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Tarmo Virki Helsinki writes:
Nokia will unveil its first touch-screen phone next week in a direct challenge to Apple's successful iPhone, two industry sources told Reuters on Friday. LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and several smaller handset vendors have rolled out their own touch-screen phones over the last two years, while the first handset using Google's Android platform will also have a touch screen. But so far, the world's top mobile phone maker, Nokia, has stuck with traditional screens.
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According to Wired News - Microsoft wants to make some dough off its rival's success: The company is developing an iPhone application. YahooNews reports that Microsoft's acquired company Tellme has plans to release a speech-recognition application by June. In the past, Tellme has developed similar services for other handsets, including BlackBerry. (Yahoo Story)
By Brian X. Chen, Wired News
Apple is selling the iPhone 3G on its Apple Store Web site in Hong Kong, promising the phones "can be activated with any wireless carrier -- 8G-byte and 16G-byte iPhone 3G models are HK$5,400 (US$695) and HK$6,200, respectively, with free shipping. The store advertises the compatibility of the phones with any carrier, saying, "Simply insert the SIM [subscriber identity module] from your current phone into iPhone 3G and connect to iTunes 8 to complete activation."
PC World - USA
In August, a programmer named Alex Sokirynsky wrote a clever app to let iPhone users stream or download podcasts straight from their phones. (Ordinarily, the iPhone can play only the podcasts you've downloaded through your computer.) Sokirynsky submitted the program, called Podcaster, for inclusion in Apple's iPhone App Store -- the only way for third-party developers to distribute their programs to iPhone users. Weeks passed; Sokirynsky heard nothing from Apple. Then, on Sept. 11, the company sent him a note. Apple had rejected Podcaster because "it duplicates the functionality of the podcast section of iTunes," an Apple rep told Sokirynsky.
By Farhad Manjoo Slate - USA
Apple Inc. won't face a lawsuit claiming it didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost, including delivery.
U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in Chicago granted Apple's request that he dismiss the lawsuit on the evidence and the law without a trial -- a so-called summary judgme
Bloomberg - USA
Apple won't have to deal with a lawsuit filed over the iPhone battery. Bloomberg reports that a judge in Chicago has dismissed Jose Trujillo's lawsuit against Apple claiming the company deceived him regarding the user replaceable status of the iPhone battery. The judge simply read the packaging on the iPhone, which described the battery has having "limited recharge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced by Apple service provider," and ruled that was sufficient warning prior to purchase that the battery had to be replaced by Apple or a third party
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John Dvorak says:
What I'm about to explain may seem obvious, but I'm not sure anyone fully understands the sort of tectonic and fundamental shift taking place in the tech sector with the development and fruition of the new smart phone as epitomized by Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
If we see the iPhone as a new computing platform most of these core beliefs -- as listed above -- are fulfilled, but with a twist. If we forget about the end of the PC and the death of the Wintel platform and simply see a new segment emerging to compliment and evolve differently than desktop computing, then we'll have a grip on all this. low spam version
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