CORRECTED: iPhone outsells smartphones in U.S. in July: iSuppli: Scientific American:
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iPhone outsold all smartphones in the United States in July, its first full month on sale, accounting for 1.8 percent of all U.S. mobile handset sales, research group iSuppli said on Tuesday. iSuppli reiterated its forecast that Apple would sell 4.5 million iPhones this year, rising to more than 30 million in 2011.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs apologized and offered $100 credits Thursday to customers who shelled out $599 for the most advanced model of the iPhone this summer, only to have the company unexpectedly slash the price $200 in a push to boost holiday sales. In a letter on the company’s Web site, Jobs acknowledged that Apple disappointed some of its customers by cutting the price of the iPhone’s 8-gigabyte model and said he has received hundreds of e-mails complaining about the price cut. More —> |
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Australians are thumbing their noses at Apple’s 2008 launch date for the iPhone, importing the device from the US and hacking it to work on local networks. The hacks, unveiled just over a month ago and extensively documented online, break the locks that were intended to restrict iPhone use to the AT&T network in the United States. |
 
Written by MG Siegler There was a lot of hoopla surrounding the web app Facebook built specifically for Apple’s iPhone when it first came out. Having used it for a solid two weeks now it’s safe to say that it’s a clear winner, and potentially a lot more. The app is so slick that it transcends the term ‘web app’. The only ‘web app’ thing about it is that you need to load it in Safari on the iPhone, other than that it might as well be its own stand-alone application. The speed at which is runs, even over the EDGE networking, is amazing – this thing has clearly been optimized for a seamless experience. The transitions from screen to screen and the layout of the information on the page actually make me prefer it over the regular Internet version of Facebook. In recent months, (since the launch of Facebook’s platform) Facebook has been becoming more and more bloated as people try to capitalize on the success of the site by creating their own apps for it. Facebook on the iPhone cuts out all of that bloat and brings it back down to the bare necessities of the network: information.More —> |