Google and Apple have had plenty of scuffles recently – over Google Voice and Google Latitude to name just two. Google boss man Eric Schmidt is no longer on Apple’s board either. Could it be time for Google Maps to leave the iPhone? It’s looking that way.
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It’s official. The Apple iPhone is coming to Orange in the UK this year. For anyone itching for an iPhone, but eager to side-step O2, it’s Christmas come early.
Orange just confirmed it has “reached an agreement to bring iPhone 3G and 3GS to Orange UK customers later this year.” It’s completely legit with Apple in on the deal.
You can already pick up an iPhone 3G on the QT from T–Mobile, as we found out yesterday. But it seems things are about to go legit’ and over the counter, with a new report claiming O2′s iPhone exclusivity will come to an end on 9 October. So where will you be able to pick up this new network–friendly iPhone? Read on and we’ll serve up all the deets.
Don’t fancy the trudge up email mountain this morning? Start as you mean to go on by putting it off and catching up with all the latest gadget news instead. Much more interesting, no? Read on for your techie breakie.
There’s been rumour of iPhone exclusivity coming to an end for months now, but the whispers have just turned to shouts, with T-Mobile confirming that it’s in talks with Apple to stock the iPhone 3G, and Orange on the cards too.
It took the iPhone Dev Team a few days, but they’ve managed to get their unlock tool for iPhone 3G working and ready for public consumption. Ultrasn0w, which is a contender for best hacker name ever, works with either Redsn0w or PwnageTool to jailbreak the iPhone, then unlocks the iPhone OS 3.0 software, allowing you to use the touchscreen handset on any network you like.
iPhone 3G owners hoping the only difference between their handsets and the new iPhone 3G S would be one fewer megapixels and a couple more milliseconds waiting are in for a disappointment. It turns out the iPhone 3G S has powerful graphics support its predecessor can’t match, meaning we could be about to see a splintering of support for games and other power hungry programs on the App Store.
Once in a while a real trophy gadget comes along. The Apple iPhone was one such, but how we quaked at Apple’s attempt to hide a lack of 3G beneath the gossamer thin facade of a sexy touchscreen and brain-dullingly simple user interface. It was a bit like putting lipstick and a nice hat on the Elephant Man. Apple, however, has kindly rectified that problem with the aptly named Apple iPhone 3G – the mobile the original iPhone should have been.