A Zune phone was rumored for a long time in the mobile world with Windows always having to deny such a device. But something strange happened. Steve Ballmer, whom you might know from his eggs ducking experiences and whose hobby is pretending to a qualified Microsoft CEO, is getting ready for a new fiscal year. And he wants it to be a more like Apple year.
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Amosu created the most expensive iPhone in the world, the Amosu Ultimo Diamond. The Amosu costs just $177,300. I hope it comes unlocked with that price.
This iPhone has the body encrusted 1179 diamonds weighing 16.18 carats. 660 18 carats diamonds are placed on the lower part of the rear lid while the Apple logo has 61 similar diamonds. Buying this expensive iPhone will get you access to the international all day VIP-service Concierge within one year.

Continuing on with the endless fascination for iPhone from Google, the search engine giant has now added support for 17 more languages for its Gmail page when viewed on Apple’s best-selling device. These include Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Danish, Dutch, UK English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil or Portugal), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, which are already available on the desktop version. Users will just have to just have to change the “Gmail display language” under Settings when logged into Google and they are good to go. Along with this, there are many other improvements including address autocomplete, faster loadtimes, and mail prefetching all packed into a smoother user interface. We are waiting what you have lined up next for the iPhone, Google, Android perhaps?

Google Mobile Blog

The much-awaited and much-touted turn-by-turn GPS feature on iPhone 3G may not be far away as Apple has just released a beta version of iPhone 2.1 software for the developers. There’s a new version of the iPhone SDK seeded as well, but developers can’t submit their products to the App Store for now using this SDK. Inclusion of Core Location features like monitoring traveling speed and direction tracking point most probably to turn-by-turn GPS but we will let the developers do their magic and take a tablet of patience until that’s a reality.
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We’ve seen so far the amazing work of iPhone Dev Team who were able to break the iPhone out. Application freedom comes after jailbreaking the iPhone but unlocking isn’t just available yet. The Pwnage Tool was released twice already. The 2.0 version was very soon corrected by the 2.0.1 version.

Just in case you don’t own a Mac, there a Windows Pwnage Tool version for the 3G iPhone, iPhone and iPhone Touch. The Windows version will also jailbreak any of the iPhones or the iPod touch, but it won’t unlock the 3G iPhone yet.

via Giz

We’ve heard about a colored 3G iPhone version back in April and May when everyone thought it would be cool to make us think they have inside info about the next iPhone. Most of those predictions turned out to be elaborate photoshoped pictures which never came through.

A (PRODUCT) RED is supposedly going to be launched around the holiday period to support the victims of AIDS. A part of all (PRODUCT) RED 3G iPhones sold will be redirected towards victims in Africa.

This one is a rumor too, so we’ll treat it accordingly. Better wait until around Christmas to see what happens!

Even with its abysmal battery life and the lack of smallest of things called copy/paste and a decent camera among other minor deficiencies, Apple surely had a winner on its hands before the iPhone 3G hit the stores. With lines in front of stores showing no sign of abating and AT&T stores running out of stock, there’s much more cash to look forward to by both Apple and AT&T.

AT&T says:

The Apple iPhone 3G is a dramatic example of this transformation. In the days following our exclusive U.S. launch of this new device, powered by the nation’s fastest 3G wireless network, customer response has been everything we had anticipated and more. This strengthens our wireless business, and it reinforces our positive view of the opportunities ahead for AT&T and the industry.

And don’t forget the impending launch on August 22nd in 20 other countries. If the trend continues, the next generation of iPhone is sure to make a bigger splash and in the process, make more money for Apple too!

MacRumors

I wonder how much time did pass between the moment Apple’s Steve Jobs announced the 3G iPhone and the moment a porn king realized how much money they will make in the iPorn iPhone business.

Fast 3G data will get you going. Lots of Internet browsing and live-streaming video watching will become regular iPhone chores. iRoticNet knows that and it’s no wonder they plan to create an adult video destination for 3G iPorn.
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Who said that only Apple made money off the 3G iPhone? Sure they did good, but so did other people too. And of all the carriers partnering up with Apple for a fix, AT&T should be at the top with the most profits. After all, they have been for more than a year now involved in the whole Apple phone thing.
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Like everyone else, Apple posted their earnings for the last quarter of a profit about $1.07 billion, or $1 share, on sales of $7.46 billion for the Q3 of the fiscal year. Despite that Apple’s stocks dropped as people fear Steve Jobs’s health.

Apple managed to sell almost 2.5 computers, over 11 million iPods and over 700k iPhones. That’s before the 3G iPhone hit the market.
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With shortages reported everywhere in the US yesterday, some were estimating the new iPhone shipments to arrive sometime in the following weeks. Well it appears Apple’s supply line from Asia is working better. Important Apple shops in New York and California had both iPhone versions in stock today. Well technically there are three iPhone versions, the 8GB Black, the 16GB Black and the 16GB White. Exactly the colors AT&T had suggested a long time ago.
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I know what you are asking yourself. Am I ever going to stop with these Sony Ericsson announcements? Well I will stop the minute Sony Ericsson stops launching cell phones. It’s the third Walkman phone launched today and it carries the name W302. This model will be launched also in Q4 of 2008 in those interesting imaginative colors, Midnight Black and Sparkling White.
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Do you want to go online from your laptop through your 3G iPhone? Well that’s not possible yet. Officially that is. But unofficially that is possible although it implies getting yourself into some potential trouble as you will be definitely be breaking some terms of service.
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In case you didn’t know this so far, Japanese are perverts really famous for taking those upskirt photos. There are so many cameras around now days and taking porn different pictures apparently is easier than before. Especially in Japan!

With all this in mind, the 3G iPhone will have, at least in Japan, the shutter sound always on when taking pictures. You know, the annoying sound every camera has. The sound that you could easily remove from the iPhone in any other country. But in Japan that won’t be possible. So girls will always know when someone has just tried to take a forbidden picture.

In other words, all Japanese customers have a locked jailed iPhone and a locked shutter sound. And still they buy Apple’s phone. They must have another snap-shotting upskirt device ready to use for that special occasions.

With the Olympics arriving in about two months, Apple is ready to hit China. Its first Apple store was just officially opened in Beijing’s newest Village at Sanlitun.

The Chinese Apple store isn’t visible from outside the Sanlitun complex, but once inside the inner court, you won’t miss the Apple. It’s a three-story building with two visible stores and a third level covered with stainless steel
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Well Apple what are you doing with all that iPhone plants? How’s the production going? What about the iPhone delivery guys? We heard Europe isn’t going to see any more iPhones until October. What about the rest of the world? What about your home base?
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As we heard yesterday evening, the Pwnage Tool 2.0 was released today. Were you waiting for iPhone Dev Team to finish it? Well they have semi-finished it. The Pwnage Tool 2.0 will definitely jailbreak your 3G iPhone. As for unlocking, the Tool will only unlock your first generation iPhone for now. iPhone Touch owners will also be able to jailbreak it and install all the non-Apple applications they want.
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Like in the USA, Europe faces a major 3G iPhone shortage. People would definitely buy the Apple mobile device, but there aren’t any left yet. In the USA you can go to an AT&T store and order your iPhone ahead. After paying you’re going to wait from 10 to 20 days to get it but you will eventually get. For Europe there are some bad news apparently. The iPhone stocks in Europe aren’t going to be replenished until October. That’s 3 months from now.
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Since it’s the weekend and we’re way over the craziness from last week’s 3G iPhone launch, let’s have a little fun. Before watching the video below, which is a hilarious 3G iPhone parody, I propose to you these Mercedes Swarovski Elements iPhone pouches. They are part of the GLK collection and they are only 40. This limited pouch edition will be offered as prizes in the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin. If you’re going to be there, one of those babies might be yours, no matter if you own an iPhone or not.
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It was only a week ago that we were discussing the iPhone Dev Team and their remarkable ability to unlock and jailbreak iPhones and the 3G iPhone in particular.
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