… per cent for its nearest rival, , which entered the smartphone segment with its iPhone in June, sold 1.4m units in the US in the third quarter. Total global …

… imaginative products if they are to fuel growth of the $2bn business. With Apples iPhone innovation and Google coming in, if the mobile phone industry doesnt respond with highly …

… PARIS — The Apple iPhone handset, incorporating mobile phone, multimedia access and music functions, went on sale in France …

… and the latest generation of Nokia handsets. But it’s still not compatible with the iPhone, Motorola Q, Samsung Blackjack and Palm Treo 700w and other models. …

Orbino announced today that it launched the Strada handstitched leather iPhone case. Hand made in Italy, the Orbino is presenting the Strada iPhone case in five different luxury leathers: black calfskin, cordovan saddle, red saddle limited edition brown crocodile, and...

Think the Apple iPhone is pricey now? You can spice up the $$ tag and also your "being mugged on the street" factor by dumping your basic iPhone and upgrading to this diamond-encrusted model from Amosu. The price? Try 25,000...

After speculation that France Telecom would offer an iPhone unlocking service for around €100, the official word from the carrier has confirmed that customers choosing to buy the handset after its launch this evening will have the option of either an iPhone-specific plan, a generic Orange plan or of buying the phone completely unlocked.  As in other countries with the iPhone, the carrier has put together a number of special iPhone contracts each with a 2-year service agreement and unlimited data access; these are priced from €49 to €119 a month, with the iPhone itself costing €399 ($589).  Alternatively, for €649 and a €100 unlocking fee, Orange will sell you a carrier-independent iPhone; that puts it comfortably into the predicted price range quoted by network CEO Didier Lombard.

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A London-based analyst is predicting tension between the Apple and Nokia camps come 2008, as the Finnish company develops the latest, touchscreen-focused upgrade to its S60 cellphone OS.  Already seen in promotional films, the Nokia Touch appears to use a capacitative touch-sensitive panel called Haptikos that adds haptic feedback to an OS that appears - in pre-release videos at least - to borrow heavily from the iPhone’s interface.  Richard Windsor, an analyst at Nomura, believes that “Apple will likely view Nokia as infringing on its user interface patents” and seek to delay development and production of the next-gen Nokia handsets.

 

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Carphone Warehouse, the sole retail partner in the UK selling the iPhone on the O2 network, has been found mis-selling cellphone insurance in an undercover investigation for the BBC’s consumer-rights programme Watchdog.  Prompted by shoppers frustrated by Carphone Warehouse staff’s hard-sell tactics, researchers for the programme went undercover into stores; in three out of five they were told that, should they lose or have stolen their iPhone without taking out insurance, they would not only have to buy a replacement handset but sign up to a second contract.  In fact, the new iPhone would continue on the old contract.

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Greg Joswiak has managed the iPod and iPhone product lines for some time now, and offers a lot of perspective on the products' past and future, including the forthcoming iPhone SDK. As in many territories, gray market iPhones have been...

With 2 more days left, Sean Heber from iApp-a-Day continues his objective to make an iPhone application everyday for the month of November. Today we have a cool application that allows you to view random wallpapers that other people are using, save them on your phone, and use them as your wallpaper. You can also share your wallpaper amongst the world.

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iRadio is basically the “JesusApp” of the iPhone. It is an app we had all been looking forward to and when it was finally released, our jaws dropped in amazement. Well, iRadio still isn’t the application it could be. Though there is a small team of developers, they seem to be hitting the right spot for the users, and continue to do so in every update.

Be sure to hit the cut for my opinions of what could be included in future updates to make iRadio the ultimate application for the iPhone.

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Remember the golden days of old school games like The Dig, Full Throttle, King's Quest 3 and Maniac Mansion? How would you like to play those on your iPhone? That's the idea behind the latest port of ScummVM, a program...

One week after T-Mobile Germany unveiled their plans to sell an unlocked version of the iPhone for €999, in doing so satisfying an anti-competition ruling engineered by Vodafone and prompting a flurry of interest in what could prove to be an alternative unlock method, comes news regarding France Telecom’s intention to offer more flexibility as to which SIM can be used in the Orange iPhone.  CEO Didier Lombard is quoted as claiming the device will be priced at “over 500 euros, but well below 1,000 euros” which would put it in the $740 to $1,500 range; meanwhile, there are suggestions that Orange will, for a price, unlock a French iPhone soon after purchase.

MacScoop reports that for around €100 France Telecom will remove the SIM lock from the iPhone, allowing those who do large amounts of travel to use local SIM cards in their handset and thus avoid high roaming charges.  However that fee does not break the two-year contract, meaning that although you could use another carrier’s service you’d still be paying Orange a monthly fee.

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