Apple, Inc., loves to be a game-changer, and the new Apple iPhone 4, announced yesterday, will be one both for some of the hardware aspects as well as for the video chatting feature, FaceTime. In fact, FaceTime might have even more of a social impact than people realize, given that it’s intended to be an [...]
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ABCs of Apple iPhone 4 and iOS 4: 25 Details and Features
If you’ve been off the planet for the past month or so, you can be forgiven for not knowing there’s a new iPhone, and much of its feature set was confirmed today by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote address for WWDC in San Francisco. This 4th-generation iPhone is packed with new features — [...]
Apple’s WWDC Kicks Off Monday Jun 7th
There’s all kinds of speculation as to why AT&T is changing iPhone/ iPad data plan pricing, though maybe Monday’s Apple WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs will shed light on it all.
AT&T is giving some concession to keep the old unlimited iPad data plan — but the offered reason that very few people are using the [...]
AT&T Gives Customers Some Leeway on iPhone/ iPad Data Plans
If you were non-plussed to hear that AT&T was changing their data pricing plans for the iPhone and iPad come Jun 7th — the very day many of us expect the announcement of the 4th-generation iPhone during the WWDC keynote address by Apple’s Steve Jobs — then you might be happy to know they’re giving [...]
Reviewing Apple’s Increased Mobile Device Market Share
Since the launch of both the WiFi-only and 3G models of the iPad, Apple has sold about 2M units in less than 2 months, and they’re sold out at many of their Apple retail stores – proving that there is a market for tablet devices and thus a need for more apps. But will these [...]
Apple’s iPhone Manufacturer to Increase Wages
Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures Apple’s iPhone has had over a dozen suicides either on its premises or from the homes of workers. The why of this is still being investigated, but so far it’s chalked up to high-pressure, low wages. As a result of this, Silicon Valley Watcher’s Tom Foremski asks whether it’s [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 29, 2010
The mobile tech rumor mill suggests that Apple might open up iPhone/ iPad development to tools on the Windows PC environment, and for that reason, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer will appear at Apple’s WWDC keynote next week. But Microsoft’s officially Twitter channel says it’s not true. What might be true, on the other hand, is that [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 24, 2010
There’s been yet another “leak” of a possible prototype of the 4th-gen Apple iPhone. A photo (above) shows both a black and a white phone with larger screens. Given all the rumors and SDK evidence, it seems obvious that the OS 4 iPhone will have video calling and the larger screen resolution necessary to pull [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 21, 2010
This is a stream-of-consciousness roundup of news in the mobile platform space from the past week. It covers Apple, Palm, Android and the mobile platform in general.
iPad sales in 2010 in the U.S. might hit 8M units, up from a previous estimate of 5M units [MacRumors]. Obviously, the international release is going to play a [...]
Hybrid Smartphones: Android on iPhone Devices?
Sounds crazy, but a couple of mobile developers have managed to successful port the Google Android mobile OS to iPhone devices. One of them even has a dual-booting system, and should be releasing a version for iPod Touch. The only drawback is that you’d have to do something to your mobile device that Apple says [...]



