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Apple Eying Open Wireless Spectrum Battle

According to multiple Business Week sources, Apple has been considering the merits of bidding on the 700Mhz open wireless spectrum that goes up for grabs this January. Expected to sell for around $9 billion, most say Apple has the liquidity to make the purchase—even among competition like Google. What would the deal mean for Apple…

Apple Sells 1 Millionth iPhone

Click to viewSeventy four days out from launch, Apple has sold 1 million iPhones—smack dab on target with recent analyst predictions that the iPhone would surpass the mil mark by Sept. 30. In a press release, Steve Jobs said that it took nearly two years to sell that many iPods. The big boss continued: “We…

Ringles: The Next Ringtone Product You Won’t Buy

Apple’s offering of $0.99 ringtones was just the latest effort for the recording industry to sell you a smaller version of songs you already own in order to use them on your phones. Following up that announcement, two record companies have just announced Ringles, which is essentially a CD with 3 singles, a ringtone and…

Apple Signs 3G Deal, Who Knows When It’ll Matter

Apple recently signed a 7-year, $56ish million contract with wireless technology firm InterDigital. According to an involved analyst, the licensing agreement covers “various 2G and 3G cellular technologies encompassing bandwidth allocation, roaming and power efficiency controls, and most likely also includes some type of packet data coding and delivery.” Oh, and some chunk of this…

Unconfirmed Flyer Shows 3G 16GB iPhone for TMO Germany

An alleged (as in probably photoshopped) leaked advert, suspected to be from T-Mobile Germany, indicates a 16GB iPhone with 3G support (HSDPA and UMTS), shall be making its way to German shores for 12th November 2007. The advertisement goes onto to stipulate possible download speeds of 3.6Mbps and a $687 price tag. The purchase of…

Verizon Follows iPhone Converts Like a Jealous Ex

Click to viewA reader of ours recently canceled decided to cancel his Verizon contract early just to buy an iPhone. Through some sort of ESP, Verizon sent a “why don’t you love me anymore I have music too and can change” email that probably came with an e-card and set of virtual flowers…right alongside his…

Apple Readying iTunes Movie Rental Service?

Astute Flickr community member, David Watanabe, spied several possible error messages from within the “Report A Problem” list in iTunes, all indicating movie rental capabilities. One such message reads; “MZCancellationReason.DidNotReceive-RentalMovie.” A plethora of other messages also make reference to some form of a movie rental service. The list of messages can be seen above. As…

iTunes 7.4.1 is out. No idea if it musses up your iPhone haxx that you just finished reinstalling after yesterday’s 7.4 update. Happy Friday night, I’m still stuck in Denver. This is why I’m blogging about iTunes 0.1 updates. UPDATE: Ringtones are fine, as setup by SendSong.

iPort Dock Hooks iPod and iPhone Up to Network

If there’s one thing better than a new iPod and/or iPhone it’s the new iPod and/or iPhone caged, networked and ready to do your bidding. The iPort in-wall dock is essentially a pretty box that you can hang on a wall that will allow you to fully control your iPod or iPhone from anywhere in…

New Line of iPods Not Compatible With Old Third Party Video Gear

Word on the street is that the video out function on the new line of iPods is locked if used in conjunction with old video cables and docks from third parties. Apparently, the new iPods will only work with cables featuring Apple’s authentication chip (read: official first party products and a handful of third party),…

American Express Honoring Price Protection For iPhones

Like we mentioned in our posts yesterday, if you purchased an iPhone on a credit card with a price protection plan, you can call them up and see if they will honor their return policy protection with the iPhone price drop. In our case, we’ve personally confirmed that American Express is offering the drop. All…

iPhone Software Unlock Confirmed on Video

Click to viewDespite confirmation from reputable sources like CNN and Engadget, there were still people unsure of whether iPhoneSIMFree actually worked. The reason? The lack of video proof of the unlock process. Well, here it is, the first, exclusive video proof of the unlock process. Hit the jump to see our notes about the process,…

Wall Street Less Happy With Apple Than Early iPhone Adopters

Cut iPhone price by a third two months after launch. Eager fanboys bite back with strongly worded letters and man-on-the-street blurbs. Give them $100 store credit, which really goes right back to Apple. Wall Street bites back. Harder. https://gizmodo.com/the-100-iphone-rebate-the-what-and-the-why-297233 Wall Street, which had lopped $5.5 billion off Apple’s market cap the day before on news…

Now you can draw stuff right onto pictures on your iPhone. Give everyone in your photo album a goatee. Our intern Benny said it’s unstable and crashed his phone so bad a full restore didn’t work, so use as your own risk. [Sketches via Mod My iPhone]

Apple’s iPhone Contextual Ad Was Fake

Remember the iPhone contextual ad yesterday that nudged the early adopters? Turns out the ad wasn’t from Apple at all. It was from some guy from didntyouhear.com. https://gizmodo.com/apple-gloats-spits-in-early-adopters-faces-with-iphone-297100 After seeing the Nokia ad—which WAS from Nokia—he decided to make a fake one, which caught Apple’s eye. Long story short, Apple called Commission Junction, who told…

Apple Pushing Networks to Cut iTunes TV Prices to 99 Cents a Show

Apparently, Apple’s feeling pretty generous “aggressive” lately price-wise. Citing “three people familiar with the proposal,” Variety’s reporting that Apple’s “mulling” chopping the price of TV shows down to 99 cents an episode. Naturally, the networks aren’t exactly thrilled with the less-than-modest proposal. So why make it? https://gizmodo.com/breaking-apple-offering-100-store-credit-for-all-ipho-297182 It’s well known that the iTunes video store…

Free iPhone Ringtones From Directly Inside iTunes 7.4

A MacRumors forum member discovered that you can actually get free ringtones directly inside iTunes by just changing around a file extension. All official purchased ringtones have the .M4R extension, so all you have to do is rename any AAC file to a M4R file to get it to show up in iTunes under Ringtones.…

Apple Cupcakes, Not Made of Apples (Still Good)

We’ve posted a lot of gadget cakes in these parts, which is precisely why we’re so excited when someone takes it “to the next level.” In avant garde fashion, the likes of which we will not wrap our head around for years (possibly decades), Cakes By 2 Moms has created Apple-themed cupcakes—cakes that fit in…

Autopsies of the New Nano and iPod Classic Show Glue, Plates

There’s nothing geeks like more than undressing stuff &mdash especially new Apple gear. Barely 24 hours after El Jobso unveiled his new iPod babies, iFixit got motherboard-deep into the new nano and classic versions. And this is what they found: The 80GB classic has a 3mm-thinner hard drive than its predecessor, the iPod video, and…

Apple To Work With Polk, JBL, iBiquity on HD Radio Tagging System For iTunes

Apple is working with iPod dock makers JBL and Polk on a system that allows anything heard on an HD Radio/iPod dock system to be tagged and sent to an iPod, which will later be transferred to iTunes. Once on iTunes, a playlist is presented where users can purchase any tracks they heard while listening…