While the shortage continues, it does not mean all Apple’s retail stores are out of stock; according to a Macworld’s article, 27 percent of Apple’s store shows the iPhone 3Gs are in stock.

The black 16GB iPhone is the lowest in availability on those stores, however the 8GB iPhone 3G is starting to disappear from the shelf too. International sales seems to be taking away a big chunk of iPhone 3G inventory, unlike last year when only US hogging the stocks.

AT&T’s action of mis-published information on their website really does not sit well with many consumers. While these accidental announcement does show a sign of it to come, it is still irritating to some extend. So what is it going to be AT&T? To roll out or not to roll out WiFi for iPhone user?

[via slashgear]

With three different silicon covers, consumer can find the best fit for their ears. It features a 9mm Neodymium magnet on each ear bud, gold plated 3.5mm 4-pole plug, and Y-config cord that is four feet long.

The Creative EP-630i headset will be available in Singapore on September of 2008 and it carries the price tag of $59. US market will be seeing this headset shortly after.

The first generation of iPhone was jailbroken and unlocked by the devs team, however having 3G baseband, the unlocking algorithm for iPhone 3G is not quite the same. Here is the breakdown of what pwnage tools 2.0 can do at this time :

iPhone (1st Gen) with 2.0 – Activated, Unlocked & Jailbroken, (with support for third party applications).
iPod Touch with 2.0 – Activated & Jailbroken, (with support for third party applications).
iPhone (3G) with 2.0 – Activated, Jailbroken (with support for third party applications).

Still no release schedule yet, but the iPhone Dev team’s blog post suggests the tool will be available soon.

The country is the home of two mobile phone powerhouses, Samsung and LG. Korean seems to be very loyal to its home based company and have very advanced wireless connectivity; that pose some threat to how well iPhone 3G will fit in with only data transfer up to 3.6Mbps.

None or less, iPhone 3G has been proven to be a success in advanced wireless country such as Japan. I’m willing to bet that it will be the same for Korean market due to it well developed touch technology and OS.

If you don’t know what VNC client is, here is a little explanation – it is a tool to let you connect to VNC server installed on your Windows PC or Mac OS X. MochaSoft VNC Lite provides VNC client for your iPhone. As the name said, Lite is what it truly meant when it comes to set of features. The Lite version cost nothing but it has many limitations such as single keyboard only, no right mouse click support, and no macro capability.

You will be able to get all those missing function from the paid version. It cost $5.99 and offers macro support. Both versions (the Lite and Full) are able to zoom and scroll, runs on 8-but and 32-bit color, local mouse, and landscape mode.

The application itself is pretty intuitive – to start you will need to create a session by tapping the connection button on the navigation. If you don’t have a previous session, the session dialog will prompt you to enter the host information.

Once you are connected to your VNC server, you will see several icons, starting from the left side, the QWERTY, F1-F2 keys, menu, mouse click, and scroll. Do not expect real time and snappiness of a true desktop, VNC client are made to work with remote system therefore connections speed matters.

H-FARM will announce the recipient of the fund once the deadline has been met on September 30th. What classification and criteria H-FARM are looking for? The company gives a statement to address this question,“look at the phone and ask yourself which icon you would want to have next to the weather forecast, the exchange rates, or YouTube.”

If you have an idea and plan to develop a killer iPhone application, why not try to get a quarter million in funding to start your project?

The iPhone Dev team posted a video showing them connecting to the jailbroken iPhone 3G using SSH client. While it is not legal to break into an iPhone OS, iPhone Dev team envisioned that their tools would allow open applications to run side by side with iTunes listed applications.

Jailbreaking your phone will void your warranty and pose the risk of bricking your iPhone; if you are not comfortable of doing it, don’t! iPhone Dev team will be relasing this tools to the public very soon.

[via slashgear]

Stripping off the new iPhone 3G for component lists and price them individually, iSuppli determined that a 8GB iPhone 3G costs $173.33 to build. AT&T is rumored to be paying Apple $300 subsidy on each iPhone 3G sales, that put the iPhone 3G total prices to $499 for the 8GB version and translate to the fifty five percent margin stated above.

“iSuppli believes Apple aimed for a more cost-effective design for the 3G iPhone compared to the 2G, in order to lower the retail price – which will allow the company to seed adoption and to capture maximum market share now – while the company still has buzz and a perceived differentiation relative to its competitors.”

If this number hold any truth, Apple’s one million iPhone 3G sold during the weekend should put its quarterly earning higher than before.

[via zdnet]