Following up our previous post about the $3 million iPhone heist a few weeks ago, it appears we know where the booty ended up: The Russian black market. The iPhones, known as “Europeans”, are being offered in 100 unit batches at huge discounts. According to the Russian site iPhones.ru (via Google Translate): Today, several... »
Archive for November, 2009
If You’re Looking For A Stolen Belgian iPhone, Try the Russian Black Market
iPhone Users More Likely to Purchase Digital Content
9to5Mac reports on a study that makes iPhone users out to be very willing paying consumers of digital media. The report, by media firm Olswang, points out that 58% of people would pay to access a recently released theatrical film online, 52% would pay to get a film that won’t be on DVD for... »
Let’s Be Clear: Only Apple Knows If The iPhone Is Going to T-Mobile Next
A recent post over at The Street is running with the headline “Apple iPhone May Go to T-Mobile Next”, except they don’t actually state that anywhere in their article. A more accurate headline would be “Analyst Predicts iPhone Will Hit T-Mobile Next”, because that’s really all they’re running on. They don’t have any word... »
4iThumbs Creates a Physical Keyboard for the iDevice
For the few of you that still wish the iPhone had physical letter keys like Blackberries, well first you were given the super ugly iTwinge keyboard holster, and now 4iThumbs, wants to offer you a clear plastic overlay with nubs located over the on screen keyboard. Slightly less ugly than the iTwinge – but... »
iPhone App Icon Coasters for the Apple Fanatic
Here is a gift for the true hard core Apple fanatic. With the iPhone’s increasing world wide popularity – the default icons on the device have to be pretty close to being one of the most easily recognized symbols in mobile tech. So how else can the die hard Apple fan show their love,... »
Nintaii Game Review: Push your Patience
For some reason logic games tend to dominate the iPhone or iTouch world. Perhaps it’s because of their easy controls, simple premises, or just because they’re fun. Nintaii is a perfect example of a logic game that blends brainpower with pure addictiveness. Nintaii has an extremely basic premise, your goal is to get the... »
South Korea with 53,000 iPhone Pre Orders
Pre-orders for Apple’s iPhone, set to debut in South Korea Saturday, have already hit 53,000 on it’s carrier KT Corp. With a market of over 400,000 smartphone users and 47 million handset holders in general. The iPhone possibilities in terms of sales and competition in South Korea are definitely looking to shake things up.... »
T-Mobile Next to get iPhone?
AT&T - will lose its exclusive agreement to sell the iPhone sometime next year and Verizon has been the leading candidate to take on the popular Apple phone next, but Thomas Weisel analyst Doug Reid disputes that assumption. Reid points the growing division between warring wireless camps. Verizon and Google represent one side with... »
Apple Rejected Me Site for Angry Rejected Developers
Apple Rejected Me reads like the ever popular FML site, but features stories from rejected app developers, instead of inappropriate innuendoes and epic failures for dumb peoples lives. Are you a developer? Feel you’ve been wrongfully rejected? Got a beef with Apple’s approval process? Then this is the stage for you to sound off.... »
Next Gen iPhone Testing Already Underway
MacRumors is reporting that iPhone developer, Pandev, creators of iBART, have found records of an unreleased iPhone in their app’s records. The model in question is “iPhone 3,1″, which we saw references to back in August. This is the first time this model has shown up in the wild. The current top-end iPhone, the... »