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The hype is getting better as the world of iPhone unfolds
Following last week's article about the iPhone launch -- One of the first questions I asked the iPhone tech at the opening the other night was "If I buy one tonight, can I use all the functions without the phone?"
See: iPhone without the Phone
Next step for Apple: Apple has launched a Web site for developers of its recently released iPhone. (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/) Part of the Apple Developer Connection, the Web site outlines guidelines and Safari compatibility when making applications for the iPhone.
Glenn Fleishman relates this story:
My wife, Lynn, two sons and I were driving back from the fantastic St. Edward State Park in Kenmore last Sunday, with Lynn riding shotgun and using my new iPhone and its Google Maps feature to check highway conditions as we headed around the top of the lake. We were trying to choose between I-5 and Lake City Way to get home.
At a stoplight, as Lynn waited for the map to load, a driver in the car to our right gestured to her. We figured we'd left the gas-tank door ajar at the filling station we had just left.
When Lynn rolled down her window, he asked instead, "Is that an iPhone?" Sure, and we have some Grey Poupon in our Subaru's glove compartment, too. The fellow was considering buying an iPhone and wondered if I liked it. I gave him a thumbs up. Glenn Fleishman Seattle Times
The first iPhone Dev Camp is underway at Adobe's San Francisco office ...
There are around 300 hackers and press in attendance -- several people flew out to from the east coast and at least one guy flew down from Canada. Word on the street is that Fake Steve Jobs is in the room as well. (But who would know?) Michael Calore for Wired News
People hate their cell phones, Steve Jobs said, in attempting to explain the iPhone anticipation.
It's hard to determine the wackiest aspect of iPhone craziness leading up to the launch of Apple's eagerly (to say the least) awaited venture into the cell-phone world on June 29. Was it the relentless media attention, which blended nuts-and-bolts business coverage with the obsessive overkill of a Paris Hilton stalkfest? Steven Levy - Newsweek
Barely out of the shops in the United States, Apple's eagerly anticipated iPhone is the subject of increasing speculation about how and at what price it will be rolled out in Europe later this year.
Despite a hefty price tag of either 499 or 599 dollars (360 or 450 euros) depending on size of the memory, analysts say Apple has sold between 310,000 and 700,000 of the gadgets since its US launch on June 29. France24 - Paris, France
A U.S. consumer rights group is attacking Apple and AT&T over the fee consumers must pay for battery replacement. The iPhone battery is soldered to the inside of the device and cannot be swapped by users. PC World - USA
According to Tom Yager, you can pull the SIM card from an activated iPhone and place it in any phone you wish. Yager says:
"However, all you'll be able to do is make phone calls. Any Web or e-mail access you attempt with the other phone will be billed to you at $.01/kilobyte, or $10.24 per megabyte. Information Superhighway robbery." Read more from Tom Yager
A UK firm that specialises in unlocking mobile phones reckons it's close to developing an application that would allow iPhone owners to use the device with carriers other than America's AT&T. John McLaughlin, founder of Uniquephones, told (IDG that his software engineers were working "around the clock" in order to bypass Apple's restriction that ties activation of the iPhone to signing up to a two-year contract with AT&T. The Register
Today you may have noticed a story "Hackers Bypass iPhone Limits". (See: iPhone without the Phone) Given the hype of the iPhone, it is no surprise that it has become the most targeted phone by hackers. Not to mention that it uses an OS X operating system (like the computers) making the coding transitions between the iPhone and the hackers computer essentially seamless.
Everson notes: There are already over 300 articles related to hackers + iPhone in the Google News. Eric Everson - MyMobiSafe.com
Many of the developers I'm talking to at today's iPhoneDevCamp keep dropping the same name: Joe Hewitt. That's not just because Joe is a well-known Firefox developer. He has also hacked together a set of templates that greatly improves the presentation and usability of any iPhone web application. Wired News - USA
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