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Real Speed Dial App for the Apple iPhone
Now That’s Tough: Lost iPhone Survives Pounding Of Highway Traffic
iPhones Without Borders for January, 2008
The iPhones of Equatorial Guinea
Great Moments: iPhone Raises the Bar for Supply Chain Performance




Real Speed Dial App for the Apple iPhone

mobilewhack.com reports:

If the lack of a REAL speed dial on the iPhone is driving you nuts, the Speed Dial app by the Big Boss Source might calm your nerves. Yes, this is a REAL speed dial application....

For the full report visit here:
http://www.mobilewhack.com/real-speed-dial-app-for-the-apple-iphone/






Now That’s Tough: Lost iPhone Survives Pounding Of Highway Traffic

The Baltimore Sun's David Zeiler reports:

Anyone who doubted the durability of the iPhone need only read Mike Beauchamp’s story on Flickr, where he posted numerous photos of his iPhone that still works despite falling onto an interstate highway and getting run over.

.....After putting gas in his car at a highway rest stop, Beauchamp forgot that he had left his iPhone sitting on the trunk....

Figuring he’s lost the iPhone forever, Beauchamp again got back on the interstate. About a quarter of a mile along he spotted something glimmering in the next lane – his iPhone...

From Beauchamp’s account: 'As I watched helplessly from the shoulder, the semi plowed [into] my phone at full speed, throwing it to the ditch on the other side of the highway.'

Amazingly, the iPhone survived....

For the full report click here.






iPhones Without Borders for January, 2008

Market research firm WebApplications reports:

We've heard the rumors that many iPhones are being used outside the officially sanctioned countries. So, we decided to check it out and surprise, surprise, it's true. The iPhone has a presence in almost every country on earth. Here is a list of countries and the overall web-browsing usage share of the iPhone for the country.

Surprisingly (or perhaps not - see item below) Equatorial Guinea, of all places, tops the list with the highest per capita usage share at 2.21% - (the USA is ony 0.20%)

You can check it out at:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=21






The iPhones of Equatorial Guinea

Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says:

It’s one of the smallest nations in Africa, roughly the size of Hawaii with a population of half a million. Yet the former Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea tops the list of iPhone-using countries compiled by Net Applications, which issued a report on Friday that ranks them by the relative frequency with which the Web was accessed in January via an Apple iPhone....

And it’s really not so surprising to find Equatorial Guinea in the No. 1 spot. The country’s economy has boomed since the discovery of offshore oil reserves in 1996. According to the CIA Factbook, Equatorial Guinea now has the fourth highest per capita income in the world, after Luxembourg, Bermuda and Jersey.

For the full commentary visit here:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/02/02/the-iphones-of-equatorial-guinea/






Great Moments: iPhone Raises the Bar for Supply Chain Performance

WorldTradeMag's Jeremy N. Smith says:

On May 30, 2007, at the D5 conference in southern California, Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs a simple question. “Five years out,” Mossberg said, “what are the core functions of the device formerly known as the cell phone?”

One month later the Apple iPhone debuted. In thirty hours, the company sold 270,000 units, a pace of 150 per minute, each priced before contract fees at $499-$599. By early September, sales had crossed the one million mark—an adoption rate roughly ten times faster than that for the original iPod. Apple then cut the iPhone’s price by $200; its sales pace doubled.

By year’s end, corporate analysts predicted, global consumers would have purchased three million iPhones—with another seven million to go in 2008. In any case, the company closed its fiscal fourth quarter with record revenue and profits: $6.22 billion and $904 million, respectively.

If he couldn’t predict the future, how did Steve Jobs do so well now?

For the full report click here.

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