That $50 monthly plan also includes tethering for the cost. Thankfully, if you don’t want more data and need the $5 monthly savings you can stay on your existing plan. Those not asking to stay will be rolled to the new plan. If you have an iPhone 4S and an iPod touch you can get Siri on your touch.

In fact, getting Siri on the touch is very simple to do according to a geek going by AppleGordon. All you have to do is run a restore of the 4S backup to your touch and Siri comes along for the ride. We are talking the claim with some sodium though. If you try it out and your device survives, let us know.

Nielsen’s latest data has shown that the data usage rate for the iPhone is declining. Part of the issue is thought to be data limits and the stats show that the average iPhone user hasn’t reached the data use of the average Android user reached last summer.

Apple has reportedly accepted WebGL as the graphics behind the iAd platform. WebGL support is limited exclusively to iAd developers though.

You might recall that Microsoft sued Apple claiming that the App Store trademark was too generic. Apple has noted that the term Windows is generic too and Microsoft has fought to keep that trademark vigorously.

A new report has surfaced that claims a million iPhone 4 smartphones were sold on the Verizon network the first weekend. AT&T moved 1.4 million iPhones on the opening weekend on its network so it seems sales on Verizon were strong despite the lack of lines at stores.

Apple has confirmed that the iTunes scam on book purchases is real. The developer behind the scam has been tossed from the App Store and false charges have to be handled through your bank.

If you are the jailbreak type when it comes to your iPhone and you have a shiny new iPhone 4 crying out for freedom, your day is coming. A jailbreak and unlock for the iPhone 4 is coming soon.

This rumor reported by MacBlogz states that the tethering plan would be priced at just $10 a month. Chances are this is 99 percent wishful thinking getting away with someone as the lower data intensive plan for the iPhone costs $30 by itself. . If it doesn’t function as expected, I know of a few people who may lose their jobs,” my colleague explained. “While you may think it’s as easy as streamlining our Blackberry tethering service over to the iPhone, it’s not. Connection may be tied into iTunes, and Apple is incredibly controlling when it comes to this space.”

Users can now currently tether the iPhone through jailbreaking the handset and then using one of many applications such as PDANet. If AT&T does not act soon they will continue to give away free services that they can otherwise charge for. The last thing AT&T needs is people with laptops sucking the bandwidth up for next to nothing. We want to know what you guy’s thing about this latest rumor.

[Via MacBlogz]

AT&T has always done their best to bring customers what they want in a cellular service, iPhone owners have been asking for a tethering plan for over a year not but AT&T could not deliver because of the network. Ralph De La Vega said, “Regardless of how many billions of dollars AT&T pours into their 3G network, it hasn’t been stable enough to handle all you iPhone users,”

AT&T is simply worried as to how well the network will hold up to millions of users all jumping on at one time.  They have never has such an issue because there has never been such a huge rush in data use in their history. There is still no word on an official launch date. Here are the details on the iPhone tethering plans:

• 5GB Data Cap (just like Blackberry users) – AT&T will automatically turn off your tethering connection if you use too much bandwidth. Of note, the 5GB cap might get sliced for all users, not just iPhone users, in order to accommodate all new tethering plan customers (bandwidth demand).

• Initial connection through iTunes? (not sure if this is every time you connect, or just for initial setup)

• Expected speeds: GPRS: 30k – dialup speeds / EDGE: 110k – ISDN speeds / 3G: 1000k – slow broadband.

• You’ll want to disable auto-updates for everything, so as to not go over usage limitations.

• Will be +$30/month, new iPhone plans may be rolled out with tethering rolled in.

• Do not pro-rate tethering/bandwidth, it can become a nightmare, instead wait until new billing cycle.

• For unlimited bandwidth, AT&T will tell you to get a wireless PC card.

• No idea on a launch date.

[Via MacBlogz]

The U-Verse portion of AT&T is taking a beating, it is down 499,000 subscribers from this time last year.  AT&T’s wireless business is doing extraordinarily well due to the iPhone 3G. In the most recent quarter they added 2 million subscribers. “Customers want more speed and we have the capability to deliver that.”
This means that they now have the resources to start focusing more bandwidth toward an iPhone 3G tethering plan. At this time it would be more profitable as tethering is in such high demand.

Ralph De La Vega told interviewers that this company is working with Apple to let the iPhone serve as a wireless modem for laptops in the near future. Ralph De La Vega says that it will happen “soon”. If AT&T does not have a tethering plan soon, applications such as NetShare, PDANet and iModem will continually allow customers to tether the iPhone at no additional charge.

[Via Technologizer]

The original plans were known to be quite pricey, causing many a Canadian iPhone user to grumble. But check out the stats Rogers has compiled for the first month of data use in percentages:

• 1.2% of customers used more than 1GB.
• 95% of customers used less than 500MB.
• 91.2% of customers used less than 100MB.

Looks like their prior idea to have a 400MB plan was actually pretty close to correct. But that doesn’t matter now. iPhone users in Canada can use their data like it’s going out of style.

[via Engadget Mobile]

iPhone users that want to travel abroad previously faced serious expense when trying to use the Internet in other countries. However, these new data plans should help keep costs down, at least to some degree.

One plan runs $120 a month for 100MB of international data. The other plan is $200 a month for 200MB. These amounts are piled on top of your existing data plan and voice plan. These new plans apply only to 67 countries, however, so make sure your destinations are on the list. You don’t have to commit to these pricey plans for the long-term, however. You can add it or remove it at any time you’d like.

[via iPhone Central]

These revisions affect the Packet Flat-rate Full package, and how much you will actually pay a month depends on how much data transfer you use. 

According to Slashphone, the data charges start at ¥1,695 for 20 MB and go up to ¥5,985 for 70 MB.

[via Softbank Mobile]