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iPhone goes instrumental with Ocarina

I’ve seen a lot of musical instruments running on the iPhone, but this is the first one I’ve come across that involves the user to use their mouth to generate sounds from the 3g iphone. Smule’s Ocarina turns your iPhone into a fully-functional musical wind instrument, and whats really exciting about Ocarina is that none [...]

iPhone OS 2.2 issues

Users who have updated their iPhones to OS 2.2 are facing some significant issues, including problems with applications from the app store, Internet connection issues, problems deleting their mail and more.
Third-party Applications broken - Some third-party applications will no longer function properly under iPhone OS 2.2 due to API changes and other modifications. These include [...]

Study: iPhones Twice As Reliable As BlackBerries

The iPhone is twice as reliable as the Blackberry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared [...]

iPhone climbs to number two in the World

Apple’s iPhone is now number two globally when it comes to smartphone sales numbers. All of this with less than a year and a half in the market, although apple has been accused of inflating their numbers, still no one can deny that after less than a year and a half, Apple’s iconic smartphone has [...]

App Store Reaches 200 Million Downloads

Steve Jobs has revealed that the 200 millionth application would be downloaded from the Apple App Store sometime this week. The iPhone applications store was generating in excess of $1 Million in the month of August. Considering the 100 million download mark was only surpassed in September - October has seen download numbers accelerate as [...]

Apple sells millions of iPhones in last quarter

We reported on iPhone sales earlier this month showing off serious sales growth for the iPhone. Apple just released their sales figures for Q4 boasting alongside 2.6 million Macs and 11 million iPodz - 6,892,000 iPhones sold in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008.

Please fix the iPhone

Marketing firm FullSix has launched a customer feedback website for Apple iPhone users to submit and vote on the most crucial fixes for the iPhone - personally I would like to see video recording and bluetooth added (even if only between iPhone/Mac devices)
Right now the top requests are:
1. Copy and paste.
2. Landscape view [...]

Apple bites into the cellphone market

Apple have sold 10 million iPhones in 2008, this figure correlates to Steve Jobs announcing earlier this year that apple wants to be one of the main contenders in the cellphone market. This was a bold statement, especially when you consider the worldwide market for cell phones is around 1 billion and Apple’s [...]

Vodacom iPhone 3G pricing

Here’s the info everyone has been looking for - the iPhone 3G pricing and availability from Vodacom
Prepaid
* iPhone 3G 8GB model: R6389.00
* iPhone 3G 16GB model: R7569.00
Contracts
iPhone 120s finance offer:
(includes 120 talk minutes, 100 sms’s and 250mb of data)
8GB iPhone: R109 pm
16GB iPhone: R149 pm
Monthly service fee (includes data, sms and talk minutes) :R450 pm
Total [...]

3G iPhone has arrived in South Africa

FRIDAY - Today is the day that all iPhone fans have been so eagerly waiting for, Vodacom have finally released the 3G iPhone to South African’s.
“The Apple iPhone will be available from 9am Friday 26 September at all iStores.” - Apple iStore
Details of packages and pricing have not been released yet, however iphone fan did [...]