Remember that application that Apple fortunately pulled from the AppStore before anymore dimwits decided to try it for just $999.99? One of the eight people who bought the application decided to put up a guided tour of the highly expensive application for us to see if they got their money’s worth. From the video, it sure looks like he got enough sarcasm to last a lifetime and a little boost of self-confidence every now and then, even if it cost him a thousand dollars. The guy says he is readying a cracked version, so be sure to try it whenever it’s available sans the unbelievable price tag, of course!

While T-Mobile wants to copy Apples’ App Store it appears that Vodafone wants to copy Apple’s iTunes thing.

And not only did Vodafone launch one music store but they have launched two. Just to make sure you have a selection of songs to chose from right? The first store, Omnifone’s MusicStation has been around for a while, but now Master Voda has something new: Vodafone Music.
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Do you remember NetShare? The iPhone 3G application which lets you tether your iPhone was allowed in the App Store only to be canceled and then accepted again. Well apparently Apple has decided to disallow it after all. AT&T’s word must count for something. AT&T has confirmed that any tethering from your iPhone won’t be tolerated. I wonder what other carrier around the globe feel about it. (more…)

Apparently Apple has a third version of its iPhone 2.1 firmware but details are rather secret for now. Beta 3 doesn’t have any specification of new additions yet and it’s thought to solve bugs from earlier versions.
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It’s official and now it’s available. The 2.0.1 firmware update from Apple has been released and it’s now going to show up when you go to iTunes from your iPhone.

The file is rather large at almost 250MB so lots of bugs should be already be fixed. Make sure you take your time and back up everything with you would mind losing if anything goes wrong. Backup is simple and easy with iTunes but it might take a while.

Let us know what you think about these upgrade. Hopefully most of the bugs have been killed of by now.

As it was hinted a while ago, the 20GB XBox 360 wen on sale for $299. Microsoft has been clearing up inventory for the next 60GB edition to arrive. A rumor at that time, the price cut turned out to appear as predicted.

Well we have another rumor for you, just as bold. Microsoft is prepping up more special discounted prices for next month. There’s going to be a $199 Arcade version with no hard drive, a $299 Pro version with a 60GB hard drive and a $399 Elite version with an 120GB hard drive. I bet you’re angry with yourself for buying the 20GB Pro right? Well, simply send it to eBay once the new discount price will appear. If that’s going to happen of course.

Verizon customers have been waiting for Visual Voicemail to arrive for quite a while now. Sure you would need a good smartphone to take advantage of the whole Visual Voicemail concept but now it’s all possible.

Verizon has launched their Visual Voicemail and they have support for a single handset so far, the LG Voyager. More smartphones will surely follow as Verizon is competing against Sprint on this one. Sprint had the service running from before on smartphones like the Samsung Instinct.

With the 3G iPhone release, Verizon might need its Visual Voicemail to keep their customers still hooked on Verizon’s plans. And if they do manage to bring the Thunder from RIM this fall as it’s been rumored, they might just find themselves in a much better position to compete against AT&T or Sprint.

Rumored before, the cooperation between Netflix and LG is going to be official in September. LG’s Blu-Ray disc player, the BD300 will be streaming Netflix movies in the US. More than 12,000 TV shows and movies will be available through it at no additional costs on monthly Netflix subscription.

You will be able to select movies and add them in queue from your TV. They will start playing in about 30 seconds. What else do you need? Where’s the popcorn? Oh, and the LG Blu-Ray will retail for up to $500 and it will also support BD Live, LG SimpLink for LG TV and AV products.

I guess this is for all Apple haters out there. Psystar, or the company selling PC with Mac OS, has called Carr & Ferrell, or the lawyers that already managed to squeeze $10 million from Apple and $60 million from Microsoft in similar cases before, to defend them against Apple, or the company pissed off at Psystar. Well pissed enough to sue Psystar for all they’ve got.
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LG Electronics and Dolby Laboratories, Inc announced that LG will be the first cell phone manufacturer to include Dolby Mobile into future handsets. Are we to understand that LG is preparing for a whole new multimedia and music cell phone lines in the near future? (more…)

It looks like the copy paste function is the holy grail of all iPhones so far. How could this simple, daily feature have been overlooked for the second year in a row? MagicPad is an upcoming store application destined to be a success. I think a bunch of developers have been thinking about creating an application which will hint a copy paste version which the rest of us can use until master Steve Jobs decides to implement one in the next iPhone.
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Here’s a phone coming from 3, the S2 made by Amoi of China. This is another Skypephone with preinstalled Skype software. It has built in Windows modem drivers which will install automatically once you connect it thorough the USB port. (more…)

Here’s a rather displeasing rumor following Steve’s Ballmer’s wet dream of developing a Zune Phone. Some sources claim that Nokia will carry Zune content. Why in the world would anything like that happen? Nokia is the leader of cell phone manufacturers across the world. They have a well established market share that’s growing each quarter. They have their own Symbian OS which not only will improve in the future but it’s also rumored to merge with Google’s Android.
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Word around the street is that Google’s Android and Nokia’s Symbian are going to merge. Merge into what may I ask? Why would Nokia, kings of the cell phones business so far, operating handsets on their own Symbian OS which is going open by the way, want to mingle with Google’s Android, an OS we have talked much about without actually getting nothing good in return. There are millions of Symbian devices working out there while there’s a maybe Android phone or device for later this year.
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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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Alltel Wireless has something new for all photographers out there. As long as you have a camera phone from Alltel, you will be happy to enjoy the new MyShow service. Alltel launched MyShow which is the first user-generated mobile slideshow applications. Is MyShow a Flickr-like app? Most likely it is, but let’s see how we can use it and how much it costs.

MyShow will turn into slideshows your selected pictures. You can add music and personalized text to go along with all those pictures. You can set up MyShow widgets to show your slideshows anywhere on the internet. It’s the perfect application to share your content with your far away friends or family. The service doesn’t come free, but it doesn’t cost that much. MyShow comes for $3.99/month form their Alltel Shop.

MyShow comes to complete Alltel’s photo-oriented products. Alltel already offers Alltel Pic Transfer, which uploads photos from the phone to a PC or social media site; Kodak Mobile Link, which lets you check out personal photos stored online in your Kodak Gallery and Fujifilm Mobile Postcards which lets you send a personal photo greeting through US mail to anyone you want.

If you are the proud owner of one of the following BlackBerries: Curve 8330, Pearl 8130, and 8830 World Edition you are in luck. Verizon has just announced their mobile banking support for those models. You can “stay connected to their financial information while away from home with Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Banking application.”
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Ever used Skype from your smartphone to talk to your friends almost for free? You end up paying only for the data plans for those long distance calls. What about any other VoIP provider? Have you been using sipgate with T-Mobile operated phones in Germany?
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We’re searching here and there for unlocked 3G iPhones options for you, while we are waiting for the Pwnage Tool 2.0 from iPhone Dev Team to be completed. Everyone is surprised how fast they managed to develop the software for unlocking and jailbreaking the new iPhone. Well bad news everyone. It appears there are some problems with the whole unlocking thing.
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Although it was initially scheduled to be released two days ago, the Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta launched today. You can download it and test it out as long as you have a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 powered touchscreen-only smartphones.
The two days delay was caused by the discovery of some bugs which needed to be taken care of prior to the release.
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