Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Monday, June 2, 2008
Free (Legal) Music for your iPod and iPhone
Apple iPhone Loses Share, RIM Gains
iPhone Gets The Hype As India Asks For Keys To BlackBerry
iPhone Will Shake Up Canada, Analysts Say
Android to offer iPhone-like App Store
Apple Store Detains Teens For Installing iPhone game
New iPhone Is Already Here
The Dawn of iPhone
Samsung retracts Safari phone claim
Free (Legal) Music for your iPod and iPhone
iLounge's Jesse David Hollington says:
Interested in free, legal music for your iPod or iPhone? Visit the new iLounge Free Music section of our site, featuring daily updated links to great indie and major artist releases available for immediate download!
If you have an iPod and far fewer songs than the gigabytes of storage space you have available, then you've probably asked one of iLounge's most popular questions: "how can I load my iPod up with free music?"
There are at least two answers to this question, one generally illegal, and one generally legal. You've probably already heard about the illegal free music options, but just in case you haven't, we'll run through the reasons you'll want to skip them and use the legal free music sites instead.
You can check it out at:
http://ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/free-music-for-your-ipod/
Apple iPhone Loses Share, RIM Gains
247wallst.com's Douglas A. McIntyre reports:
It may be the first bad news ever about the Apple iPhone, It is certainly good for RIM, the maker of the Blackberry, According to research firm IDC, the iPhone lost smartphone market share in the US during the first quarter.
Reuters writes "According to the report Rim's share of the U.S. market for advanced phones with computer like features such as e-mail rose to 44.5 percent in the first quarter from 35.1 percent in the fourth quarter while iPhone's share fell to 19.2 percent from 26.7 percent in the fourth quarter."
For the full report visit here:
http://www.247wallst.com/2008/05/apple-aapl-ipho.html
iPhone Gets The Hype As India Asks For Keys To BlackBerry
telecomasia.net's Robert Clark reports:
The iPhone jive circus is back in town. As if we're surprised.
Apple is clearing the shelves ahead of the next product launch, quite possibly at its June developers' conference.
Will it be the 3G version? Will Jobs go for the higher-res camera or the GPS chip? Or will he pull a surprise out of the sleeve of his black skivvy?
It doesn't matter to most us in this part of the world. Not even the Japanese have yet been accepted as trustworthy iPhone customers. China Mobile scoffed at Apple's ambitious commission scheme.
But given the rundown in inventory, it seems certain that iPhone 2.0 will be the first model to be sold legally in Asia-Pac through Apple's new partners at SingTel and affiliates.
Maybe Jobs fears the same kind of ungrateful treatment being dished out to that other popular high-end device, the BlackBerry.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.telecomasia.net/article.php?id_article=8746
iPhone Will Shake Up Canada, Analysts Say
ITBusiness.ca's Brian Jackson says:
When Rogers Communications makes the Apple iPhone available in Canada later this year, the telecom firm is likely to offer up a flat-rate unlimited data plan to customers, industry insiders say.
And such a move, they add, will fuel greater interest in wireless services - an area of telecommunications projected to grow rapidly in Canada over the next several years.
On the other hand, stiffer competition and increased labor costs is expected to temper revenue and profitability for the Canadian telecom sector as a whole.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/133702/2008/05/iphone_canada.html
Android to offer iPhone-like App Store
The Register's Cade Metz reports:
Google I/O Google will offer an iPhone-like app store for Android, giving developers a central means of distributing applications on its soon-to-be-open-source mobile platform. At least, it looks that way.
Speaking at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Android project leader Andy Rubin didn't officially announce an Android app store, but he pretty much guaranteed it's on the way.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/google_flirts_with_android_app_store/
Apple Store Detains Teens For Installing iPhone game
The Register's Austin Modine reports:
Four teens in Palo Alto, California, say they were detained and photographed by an Apple store after they downloaded a third-party application to an iPhone demo unit.
The youngsters told Mercury News that a manager of their local University Avenue Apple store called for police reinforcement after discovering the racing game, "Raging Thunder" had been installed on the touch screen phone. High school senior Daniel Fukuba was demonstrating the iPhone's features to his chums, when he downloaded the game.
Both the store employees and manager were at first unperturbed by the boys playing around with the demo unit. But after they left the store, a manager bolted out and demanded the teens return. The manager then called the police.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/apple_store_detains_kids_over_iphone_game/
New iPhone Is Already Here
Forbes' Brian Caulfield says:
The launch of the next-generation iPhone promises to be Steve Jobs' greatest stunt yet.
Apple, Jobs' secretive computer and gadget company, has been quietly positioning millions of units of a mysterious new product--almost certainly the new iPhone--in key markets since March. And yet, incredibly, not one credible image of Apple's new product has yet been published.
If the new phone is a flop, it's going to be a doozy. Apple is promising to sell 10 million of the gizmos this year; many investors are betting the Cupertino, Calif., company will sell many more than that. Yet Jobs has managed to keep the look, the feel and a complete list of the phone's features under wraps.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/29/stevejobs-iphone-apple-tech-intel-cx_bc_0530stevejobs.html
The Dawn of iPhone
MacLife's Lonnie Lazar, Susie Ochs and Zack Stern say:
Here's how Apple's must-have phone of 2007 is reinventing itself for 2008.
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in his January 9, 2007, keynote address, he called it "a widescreen iPod, mobile phone, and Internet communicator." And it was. Later in the speech, he explained that it ran a version of Mac OS X, designed for "desktop-class applications." And it did—but the iPhone only used the applications that Apple chose to build into its firmware. Developers could only write apps to run in the
Web browser, or be installed on hacked, or jailbroken, iPhones.
But on March 6, Apple announced the beginning of the iPhone Developer Program, which includes a software development kit (SDK). And in June 2008, Apple unveiled iPhone 2.0, a software update featuring the App Store, which will make adding new programs wirelessly to an iPhone as easy as buying a song on iTunes. Now the iPhone can start to blur the lines between smartphone and handheld Mac. And just like your Mac, your iPhone can be a game system. A way to keep in touch via voice, text, mail, and now chat. And, after addressing the needs of enterprise customers with the 2.0 update, an indispensable work buddy.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.maclife.com/article/the_dawn_of_iphone
Samsung retracts Safari phone claim
The Register's James Sherwood reports:
Despite Samsung announcing a few days ago that one of its handsets would use the Safari browser, it has since had to alter the claim because the L870 talker doesn't sport full Safari browsing.
Samsung originally claimed that the L870 would sport a feature dubbed "Safari browser (full browsing)". Many took this to mean that the handset would be running a version of Safari, but that's apparently not the case.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/30/samsung_l870_safari_claim/
Son of iPhone: The Next Revolution
The Times' Mark Harris says:
It seems as if it was only yesterday that Apple unveiled its revolutionary iPhone, yet the company is already gearing up for the launch of its successor.
As with the original, the new phone will boast many of the features that have helped make Apple one of the most desirable brands in the world. It will also have some new features, including 3G technology to speed up internet access, and applications that could herald a brave new world of mobile communications.
Gadget fans the world over are eagerly counting down the hours to Monday, June 9, when the new phone is expected to be unveiled by Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive.
For the full report visit here:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4030106.ece
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