Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Monday, May 12, 2008
iPhone "Currently Unavailable" At Apple Store
iPhone graphic: Apple's New Map Of The World
iPhone vs. BlackBerry: Which Do Consumers Love Most?
iPhone: Troubleshooting USB connections
iPhone "Currently Unavailable" At Apple Store
Ars Technica's Charles Jade reports:
Following reported shortages of iPhones by UK reseller O2 earlier this week, both the Apple Store in the US and UK "appear" to have run out of iPhones. It is probably best to say the outage is parenthetical at this time, because both the French and German stores still have stock. Further, around San Francisco and Silicon Valley, arguably the center of the Apple universe, you can still walk into a local Apple Store and pick up an iPhone.
Nonetheless, there is at least some circumstantial evidence that iPhones could be running out, besides the obvious imminent release of the 3G iPhone.....
For the full report visit here:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/05/10/iphone-currently-unavailable-at-apple-store
iPhone graphic: Apple's New Map Of The World
Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says:
Like many Apple watchers, the investors at IMO's Apple Finance Forum have been closely following this week's flurry of announcements of iPhone deals with carriers around the world. One of the contributors to the forum - a regular from Toronto who posts as CdnPhoto - has summarized the information graphically in a color-coded map of the world....
You can check it out at:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/05/09/iphone-graphic-apples-new-map-of-the-world/
iPhone vs. BlackBerry: Which Do Consumers Love Most?
SeekingAlpha says:
ChangeWave's recent Smart Phone Wars report showed a rapidly evolving two-horse race between the Apple iPhone and Research in Motion BlackBerry – with second tier players like Palm and a host of others being shoved to the sidelines.
To follow-up, we took a close-up look at the features users love and hate about their iPhones and BlackBerrys as part of our March 2008 survey of 864 smart phone owners.
For the full report visit here:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/76450-iphone-apple-vs-blackberry-rim-which-do-consumers-love-most?source=yahoo
iPhone: Troubleshooting USB connections
A new Apple Knowledge Base article says:
When attempting to sync, update, or restore the iPhone, you may receive one or more of the following symptoms:
An alert message indicates an unknown error occurred
The iPhone unexpectedly disconnects during a sync or restore
Photos downloaded from the iPhone appear garbled or not all photos transfer
An alert message indicates the USB device cannot operate because it needs more power than is available
An alert message indicates "this device can perform faster" if you plug the device into a higher speed USB port
You can check it out at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1286
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