Daily Interesting iPhone News
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Korea is often seen as a golden land for mobile gaming, thanks to the profitability of its publishers such as Gamevil and Com2uS, who have been expanding fast thanks to iPhone and Android.
Read More www.pocketgamer.biz
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 4G has been popping up all over the place with specs and features and even device colors. One of the key features that we’re hoping to see in the new iPhone is the presence of video calling even if India won’t see that technology for awhile.
Read More tech2.in.com
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
We already knew it was hours if not minutes away – see TechCrunch US report – and it’s perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year’s day).
Yes folks, the official Twitter app for iPhone is here, you know the one expected based on Tweetie ever since Twitter bought the company.
Read More eu.techcrunch.com
European Union police forces broke up a counterfeiting ring run by the Naples mafia that specialized in importing and distributing fake Chinese-made iPhones, Italy’s Finance Police said.
The EU’s Europol is coordinating arrests in 11 countries, including Italy, where nine people are sought, the police said in an e-mailed statement today.
Read More www.sfgate.com
Apple Inc. was the #7 manufacturer of handsets in the global market in the March quarter, the first time the company has ranked in the Top Ten, according to new data from Gartner Research. The firm also showed that iPhone OS devices ranked as #3 in worldwide smartphone sales during the quarter.
Read More www.macobserver.com
Apple Inc.‘s shares got a lift Monday after Morgan Stanley laid out what it called a “bull case” for the popular maker of consumer electronics goods—saying the stock could be worth $400 a share under that scenario.
Read More online.wsj.com
Since the 1980’s, Apple’s financial bread and butter was the Macintosh—really, the company’s only major source of revenue. Since 2001, when the iPod was introduced, the iPod and iTunes Store have turned into asecond significant revenue stream for the company.
Read More 9to5mac.com
The popularity of the iPhone doesn’t show signs of subsiding in Korea, with its sales surpassing 700,000 units as of May 22, just six months since its launch here, reports the Korea Herald. It took 27 days for KT to increase its iPhone subscribers from 500,000 to 600,000, while it took only 25 days to add another 100,000 subscribers.
Read More www.macsimumnews.com
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will give the June 7 keynote address at the company’s developer conference, scheduled to run June 7-11 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. While details will likely be kept under wraps before the actual speech, rumors suggest that Jobs could use the platform to announce the next-generation iPhone, dubbed “iPhone 4G” by the media, and outline a release strategy.
Read More www.eweek.com
Friday, May 21, 2010
Will the iPhone come out for Verizon Wireless? It’s the question that so many of the service’s subscribers would like to see answered definitively. This news story, unfortunately, won’t do that. What it will do, however, is fan the flames of the rumor fire. The latest is that the phone would work with Voice Over Revision A.
Read More www.mobilecrunch.com
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Photos of new iPhone third-party protective cases show accessories that were designed to meet the physical form factor of Apple’s prototype fourth-generation handset.
As first discovered by HardMac, the cases from China feature the same rounded corners found in two prototype iPhones that leaked to the public. The back of the case features a larger space for both the camera and accompanying flash, and the side features holes for two rounded volume buttons.

Read More www.appleinsider.com
Future iPhones could present advertisements or discount coupons to users based on their current location or activity, through a variety of methods including RFID, in order to increase the effectiveness of the promotion.
Apple’s description of a superior advertising technique is described in a patent application revealed this week, entitled “System and method for providing contextual advertisements according to a dynamic pricing scheme.
Read More www.appleinsider.com
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Hindustan Times has extended its mobile phone presence beyond its mobile website, available at Hindustantimes.com. The English print daily has developed a dedicated mobile application for Apple iPhone, through which it will offer news content to iPhone users.
Read More www.afaqs.com
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
At this point in the game I’m pretty much bored with the whole iPhone HD leak meme. In a twisted way, the run up to Apple launches was a lot of fun. There was endless speculation but no real data and all of a sudden a guy in a turtleneck and jeans pops out and, like Mephisto, springs something new on the world. Let the rest of the CE manufacturers leak like sieves. I want my dance of the seven veils, damn it!
Read More www.crunchgear.com
Foxconn will ship 24 million units of Apple’s latest iPhone 4G with shipments starting in June, according to Digitimes senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers.
Foxconn will ship 4.5 million units in the first half and 19.5 million units for the rest of 2010. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 4G on June 7, 2010 during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Read More www.digitimes.com
Monday, May 17, 2010
A new mobile phone app which allows individuals to make credit card payments has been officially launched.
Retailers can download ‘Square’ and then plug a small plastic tube into the headphone jack of an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Android phone in order to swipe their cards.
Read More www.compareandsave.com
Apple doesn’t just make tablets, you know. No! It makes phones, too!
We know the iPhone’s on an annual upgrade cycle, so a new one is due by the summer - and that means it could be announced as early as next week.
Read More www.techradar.com
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Just in time for those summer vacations, Navigon has dropped the price of the full North American version to U.S. $49.99. That’s a 30 dollar savings.
Read More www.tuaw.com
The April 20 meeting, detailed in an affidavit unsealed Friday, resulted in the well-publicized search three days later of the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen. The tech journalist published the photos April 19, and Gizmodo acknowledged paying the man who found the prototype $5,000.
Read More www.informationweek.com
Friday, May 14, 2010
BMW Motorsport have released a free iPhone App to help you follow their team’s progress at this weekend’s Nürburgring 24 hour race.
You can get the latest news, images and even video direct to your mobile phone.

Read More www.ausringers.com