People are running to ebay and other auction sites to sell their old iPhone in order to finance the purchase of their new 3G iPhone, unfortunately they will need the the upcoming version 2.0 software to safely remove all that personal data .
RIM posted another beautiful financial quarter, but the launch of the iPhone 3G will give the blackberry a fight in the coming year.
Integration of Microsoft Exchange in the iPhone 3G and features like GPS,Youtube and iTunes will slowly bring the corporate group to this assume smart phone.
The mystery behind why the new iPhone is so cheap may be solved, with market researcher iSuppli saying it costs just US$173 to make.
Apple caused a stir earlier this month when it launched the new 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) iPhone with a $199 price tag. Similar products from rivals cost much more. Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC), for example, has priced the Touch Diamond at NT$23,900 (US$785) for its home market, while Nokia estimates its new N96 smartphone will retail for €550 (US$855).
All three handsets are due on store shelves soon.
There are two main reasons Apple can charge so little for the new iPhone, iSuppli said Tuesday. First, mobile phone service providers will subsidize the handsets by paying Apple about US$300 per unit, iSuppli estimates. The other reason is the low cost of materials going into the handset.
Apple did such a good job choosing components for the new 3G iPhone that it costs less to make than the old version, despite significant improvements, iSuppli said. The old iPhone cost $226 to make and did not include 3G nor GPS (global positioning system). Yet Apple sold the original iPhone for $499 initially. More—>
Jun 24
When we first had the war between Betamax and VHS, it was the porn business that backed VHS and helped it win that war years ago. Now that Steve Jobs has delivered the 3G iPhone and with the promise of much faster data speeds, Apple is surely to sell many more iPhones and they will not be the only one making money from the 3G iPhone.
The porn sites will want their share of money from the iPhone and more specifically the 3G versions thanks to better video playback over the 3G networks. In 2007 we heard about iPlayboy and how Hugh Hefner wanted to cash in on the Apple iPhone success with some software that was downloadable from Playboy.com and included a Playboy Cyber Girl video, Playmate photos, wallpapers and other stuff customized for the Apple iPhone.
Now in 2008 with the 3G iPhone coming to 22 countries on July 11, the current trend is showing a sharp increase this year for iPhone porn and the mobile porn businesses know this and are aiming to fill that need. With Google earlier this year revealing the iPhone as the most popular phone using Google, the iPhone is one mobile device that can bring massive money streams to porn businesses and also one fact that Apple is happy to keep quiet about for obvious reasons. More—>