October 12, 2008 10:27:23 AM CDT
(Newser) – The best part about the iPhone 3G's debut, writes PC Magazine, is the new abundance of software for the handset. Most of the apps work on the original iPhone, too. The cream of the crop:
Source PC Magazine
Aug 16, 08 1:00 PM CDT Owners of 3G iPhones complain that their new phones are suffering from glitches, especially dropped calls—and that Apple seems keen to drop their calls when they report issues, ABC News reports. A company spokeswoman refused to comment when contacted about the iPhone problems, which also include slow web access and a lack of access to AT&T's network. More »
Aug 13, 08 2:08 AM CDT Electronics retail giant Best Buy will begin selling the iPhone in its 970 stores next month—becoming the first retailer to stock the line other than Apple stores and AT&T outlets, which often run out of the popular phone. Best Buy is the only outside retailer to have exclusive rights to sell the iPhone until Christmas. Customers have snapped up one million of the second-generation phones this summer. More »
Aug 11, 08 9:01 AM CDT The iPhone’s new App Store has exceeded the company’s wildest expectations, tallying up average sales of $1 million per day, Steve Jobs said today in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Apple’s on pace to make $360 million from the store this year. “This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon,” says Jobs. “I've never seen anything like this in my career for software.” More »
Aug 7, 08 5:05 PM CDT Apple appears capable of remotely deactivating programs paid for and installed by iPhone users, Arnold Kim writes on MacRumors. The discovery was made when an iPhone user uncovered a hidden web address linked to a software blacklist maintained by Apple—presumably intended to screen malicious software from being used. “This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while,” Kim points out. More »
Aug 6, 08 7:15 PM CDT Though the $1,000 “I Am Rich” iPhone application that so enrages Don Reisinger seems to have disappeared from Apple’s store since his original Mashable post this morning, his call for the giant to impose some order on would-be price-gougers stands. “There’s nothing stopping other developers from charging too much for apps,” writes Reisinger, blasting the program whose jewel icon is almost literally all it does. More »
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