A lot of people do their holiday shopping online nowadays. That’s a potential problem for Apple though, whose hottest item, the iPhone 3G, isn’t technically sold through its online store (you have to go into a physical store to get it). Enter the iPhone 3G Gift Card. The card, which comes in a kind of shimmering black color with a red ribbon drawn around one corner for the holidays, allows the buyer to place any amount from $25 to $2,500 on the card. Of course, the iPhone 3G itself will only cost you $199 or $299 depending on which version...
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage The dev team has released PwnageTool and QuickPwn for iPhones and first generation iPod Touch devices that want to upgrade to firmware 2.2. Important: If you have a 3G iPhone and you want to unlock it in the near future, you cannot use QuickPwn and must use PwnageTool (currently available for Mac users only). As the dev team explained yesterday, the 2.2 update for the 3G iPhone also upgraded the baseband. In order to achieve a jailbreak and keep future soft-unlock options available, you must use PwnageTool to create a custom .ipsw file that...
You got one of those fancy new iPhone 3Gs and find you keep running out of juice? Apple's decision to keep the iPhone battery safely tucked away in the inaccessible innards of the phone keeps you looking for a power outlet toward the end of the day? This decision may not be popular but it's opened up the external battery market to those enterprising companies looking to make a buck to keep you all juiced up and we bring you a deathmatch between two of the popular solutions available. The Mophie Juice Pack 3G is the brand new version...
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Microsoft has positioned Windows Mobile quite nicely in the enterprise but it seems these days that the buzz is in the consumer space. Apple's recent revelations that they've sold 6.8 million iPhone 3Gs in a quarter and the release of the first Android phone have moved the attention squarely into the consumer space. In a recent interview by Techradar the business lead for Microsoft Windows in the UK, John Curran, stated that Microsoft isn't worried about either competitor. Placing Android and Apple in order in the remaining three rivals is "a tough call", he continues. "One's an emerging one,...
-- AT&T says it activated 2.4 million iPhone 3Gs in the last quarter, and a big chunk of those were for new subscribers. Silicon Alley Insider -- Will it see competition from T-Mobile's Android phone, which goes on sale today? About 150 people were in line waiting to buy it in San Francisco last night. Wired -- Metaplace, which lets people design their own virtual worlds, raises a round of venture funding. Because soon, we'll all need to escape into virtual worlds. Venture Beat -- EBay says it will halt the sale of ivory on its website. Elephants rejoice! LAT...
If Apple (AAPL), as CEO Steve Jobs said yesterday, is now the world’s third largest mobile phone supplier in terms of revenue, what does that mean for AT&T (T), the exclusive carrier of Apple’s sole mobile phone in the states? Largely good things, according to the company’s third quarter results. The company activated some 2.4 million iPhone 3Gs in the quarter, with about 40% of them going to new customers. Unfortunately, these robust sales actually tempered earnings growth because AT&T is so heavily subsidizing the device’s upfront purchase cost. AT&T posted earnings of $3.2 billion, or 55 cents per share,...
Not surprisingly for AT&T, the iPhone 3G is a strong part of their quarterly earnings report. Off the top they added two million net subscribers, ballooning to nearly 75 million total, and it looks like the iPhone 3G played a solid part in landing them. Of the 2.4 million iPhone 3Gs activated last quarter, 40 percent were to new AT&T customers (which, doing the math, shows that nearly two-thirds of iPhones are sold outside of the US now). Interestingly, selling so many and subsidizing them so hard actually cost AT&T $900 million this quarter. Oh, and AT&T is still the...
You know, as much as we aren’t fan of Wal-Mart, we understand that it helps get products out to the masses. The latest rumor has Wal-Mart selling the iPhone 3G during the lead-up to this years Black Friday. This would make Wal-Mart the second big box retailer in the US to carry the iPhone, with the first being Best Buy. As is the policy with Best Buy, AT&T, and the Apple Store, we’d expect that you would have to activate the iPhone at Wal-mart. If this rumor proves true, we expect a lot more iPhone 3Gs to be sold...
