3G iPhone Due Out Soon - O2 and T-Mobile Cut Prices

With the forthcoming release of 3G iPhone the overwhelming majority of mobile operators with the contracts to sell iPhone are exposed to crucial losses on the stock which is likely to remain unsold. That;s why they have to find solutions out of such an unpleasant situation. What are these solutions?

For instance, the UK operator O2 and the German T-Mobile miscalculated the number of iPhones that could be sold in Europe and at the moment their warehouses are filled with the gadgets that in a matter of months will cost no more than $200.

Even Apple experts confirm that the losses of these companies will be significant.

Nevertheless the companies make their best to recoup the forthcoming losses and at the same time clear the shelves for the new iPhone.

Recently O2 has announced price cut on the iPhone. The company reduced more than a third of its initial price – from 269 pounds to 169 pounds. And a few weeks ago T-Mobile set even more generous sales – from 399 euro to 99 euro.

The French operator Orange will also have to cut the prices. The French sales of the gadget were predicted to be between 500 000 and 600 000, but the company only managed to sell about 330 000 iPhones.

The sale tempos have significantly fallen down and the European retailers find it difficult to clear their stock from the current version of IPhone.

As for the new device which is due out in the middle of June it is said to be completely different to the current version in appearance. They don’t exclude the possibility that the new device will have a regular qwerty keyboard instead of the fan-favorite touch-screen.

Another new tendency that 3G iPhone is likely to bring in is the refusal of the favoring policy towards a single operator in the given territory.

In fact the end goal of Apple is to create the best device ever and then to bring it to as many clients as possible.

Do you think that Apple will manage to do it eventually?

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Downloads for iPhone: 8 Steps of iPhone Personalization

The ancient proverb says: Old habits die hard. Once you had your old-school mobile phone. And you did your best to personalize it. Now you are an owner of iPhone. BUT it is possible to personalize any kind of device (regardless if it is a car or you PC monitor). All the things are personalizible. The same with the iPhone. There are things (and they are available to everyone) that can make you favorite phone stand out in a crowd.

So I decided to make up a list of 8 steps you can make to personalize your iPhone:

1. Ringtones

Ringtones are the most popular way of personalizing of any phone, aren’t they? The same with iPhone: you can find hundreds of web-services that offer ringtone downloads.

2. Wallpaper / screen savers

It is a common knowledge that images and sounds are the best ways of personalizing any kind of device. As the iPhone has a lot of inbuilt memory you can download dozens of images including your photos etc. Placing one of these images as wallpaper or a screensaver will make you device distinct.

3. Videos

Video is one of the priorities of the modern mobile industry. There are hundreds of free and paid video services you can subscribe to. Using your iPhone you can watch streaming videos and download your favorite films. Isn’t that a great way of personalizing the iPhone?

4. Games

You can tell a lot about a person by just looking through the list of games on his/her iPhone. Whether he is an adventure hunter or car enthusiast or whatever.

5. VoIP

VoIP feature is a great way to economize calling other people. If one can see the advantages of combining voice, data and images on his/her iPhone, the person can be regarded as a reasonable one.

6. SMS messages

The way you message people can tell a lot about you. By creating your own style of making up messages can become your second business card.

7. Music

iPhone storage memory allows you to save hundreds of tracks. And I stick to the idea that the playlist of a person can tell you much more than the games he plays or the images he downloads. The music the person listens to illustrates his inner world and his current mood. It is a great way of personalizing your iPhone, isn’t it?

8. Accessories

And the last but not the least way to personalize your iPhone is applying this or that accessory to it. You can use weird accessories as well as the traditional ones (as, for instance, cases). The way your iPhone’s exterior looks like is a powerful way to make it different from others.

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iPhone Firmware 2.0 Beta review: What’s new

With the forthcoming release of the new iPhone, the Internet is starting to get flooded by multiple videos with the new device. Some of theses videos are true fakes, but some seem quite credible.

Yet Apple has recently released iPhone 2.0 beta and I was lucky to have one for a test (in fact the gadget will be officially released in June). Some of the changes are still to come, but some of them will be unveiled by me for you right now:

A great feature of multi-select in mail box. You can choose as many messages as you want. You will be able to work with them as with a group
The Safari browser has a function of saving images directly from web-pages. You hold your finger against the image and in a matter of moments there will appear a pop-up window with options. You can save the image into the Photo album and from the album you can set it as a background image of send to your friends
As far as I have noticed there is no contact search. In fact it might be activated when you have thousands and thousands of contacts, but as I have much less, I didn’t find the option
The calendar features a new button, but as a matter of fact the purpose of that button remained vague to me
Of course, as it was expected, the App store is present (though at the moment it doesn’t do anything)
The basic calculator has a number of new modes besides the new icon
iPhone’s VPN settings feature Cisco VPN screen. Still it is not know yet if the device will support SecurID or other hardware token authenticators
Exchange is on. It can be made through the network and over WiFi it does check-ins, so it’s not as instantaneous
Lots of parental control features have been added (like turning off YouTube)
The new version of firmware will allow you to choose WiFi network

That really sounds great, doesn’t it? A lot of features (as I have already mentioned above) are still to come. So all we can do at this point is sit, wait and wonder!

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3G iPhone Software & Hardware: Top 10 Most and Least Probable Features

With the new iPhone coming in a few weeks the folk start speculating about what it should have and what it should not.

I’ve tried to study the case intently and find out as many things as possible using various sources. A few days ago I wrote an article on what features should the new iPhone possess. The entry showed my personal opinion. This time I’ve come up with the list of features you would like to see in the new device.

So, here you are, the list of features the new iPhone should have. Deliberately I split the list into 2 sections: the serious and the funny one. The first section deals with features that are likely to appear on the iPhone (because they are, in fact, the reason why the new version is released). The second section is the collection of jokes and humorous features.

Probable features:

1) The ability to install any native app no matter whether Apple approves of it or not

2) The ability to designate a portion of its storage as a Universal Mass-Storage Device, so it shows up as a standard hard drive on any computer it is plugged into.

3) Full unhindered file system access to the phone.

4) Integrated VoIP support, automatically receiving calls over the WiFi connection when available, so that acceptable phone call audio quality and reliability is reached

5) MMS and custom ringtones? Like any $50 Nokia does

6) Flash support; video capture capabilities; spellcheck; file browser (search); voice recognition (quick dial)

7) Video recording option

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