From the monthly archives:

December 2007

iPhone sales limit raised back to five

by Chris Davies on December 10, 2007

After Apple reduced the number of iPhones customers could buy from five down to two back in October, analysts speculated that the company was attempting to hold back stock in order to satisfy the predicted holiday period.  Now, Apple have confirmed that the decision has been reversed and the limit increased back to five in both the US and the UK, reinforcing concerns that sales of the cellphone in the ... continued »

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Hurry - hurry - free shipping from Apple today only!

by Vincent Nguyen on December 10, 2007

The online Apple Store is running a special holiday promotion for today (December 10th) only where shoppers receive free shipping on any item purchased. The offer is available on December 10th, 2007 from 3:30 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. PST. Items exempt from the promotion include APC racks and uninterrupted power supply products. Apple continued »

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AnySim Devs Release Source Code

by Ken Allen on December 7, 2007

AnySim has always claimed to be open source from the start, but the devs had never released an official source code. After endless waiting, not only can the devs work on it, but hackers and programmers from all around the world can also work on it, greatly improving it's code and compatibility with the iPhone. continued »

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Tabulate bookmarklet adds link flagging to iPhone Safari

by Chris Davies on December 7, 2007

Back when I regularly used an HP iPAQ one of the most useful upgrades was ditching the awful PocketIE browser and using one of the third-party alternatives - primarily because it added tabbed browsing.  Safari on the iPhone and iPod Touch has multiple pages, but the team over at Inventive Labs Gadgets obviously prefer tabs since they've put together a handy bookmarklet that can trigger new pages or queue up links ... continued »

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MMS on iPhone

by Ken Allen on December 6, 2007

It seems as if all the iPhone dev teams are adding everything Apple forgot, maybe that was their plan, but this time Suavphisticated from ModMyiFone has created a MMS application for the iPhone. The application is currently in heavy development with lots of bugs. This is only the first beta version released and the dev team is still in progress on it. Currently it does not work with AT&T as ... continued »

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5% of French iPhones sold unlocked

by Chris Davies on December 6, 2007


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Update: 15% of iPhones were sold on non-iPhone specific service plans, while 5% were sold unlocked Orange, who are Apple's carrier partner in France, have revealed that of the 30,000 iPhones the sold in the first five days it was on sale there, 1,500 were unlocked.  While 80% of customers took out one of the carrier's special iPhone plans, 15% chose a more generic option and paid €549 for the privilege.   continued »

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Goldman: 12-inch ultraportable MacBook ‘weeks away’

by Chris Davies on December 6, 2007

Apple may not comment on rumors and speculation, but even they would likely agree that Jim Goldman may have just scuppered at least part of their holiday season profits.  The CNBC writer quotes "a very good source of mine with good connections to Apple's Asian manufacturing partners" in suggesting that the Cupertino-based company will be releasing the new 3G iPhone by May or June, as well as that we're weeks away from ... continued »

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