Ben Reitzes of UBS seems pretty confident that there will be a new version of the iPhone by March of 2008. The guy got a tip from someone in the iPhone supply chain that he believes to be true. The guy is dead certain it will be a second gen iPhone too, not an iPhone Nano, a new Newton, or anything ... continued »

The answer is mostly no. There were however 6% of the survey set that said that yes, the iPhone is sexier than Halle Berry, or Scarlett Johansson. I don’t even think that a normal person would have to go so far as to get a major A-List celebrity to beat out the iPhone in attractiveness. I mean, just look at this ... continued »

If you've been lamenting the absence of UK-based news reporting on your iPod (what, really?) then you'll be overjoyed to hear that ITN, who produce the factual bulletins for British channel ITV, have signed a deal with Apple that will see their mobile news and entertainment content available as free downloads via iTunes.  The footage will be funded by a video ... continued »

For a moment it seemed like all-systems-go for Canada, where legions of Apple-hungry shoppers with wads of Canadian dollars burning holes in their pockets have been anxiously waiting for the iconic handset, as Molson Export - a beer company based in Quebec - advertised a competition in which several iPhones are to be the prize.  Listed as using the Rogers Wireless network ... continued »

Actually they appear to be porting the entire Information Anywhere suite over to the iPhone. Their plans call for a first half of 2008 release. They’re so smart; they even adopted the iNaming scheme and called it iAnywhere. It should provide security, and make getting your mail without switching to IMAP a lot easier. continued »

Piper Jaffray’s people got their hands on a calculator, who ever thought such a simple device could be a weapon wielded against large companies? Anyways they did some math and found an interesting number, $565, that’s roughly how much Apple makes off of an iPhone with 2-year contract with AT&T. They got that number buy taking the retail price of the ... continued »

You know the Bonjour networking thingy that runs on iPhones and iPod Touches? Well Erica Sadun, the iPhone hacking genius, has figured out how to use it for file transfers. This means lot of things, first and foremost though, you’ll be able to transfer files seamlessly between 2 or more iPhones and iPod Touches soon, actually, if you are near as ... continued »

It's full-on innuendo time around the internet today, as the plucky iPhone Dev Team release their Revirginizer which promises to take your bricked iPhone back to pristine, innocent Apple goodness.  Intended to help out the many people who unlocked their iPhones and then found them to be broken when they attempted to upgrade to firmware version 1.1.1, it should restore handsets unlocked ... continued »

With a name like iPhoneSlide I was expecting to see rubber gloves and a barrel of industrial lubricant, but it turns out that this web-app is rather more PG-13 than XXX.  Basically, it's a straightforward way to get photos off of your iPhone and onto your favourite media sharing website - whether that be Facebook, Wordpress, Flickr, Blogger, Twitter or Typepad.   continued »

So you remember that article about Greenpeace hatin’ on the iPhone? And then the other one about the BSEF hatin’ on Greenpeance? Well now Greenpeace is back, this time with less hate, and more explanations. Sadly these explanations are far from being acceptable for pulling a stupid publicity stunt like bashing the 4th top selling phone in the US. Tom Dowdall, ... continued »

If you've been itching to get elbow-deep in the iPhone/iPod Touch unlock code and have a good rummage around to see what's going on - or if you'd like to use it as a learning tool, and maybe help out with future exploits - then head over to Toc2rta where Chris has released the source code for their unlocking tool.   continued »

An unlocked, third-party software capable handset is always going to be desirable, but exactly how many buyers obtained an iPhone with the express intent of ditching AT&T?  Apple is putting that figure at around 18-percent of the total handsets sold. "We don’t know precisely how many people are doing that [unlocking iPhones], our current guess is there is probably 250,000 of ... continued »