KT Corp., Apple’s official iPhone carrier in South Korea, announced that an estimated 60,000 iPhones were sold on its first day of sale in the country. The 60,000 iPhones sold in one day already represents 15 per cent of the 400,000 smartphones sold in South Korea in the third quarter of 2009. In the meantime, China [...]
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iPhone carrier news
Dec 12
In a previous post I mentioned that Apple has been given the go-signal by Korean communication regulators to sell the iPhone in South Korea but no set date was made yet. A few days later, it was officially announced that the iPhone will be released on November 28th. Last Saturday’s launch of the iPhone in South [...]
Globe Telecom iPhone plans update: iPhone pricing now more reasonable under G-Plan and G-Flex
Nov 29
I revisit Globe Telecom’s iPhone pricing scheme. Last I looked, the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3G cost more than the newer 16GB and 32GB iPhone 3GS under G-Plan or G-Flex subscription plans. To their credit, Globe saw and rectified that error.
Gameloft and Electronic Arts, two of the big name iPhone game developers, are holding their own Thanksgiving sale. Gameloft is offering seven of their titles at $0.99 each while Electronic Arts is offering as much as 50% off in their catalogue of 32 games.
Bang for your buck at Gameloft
Gameloft is offering seven of their best-sellers [...]
A new worm has infected hundreds of jailbroken iPhones in the Netherlands that does more malicious things than extorting users €5 or rickrolling them. Jailbreaking is the process where users install unofficial code on their iPhones to bypass the App Store to install and run applications not sanctioned by Apple.
According to AppleInsider, the worm “can [...]
From Macworld’s “Give thanks for the iPhone’s physical controls” article: short guide on what the iPhone’s and iPod touch’s Home and Sleep/Wake buttons are for.
Home
Click once to go to the Home screen. Click again to go to the Search screen.
Configure double-click in the Settings app to do one of the following: go to the Home [...]
Here’s something I’d like to have for my 13″ MacBook Pro and, if I had one, for my iPod touch: skins with designs from Tim Burton’s stories.
The three characters choices are: Stain Boy, The Pin Cushion Queen, and Oyster Boy, which is taken from the book “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy”.
Unfortunately, these skins are [...]
iPhone carrier news
Nov 19
Apple has been given the green light to sell the iPhone in South Korea by the Korean Communications Commission. However, Apple is said to be still in talks with two of South Korea’s carriers: KT and SK Telecom. No launch date has been set yet.
China Mobile’s chairman said that his company is still negotiating with [...]
A study has revealed that after less than three years in the market, Apple has become the third largest smartphone maker in the world, shipping 7.04 million iPhones during the quarter which ended in September of 2009, thus grabbing 17.1% of the world’s smartphone market share. The same study from research firm Gartner also showed [...]
After being crowned as the ‘undisputed’ leader in customer satisfaction by the CFI Group, the iPhone once again take top honors, this time in both personal and business use.
A J.D. Power and Associates survey had personal-use consumers give the iPhone high marks in four categories, ease of operation, operating system, features and physical design, but [...]
How the iPhone works
Oct 11
Oleophobic screen. Accelerometer. Capacitive touch screen. Proximity sensor.
Macworld has an article from Computerworld’s John Brandon that explains how some of these iPhone technologies works. From the oleophobic coating that prevents grime from sticking to the screen to the proximity sensor that blanks the screen when the iPhone is moved to the ear. There’s also [...]
Apple released an update to the iPhone OS which aims to resolve the issue of iPhones not waking up from sleep, according to Macworld. Dubbed by some as the “coma mode”, the problem appeared when iPhone OS 3.1 was released about a month ago.
AppleInsider has listed the following fixes and improvements found in iPhone OS [...]
iPhone OS overtakes Symbian. They like the iPhone. Teens do, too. Just a hodgepodge of news bits in this post.
According to an AdMob report, Apple’s iPhone OS has taken over Symbian as the most popular mobile phone operating system online. Whereas before, the iPhone OS only took the top spot in areas such as North [...]
Apple has released iPhone OS 3.1 for both iPhone and iPod touch, according to AppleInsider. The update, available as a free download from iTunes, includes the new Genius recommendation feature for the App Store and ringtone support for the iPhone.
iPhone and iPod touch users who already have iPhone OS 3.0 in their devices will receive [...]
