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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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3 Mobile drops its prices, then Telstra launches its $0 iPhone attack
while even giving some prices but not yet exposing the whole enchilada.
Meanwhile, doubts arise over Telstra’s iPhone working properly in the
bush, a Griffin case might come to the rescue – and 3 Mobile Hong Kong
launches prices, data and plans for the iPhone 3G - which could be the world's best value!
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by Stephen Withers
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If you live outside major population centres in Australia, you might not get a good signal on that shiny new iPhone 3G when it arrives on July 11. In fact, you may not get a signal at all, even on Telstra's famed Next G network.
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by Stephen Withers
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Carriers may have been working hard to gain the rights to sell Apple's iPhone, but the idea of exclusive access to particular mobile phone handsets is on the way out, according to an analyst.
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by Stephen Withers
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The whispers have been confirmed, Telstra will be selling the iPhone 3G. And for the first time, Australian pricing has been revealed - including $0 upfront iPhones!
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by Stephen Withers
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A developer build of iTunes 7.7 indicates that the ability to control iTunes playback from an iPhone or iPod touch will soon arrive. It's been no secret that Apple has had a vision for using touchscreen handheld devices as remote controllers.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Canada’s dominant telco, Rogers, has announced its voice and data plans
for the upcoming iPhone 3G. For the love of Steve Jobs (and God),
please don’t let anything like these plans surface in Australia!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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China is a land awash in Windows Mobile powered iPhone clones, and at
last count had 500,000 unlocked iPhones too, with that number sure to
have grown in the past few months. While it’s ironic that the country
where real iPhones are manufactured still doesn’t have them
officially available, the latest word from China Mobile is that the "biggest hurdle" so far been overcome, but it's not yet a sealed deal.
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by Davey Winder
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Nearly 7 million searches for Apple iPhone in a single month. That's the surprising statistic to emerge from comScore, a company that specialises in measuring the digital world.
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by Stephen Withers
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It's a widely held belief that 'software project' and 'behind schedule' go together like fish and chips, but Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation product has arrived well inside the promised timeframe. The early arrival of Hyper-V may indicate how desperate Microsoft is to become a serious player in the rapidly growing virtualisation market, where it currently lags behind VMware.
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by Stephen Withers
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France's Orange is the latest carrier to announce iPhone 3G pricing and it looks like Steve Jobs was serious when he said the price would be the same around the world. Of course, Jobs was really talking about the upfront price because airtime charges are beyond Apple's control.
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by Davey Winder
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Pay As You Go prices for the UK iPhone 3G were briefly published on the O2 web store today. I say briefly because they mysteriously vanished soon after. But not before Internet users had spotted them...
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by Stephen Withers
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If Internet searches are anything to go by, then the iPhone 3G is going to be a smash hit when it goes on sale in Australia on July 11. New search data shows that Australian searches for the word 'iphone' have skyrocketed over the second quarter of 2008.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Desperate to fulfil customer requests for the iPhone, and likely ensure
the loss of iPhone wanting customers to confirmed carriers Vodafone,
Optus and unconfirmed carrier Telstra is not too great, 3 Mobile has
appealed to the media and its customers for help. A new web site is
being created to show Apple just how much 3 Mobile - and 3 Mobile customers - want the
iPhone 3G!
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by Stephen Withers
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Never mind the iPhone or the HTC Touch Diamond, Samsung reckons it's new i780 mobile phone is what business users need. Insofar as any one phone can suit the needs of such a diverse group, it just might be right.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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As expected, Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo opened the flagship Melbourne
T[Life] Telstra store in Melbourne’s CDB today, briefly showing off the
HTC Touch Diamond during his speech. While he answered a question he’d
received earlier in the morning about whether Telstra is in a war with
Apple or not, on the topic of the iPhone, the head speaker of the
nation’s biggest communications company was... silent. Although he did
say “we’re bigger than Apple”. Read on.
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by Davey Winder
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UK consumers looking to be first in line for the new Apple iPhone 3G had better set the alarm clock nice and early. Word on the street is that O2 stores will start selling them at 7am on the 11th July, but at what cost?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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On the same day that HTC unveiled its Touch Diamond, LG unveiled the
“Secret” at a rip-roaring party that saw Sex and the City’s Mr Big
(Chris Noth) dubbed a new LG phone ambassador, with former Miss
Universe Jennifer Hawkins another celebrity star. So what’s the phone
like?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Nope, there’s no iPhone on Telstra’s Next G network yet, but from
mid-August the HTC Touch Diamond will exclusively sparkle its way into
Telstra stores and sprinkle a bit of magic over the lacklustre Windows
Mobile OS. Surely it’ll be joined, if not preceded, by the iPhone 3G?
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