The iPhone and iPod touch are almost indistinguishable devices except for one major difference - you can make calls from your iPhone, and you can't from your iPod touch. For the privilege of making phone calls with your iPhone, you have to pay $100 more upfront to Apple for the device itself, plus a minimum of $60/month to AT&T for the next two years. Let's say you didn't need that kind of firepower from your iPod touch, but that you would like to use it make a phone call every now and then. You can, and today I'm going to show you how to make VoIP phone calls from your iPod touch or iPhone using a freeware application called SIP-VoIP.

The Good Housekeeping Research Institute, bestower of the famed Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, recently compared numerous cell phones with QWERTY keyboards to test their texting mettle. While GHRI and its consumer panel found the iPhone to be intuitive and easy to use, they weren't so thrilled about its touchscreen-based soft keyboard.

Getting tired of the GSM interference from iPhone any time it's near a pair of speakers? Me too.

It's called "TDMA Interference" and it's an unavoidable side effect of how GSM phones work. It doesn't happen with CDMA phones (i.e. Verizon), but nearly all GSM phones including AT&T and T-Mobile are susceptible to it.....

RadTech has a unique solution to TDMA interference - move the offending device (the iPhone) away from the speakers. Their iPhone Dock Extender does just that by extending the iPhone two feet (64cm) away from the speaker. It's a Apple Dock 30-pin Male to 30-pin Female cable that retails for US$39.95.

Punters in the US aren't interested in buying music on their phones, regardless of the price, says a new study from Jupiter Research.

In fact, only 14 per cent of those polled were interested in buying proper music via their mobile. Another 28 per cent are happy to purchase ringtones, but the remainder have no interest in mobile music at all.

The iPhone officially debuted last June, and it's been launching ever since. Apple just keeps adding more features, cutting prices and expanding its software to keep the device fresh and the buzz buzzing. That's just one of the main lessons Rural Telecommunications' John Graham says businesses can learn from the iPhone and the way Apple is steering the platform.

"If you're not a reviewer, chances are you won't even bother to look at the manual," wrote Time magazine reviewer Lev Grossman about the Apple iPhone. That's nothing less than a stunning comment about any cell phone, particularly one that brings you phone, camera, Internet , WiFi and, of course, an iPod music player. Unless you are 16 years old or younger, you probably do not use 5 percent of the bells and whistles on your cell phone. You tried when the phone was new, but there was no way you were going to master even one page of the manual. You gave up.

Grossman adds, "It's also the best phone that anybody ever made." Even though he says it sounds like a sales pitch, his overall assessment of the Apple iPhone is simple: "This thing is a marvel."

Making a call with iPhone is as simple as tapping a name. You won't need to re-enter all your contacts because iPhone syncs with the address book you already use on your computer—Address Book or Entourage on a Mac, or Microsoft Outlook Contacts or Outlook Express on a PC. If you keep your contacts on the web using Yahoo! Address Book, iPhone can sync with them, too. To get ready for iPhone, organize your contacts in one of these applications and make sure they're up to date with the latest phone numbers and email addresses. If you don't have contacts on your computer, don't worry. You can still enter them directly into iPhone.

A growing number of content-hungry consumers are circumventing carriers, depriving the likes of Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel of a key source of revenue. Currently about 80% of content for mobile phones is purchased from carrier Web portals; in five years carrier portals will account for only 25% of all content purchases, estimates David Kerr, an analyst at Strategy Analytics. U.S. carriers are already feeling the pinch. Growth in revenue from so-called mobile content—ringtones, mobile games, wallpaper, music, and video downloads—slowed to 15% in 2007, according to CTIA-The Wireless Assn., an industry trade group. In 2006 content sales surged 90%, to $1.9 billion, consistent with the pace of earlier years.

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will be the foundry to produce Infineon Technoloiges' 3G baseband chip, which will be used in the new Apple iPhone that supports 3G, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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