They’ve got some crazy stuff going on — most good, some bad. Fortunately we have more news on the good end of the stick.
BGR has leaked the new lineup that’s supposed to start off [...]
In-App Purchases Now Available to Free iPhone Apps
A brief iPhone history lesson, if you will: with the release of OS 3.0 there was much rejoicing from devs who were interested in enabling in-app purchases. In other words, you’d be able to purchase subscriptions, extra game weapons, unlock new songs/levels, and so on and so forth.
But there was one restriction placed on these [...]
China Unicom to start selling iPhones on October 30
China Unicom, the second largest Chinese mobile carrier, has finally announced the exact release date of its iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS: October 30.
The operator will offer the iPhone in mainland China with a 2-yr contract agreement, as well as free of contract.
While the official contract prices were not announced (these are the rumored ones), [...]
Apple working on radio app with iTunes support
While shipping new iPhone 3GS’ that can’t be jailbroken, Apple is also busy developing its own radio app for iPhone and iPod touch.
9to5Mac has it that the upcoming radio app should have the same functionality as the FM radio included in Apple’s new iPod nano (unveiled in September).
Apple also wants to integrate iTunes purchases into [...]