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Over the last couple of weeks, an Australian student exposed a problem with jailbroken iPhones, using a virus to paste a picture of Rick Astley over the handsets of users unaware that their phone was running using the default SSH root password, ‘Alpine’ (for full explanation of terms, see below glossary). The latest virus takes [...]
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If you’re a non-Korean phone producer (or producer of any electronics, for that matter), South Korea is often one of the hardest places for your product to compete. With a public that’s staunchly behind high quality local products from companies that have connected with their national pride – in the case of mobile phones, Samsung [...]
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Despite numerous consumer complaints about Orange’s download restrictions following the announcement of the company’s iPhone tariffs, Orange have sold in excess of 30,000 handsets in the first day of trading, a new record for a mobile launch, surpassing even O2’s initial handset sales. The considerable sales come as quite a surprise when the current economic [...]
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If you’re a sports fan and an iPhone user (or just like your news the moment it breaks), this might just be the partnership you’ve been dreaming of. BSkyB and Apple have formed a partnership that – as of today – will enable the iPhone to stream a number of their most well known channels [...]
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The iPhone might still top more Christmas lists than the latest blockbuster movie in the west, but early reports suggest that the Chinese launch – which comes more than two years after the US and European launches – has turned out to be something of a flop. While the initial New York launch had queues [...]
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Orange has announced it’s pricing plan for the newly launched iPhone, a move that has made it immediately apparent that any price war with O2 is far from the company’s collective minds, with The Guardian calculating that the total difference in price over the course of two years on the two standard contracts will be [...]
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Perhaps it will come as little shock that the date Orange have chosen to launch the iPhone is only a day after O2’s exclusive contract ends. The first handsets will go on sale through Orange on the 10th of November, through both Orange’s own stores and website and Phones4U, and will probably be stocked by [...]
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In what’s likely to become an incredibly high profile and viciously fought case, Nokia has launched a legal case against Apple for what they claim amount to ten different breaches of Nokia patent copyright on the iPhone handset. The move comes after long running talks between the two companies over the licensing of Nokia based [...]
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Shazam – You know those times when you’re out and about, and you hear a tune you just have to have? Shazam is the solution to that nasty little problem. Point your iPhone in the direction of the song that’s taken your fancy, and the application will tell you the name of the song and [...]
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Only a day after Orange’s announcement that it’ll breaking O2’s exclusive hold on UK sales of the iPhone, Vodafone has followed them into the arena, whilst also picking up permission to sell the phone in the Republic of Ireland. The deal is understood to have been concluded somewhat urgently in the immediate aftermath of [...]
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