China Unicom signs iPhone deal
China Unicom announced Friday that it had struck a deal with Apple (AAPL) to bring the iPhone to the world's largest cellphone market.
The announcement ends months of speculation and represents a coup for China Unicom, the country's struggling No. 2 carrier with 140 million subscribers. Apple's negotiations with giant China Mobile (nearly 500 million subscribers)...
Got A Beef with Your City? There’s an iPhone App for That
If you’re lucky enough to live in Pittsburgh, you can report stuff like potholes, graffiti and other everyday annoyances straight to city hall via an iPhone app called iBurgh.
Peeved Pittsburghers first download the app, gratis on iTunes. First time users need to fill in name, phone number, email...Apple reportedly sells 5 million iPhones to China Unicom
Filed under: Hardware, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone
It appears that China Unicom has been selected as the sole distributor of iPhones in China, according to a report in the International Business Times today. While the deal has yet...US Bank Offers Check Deposits Via iPhone
Getting a step closer to completely paperless banking, some customers of USAA will be able to deposit checks using their iPhones.
An updated version of the bank’s mobile app out this week accepts checks that have been photographed with the iPhone.
In the demo above, a bank exec first enters the amount of the check, then lines...
New iPhone Ad Highlights Bump and Mover Apps, But Which Is Better?
Apple launched a new pair of iPhone 3GS ads to highlight features common to newer and older devices.
Continuing the “there’s an app for that” meme, the rather underwhelming one above about sharing shows how you can exchange photos using Mover and contact info with Bump. (The other ad focuses on travel apps for jet-setting iPhone...
X-Power1 Rechargeable iPhone/iPod charging cable: Everything you know is wrong
Filed under: Accessories, Cool tools, iPhone, iPod touch
The $79 (refurbished) iPhone
The sticker price on Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone — once an formidable barrier to widespread adoption — is falling faster than Sarah Palin’s approval ratings.
When it first hit the market two years ago, the entry level 8GB iPhone cost $599.
Two months later, to the dismay of early adopters, it dropped to $399.
Last July, an iPhone 3G...
Singing the iPhone battery blues
Filed under: Bugs/Recalls, iPhone
"My iPhone's been draining awfully fast since I installed 3.0," I commented to a fellow TUAW blogger just a few days after the release of the iPhone 3.0 firmware. At first, I wanted to think it was my phone. But, my...
Manage your iPhone’s clipboard with Snippets
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review
The cut, copy, and paste features (finally) included in version 3.0 of the iPhone OS greatly improve the productivity of the iDevices. However, there is room for improvement. Enter Erich Bratton with...Driving along in my automobile, with an iPhone or iPod
Filed under: Audio, iPod Family, Features
Taking a holiday drive with the music blaring is a very American thing to do, but getting your iPod or iPhone to take part has often caused a world...
Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan – Updated
Gauging the iPhone’s popularity in Japan is not easy.
Just ask Brian X. Chen. He wrote a piece for Wired.com last April called Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the iPhone 3G last summer, the device was a big flop in Japan.
“Apple’s iPhone has wowed most of the...
