French iPhone carrier Orange seems to have some sort of an upgrade plan in the works when Apple ships out the second-generation iPhone.
Ars Technica has spotted a report from French web site PC Inpact (English Translation) that Orange has been calling iPhone owners in France and offering them an upgrade path to the new 3G [...]

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New York Times’ John Markoff shares his speculation on the second-generation iPhone.
Last June, Mr. Jobs began selling what has become one of the most talked-about consumer products in history. Now he faces a new challenge as Apple prepares to introduce an updated version of the phone next month.
After almost a year of strong sales that [...]

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After offering, and then yanking the whole free WiFi thing, AT&T and Starbucks have finally gotten their ducks in a row and are now once again offering free WiFi service — for real this time. As you might expect, there’s a slight change to the way it works.
Aside from the obvious requisite of being [...]

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That’s right. More “iPhone coming here”, “iPhone going there” news.
Spanish site Apple Weblog has discovered a hidden iPhone page from Movistar—Telefónica’s mobile arm.
The iPhone is now officially coming to those who reside in Spain.
According to Gizmodo, the 3G iPhone will be available for sale in Spain at the June 18th grand opening of Telefonica’s megatsore [...]

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Google is making process with their upcoming cellphone interface; Android. I’m sure most of you have heard about it by now, am I right?
You can read all about the latest news in regards to Android here.
One thing (of possibly many) that makes the iPhone OS better than Android, is the fact that the iPhone sports [...]

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Registration for iPhoneDevCamp 2 has been opened since May 25th.  This year’s iPhoneDevCamp will be held at Adobe Systems in San Francisco, so if you are a local resident of the camp and want to attend, and haven’t bought your tickets just yet, you may want to head on over to the registration page and [...]

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Staying on topic with the story just below about Apple bringing the iPhone to Hong Kong and Macau, Apple has been in talks with cellphone providers KPN about bringing the iPhone to the Dutch market, and as you’d expect, the company is interested.
Royal KPN NV said Tuesday it is holding talks with Apple about securing [...]

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According to a one-sentence press release on May 29th, Hong Kong company “Three / 3″ a.k.a. Hutchison Telecommunications Limited announced that it has signed an agreement with Apple Inc. to bring the iPhone to Hong Kong and Macau later this year.
Looks like Apple is slowly but surely taking over the cellphone industry - not in [...]

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Apple store employees have caught four teenagers jailbreaking iPhones - downloading third-party applications onto a demo iPhone. This caused them to be banned from the Apple store “for life”.
Daniel Fukuba (left), 17 years old, and Eric Vicenti (right), 16 years old, met up with two friends; Noah Rogers and Anjay Patel, at a local Apple [...]

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You knew it was coming, and now here it is. The iPhone Blog brings us a comparison of the well known Apple iPhone (first generation, of course), and the brand new BlackBerry Bold.
If you are too lazy to compare the two products for yourself, just have a quick look at the video provided below, and [...]

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Thanks to the rather startling discovery people who bought refurbished iPhones made, we now know that even completely restored iPhones still contain personal data on them, because a restore doesn’t actually delete your data, it waits until you overwrite it with new data — much like deleting a file on the hard drive. It [...]

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Demand for unlocked iPhones, mixed with the shortage of in-store stock, with the extreme rumors of the 3G iPhone being announced at WWDC08 have driven iPhone prices on eBay sky-high. There are some 16GB’ers being sold at an excess of $700, an added $200 over brand new models purchased from Apple or AT&T.
Of course, auctioneers [...]

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It was noticed that there is a job entry within the jobs section of the Apple website which is entitled “Lead Camera Design Engineer - iPhone”.
Here is what the listing reads:
Duties include research into both current and future camera technologies, evaluation of proposed solutions, executive presentation of current and future options, working with suppliers to [...]

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Thestreet.com took the time to interview Gary Krakow about what he wants to see within the second-generation iPhone.
Gary Krakow has put together a list of the top 15 changes he wants Steve Jobs to make before the new iPhones hit stores this summer. His list was in fact larger, but he had to cut it [...]

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Goldman Sachs added Apple Inc to its Americas conviction buy list, stating that shares will most likely benefit from the launch of the company’s second-generation iPhone next month, and from higher projections of iPhone sales for the second half of the year.
Analyst David Bailey also raised his target on the stock to $220 from his [...]

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