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Apple Sued Over Lack of MMS on iPhones

November 18th, 2009

Few weeks ago, Finish phone company Nokia sued Apple over patent infringement and now another sue against Apple has been issued. This time, a group of consumers are unsatisfied with the iPhone 3G S, claiming the commercials are misleading and therefore suing both Apple and AT&T.

In the commercials, Apple promises full MMS compatibility and with that possibility to send and receive videos, photos and sounds. That is, according to the sue, not true to what the iPhone 3G S can, although AT&T and Apple have promised to recondition the lack of MMS.

Late September, AT&T activated the MMS function for their iPhone customers, but apparently it didn’t succeed without failures.

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Tags: AT&T iPhone 3GS Lawsuit MMS Nokia

iPhone Finally Hits the Chinese Market

October 30th, 2009

Today, the iPhone finally got through the Great Wall, and can now be purchased in China. iPhone can only be bought with the carrier China Unicom and it’s priced from 4,999 yuan to 6,999 yuan (approximately $730 to $1,025) for the high-end, 32-gigabyte iPhone 3GS, which can be a problem for carrier, China Unicom, because the iPhone can be bought unlocked from the streets for only 5,700 yuan ($835), and actually you’ll get more out of the iPhone, when purchased from merchants, because not only it is cheaper, it also has WiFi availability. No, the iPhone bought from China Unicom does not feature any WiFi connectivity, due to a restriction imposed by the Chinese government. The Associated Press states the reason:

Unicom’s iPhones lack WiFi because it was temporarily banned by Beijing, which was promoting a rival Chinese system, according to BDA. The ban was relaxed in May after manufacturing had begun.

A Unicom spokesman, Yi Difei, said the company hopes to have WiFi in the next batch of phones.

“We are talking with Apple and expect the problem to be solved by the end of this year,” Yi said.

The lack of WiFi connectivity, together with the high price compared to street merchants, can easily be factors that will make the iPhone’s debut at the Chinese market a failure.

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Tags: Associated Press BDA China China Unicom iPhone 3GS WiFi Yi Difei Yuan

TomTom car kit available in European online stores… again

October 9th, 2009

For about two weeks ago, we wrote that the TomTom car kit for iPhone was available for purchasing in European online Apple stores, but after a short while, they were removed without any explanation.

Now, the TomTom car kit for iPhone is available again, but still in European online stores only. The price at 99.95 GBP hasn’t changed, but unlike the earlier listings is the TomTom navigation app NOT included if you buy the car kit, which is noted in the product describtion.

**Note: The TomTom app for iPhone is not included with this TomTom Car Kit. The Car Kit dock is compatible with all iPhone models, but the TomTom app only works with iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

The reason why it was removed just a short while after it appeared in Apple’s online store was probably because of a misunderstanding between TomTom and Apple. In the first release it said that the application was included with the car kit, which was preferable because the price of the application and the price of the car kit were almost the same. This time though, it’s nearly twice as expensive, if you want the original TomTom car kit.

An announcement of the products entrance to the American market hasn’t been announced yet, but it’s expected to be priced at $119.95 and also without the application.

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Tags: Apple Online Stores Car kit GPS iPhone 3G iPhone 3GS TomTom

Orange plans to invade the United Kingdom

September 29th, 2009

Orange UK has announced that they have come to an agreement with Apple to bring iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS to UK later this year.

Orange is the largest 3G network in the UK and plans to distribute the mighty iPhone via Orange shops, Orange webshop, Orange telesales channels and selected high street partners. Orange has already launched a pre-registration site for interested customers.

There is no further information on pricing, nor any dates or amount of iPhones they will get. UK will become the 29th country which Orange offers iPhone in.

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Tags: iPhone iPhone 3GS Orange United Kingdom

TomTom Car Kit available in European stores

September 24th, 2009

tomtomiphone The much anticipated TomTom Car Kit for iPhone has now appeared in some European Apple Online stores. The car kit is priced at 99.95 GBP in the UK and 99.95 EUR in other European countries, and when you buy the car kit you get both the TomTom car kit and the TomTom navigation App for iPhone 3G or 3GS.

The car kit also includes a dock for the iPhone, enhanced GPS performance, option to charge while driving, clear voice instructions for navigation, opportunity to make handsfree callings and music over the car stereo.

A release date for the US market hasn’t been announced yet, but it’s expected to be announced in just a few days. The car kit was expected to be released this summer, but TomTom decided to push it back to October due to some enhancements on the product.

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Tags: Car kit GPS iPhone iPhone 3GS TomTom

Facebook 3.0 available in the App Store now!

August 28th, 2009

Finally, Facebook 3.0 has been approved by Apple and you can now download it at App Store for free. The Facebook App is one of the most popular Apps that App Stores has ever seen and it has been under development for more than a year, and in this new version of the App you will experience a huge difference in speed and many new possibilities as well as further performance related improvements.

The interface has also got a make over and now it seems to be more user-friendly than ever. The developers have made it possible to access any Facebook features except the incredible number of third-party Facebook applications, so unfortunately you can’t play Word Challenge and Traveler IQ on your iPhone yet.

List of new features:

View upcoming events
See your friends’ birthdays
View Pages, updates and pictures to Pages you own
Change your profile picture
Access the same news feed as you see on your Mac… or PC
Read your friends’ notes and write your own
Upload videos from your iPhone 3GS
Upload pictures to any of your own albums
Zoom in on pictures
‘Like’ function is also available now
Visit links in the built-in web browser
See your friends’ friends (:)) and Pages
See mutual friends
Easy search on people and Pages
Ask to become friends
Become a fan of Pages
Built-in link to call or SMS a friend
Shortcuts to favorite friends and Pages

To summarize: the new Facebook App is great, it works like a dream and of course it is 3.0 compatible. It is developed so effectively that you can use every Facebook’s official features and you will never see any advertisements on the Facebook App for iPhone in this version.