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You read that correctly. Apple has decided to release the iPhone firmware version 2.2 very late on November 20th, which was yesterday. The update adds Google Street View, public transit and walking directions, and more.
What’s new in this [...]

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Wal-Mart will begin selling the number one selling cellphone shortly after Christmas this year. Not sure why they’ve chosen to start selling after Christmas, in comparison to before Christmas, but that’s not our worry.
This news comes from Jamie Townsend of [...]

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Well there you have it. Tethering for the iPhone is finally making its debut, sometime in the near future, according to the AT&T executive.
Harry McCracken of Technologizer reports that AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega told Michael Arrington [...]

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Rogers has successfully brought itself an extra 191,000 customers, thanks to the arrival of Apple’s iPhone 3G to Canada.
The company announced that, since the introduction of the iPhone in Canada in July, that they’ve sold 255,000 [...]

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As far as we know, Copy & Paste, like landscape note taking/messaging, proper MMS, and turn-by-turn directions are still on the iPhone’s bucket list, but like bucket lists, it seems to be the sort of thing [...]

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You heard that right.  It’s been three and a half months since the 3G was released, which is an indication of how tough a nut the 3G’s baseband was to crack.  However the dev team haven’t given up, and their [...]

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Seeking Alpha has it, after compiling iPhone IMEI numbers into a public spreadsheet, that Apple just may have already sold their 10 millionth iPhone this year.
According to the spreadsheet, Apple has already manufactured 9.2 million iPhone [...]

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“Apple’s iPhone 3G apparently created a summertime switch itch: 30% of all the smartphone’s buyers bailed on their existing carriers in order to purchase the device, according to an NPD Group report released Monday.”
More in depth information [...]

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A bit of comedy for your entertainment. It’s been a while since we’ve last posted a comic strip on Touch Podium, and this one fit very well with our new Android Podium announcement.

So, [...]

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Apparently, the Great Firewall of China doesn’t just filter out websites, now the PRC wants it to filter out certain features of the iPhone, too.
According to The South China Morning Post, a report from Daiwa Institute of Research claims that the version [...]

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Look, this comes from an alleged Fido employee, but knowing as I do how little information retail drones are usually given in advance, I would still take this with a grain of salt and chalk it up to rumour.
According to [...]

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The comparison will be inevitable. It could be said that aside from the Blackberry Bold and Thunder, the iPhone’s main potential competition is coming directly from Google’s Android, I’ll be the first to admit that [...]

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The iPhone is one phenomenal piece of hardware. You can do almost anything with this cellphone that you could with a computer. In fact, you could do more, and it’s portable. It’s a darn computer the [...]

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An iPhone user in Australia whom was playing with his comcorder’s NightShot mode has spotted a DataMatrix 2D barcode behind the iPhone 3G’s rear plastic (see here). This is not the same case on the first-generation iPhone’s.

It is suspected that the [...]

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