Archive for January, 2008
Behold! A Digital Camera From the Future
When Casio demonstrated the camera at CES, the gadget press “oooh’ed” and “aaah’ed” about the camera’s high-speed image capture, but nobody seemed to realize that the EX-F1 isn’t just some prosumer camera with a parlor trick, but technology that represents the FUTURE OF ALL CAMERAS! The EX-F1 is the…
iJailbreak Mobile: Jailbreak firmware 1.1.3 directly from your iPhone
The same geniuses who brought you the iJailbreak solution for Apple’s latest iPhone and iPod Touch 1.1.3 firmware have gone that additional mile of tweaking and created iJailbreak Mobile: now you can enable unofficial third-party software on your cellphone or PMP without even needing to use yo…
Apple purposefully “cannibalizing” iPhone sales to push iPod Touch
Here in the UK it’s not strange for the iPod Touch to be described as “all the best bits of the iPhone” with the less-successful parts (the non-3G phone, the relatively-poor camera, and of course the carrier lock) omitted; Needham & Co analyst Charlie Wolf is willing to go one…
O2 update UK iPhone tariffs: three times the calls & SMS
UK Apple partner O2, who hold the exclusivity contract on the British version of the iPhone, have today announced a refresh of their iPhone-specific monthly tariffs that could see users with up to three times the amount of included voice minutes and SMS text messages as before. While the two entr…
Deutsche Telekom Signed Up 70,000 iPhone Customers
It appears that Germans are just as interested in Apple Incorporated’s iPhone as American customers. German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) said that it had signed up 70,000 iPhone customers in the 11 weeks since November 9, 2007. Deutsche Telekom’s mobile telephony arm T-Mobile is …
iPhone numbers confusion deepens: estimated 1m unlocked
The search for the missing iPhones continues, with analyst Tony Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research throwing more numbers around in what at least partly looks like an attempt to justify his ongoing warmth toward Apple stock. Sacconaghi suggests that a whopping 27-percent of the iPhones sold in 2007 h…
Apple Russia caught up in PR nightmare
In a turn of events that nearly seems too weird to be true, Russian journalist and 14-year Mac user Alex Patsay has written an open letter to Apple PR following what sounds to be a disastrous launch event in Moscow. According to Patsay, Apple has added a 75-percent markup on iPods in Russia - taki…
