Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Monday, January 28, 2008
Apple Applies To Light Up Laptop Touchpads, iPod Clickwheels
Here's Why I Predict iPhone Will Come Down To $299 Within A Few Months
iPhone Privacy Concerns
Malware Authors Target Mac Emerging Markets
Elgan: A New iPhone This Summer?
Apple Math Could Point To iPhone Overstock
Apple's iPhone Numbers Do Not Add Up
iPhone and iPod touch: "Cannot send" email message alerts
Updating and restoring iPhone and iPod touch software
Apple Applies To Light Up Laptop Touchpads, iPod Clickwheels
The Register's James Sherwood reports:
Apple has touched on a new way to help you find your way around its products. The company has registered technology in the US that could see the iPod's clickwheel or your MacBook Air's touchpad light-up when you finger it.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/25/apple_scroll_wheel_light_patent/
Here's Why I Predict iPhone Will Come Down To $299 Within A Few Months
ZNet blogger Russell Shaw reports:
With his customary deftness, my CNET colleague Tom Krazit mashes up some numbers from AT&T's earnings call this week with other numbers from Apple iPhone sales and projected sales reports.
Tom's conclusion: iPhone sales are slowing, especially in AT&T's sales channels.
OK, let us take that as fact. Where does this lead us?....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3122
iPhone Privacy Concerns
MacFormat's Christopher Phin says:
No, nothing sinister. But I did learn an important fact yesterday: if you don't want people to read the emails you're writing, don't write them on an iPhone.
To read more, click here.
http://www.macformat.co.uk/page/macformat?entry=iphone_privacy_concerns
Malware Authors Target Mac Emerging Markets
The Register's John Leyden reports:
Cybercrooks are looking beyond PCs running Microsoft as targets for attack, with Macs increasingly in the firing line of hacker activity.
That's according to the latest edition of the SophosSecurity Threat Report, which predicts that - based on early flaws with the inbuilt Safari browser - Apple's iPhone devices might also become targets in future.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/25/mac_malware_menace/
Elgan: A New iPhone This Summer?
Computerworld Mike Elgan says:
Apple reported Tuesday that since its launch June 29 and up to mid-January, it had sold 4 million iPhones, but most analysts were expecting a number more like 5 million.
The most conservative estimate of iPhone sales would make it easily the most successful cell phone launch in history. In its first try, Apple gained 20% of all smart phone sales and clobbered everyone except, of course, Research In Motion, which sold nearly double that percentage.
So why are Apple fans so defensive and investors so disappointed?....
To read more, click here.
Apple Math Could Point To iPhone Overstock
InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves reports:
Like bulldog detective Sherlock Holmes, financial analysts are looking for an answer to Apple's iPhone mathematics problem.
What raised concern on Wall Street is the discrepancy between the number of iPhones Apple says it has shipped since launching the gadget last summer and the number of iPhones sold by AT&T, the exclusive wireless service provider in the United States.
In reporting quarterly earnings this week, Apple said it had shipped 4 million iPhones. During its quarterly report, AT&T said it had about 2 million iPhone customers as of the end of 2007.
Both sides have said they're happy with the product's performance in the market, and Apple remains confident that it can hit its target of 10 million phones shipped within its first year of sales. But financial analysts are wondering whether there's trouble brewing.
For the full report click here.
Apple's iPhone Numbers Do Not Add Up
The Register's John Oates says:
Analysts looking at both Apple's results and those posted by AT&T - Apple's iPhone partner in the US - have noticed a large discrepancy in the figures.
Apple says it has sold 3.7m iPhones in total. AT&T says it has sold 2m iPhones, and European operators are believed to have sold between 300,000 and 400,000 handsets.
Which means there are either 1.3m iPhones being used as bookends, or an awful lot of people have gone to the trouble of unlocking the devices to run them on different networks.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/25/iphone_numbers_confusion/
iPhone and iPod touch: "Cannot send" email message alerts
A new Apple Knowledge Base article says:
Manually moving or transferring mail messages into your Outbox for your email account on your iPhone or iPod touch and trying to send can result in erroneous "cannot send" alert messages to appear on the device.
For example, if you transfer a message that was sent to you from "John Smith" to your email account's Outbox, Mail will notice that there's a message in the Outbox, but it won't know what email account the message originated from. This can result in random "Cannot send" email alerts to appear repeatedly on the device.
Products affected
iPhone
iPod touch (with January Software Upgrade)
For the solution, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307371
Updating and restoring iPhone and iPod touch software
A new Apple Knowledge Base article says:
You can use iTunes to update or restore iPhone or iPod touch software. Apple recommends updating iPhone or iPod touch to use the latest software. You can also restore the software, which puts iPhone or iPod touch back to its factory condition.
If you choose to update, the iPhone or iPod touch software is updated but your settings and media are not affected.
If you choose to restore, all data is erased from iPhone or iPod touch, including songs, videos, contacts, photos, calendar information, and any other data. All iPhone or iPod touch settings are restored to their factory condition. Whenever you update or restore your iPhone or iPod touch software, Apple highly recommends that you perform a sync prior to the update in order to back up any changes since your last sync. If you have movie rentals on the device, see this document before restoring.
For more information, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305744
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