Qik video streaming coming to the iPhone

June 12th, 2008

Qik is coming to the iPhone! Soon!
Yes, the video streaming app for cellphones will soon be available on the iPhone. It’s the “full Qik experience” so many of you use to bore your friends across the country.
via Kevin Rose’s Twitter

Hop-on tries ‘crazy guy in prison’ tactic with 3G phone

June 12th, 2008

They say that if you go to prison, the best thing you can do is to act crazy your first day and punch the biggest, baddest looking dude you can find. Seems Hop-on (you remember Hop-on, right?) is trying the same technique by pitting its $125 HOP1809 3g handset against the new iPhone. Good for [...]

Apple considering selling iPhone 3G at college campuses

June 12th, 2008

Looks like Apple is considering selling the iPhone 3G at top universities throughout the country. The move would be the first by Apple to expand sales of the iPhone outside its own retail stores and AT&T’s; it’d be limited to schools where it already has a significant account and presence.
Apple had thought about expanding [...]

People buy iPhone not because it’s a great phone, but for all that mobile broadband fun

June 12th, 2008

Wait, so people buy the iPhone not for the phone, but for the other goodies? I never knew!
An analyst at J Arnold & Associates, based in Toronto, says people buy the iPhone not as a phone, per se, but as a mobile broadband platform. Still, the same guy says RIM doesn’t really have anything to [...]

BlackBerry Bold appears on AT&T site, let the drooling commence

June 11th, 2008

The connection in my hotel here in Berlin is slow as molasses or FF is being weird, so my apologies for the strange screen cap.
While everyone else is frothing over the iPhone 3G, I’m patiently waiting for the Bold to hit the streets. AT&T now has it up on their site, so jump on over [...]

Samsung Instinct to cost $200

June 11th, 2008

Phonenews has the scoop on the Instinct’s pricing and that $200 price tag definitely competes against the 8GB iPhone 3G. It has a retail price of $449, but you can obtain a $150 with a 2-year plan and just to sweeten the deal, Sprint is adding on another $100 MIR just for the Instinct. Just [...]

Griffin prepped for iPhone 3G with four cases, more to come

June 11th, 2008

They might not be new in the product line, but Griffin is prepared with redesigns of their popular Wave, Nu Form, Elan Form and Elan Clip cases for the iPhone 3G. All cases are priced at $24.99 except the Elan Form, which is priced at $29.99. All cases will be available on the Griffin site [...]

Riddle me this: TomTom hints at GPS app for iPhone

June 10th, 2008

See if you can make sense of this quote from a TomTom spokesperson:

Our navigation system runs on the iPhone already.

Does that mean TomTom has an application in development for the iPhone App Store? If so, when will it be released? If not, then what exactly was TomTom talking about? My guess, that TomTom didn’t want [...]

The iPhone 3G’s FCC filing hits the web

June 10th, 2008

If you’re not iPhone 3G fatigued, as I know I am, then you might want to have a gander at the recently unveiled official FCC filing of the new iPhone.
There’s nothing there that we hadn’t seen before, but many of you love FCC and patent filings. That is because you’re nerds, and we’re okay with [...]

Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, will be light on new features

June 10th, 2008

Somewhat lost in the iPhone 3G hype/madness yesterday was Apple’s announcement of the next version of Mac OS X, to be called Snow Leopard. The big news: rather than promise wiz-bang new features along the lines of Spotlight or Time Machine, Apple says it will focus on “enhanc[ing] the performance” of the operating system. Says [...]

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