Archive for November, 2007
Research says Apple’s iPhone pricing keeping UK buyers away
A study from London-based market research company GfK NOP is indicating that Apple’s iPhone is not going to be picked up by British consumers this holiday season because of the mobile phone’s steep price.
According to the research, awareness of the brand is not the problem as 75 of UK’s population has heard of the [...]
A half dozen fun undocumented iPhone preferences
Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, Hacks, How-tos, iPhone
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Not all preferences appear in your iPhone Settings application. As I discussed rather thoroughly in my Modding Mac OS X book, it’s not that hard to dig through applications and discover undocumented–or in this case unpromoted–preferences that add spice to your Mac [...]
Inc.com: iPhone is “next major computing device”
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone
Zach Nelson at Inc.com has seen the future of computing, and it is the iPhone. He writes:
“Some people use it to play music. Others marvel at the photo-browsing interface, and some of its users just want to look cool. I don’t care about any of those things when I look [...]
iPhone ads c’est bon, non? French spots now online
Filed under: iPhone
Reader Guglielmo sent word that the first four French iPhone ads hit the airwaves today (also viewable at apple.com/fr in a wide selection of resolutions). The ads end with the tag screen of a November 29th on-sale date for the French model.
Unfortunately I don’t speak French, so I can’t comment on the ad [...]
New update hindering iPod functions on Xbox 360?
Word has it that Apple’s recent software update has just axed iPod functionality with Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and iPod Nano owners claim that they cannot use their Apple gadget with Microsoft’s next-gen console. However, iPod Touch owners claimed that such functionality never existed.
Whatever the true issue is, the few complainants have found that iPod playback [...]
NCIS features an oddly full-featured iPhone
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone
People on TV really are different from you and me. Already we know that with the power of bionic hearing, they can use their iPhones upside-down; now apparently they’ve got special iPhones with mil-spec video capabilities as well. Evidence: last week’s “Designated Target” episode of CBS’s NCIS. You can watch [...]
How much is your iPhone contract worth to Apple?
Filed under: Apple Financial, iPhone
How much is your iPhone contract worth to Apple? Today, we got a concrete answer. It’s worth €600. According to MacRumors, Deutsche Telekom will start selling an unlocked iPhone for €999 as well as the locked €399 version that comes with a two year contract. For those who don’t want to [...]
gpSPhone updates: bigger screen, beta testing v0.1.5
Homebrew developer ZodTTD has announced some of the changes he has in store for the gpSPhone v0.1.5 as well as an offer for those who want to beta test the iPhone application. For those who missed our previous coverage on this application, this emulator allows users to play GBA games on their iPhones.
According to ZodTTD, [...]
