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China expects iPhone to grab 10% share
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 20, 2009

China expects iPhone to grab 10% shareThe company designated as Apple’s only (so far) retailer and service provider in China says that they expect that the iPhone will attract a 10 percent market share of China’s 3G users.

A senior executive with China Unicom, the iPhone distributor [...]

Palm gives up [for now] on Pre + iTunes direct syncing
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 19, 2009

For awhile there, it seemed like Palm and Apple would go back and forth, enabling and then disabling direct Pre + iTunes syncing for a good long time. Now, with Palm licking its wounds and PsyStar likely down for the count, Cupertino seems to be running out playmates.

Judge refuses AT&T injunction request for Verizon ads
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 19, 2009

Ma Bell has been getting spanked by Verizon’s highly effective TV advertising campaign and now the courts have, at least for the time being, refused to give the carrier any relief either. But now AT&T has hit back with a TV spot of their own.

Qualcomm confirms it’s talking chips with Apple
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 18, 2009

Recent rumors have pointed to a “worldmode” iPhone sometime next year, which would mean Verizon network compatibility. Today, we get independent, if off-handed, confirmation that the mothership is at least talking with the chipset maker at the center of this tantalizing possibility.

Seoul gets the iPhone
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 18, 2009

Seoul gets the iPhoneAfter years of obstacles being placed in the way by local lawmakers at the behest of South Korean handset manufacturers, Apple is finally going to be allowed to sell the iPhone there.

A number of authoritative reports are saying that South Korean cellular regulators [...]

Top 10 best iPhone apps for the N1H1 virus
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 17, 2009

Swine Flue worries gotcha feeling blue? Then you shouldn’t leave the house again until you’ve armed yourself with at least one of these powerful and/or funny (think gallows humor) apps for your iPhone or iPod touch, some free and some not so much.

Top 10 best free iPhone and iPod Touch travel apps
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 16, 2009

Top 10 best free iphone and touch racing gamesThe holiday travel season is upon us here in the United States, but thanks to free applications on the iPhone and iPod Touch, that annual nightmare can be made just a tiny [...]

Apple to start writing mobile games?
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 16, 2009

Apple to start writing game software?There are some clues lurking about that Apple may be thinking about getting into the computer game business, following up on the newfound popularity of the iPhone and Touch as gaming platforms.

During the summer at a major event billed primarily as [...]

Top 40, best games for the iPhone 3GS, 3G iPod touch
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009

Apple’s serious about mobile gaming — the company’s newest iPhone and iPod touch models include best of class ARM processors, a good bit o’ RAM and richly detailed OpenGL graphics. Moreover, Cupertino’s been kitting out its in-house iPhone game development team with Graeme Devine of Halo Wars fame already onboard.

AT&T whimpers text only reply to Verizon’s visual 3G ads
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009

Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ma Bell sure looks desperate now. Their belated response to Verizon’s “there’s a map for that” advertising campaign is wimpy in the extreme as it delivers statistics in textual form only about how complete its 3G + EDGE, which can charitably be referred to as [...]

Will text to speech save the TomTom app?
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009

Will text to speech save the TomTom app?Sometime next week, what is arguably the most overpriced app for the iPhone (TomTom) will add a very basic feature for its genre (pronounced street names). Should we be excited?

There probably has not been an app for the iPhone [...]

FaceBook iPhone app developer quits over ‘Apple’s policies’
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 12, 2009

Fresh news from the alternate universe inhabited by the mothership’s App Store grannies and developers — the guy behind the most popular app on the platform is quitting in disgust. It seems that the review process and the people behind it are tools of the devil.

Radio Shack to sell iPhones
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 11, 2009

Radio Shack to sell iPhonesIn what could be seen as at least a minor surprise, it was announced earlier this week that some Radio Shack stores will soon begin selling the iPhone, both the 3G and 3GS models.

Radio Shack will soon join a very small group [...]

Verizon sold 100K Droids in first weekend
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 10, 2009

Motorola purportedly supplied Verizon with 200,000 units and an analyst estimates the carrier sold, it’s huge network and all, only half of those. This compares quite poorly with the 1 million iPhone 3GS’ Apple sold over the first weekend back in June, months before anyone was willing to say the recession was over.

Updated iPod touch in December? Probably not…
Posted from iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE on November 10, 2009

When Apple announced the third generation iPod touch in September, many were disappointed that the device didn’t include a camera. A little of that sentiment is perhaps evident in a fresh rumor that the motherships plans, despite the fact that Phil Schiller has publicly announced that the company’s holiday line up is set, [...]