It seems as though I’m going to be a couple months behind, but I have to talk about the Apple iPhone. Everyone on the net is talking about it, so why shouldn’t I?

First off, I want to say that the iPhone is pretty cool, but I personally am not interested. Yah, I’ve said it, I’m not interested in it. Maybe if I owned my own iPod, then I might toot a different story, but I don’t think that would even change my opinion.

read it here t1resource.blogspot

The UK officially loves music phones. According to figures produced by M: Metrics, 40 per cent of UK mobile phone users own a music phone. Relative to the rest of Europe and the US, the UK also downloads the most music specifically for listening to on our phones. Unsurprisingly, Sony Ericsson handsets make up five of the top ten most popular music phones in the UK, with the W850i topping the charts.

read it here cnet.co.uk

Apple Inc. may find it hard to ignore a new dual-strategy mobile phone initiative from Sprint Nextel that promises over-the-air music downloads to a new Samsung phone for 99 cents a piece.
The nation’s third largest wireless carrier said Monday it plans to begin offering customers a new phone from Samsung with a revolutionary form factor that optimizes music capabilities with the look of a phone on one side and an MP3 player on the other.

read it here appleinsider

It says something about the state of the cell phone industry that the product looming largest over the annual wireless show doesn’t even exist yet. Never mind that it’s coming from a company that’s never even made a cell phone.

read it here nwsource

AOL is set to launch a new mobile product next week that will allow users to connect to their PC-based music collections from their mobile phones. An extension of the hardly noticed Winamp Remote PC-to-PC media streaming service that launched earlier, the PC-to-mobile service, in effect, turns a mobile phone into a MP3 player.

read it here webpronews

Very well done!

get them here iconfactory

Redecorate your digital environment to give you that sweet iPhone feeling with these iPhonica icons! Inspired by the iPhone, this set includes icons for music, work, hardware and of course your favourite game, World of
Warcraft.

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Watch the images all the way down. Indeed this is not the normal behaviour that you would want to have from your iPhone.
Maybe I should watch the original keynote again to hunt for the second one!

Hopefully the phone will be very easy to patch and update like the big brother OSX version (of Leopard very soon). Will the update feature be the same? Can you update it when you connect to a WIFI Internet network?
Most probably.
Can you have a free WIFI update in the Apple Stores? Maybe, that would be a good idea for Apple to offer this service.
I think all depends on where the Operating System will be stored. If it is stored on a kind of ROM ship then it impossible. If it is a Flash ROM it is already better. Or the combination of course.

Anyway this is going to be a big issue, because they have an almost full OS on it running and we all know that the more lines of code, the more bugs are likely to surface.

Robin.

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David Janazzo, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, yesterday raised his price target on AT&T (T) to $41 from $39, asserting that “the AT&T story in 2007 will shift to the top line after the mergers and cost cuts of 2006.” He adds that “multiple expansion could result from a stable to improving revenue environment.”

read it here seekingalpha

It can be easy to forget how bleak things honestly were for Apple during the years in between the Newton launch and the release of the iMac, in part because things are so damn good these days. Best Buy just announced how excited it was to have the exclusive rights for two weeks to sell the Apple TV. Which would be great, if Apple weren’t excluding their own stores from this deal. Oh, and if Apple were providing more than 3,000 TOTAL Apple TVs to Best Buy’s 822 stores.

read it here wired