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Here is another clip of my next phone, lucnh next month in the UK on Vodaphone, the Iphone does not touch this bad boy. All I am asking Samsung is the addition of wifi to this bad-boy . Hsdpa is cool but since T-mobile in the states isn’t rocking 3.G yet I would like to have some wifi connectivity on this. Enjoy……

I am glad Nokia is doing this, can’t wait to see how feature packed this phone will be.

Ladies this is the phone for you with a refelective screen so shinny you can even do your make up on it, plus all the bells and whistles of a very good cellphone

2 mega pixel camera with flash(take that iphone)

1gb imbedded memory

mp3 player and all the other usual cellphone contents. Thisis a nice fashion phone. Just to bear in mind the phoneis also coming out in august on verizon in the states. So you are in luck to get one without importing. more pics after the jump Read the rest of this entry »

It seems the iphone has not been spared from defects and iphone lousy customer service…

That’s odd, Apple has a 14 day refund policy on the iPhone. As in, you can’t return it for a full refund after 14 days. Darin writes:

So I made the 15 mile drive to the AT&T store and as soon as I walked in I was told that they will have nothing to do with the iPhone the moment you leave the store. So I drove 15 miles back home and called the nearest Apple store. They told me that they will handle any issues after the first 14 days, but AT&T is responsible for any issues within the first 14 days.I then called AT&T and talked to a very friendly and helpful rep who told me that she believed that Apple would have to replace the phone but would verify, I spent several minutes on hold before she returned and after verifying the policy did confirm that AT&T policy states that Apple is responsible for all phone issues.

I explained what the Apple store told me and she volunteered to call them, I spent about 10 minutes on hold and she came back on and let me know that she had talked to the Apple store manager who stated that Apple policy states that AT&T is responsible for the first 14 days but that she would work with me if I went to the store.

A lot more here

A very good article from nytimes, shows how backward the us is with cellphone tech. Enjoy…..

That segment of the American market represents about a quarter of America’s 250 million cellphone subscribers, according to Strategy Analytics, a market research firm based in Newton, Mass. In contrast with cellphone users in Asia, more than half of American subscribers paid $50 or less for their cellphones.

Apple, whose biggest challenge may be persuading Americans to spend $500 or $600 for an iPhone, has said it wants to have the devices in the hands of 1 percent of the world’s cellphone users, or about 10 million people, by the end of next year. Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like more and more the google rumors are getting hotter by the min.

via financialpost 

Anyone can get the Web on their cellphone these days. But now it seems Google is interested in so much more than that. It has reportedly approached the Federal Communications Commission recently about obtaining wireless spectrum, the base upon which mobile-phone networks are built, in the U.S. agency’s next auction.

Never mind the potential buyout of Bell Canada Inc. or Apple Inc.’s much-hyped introduction of the iPhone yesterday, there’s a much larger, game-changing force in telecommunications lurking just around the corner.

Search engine giant Google Inc. has been putting together a massive cable network to provide customers around the world with telecommunications services ranging from broadband Internet to home and mobile phones.

Google’s plan has been underway for some time and is now gaining momentum. For at least the past three years, the company has been buying up swaths of unused fibre-optic cable — so-called “dark fibre” — around the world. Telephone and cable companies overbuilt these lines, which form the basis of the Internet, during the tech boom in the early part of this decade and Google has been only too happy to take the unused infrastructure off their hands. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gizmodo.com

Talk about stupid and even more stupid.

yes been waiting for that iphone review, here’s one for you

 By yahoo’s Gina Hughes

Network: Surprisingly, the iPhone does not run on a third-generation (3G) network, instead it runs on the slower EDGE network. Forbes thinks Apple opted for the slower network because AT&T’s EDGE coverage spans across 13,000 cities and towns nationwide, compared with only 165 major U.S metro areas that have 3G coverage. It also brings up another excellent point. Since 3G devices are interchangeable between faster and slower networks, why did Apple still choose EDGE? Other AT&T smartphones like Samsung’s BlackJack and Treo 750 run on 3G, and for what I understand AT&T is slowing moving away from EDGE. So perhaps a second- or third-generation iPhone will have 3G capability. And while the iPhone may have Wi-Fi capabilities, realistically, looking for a hotspot when you’re out can be a challenge, unless you pay an extra $10 for T-Mobile access at Starbucks. Read the rest of this entry »

Seriously this is not looking good, I now don’t see the need for to purchase the iphone. But thats just me. Engadget is reporting this as listed facts from various reviews.

• Oh, and no MMS. And sorry, no voice dialing, either.
• Contact groups can’t be emailed as contact lists.
• Apple sez between 300-400 charges the iPhone will lose battery capacity — you’ll send it in and get the cell replaced for a fee. Meh. We knew this would be the case, but still, meh.
• Apple can (and supposedly will) be rolling out periodic updates — no surprise there.
• Pogue again confirms document file reading — but not editing — for PDF, Word, and Excel (only).
• Adobe Flash support is officially out. It’s just not in the browser. Neither is there any other kind of embedded video support. Sorry everybody, that’s that.
• It will take snaps, but won’t record video. How can Apple love YouTube as much as it does and not realize cellphone-shot movies make up a sizeable chunk of the crazy crap you find on there?
• Sorry, music can’t be used as a ringtone — even if it’s just a raw MP3. No additional ringtones will be sold at launch.
• Voice quality is said to be good — not great.

More here

I think the plans is too expensive, considering to up your text messages you have to pay more for that. It is a shame because other carrier have cheaper data plans that does not eat up the change left in your pocke tafter buying a $500 dollar phone.

On other news the activation of the (with a $36 activation fee sigh) can be done over itunes. Sight apple and their closed system behavior.
Courtesy Engadget

Update: Boy Genius has a tip from a “high up source” that the iPhone data plan is going to be around $34.99 to $44.99, have unlimited data, and somewhere between 2000 text messages to unlimited text messages. Oh, and it may just be called the iPlan.

Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone will carry a $499 to $599 pricetag, not including taxes, depending whether you choose the 4 gigabyte or the 8 gigabyte model.

But that’s not how much it will cost to own one. With five days to go before the device goes on sale, AT&T has still not published the rate card for its iPhone service plans or indicated whether there will be any rebate on the hardware. We do know how much AT&T charges BlackBerry users, however: between $34.99 and $79.99 per month for data and anywhere from $39.99 to $99.99 per month for voice.

Choosing the entry-level iPhone (assuming no rebate) and the lowest possible price for a two-year contract, this is what we get:

iPhone (4 gig model):                                $499.00 plus tax
AT&T voice 450 minutes/mos.                 879.36
AT&T data                                                       839.76
TOTAL (2 years):                                    $2,218.12 plus tax

That’s not counting the cool-looking Bluetooth headset (reported cost: $179) or any protective covering you might buy to keep from scratching the glass screen. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s hype. There’s hysteria. And there’s history.

The hype around Apple Inc.’s upcoming iPhone is abundantly clear. So is the hysteria. But how the iPhone will leave its historical mark after Friday’s launch is to be seen.

Will the gadget — which triples as a cell phone, iPod media player and a wireless Web device — be as “revolutionary” as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has claimed?

Even if the product flops for some reason or stays limited to the high-end corner of the smart phone market, the iPhone has already jolted the industry, showing that it is not just the body and outward beauty of the handset that counts, but what’s inside.

Remember the television ads for the Motorola RAZR?

The commercials showed off the sexy, thin profile of the clamshell handset and seduced more than 50 million people from 2004 to 2006 to buy it, making it the most popular cell phone ever sold.

But people want more now. There are plenty of slim, ultra-thin options out there, but not many make finding photos, saving phone contacts, picking up voice mail and selecting ringtones insanely easy.

“This is the most anticipated phone since Alexander Graham Bell did his,” said Michael Gartenberg, an industry analyst at JupiterResearch. “Part of it is the fascination with Apple’s products and how well they design them, but it’s also about how poor the design in software is in cell phones now, and how much time Apple has spent working on this.”

Apple’s iPhone commercials show a finger swiping the touch screen display to activate the home menu, and with one tap on the photo icon, up pop your photos. Another icon zips over to your contacts.

Not a drop-down menu in sight.

“A few handset makers have been trying to make the phone simpler without having to refer to a manual that’s 18 times the size of the phone,” said Richard Doherty, president of The Envisioneering Group, a research company. “But Apple is going for the moon here.” Read the rest of this entry »

Engadget is reporting some impression of the Iphone, and some of my fears that I had expressed early are stated below….

• The keyboard was simply described as “disappointing”. Keyboarding with two thumbs often registers multiple key presses (two or three at a time) resulting in a lot of mistakes. The best way to type is with a single finger (as shown in most of Apple’s demos), but two thumbs is supposedly very difficult. After trying it for a number of days our source gave up using their thumbs.
• The text auto-correction only works well for simple words, but doesn’t work for proper names. We can only assume this bit will get better with time as Apple fills out its predictive text dictionary.
• “It won’t replace a BlackBerry. It’s not good for text input. It’s just not a business product.” Read the rest of this entry »