First and foremost, we are not sure about the credibility of the source and hence would take this news with a grain of salt. But having said that, the end of exclusivity would be highly beneficial to not just the users and Apple , but also AT&T.
over the AT&T network are pretty well known and though Apple has not suffered any apparent loss in sales due to this, it has always been believed that the iPhone brand has suffered because of the exclusive (more…)

via Verizon starting June at next week’s media event.
According to Misek, Apple is already preparing for the mass production of iPhone 4G that will work on Verizon’s CDMA network (and probably also support European GSM and HSPA standards). He also predicts that the 2011 iPhone model will come with LTE support.
Tech Trader Daily reports that Misek has made the following prediction about iPhone OS 4.0:
“the new iPhone 4.0 OS will support (more…)

with Apple last month, Orange is finally starting to get adjusted to competition. The carrier has announced massive discounts on some iPhone models. Accordingly, the 8GB
will now sell at €19, 16GB Orange
which was earlier priced at €149 is now available at only €59 while the 32GB iPhone 3GS model will now retail at €179. These prices come along with an Origami star contract starting at €40.90.
The other major French carrier SFR has (more…)

Late last year, we had written about the complaint filed by Bouygues Telecom, the third largest mobile operator in France that claimed that the exclusive partnership between Apple and Orange, the largest mobile operator in the country violated the freedom of competition and pricing laws.
Post its investigations, the Competition authority had ruled that the exclusive agreement ”
“. That was meant to be a temporary ruling in favor of Boyugues which (more…)

The new Adobe Flash Player 10.1 will support almost all the available smartphone platforms – Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, WebOS. The new software is likely to be released in the first half of 2010. Till now, full blown flashplayers were not completely compatible on the mobile devices. So with Flash Lite for mobile phones, it was not possible to extract the maximum mileage out of Adobe's Flash's capabilities.However, with the (more…)

iPhone users can currently create a custom-made ringtone of up to 30 seconds using iTunes Ringtone editor and have to pay an additional cost of 99c for a song if they already have it or $1.98 in case they don't.
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The ready-made ringtones will make it very convenient for iPhone users who are too lazy to create their own custom ringtones.
“It’s only rock and roll, but we like it”
on September 9.
and speculations for this year’s event.
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. There are many rumors, which claim that new iPod Touch will sport a camera (same as
) and a microphone.
The timing of the special event wouldn't be too bad as it might take away some thunder from Microsoft's new Zune HD, which has received some good reviews and will be available from Sept. 15th. Some of the features that might steal the glory from Apple 's current iPod Touch are the built-in HD Radio receiver, high-def video output, (more…)