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Apple Explains iPhone Battery Replacement Plan
iSuppli iPhone Analysis: Physical Teardown, Manufacturer Wins, Predictions
iPhone Hackers Disclose Vulns And Hunt For Clues
Stingy AT&T spoiled the iPhone party
Apple iPhone Sold Out at Most Stores After Four Days
Making the iPhone Better for Business
Malware Scammers Target iPhone
Apple's iPhone Profit Margin Greater Than 50%
How The Apple iPhone Works
eWEEK: Will the iPhone Be an iNightmare?
The Mac Night Owl: Is Apple Gouging iPhone Customers?
Gene Steinberg talks about the iPhone and other cool stuff with tech writer Joe Wilcox and Special Correspondent David Biedny this week on The Tech Night Owl
Apple Explains iPhone Battery Replacement Plan
Macworld's Jonny Evans reports: ,
Apple has revealed details of its battery replacement plan for the iPhone.
The plan costs US$79 plus an additional $6.95 postage and packing. Under the plan, iPhone users will be able to have their battery replaced if it fails, the plan extends to devices that have passed their warranty period.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134130-pg,1/article.html
iSuppli iPhone Analysis: Physical Teardown, Manufacturer Wins, Predictions
TMCnet Associate Editor Mae Kowalke reports:
Technology research and consultancy firm iSuppli revealed on Tuesday its analysis so far of the new iPhone from Apple. The firm conducted a physical "teardown" of the product, disassembling it into its component parts, and also conducted a similar level of inspection regarding potential impact of iPhone on the mobile phone market.
The physical teardown allowed iSuppli to create what it called a Bill-of-Materials (BoM), listing all the parts and which companies manufactured them. While the list roughly matched iSuppli's predictions from earlier in the year, the firm did say that iPhone contained a few surprises.
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Apple iPhone Review - The Register
The Register's Cade Metz reports:
Review No, Apple didn't send us an iPhone. Newsweek got one. And The Wall Street Journal. And The New York Times. But Jobs and Co. have a very different attitude towards El Reg. We weren't likely to get an official review unit even before our very own Ashlee Vance publicly questioned the sanity of the company's PR staff. We had to wait in line like everyone else....
The iPhone itself? Once I got it home, I couldn't help but enjoy the novelty of it all. The "Look Ma, no stylus!" interface. The visual voicemail. The display image that rotates as the device rotates. Fresh out of the box, the iPhone is so much fun because it's such a departure from what's come before. But even during this wide-eyed honeymoon period, frustrations set in from time to time, and you have to wonder how the device will fare in the long-term.
For the full review visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/30/first_apple_iphone_review/
iPhone Hackers Disclose Vulns And Hunt For Clues
The Register's Dan Goodin reports:
The game is on for hackers trying to spot security vulnerabilities in Apple's iPhone and already they're scoring points. Less than 72 hours after the iPhone's introduction, researchers have reported at least one flaw that could allow an attacker some level of control over the device, while other hackers have uncovered passwords hiding in Apple software that could prove key in gaining root access, they said.
The most serious flaw, reported by Errata Security, resides in the iPhone's Safari browser. By effecting a buffer overflow in the application, an attacker can take control of the browser and run code on the device, said Robert Graham, CEO of Errata.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/03/iphone_hacking_progress/
Stingy AT&T spoiled the iPhone party
The Register's Andrew Orlowski says:
Much of the urban United States has enjoyed indoor toilets for some years now, and - Hallelujah! - thanks to Apple, it finally has a modern mobile phone, too.
While Apple shifted over 500,000 iPhones this weekend, its partner AT&T didn't keep its part of the bargain. And that's because it couldn't, a research note by DKIB today suggests.
Data congestion left the mobile operator red-faced, and buyers fuming. Because most of AT&T's network uses an ancient, time sharing 2.5G technology - placing the USA on a par with Cambodia and Sierra Leone - the data congestion impacted voice callers, too.
(Apple decided against supporting the thoroughly modern 3G CDMA networks used by Sprint PCS and Verizon. Contrast this with the much smaller Palm, which managed to launch its Treo 650 in 3G CDMA and EDGE versions.)
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/03/stingy_att_iphone_network_snafu/
Apple iPhone Sold Out at Most Stores After Four Days
Bloomberg's Connie Guglielmo reports:
Apple Inc. ran out of iPhones at more than half its stores less than a week after introducing the combination iPod music player and handset in the U.S.
Buyers emptied outlets in 10 states, with 95 of 164 stores reporting sellouts last night, according to Apple's Web site. Cupertino, California-based Apple started selling two models of the iPhone, priced at $499 and $599, on June 29.
Shoppers may have taken home as many as 700,000 iPhones over the weekend, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst David Bailey has estimated, twice his initial projection. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs has sought to use the connection to the iPod business, which pulls in about $10 billion in revenue a year, to reach his goal of selling 10 million phones in 2008.
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a7A4BDWusr2U
Making the iPhone Better for Business
BusinessWeek's Stephen H. Wildstrom says:
The arrival of the Apple iPhone has been an occasion for both praise of its breakthrough design and skepticism regarding its usefulness for business. Even before the device's June 29 debut in stores, Gartner Group warned corporations that the use of iPhones for e-mail could create serious security problems. On June 28, employees of the McGraw-Hill Companies, publisher of BusinessWeek, received official notice that because the iPhone "has been designed mainly for the consumer market and would not work within a corporate computing environment…it cannot be supported."
Beyond its enormous coolness factor, the iPhone is in many ways a significant advance over all the other smartphones on the market. Apple designed it without catering to the extremely conservative tastes of wireless carriers. The result, while far from perfect, is an object of desire that many corporate executives will want to carry instead of their stodgy Research in Motion BlackBerrys or Palm Treos.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2007/tc2007072_848765.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
Malware Scammers Target iPhone
The Register's John Leyden reports:
Fraudsters have been busy at work exploiting the hype surrounding last week's launch of the Apple iPhone.
One strain of scam email makes the bogus claim that recipients have won one of the much sought after devices in a bid to trick prospective marks into visiting a malware loaded site. The site attempts to exploit a number of well-known IE vulnerabilities in order to turn the unprotected PCs of victims into spam bots.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/03/iphone_scams/
Apple's iPhone Profit Margin Greater Than 50%
Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports:
Each 8GB iPhone sold by Apple Inc. puts $333 more in the till than the device cost to build, a market research company said today after tearing apart the new phone.
El Segundo, Calif.-based iSuppli Corp. calculated the bill of materials and manufacturing costs of the $599 8GB iPhone as $263.83, giving Apple a profit margin of nearly 56% on the device. The tear-down analysis only spells out what's inside the iPhone, component prices and estimated cost to make; it doesn't take into account research and development or marketing costs.
For the full report click here.
How The Apple iPhone Works
HowStuffWorks.com says:
....In some ways, the iPhone is more like a palmtop computer than a cellular phone. As with many smartphones, you can use it to make and receive calls, watch movies, listen to music, browse the Web, and send and receive e-mail and text messages. You can also take pictures with a built-in camera, import photos from your computer and organize them all using the iPhone's software. Although it's not a turn-by-turn GPS receiver, the iPhone also lets you view map and satellite data from Google Maps, including overlays of nearby businesses.
A modified version of the Macintosh OS X operating system, also used on Apple desktop and laptop computers, lets you interact with all of these applications. It displays icons for each application on the iPhone's screen. It also manages battery power and system security. The operating system synchs the phone with your computer, a process that requires a dock much like the one used to synch an iPod. It also lets you multitask and move through multiple open applications, just like you can on a laptop or desktop computer....
This article will explore exactly how the iPhone's touch-screen carries instructions from your fingertips to the phone's internal circuitry. We'll also look at the iPhone's features, its hardware and how it compares to smartphones and other electronic devices.
For the full report visit here:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/iphone.htm
eWEEK: Will the iPhone Be an iNightmare?
Opinion: Even the tough stance of IT managers may not be enough to stem the iPhone's tide.
To read more, go to:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2154583,00.asp
The Mac Night Owl: Is Apple Gouging iPhone Customers?
You’ve read the reports. It costs an estimated $265.83 to buy the raw materials and build the $599 iPhone. So Apple is, therefore, making 55% profit on every unit sold.
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Gene Steinberg talks about the iPhone and other cool stuff with tech writer Joe Wilcox and Special Correspondent David Biedny this week on The Tech Night Owl
On this week's all-star episode, the Night Owl explores Apple's newest success story, the iPhone. One of our regular guests, Joe Wilcox, who is the Editor of Microsoft Watch, will be interviewed direct from his new iPhone, and he'll talk about everything from the initial buying experience, the setup process to ongoing use as his main business phone.
We also pay a visit to "The David Biedny Zone, " where our Special Correspondent will hold forth on not only the iPhone, but the best personal computer keyboards and other subjects not often discussed on tech radio shows.
You can tune into the broadcast Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at:
http://www.techbroadcasting.com
Our new chat room will also be open for listener participation. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.
You can also access our show's Podcast feed, now available at:
http://www.techbroadcasting.com/nightowl.xml
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