Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Petition launched to protest Rogers iPhone rates
An iPhone With A Keyboard?
Is Apple Working On An iPhone With A Physical Keyboard? I Hope Not
iPhone Will Ship In Green Packaging - Wrapped in Dutch spuds
iPhone 3G To Be Shipped In Eco-friendly Packaging: Spuds
Hong Kong Welcomes Sweet Iphone Rates, Starting At $24/Month
RBC: Over half of smartphone buyers want iPhone
iPhone Is The Last 'Must Have' Handset, Says Analyst
Why more people want the 3G iPhone
Petition launched to protest Rogers iPhone rates
Updated Tue. Jul. 1 2008 9:13 AM ET
The Canadian Press reports:
A Canadian online petition has been launched to protest the rate plans offered by Rogers Communications Inc. and its Fido subsidiary for Apple's iPhone when it goes on sale next week.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/4p87vn
An iPhone With A Keyboard?
The Register's Guy Kewney reports:
It is an article of faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does is right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will never produce a version that does have a keyboard.
Fervent fans can therefore see no reason to change the iPhone from its current "type on the touch screen, or not at all" design. As one of the more zealous remarked when the suggestion was even mentioned: "The only people who think it needs a keyboard are people who have never used it."
Rumours from inside Cupertino suggest that Jobs himself doesn't have this sort of religious hangup about his own work. Reports from inside mobile operators show that whether or not he ever makes it work, he is already trying to make a "slide-out" keyboard for a corporate version of the iPhone.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/30/iphone_keyboard/
Is Apple Working On An iPhone With A Physical Keyboard? I Hope Not
VentureBeat's MG Siegler says:
While the iPhone 3G (launching next Friday) has eliminated two major complaints about the original iPhone: lack of 3G network support and lack of GPS, other complaints are rising up. One, which has also been around since the device's inception, is its lack of a physical keyboard. With the iPhone 3G now squarely aimed at business users as well as consumers, with features such as Microsoft Exchange support, these complaints are being amplified.
Apple may be listening, too. The company is currently working on prototypes for an iPhone with a physical keyboard, according to a new report from The Register. Such a version would not be out until next year, but the report claims some versions already exist and are nearly functional.
I don't know about this one.
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http://tinyurl.com/6h4rhl
iPhone Will Ship In Green Packaging - Wrapped in Dutch spuds
The Register's Jan Libbenga reports:
Apple's new iPhone 3G will be shipped on July 11 in a potato starch paper tray. Apple placed an order with Dutch company PaperFoam, which also makes packages for Motorola.
The company confirmed this today to Dutch blog Bright. According to CEO Hans Arentsen, Apple ordered "millions of paperfoam packages" for its new 3G iPhone.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/30/iphone_shipped_in_potato_starch/
iPhone 3G To Be Shipped In Eco-friendly Packaging: Spuds
TUAW's Robert Palmer reports:
The new iPhone 3G will ship in a paper tray made that has a carbon footprint a tenth the size of a plastic tray, according to its manufacturer.
The paper tray, manufactured by Dutch firm PaperFoam, is made from potato or tapioca starch.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/49gykg
Hong Kong Welcomes Sweet Iphone Rates, Starting At $24/Month
Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng reports:
It's about to be a good time to be an iPhone owner and live in Hong Kong, as the country will soon welcome some of the lowest mobile service plans for the device. Hutchinson Telecommunications (also known as "3") announced today its pricing and subscription rates for the iPhone when it launches the iPhone on July 11 in Hong Kong and Macau. The lowest-priced plan is a mere HK$188, or roughly US$24 per month.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/4ms85p
RBC: Over half of smartphone buyers want iPhone
Electronista reports:
A great proportion of current smartphone shoppers have already set their minds on the iPhone 3G, says RBC Capital Markets. The investment bank says it ran a survey of some 3,600 members of its Technology Adoption Panel in the aftermath of June 9th's 3G announcement, and found that of those planning to get a smartphone in the next 90 says, 56 percent wanted the new iPhone. RBC notes that this contrasts with a study conducted in March, in which only 35 percent were expecting to buy a new iPhone.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/06/30/rbc.high.iphone.demand/
iPhone Is The Last 'Must Have' Handset, Says Analyst
ITWire's Stephen Withers reports:
Carriers may have been working hard to gain the rights to sell Apple's iPhone, but the idea of exclusive access to particular mobile phone handsets is on the way out, according to an analyst.
"In every market around the world we have seen headlines on feverish bidding by communications carriers to secure the rights to the iPhone," said Bruce McCabe, managing director of S2 Intelligence.
"Within three years, however, the notion of telecommunications companies trying to secure an advantage through exclusive rights to a handset will be dead."
For the full report visit here:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19121/1151/
Why more people want the 3G iPhone
The National Post's Jonathan Ratner reports:
New data compiled from 3,600 respondents following Apple Inc.'s Worldwide Developers Conference shows "unprecedented pent-up" demand for the 3G iPhone, with 56% of those planning to buying a smartphone in the next 90 going with the iPhone, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky. Another 25% indicated that they may buy the high-anticipated device "sometime in the future," which represents a more than doubling of interest since before the first iPhone was launched.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/4bk42j
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