As you might have seen in the Apple’s big announcement, the 3G iPhone will be released on July 11! This includes Canada, and the price for an 8GB 3G iPhone will be a scant $199, while the 16GB version will only set you back $299! This is only partially surprising: first, the hardware itself is cheaper than the one in the original iPhone. Apple also had the time to cost-reduce its hardware platform and negotiate better prices overall.

Finally, the real money that Apple will make is in the wireless subscriptions, not the hardware itself. Apple wants to compete with Blackberry and to increase the market share! Overall, I think this is a good move - not only benefit us as consumers but it benefits the 3rd party software developers, and phone service carriers.

More details at the Apple’s store

That’s the advantage of the iPhone’s full touch screen display, with the iDial iPhone Retro application which allows you to dial phone numbers via a virtual rotary dial. Needless to say this is much slower than just punching some numbers, but at least it helps get your retro kicks in. You can download the application from http://rep.sosiphone.com

Adding 3G on the iPhone may just be the ticket to make the Apple device a genuine hit in Europe. But here’s another rumor that suggests Apple would do more than just add 3G on iPhone 2.0. Whether the QWERTY iPhone is just one model of an entire line of iPhones Apple has been rumored to be preparing we’re nevertheless astounded that Apple may finally succumb to the tactile temptation. Read the rest of this entry »

This news comes from the controversial Chinese site CNMO.com. As Microsoft makes more profit on Office than it does on its current Vista OS, they want to make the software widely available in many different platform. MacBooks run Microsoft Office and Apple does  not really have a product that can compete with Office. But this remain unofficial as I’d like to hear from Apple and Microsoft.

Source: CNMO.com

With 250,000 unlocked iPhones floating around the market, it’s about time to unlock the iPhone in a new way! I’ve seen most iPhone being unlocked with software hack, but swongled site has reported that iPhone Unlock SIM Card can do the work! First, attach to your SIM card to unlock iPhone then unlocking iPhone v.1.1.2 firmwares. Then I guess you insert your own SIM card back and it is unlocked? I’m skeptical about this $30 SIM card’s ability because it’s just too easy. But if any of you have experience with this method or any other unlock ways, please share your thoughts.

Updated on 01/27/2008
An iPhone user emailed me saying the Turbo SIM actually using a fraction of a real AT&T chip because iPhone only accept AT&T as its official service provider. The SIM card fools the phone to think it’s AT&T. Old trick but it works. He also said the hacked iPhone price dropped to $4500HKD from $5900HKD in Hong Kong.

Source: swongled