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by Vincent Nguyen on March 23, 2008

The screen shots below might be a rare sneak peak of the new App Store. As to whether they’re fake or real, only time will tell and it’s up to you to decide. From what I can gather from the images, the look of the supposed App Store appears to be very similar to installer.app with notable features include the ability to browse Featured, Genres, Top 50, Search ...
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by Vincent Nguyen on March 22, 2008

I can’t say that Kevin Rose of Digg.com has ever been dead on, or even remotely close to being correct when it comes to rumors or leaks regarding the iPhone. In his weekly Digg podcast, Kevin referred to the new iPhone as the “iPhone Pro, or whatever” featuring 3G support and a second camera behind the glass faceplate for video conferencing. The release of the iPhone pro is ...
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by Vincent Nguyen on March 22, 2008

For an iPhone-knock off, the HiPhone is pretty decent. That being said, it has the looks of the iPhone, but still lack heart and soul of the iPhone.
Click through for the full list of specs and a demoed video on steroid.
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by Vincent Nguyen on March 18, 2008

The 8GB iPhone is available on AT&T’s website for only $249. I’m sure that at this price, they’ll go like hot cakes. Don’t think that AT&T will let you hog a ton of them to yourself – because there’s a limit of one per customer. You can even buy the Apple $69 Apple Care program, which provides repair service coverage for two years from the warranty start ...
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by Vincent Nguyen on March 17, 2008

Peter Aloisson’s passion for phones and diamond really shines through the “Princess Plus” – named after half of its 318 diamonds consisting of square cuts, instead of common round stones. The 17.75 carats of diamonds are set in 18 karat white gold around the edge of the iPhone, pushed the price to 120,000 EUR, or $176,400. This makes the “Princes Plus” the world’s most expensive iPhone.
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by Vincent Nguyen on March 14, 2008

I was under the impression that Apple said they wouldn’t allow code parser such as Sun’s JVM on the iPhone.
Sun came to the conclusion it could make a JVM work on the iPhone after taking 24 hours to look at information on Apple's SDK. Sun saw nothing in the public statements preventing the JVM from being one of the applications enabled on the iPhone, said Klein. Apple released the SDK ...
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by Vincent Nguyen on March 14, 2008

Scrolling through a list of over 1,200 contacts is a pain in the ass. It’s one feature that 1.1.4 firmware sorely miss. Come on Apple, what’s taking you so to implement search?
Neither Steve or Phil spoke of the feature at the iPhone 2.0 SDK announcement, but thanks to blargkaboom's finding, there’s a hint that we may see search in the upcoming firmware release. They noticed what appears ...
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