$99 iPhone in the wings?
Jason D. O'Grady: Engadget and Boy Genius Report are both quoting sources with knowledge of a $99 iPhone. BGR claims to have nabbed a copy of fido’s 2009 handset roadmap which contains an interesting slide that lists features of the $99/4GB iPhone: Quadband GSM HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 2.0MP Camera 4GB Internal Memory Touch Screen Video Calling (iChat) Email and Messaging Notice that Wi-Fi [...]
Mon Jun 01 22:47:07 PDT 2009
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Mon Jun 01 22:47:07 PDT 2009
Forbes: No new iPhone chip next week
Jason D. O'Grady: Although Apple is widely believed to announce a third-generation iPhone handset at WWDC with up to 32GB RAM and a 3.2MP camera with video recording capabilities, Forbes thinks that it’s too soon to see the fruits of last year’s acquisition of chipmaker P.A. Semi in the new iPhone. Instead, mobile industry analysts say Apple will most [...]
Mon Jun 01 10:44:19 PDT 2009
Screenshot: Apple to charge for re-downloading apps
Jason D. O'Grady: The iPhone Blog reports that the iPhone 3.0 beta firmware may close a loophole known as “account sharing.” The practice allows one App Store account holder to share their login information with another user so that the second user can freely re-download apps purchased by the original user to a second iPhone. With the new 3.0 [...]
Sun May 31 21:08:49 PDT 2009
New iPhone 3G screenshots show camera and compass interfaces
Jason D. O'Grady: New screenshots have emerged that purport to show some of the new hardware features rumored to be coming in the third-generation iPhone hardware — widely expected to be announced at WWDC on 8 June 2009. The first shots (below) show the difference between the 2MP camera in the current iPhone (left) compared to the same shot [...]
Sun May 31 20:37:31 PDT 2009
Is PIV card support coming to the iPhone?
David Morgenstern: One question that looks for an answer at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), starting a week from Monday, is whether the iPhone 3.0 software update will support PIV card authentication and who will provide that support.
Sun May 31 14:15:30 PDT 2009
Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shots
Jason D. O'Grady: An AppleInsider reader located an annotated Flickr album of four dozen Snow Leopard screenshots he published a bit earlier in the week. Some of his observations: Initial setup now warns you if you don’t choose a password hint. Time Machine menu bar icon is now grayed-out if Time Machine is not configured. Clean Up icons [...]
Fri May 29 12:01:15 PDT 2009
Hands-on: Verizon Wireless HP Mini 1151NR netbook (Updated)
Jason D. O'Grady: First scooped in February then confirmed in March Verizon Wireless? first netbook ? the HP Mini 1151NR ? began shipping on 17 May 2009 (the same day as VZW’s MiFi personal hotspot). Priced at $199 with a 2-year contract (after MIR) the 1151NR’s price is subsidized by monthly data fees are either $40 or $60 per [...]
Fri May 29 10:26:34 PDT 2009
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