Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs officially announced at the end of a press conference held on Friday, that the iPhone 4 will be making its way to Canadian cellphone retailers on July 30th, 2010. He also mentioned that free Bumper cases will also be given to those who require them.
It has already been confirmed that [...]

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Microsoft has officially announced that the next skin point release for their handheld operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, will launch on Oct. 6 and include App Store Windows Marketplace for Mobile (catchy!) and MobileMe MyPhone services.
[The iPhone Blog] WMExperts asks the impertinent question:
Will Windows Mobile 6.5 be available for any phones [...]

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Wireless carrier China Mobile has confirmed that the company is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China even though rival China Unicom last week announced a distribution deal for the handset.
[iPhone Alley] According to Macworld, the talks between Apple and China Mobile, the world’s biggest carrier by subscribers, yet to reach [...]

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On Friday, Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, their latest computer operating system (which is jailbreaker safe!), and for the first time focus wasn’t on fabulous new consumer-facing features, but on internal re-architecting, the (far too often quoted) refinements and enhancements.
[The iPhone Blog] Many of these advancements, as we’ve discussed before, were [...]

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Did AT&T get a sour apple when it snagged the iPhone?
[Wall Street Journal] Maybe. AT&T’s exclusive right to offer Apple’s smart phone over the past two years has attracted new customers, and at least initially enhanced the phone company’s image. But it is difficult to know whether those benefits are worth what have [...]

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Apple says it’s not to blame for a series of exploding iPods and iPhones, according to a report published on Friday. The company has been under fire, so to speak, for devices overheating and shattering across Europe and the U.K.
[Mac World] Sheesh… and you thought the data rates were bad.
Exploding iPhone Investigation:
This exploding [...]

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[Zdnet] “All right, buddy gimme the iPhone, credit cards and PIN numbers.”
“Yes, sir, here you are.”
“Now, get outta here.”
That was more or less the conversation in the appropriately named Pittsburgh neighborhood of Shadyside, home to an Apple store.
Back home, the victim grabbed his computer, started up MobileMe and tracked the thief down to Warmart.
Police [...]

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As has been discussed here ad nauseum, AT&T’s network has been stressed by the iPhone. Since the users of Apple’s device tend to use the internet more than owners of other smartphones, AT&T’s data network gets bogged down during peak periods.
[Ethiopian Review] Now, BusinessWeek has an article that attempts to explain why, after more [...]

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According to a patent filing, Apple is working on speech-to-text technology for its iPhone and iPod product lines. Speech recognition could be the holy grail for data entry and retrieval on mobile devices, especially as they continue to shrink in size.
[InformationWeek] The Baltimore Sun found the patent and has included a diagram of how the [...]

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We have done some research, and it appears than the rumors of iPhones exploding all around the world—”world” as in “France, UK, and Belgium”—are greatly exaggerated.
[Gizmodo] Here are all the known cases, and Apple’s official answer:
In France
• 26-yo security guard Yassine Bouhadi claims that his iPhone exploded when he was texting his girlfriend. [...]

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On Thursday, satellite radio provider Sirius XM announced the launch of XM SkyDock, an accessory that will allow iPhone and iPod touch users to receive live XM and “The Best of Sirius” satellite radio in their vehicles. Per Digital Daily, the unit is scheduled to launch in the fall at suggested price of $119.99 and [...]

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Daily Finance is reporting today on the iPhone’s pending release in China. We’ve been reporting on this gradual deal for a while now. Back in July it looked like the deal might be delayed until 2010, but earlier this month, Apple’s VP of iPhone and iPod product marketing Greg Joswiak (among others) traveled to China [...]

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SinoCast Daily Business Beat reports that Foxconn, Apple’s Taiwanese manufacturing partner for the iPhone, has begun production of a China-specific iPhone lacking Wi-Fi connectivity.
Two production lines in the Foxconn Shenzhen plant are producing 90-coded mobile phones, device that looks like iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, said one source.
The mysterious products might be the very model [...]

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This may or may not be true, but apparently Twitter user George Ruiz was taking his first video using the iPhone 3GS when he accidentally dropped in the nearby pool. Video provided at the end of this post.
UPDATE: Apparently the iPhone has a lanyard (a thin strap of sorts) attached to the device, which means [...]

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