I wonder if AT&T and Apple maybe haven’t quite worked out the kinks in this new system yet, or if this is simply an example of bad communication, but the information we got about the new iPhone at yesterday’s WWDC keynote left us with more questions than answers.
Here are some questions I have:
Upgrades and [...]
I’ve been reading the coverage of the iPhone 3G, and as I was browsing the Apple site and reading the AT&T press release, I noticed that there was no mention of any online sales (but then, why am I surprised, I already predicted this yesterday…)
If AT&T is going to subsidize the phone, then they will [...]
Looks like today’s 1.1.1 release of the iPhone firmware is creating a mess for both unlocked and regular iPhones.
Here is what happened to Jonathan Seff of iPhone Central:
I decided to try the 1.1.1 iPhone update on my unlocked and hacked phone. The process went along just fine until the iPhone restarted. Then I got a [...]
Apple has outlined the system for getting back $100 of that iPhone you bought before the price drop.
Simply head to Apple’s website, enter your phone number and serial number – and in short time, an SMS will appear in your mailbox with a code for a $100 Apple Store credit.
Looks like there is no iTunes [...]
We all knew it would just be a matter of time, but these guys from the iPhone Dev Team (they don’t want to be linked to, so this is a link to Engadget instead) have really outdone themselves by unlocking the iPhone in just 74 days.
Engadget is mirroring the app:
To pull this off you’ll need iUnlock [...]
I see a lot of people are citing a study by Compete.com that purports to give us some data about what prices people are willing to pay for an iPhone.
Adario Strange on the Wired blog concludes the following from those numbers:
-8 percent of consumers would be willing to pay for the iPhone at its original price [...]
The iPhone developer wiki announced that a new hack allows the iPhone to work with prepaid cards, specifically, those bought at 7-11s:
Update: we got confirmation that prepaid cards using the AT&T network worked. At least it has been confirmed for 7-11 cards
We wanted to get some confirmations before announcing it, but it seems nearly [...]
After a flurry of rumors about what company was going to get the exclusive iPhone deal for what part of Europe, O2 today denied having signed any papers yet. Only seems to be a question of time, though:
The portion of network revenues demanded by Apple is believed to have been behind Vodafone’s decision not to [...]
Walt Mossberg loves the phone, but hates the network.
David Pogue loves most of the phone (and Google Maps with free traffic updates on it), but hates the network.
And it looks as if the battery charge is almost as good as Apple promised:
Apple says one battery charge is enough for 8 hours of calls, 7 hours [...]
Update: In the comments, Fleishman explains that he did not intend his article to be a review but that the New York post labeled it is such.
The New York Post’s Glenn Fleishman pretends to be the first “journalist” reviewing the iPhone:
The iPhone crams so many different features into its slightly bulky form that it [...]
Apple just published a 20min video giving an overview over the iPhone and its features. Just a shame that the guy narrating it has a somewhat annoying way of not moving his eyebrows and not trying to blink.
Some nice details:
Contact list doesn’t just have to be flicked up or down, there is an alphabet on [...]
It is standard business in the mobile phone industry to subsidize phones and then locking in consumers for one- or two-year contracts. The idea is that the phones are cheaper and the company makes its money back over time. If the consumer wants to cancel the contract earlier, an termination fee applies to make up [...]
I remain surprised about how much we don’t know about the iPhone even just a week before its launch.
To help us all out,Lepton has written up a list of fifty features that are/might/could be part of the deal when you buy your iPhone next Friday.
One thing I especially wonder about is how the iPhone handles [...]
Josh Bancroft today has some interesting observations about why he thinks there is no iPhone SDK and why it infuriates developers so much:
Members of the Apple Developer program could buy an Intel-based development kit MONTHS before the first Intel Mac was available at retail. As soon as the switch to Intel was announced, in fact. [...]
