The Samsung Instinct is a phone released last Friday by Sprint Nextel which resembles the iPhone in many ways. USA Today columnist Edward C. Baig compares this new iPhone clone with the genuine article made by Apple. His verdict: the Instinct has some nice features that are missing from the iPhone, but the [...]
The market research firm iSuppli Corp reported on Tuesday that the new second-generation iPhone will have have a higher profit margin than the original iPhone. A new iPhone 2 will cost $199 plus a service plan from AT&T. AT&T in turn pays Apple an estimated $300 subsidy for delivering them a new custom. [...]
Tethering a cell phone to a laptop allows you to use your cell for wireless internet on the road. This could clearly be a very enticing usage of the new iPhone’s faster 3G speeds. Unfortunately, it appears that tethering won’t be allowed on the new iPhone 3G. So says iPhone Atlas’s article:
…according [...]
This San Jose Mercury News article highlights the enthusiasm of software developers towards the introduction of the new iPhone App Store. Analysts even boast that the iPhone will spawn a $1 billion or more software industry:
“I’m seeing an excitement among mobile developers that I’ve never seen before,” said Sam Altman, chief executive and co-founder [...]
iPhone unlocking may soon be no longer. The new second-generation iPhone 3G can only be purchased with a long-term AT&T service contract. This revelation certainly dashed the hopes of the many people who hoped to use the new iPhone with a non-AT&T service provider. From the Baltimore Sun:
From Now Apple has contracts with carriers in over [...]