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Who Ordered The PineCone Research iPhone Pricing Survey? 2007-02-20 05:31:05 There’s a new twist to the recent story we’ve run about PineCone Research
survey. For those with short memory, it was about an AT&T/Cingular ad that showed the Apple iPhone
’s pricing at $299/399 for 4/8GB models respectively.
We’re absolutely sure that this survey indeed took place. However Mr Jeff Cail, Senior VP at PineCone Research, who asked us to remove the advertisement scan from our servers, refused to give any comments.
Gizmodo contacted a Cingular representative about this survey, whose answer was simply “It’s a fake.” If we’ll discard the thought that the representative in question was simply uninformed about the survey, we’re facing a very serious question: who was behind this survey if it wasn’t Cingular, and what was its purpose?
Our list of suspects includes Apple itself, possibly evaluating market reaction to eventual price drop. But as a more sinister thought, it could’ve been one of Cingular’ Read more:Pricing
HTC Love (P3350) Against Apple iPhone Comparison 2007-02-20 03:33:18 HTC P3350 (also known as HTC Love, and previously codenamed as HTC Artemis) is the latest offering from Taiwan-based mobile phone manufacturer HTC (High Tech Computer Corp). This touchscreen smartphone could be considered a rival to AppleiPhone
because it has some quite similar features.
It weighs at 127 grams, compared to iPhone’s 135 grams, and its dimensions are 2.3 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches (58 x 108 x 16.8 millimeters), against iPhone’s 2.4 x 4.5 x 0.46 inches (115 x 61 x 115 x 11.6 millimeters). Clearly, the difference is not all that great.
HTC P3350 (Love)
HTC Love is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0, and is essentially a quadband GSM cell phone, although it also supports UMTS. It supports CSD, GPRS, and EDGE data transfer standards, so just like the iPhone it’s a 2G phone. It can be controlled with its touchscreen, but it also has a trackball, which clearly gives more control options than Apple iPhone’s touchscreen alone. And while it comes with only 256 MB stor Read more:Against Apple
Ugandan Parliamentarians Clash Over iPhone 2007-02-19 22:44:07 In Uganda, a small impoverished African nation, esteemed parliamentarians almost came to fists one against another, right on the parliament’s floor. While there are many issues that face this country, such as rapid spread of AIDS and joblessness, the hot button topic today was the Apple iPhone
.
A group of parliamentarians led by Hon. MP Minister John Nasasira, claimed that many members of the parliament can’t be reached at important times due to lack of communications. He, and those supporting him, demanded that the government provides each parliament member with an Apple iPhone, once it’s available later this year.
Many MP’s supported this motion, claiming that they’re unavailable for votes and other important parliamentary affairs due to lack of mobile phones. According to them they’re "important members of society and therefore deserved a good looking and working mobile device like the iPhone from America"
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Quantum Research Suspects Apple iPhone Uses Their Technology 2007-02-19 20:48:31 Southampton, UK based touch sensor engineering firm Quantum Research
has a message to Apple
: "We will be looking very carefully at the iPhone
" Apple is already locked in one patent infringement lawsuit with Quantum Research, and the firm is ready to bring on another one.
According to Duncan Bryan, licensing director at Quantum Research: "The description of the iPhone suggests it uses a rear-surface touch screen, and has proximity sensing which can tell if it is held to the ear. That's a Quantum Research capability"
If Apple is indeed using this technology with the iPhone, already licensed to Motorola, they would be infringing Qantum Research’s patent. Apple is already using charge transfer technology in some of the iPod models, which caused Quantum Research to start the previous, ongoing lawsuit.
Source: Electronics Weekly.
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Late Night iPhone Reading - February 19 2007 2007-02-19 07:23:37 Welcome to another edition of Late NightiPhoneReading
. Tonight we’ve got links to the following articles of interest:
- PC Advisor’s Nancy Gohring attended this year’s 3GSM World Congress, and in her opinion iPhone competitors not there yet.
- Computerworld posted some public opinions about the Apple iPhone in “iPhone, Therefore …”
That’s all for tonight’s edition, stay tuned for more interesting articles tomorrow.
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Teclast T59: Just Another iPhonoid? 2007-02-19 06:29:19 iPhonoid n. any iPhonic device deficient in one or more key aspects (as described in Apple iPhone Jargon section of Maddy’s Dictionary).
The Teclast T59 could certainly be an iPhonoid - Windows CE powered, Taiwanese made, it’s ready to join the ranks of “me-too” Apple iPhone wannabes, sporting a suspiciously similar design to the iPhone and having been introduced roughly a month since Apple’s iPhone announcement.
But not everything is that simple — according to the information provided on Teclast’s official site, the device will come with 3.5inch VGA touchscreen capable of 30FPS, GPS, FM radio, and Wi-Fi. Even more interestingly, the maximum size storage model of Teclast T59 comes with a whopping 16GB of memory!
You can see an early promotional ad below, and stay tuned for more details as they become available.
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Windows Mobile iPhone Skins 2007-02-19 00:21:54 Today we’ve got another two Apple iPhone
skins for WindowsMobile
Pocket PC devices: these look very good, include a lot of animations, and were made by Juni. See below for download links and previews.
Direct Downloads:
- Windows Mobile
PocketPC iPhone Skin (required plugins: RJTime, Facade, Fizz Traveller).
- Windows Mobile PocketPC iPhone Skin v2 (standard version) (required plugins: RJTime, Smartmonitor).
- Windows Mobile PocketPC iPhone Skin v2 (Facade version) (required plugins: RJTime, Facade, Fizz Traveller).
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Microsoft Announces Availability of MicroPhone 2007-02-18 22:34:26 Microsoft Announces Availability
of the MicroPhone
February 18, 2007, TPP, Redmond, WA USA
Special to iPhone Forum and iPhoneWorld.ca
Microsoft Corporation today announced that its ground-breaking cellular telephone, the MicroPhone, will be available real soon now. Reaction in the queues outside Circuit City and Best Buy was mixed, some techies apparently unsure how this bulletin differs from yesterday’s “any day now”.
However, reliable sources have provided a tantalizing glimpse of the MicroPhone’s development and features.
THE NEW OS
Initially released as a Windows variant for use in English submarines, Microsoft’s Global and Local Best-Guess Landing-sites for the British (code name “GLuBGLuB”) has been extensively reworked. The new variant will be known as Cellar Windows.
Holding down the size of the OS has been a major challenge for the Cellar Windows team. Whereas the GLuBGLuB hardware filled the quarters of the sub’s redundant navig Read more:Microsoft
MiTAC Mio A501 Against Apple iPhone Comparison 2007-02-18 21:35:16 There’s no stop to AppleiPhone
“killers”. Meizu MiniOne Chinese iPhone clone’s laurels don’t let other Asian mobile phone manufacturers sleep easy at night. MiTAC is a Taiwanese electronics company that among other things has a mobile communications division. Apparently the folks over at MiTAC noticed all the media attention that Meizu’s MiniOne has received, so they’ve decided to come up with their own Windows Mobile 5.0 powered iPhone clone. Thus MiTAC Mio A501 was born.
Essentially, the Mio A501 is a miniature quadband GSM touchscreen mobile device that supports CSD, GPRS, and EDGE networks. Its dimensions are 2.3 x 3.8 x 0.8 inches versus Apple iPhone’s 2.4 x 4.5 x 0.46 inches (115 x 61 x 11.6mm for iPhone vs 95.7 x 59.6 x 20.7mm for Mio A501). Not quite as slim, but it’s almost there. Both devices weigh 135 grams.
MiTAC Mio A501
The difference in class becomes visible only when we compare the processors and displays: the meas Read more:Against Apple
Palm's CEO: Apple Developed "Nothing At All" 2007-02-18 17:59:21 Palm’s president and CEO Ed Colligan gave a new interview to Swiss newspaper Sonntagszeitung that was published today. In it, he had the following to say about the Apple
iPhone (rough translation from German):
“In my opinion it looks like a highly developed media player, which by a coincidence includes a mobile phone. It could be interesting for people that need to have both music and films on one iPod, as well as the occasional phone call.” But for businessmen and other types of users the touchscreen without a keyboard will be a challenge, said Mr Colligan.
According to him, besides computers and iPods Apple developed “nothing at all“. There’s a giant difference between giving speeches and actual development, went on to say Mr Colligan.
“However it will not be simple to create a good smartphone that would function on all different networks used in different parts of the world. Nokia, Motorola and Samsung worked on it for 25 years - and until t Read more:Nothing
iPhone Exclusive to Apple/Cingular Stores, Websites 2007-02-21 19:26:29 After a meeting with Apple
’s executives, Prudential Equity Group says that Apple expects the iPhone
to be sold mostly through its online and retail stores, as well as through its partner, Cingular
.
Attending this meeting, were Prudential analyst Jesse Tortora, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, Apple Sr. VP of Retail Ron Johnson, and Apple Sr. Director of Mac Product Marketing Tom Bogart.
According to Mr Tortora, “Apple said that the iPhone will be sold exclusively through its own stores, its website, and Cingular stores. Management expects the majority of the iPhone sales to occur in Apple stores, given that consumers will likely look to Apple to demonstrate the device's features.”
According to Apple, once the iPhone is released, it expects similar per-store sales as leading USA electronics retailer Best Buy. Furthermore, Apple “doesn't expect to broadly proliferate into any new categories for a while,” and will focus on Macintosh, iPod, AppleTV, and iPhone Read more:Exclusive
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20 Apple iPhone Mysteries 2007-02-21 17:10:13 Introduction
It’s been almost a month and a half since Steve Jobs gave his now famous iPhone
presentation at Macworld 2007. Since then answers to a lot of questions about the Apple
iPhone were found, but even more questions still remain. This article is based on publicly available information, as well as information reported by other publications. It discusses the most important things that we don’t know about the Apple iPhone
.
Apple iPhone
Global iPhone Issues
- The #1 question that bothers us — will it still be known as the iPhone? Apple is currently in the middle of a legal dispute with Cisco in USA and UK regarding the iPhone trademark, and with Comwave in Canada. If it loses those, it might need to rename the iPhone to something else. iMobile, anyone?
- Our #2 is a very interesting question - Cisco demands for “interoperability” between the two iPhones. Cisco’s iPhone is a VOIP Skype phone. Does that mean that if Cisco’s demands are met, Read more:Mysteries
Apple To Acquire Palm? 2007-02-21 14:16:32 Some rumors were circulating recently about an imminent sale of Palm. Commented Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney: “I think it would be a good thing if they were purchased. They’re doing well now, but they need more capital to do the things they need to do.” “The rumor that [Palm] is in play came from investors,” added Mr Dulaney.
According to him “Today, the big guys can do new [phone] models every six months, Palm just can’t do that. The Treo has been out there far too long. Its electronics have been upgraded, but it’s just too thick.”
As possible candidates that could purchase Palm, Mr Dulaney named HP, Dell and Apple
. Speaking about Apple, he said "What they'd get from Palm is carrier knowledge. But they'd have to pick up a whole OS" Mr Dulaney meant to say that Palm’s most recent devices, the Treo line, all run on Windows Mobile operating system, while Apple intends to use OSX in Apple iPhone.
Source: Macworld.
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Sony Ericsson P990 iPhone Theme Skin 2007-02-21 12:32:57 We’ve added a new Apple iPhone
skin for another SonyEricsson
mobile: this time it was the turn of the P990, and the skin is using the UIQ 3 extension package. It might work on P990i as well, although we’re not sure. This iPhone-themed skin set with clownfish (see preview below) was made by thecoolsha. See the iPhone skins section for more Sony Ericsson
iPhone skins.
Direct download:
- Sony Ericsson P990 iPhone Skin
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Cisco vs. Apple: Second Deadline Expires Today 2007-02-21 10:50:21 Today, on February 21st 2007, expires the extended deadline that was given by Cisco
to Apple
Inc. to respond to its iPhone trademark lawsuit. Cisco is suing Apple Inc. on the grounds that it owns the iPhone trademark in USA, UK, and a number of other countries, as it acquired the iPhone trademark from Infogear, along with its other assets, in March 2000.
The two companies are purportedly attempting to come to an out-of-court settlement - while Cisco repeatedly stated that one of the preconditions for a settlement is "interoperability" between the Linksys-Cisco iPhone and the Apple iPhone, whatever that might mean.
This was the second deadline extension that Cisco granted to Apple Inc., however as of now, with less than 24 hours left to the deadline, the parties have apparently not reached an agreement yet.
If the talks stall, both parties involved will be looking at a rather lengthy, costly, and unpredictable legal fight. You can read more about the Apple/Cisco legal dispute in o Read more:Second
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Late Night iPhone Reading - February 21 2007 2007-02-21 09:46:36 Tonight’s interesting article is:
- iPhone
Inspires Handset Headhunt on Light Reading
. It talks about Dell’s recent poaching of a high ranked Motorola exec, who is supposed to now lead Dell’s mobile products division (a possible sign of more players entering the mobile phones game?)
There weren’t too many articles about iPhone last few days…
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Pharos GPS Phone 600 Against Apple iPhone Comparison 2007-02-21 04:43:00 According to the official site, PharosGPS
Phone 600 is "your GPS navigator, phone, digital camera, FM radio, MP3 and video player, and mobile office". Sounds a lot like the AppleiPhone
, doesn’t it? Let’s see how the Pharos GPS Phone 600 fares against the iPhone, keeping in mind that Pharos has entered the mobile phones market very recently, and that it’s primarily a manufacturer of GPS devices.
Same: Both are quadband GSM phones. Both support CSD, GPRS, and EDGE standards. Both have similar cameras: 1.9megapixels for Pharos’ phone, 2megapixels for iPhone. Almost similar weight, 146 grams for GPS Phone 600, 135 grams for Apple iPhone. Pharos’ cell phone also features a CPU from Samsung, although it’s less powerful than Apple iPhone’s (only 400MHz). Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g are provided with both of these mobiles.
Pharos GPS Phone 600
Pros: Pharos GPS Phone 600 has a built-in FM radio receiver, as well as a powerful GPS unit - Read more:Against Apple
O2 XDA Flame Against Apple iPhone Comparison 2007-02-21 03:14:31 O2 XDA Flame, manufactured by Asus, is a very sleek mobile. Not only does it look good, but it comes packed with features that make it stand out of the crowd, and it could very well be the first mobile that Apple
should be worried about. But let’s not jump ahead of ourselves.
O2 XDA Flame is a touchscreen smartphone, sporting an unusually high screen resolution of 480 x 640 (320 x 480 for iPhone
) on its 3.6inch (3.5inch for iPhone) VGA display. It is powered by an Nvidia GoForce 5500 GPU, and a 520MHz Xscale CPU (very close to iPhone’s ARM11 CPU). It even has SRS Mobile HD surround sound .
O2 XDA Flame
In addition to supporting quadband GSM, the O2 XDA Flame also supports UMTS, which means that it supports 3G while the Apple iPhone doesn’t. Overall, O2 XDA Flame’s fully supports CSD, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS. Like the Apple iPhone, O2 XDA Flame supports USB, Bluetooth 2.0, and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. Unlike the Apple iPhone it also comes with an infrared sensor and a VG Read more:Against Apple
Late Night iPhone Reading - February 22 2007 2007-02-22 06:37:12 - The Register’s Bill Ray counts all the times the name “iPhone
” and its spelling variations were used before Apple decided to adopt it in iPhone: A walk down Memory Lane.
- Chris Howard from Apple Matters asks the Telstra exec that “wasn’t impressed” with the Apple iPhone: “What next, Mr Winn? Maybe you'll tell us that Apple, with no previous experience making MP3 players, was mad to get into the MP3 player market, and maybe even should get out of it?” in Australian Telco’s Lame Attempt to Bag iPhone.
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Cisco, Apple iPhone Dispute Settled 2007-02-22 03:38:13 SAN JOSE & CUPERTINO, Calif. - Cisco
® and Apple
today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the “iPhone
” trademark.
Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the “iPhone” trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any pending actions regarding the trademark.
In addition, Cisco and Apple will explore opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, and consumer and enterprise communications. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.
These are some very interesting news, as now the iPhone might come with Skype?
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Late Night iPhone Reading - February 23 2007 2007-02-23 07:26:43 In this edition of Late NightiPhone
Readinng:
- Barron’s Online Tiernan Ray writes “Personally, I think the phone will be a hit, but we don't have enough info to know how much of a hit it will be.” in Why Apple's iPhone Will Be a Disappointment.
- Wired.com’s Rob Beschizza in Anti-iPhone Theses Pinned to Door.
That’s all for today’s edition, good night folks.
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iPhone Rumor: Cingular Exclusivity To Last Two Weeks 2007-02-22 23:25:08 Cult of Mac posted a rumor that claims that Cingular
’s iPhone
exclusivity period will last for only two weeks. The rumor goes a little something like “I was talking to a T-Mobile employee yesterday and he claimed that they will have the iPhone 2 weeks after the release. Cingular's exclusive apparently lasts only 2 Weeks
!!“.
The salt of this story, is that the information in question comes from a T-Mobile employee trying to sign up a customer. The original title of this story was “T-Mobile is clearly engaged in dishonest business practices”, but we’ve decided to tone it down a bit..
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Cisco Got Shafted By Apple in iPhone Dispute 2007-02-22 21:17:05 Yesterday Cisco
and Apple
announced that they settled the iPhone
dispute out of court, with both companies allowing each other to keep using the trademark on their products. According to at least two analysts, Apple de-facto won the iPhone name dispute.
Endpoint Technologies Associates analyst Roger Kay believes that it was a “face-saving” agreement for Cisco. “It looks like Cisco got shafted. Maybe there’s something in the (undisclosed) terms, but I don’t see how they’re getting the good end of the deal,” he said.
According to another analyst Rob Enderle, “It looks like Cisco caved.” As for promised interoperability talks, it “looks like the typical promise that (Apple CEO) Steve Jobs has no intention of keeping,” he says.
Source: USA Today.
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Late Night iPhone Reading - February 24 2007: Korea May Miss Out on iPhone, iPhone at the Oscars? 2007-02-24 07:13:54 - “Sales of Apple's global hit products, the iPod and Macintosh computers, are sluggish in Korea
. The company is therefore unlikely to change its lukewarm attitude soon,” reports Korean daily Digital Chosun Ilbo in Korea May Miss Out on iPhone
.
- Macworld’s Jim Dalrymple reports that “Apple will use the Academy Awards show on Sunday to feature a new teaser advertisement focused on the iPhone,” in iPhone at the Oscars
This Weekend.
That’s all for this edition of Late Night
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Sprint Ready To Compete With Cingular's iPhone 2007-02-24 01:48:11 While Apple’s iPhone
is being introduced as a Cingular
/AT&T exclusive, Sprint
’s senior vice president of product management and development, Oliver Valente, said at the Pacific Crest Digital Media and Entertainment Forum in New York City: “We welcome the competition, we look forward to competing with Apple in the music space.”
He went on to say: “There are some barriers they will have to overcome. It won’t be as easy as some believe to go from an industry where you are making a lot of money on hardware and not so much money on services into an industry where it is quite the reverse.”
Sprint is America’s third largest mobile carrier, behind only Cingular/AT&T and Verizon. While the iPhone exclusivity period for Cingular appears to be two years, Sprint is looking to cash in on its budget priced mobile phones line, of a dozen or more cell phones, priced less than $100.
Source: Kansas City Star.
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iPhone Rumor: 3G iPhone in January 2008 2007-02-24 01:03:37 Apple Insider reports that a Swedish firm received assurances from a local mobile carrier that Apple’s iPhone
will have 3G already in January
2008. While they can’t elaborate on that any further due to confidentiality of their source, they believe that iPhone 2.0 will offer support for HSDPA wireless data transfer standard early next year.
These would be good news for Apple, as currently one of the major concerns about the device in Europe and Asia is the lack of 3G support with the iPhone. However it does not make too much sense to release iPhone v2.0 only several months after iPhone v1.0 appears in Europe (currently the estimated release date in Europe is October 2007).
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Apple iPhone Won't Appear at CeBIT 2007-02-24 00:35:37 While an article in a German newspaper indicates that Apple
will showcase the iPhone
at a special part of CeBIT
tech industry expo and tradeshow, this is not the case according to an Apple representative.
According to the original report Apple was to showcase the iPhone along with its other products at lifestyle@CeBIT show. However according to an Apple spokesperson it won’t be happening. Apple is also not included in CeBIT’s exhibitors list.
Thanks: i4U News.
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$500 Too Much for iPhone: Survey 2007-02-23 19:15:29 According to a new survey conducted by Compete Inc. among 379 American residents most of which are aware of the iPhone
and are looking to buy an iPod, 26% of the respondents said they’re likely to buy the iPhone. However only 1% of them said that they’re willing to pay $500 for it.
42% of those surveyed said they’re likely to buy the iPhone if it’d cost between $200 to $299. At the same time Cingular now apparently has a big lead on its closest competitors, such as Verizon and Sprint, because 60% of respondents who are likely to buy the iPhone said they would switch from their current mobile service provider to Cingular, who is the exclusive USA distributor for the Apple iPhone.
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Analyst: Apple Paid Cisco Between $25-50 Million For iPhone Name 2007-02-25 01:11:54 Since Apple
and Cisco
signed a peace agreement allowing each company to keep using the iPhone
name, industry analysts’ reactions keep coming.
Piper Jaffray & Co senior research analyst Gene Munster, believes that talks of cooperation and interoperability between Apple’s and Cisco’s products is just a smoke screen. According to him, it was "noble language", while “Apple wanted that to be the impression because they get a lot of pressure for being closed.” Furthermore, according to his estimations Apple paid Cisco between $25 million and $50 million for the iPhone trademark.
But that’s not all that Cisco got out of the deal, says Kurt Scherf, VP and principal analyst with Parks Associates. “This is more a strategic move by Cisco to continue to strengthen its core business — and it was good for them to have the moxie or the wherewithal to have the iPhone name to use as a negotiating tool,” said he.
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iPhone Calendar, More On iPhone Google Maps, Scrolling Through Long Lists, iPhone Ringtones (Video) 2007-02-24 14:39:43 The perceptive folks from Actioncorp TV made a 6 minute video called "Hidden Details From iPhone
Keynote", where they point out all the little details that you’ve probably missed in Steve Jobs’ Macworld 2007 iPhone presentation.
For example, did you notice the iPhone calendar application being shown, or how Google
Maps will work for showing directions, traffic, and the like from your current location? Neither did we, at least not all of it. In addition to that, the video shows "another way to scroll through long lists and how ringtones may ultimately work". Check out the video below, and check our downloads section for the full Macworld 2007 keynote speech.
iPhone Calendar
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Through Long Lists
, iPhone Ringtones
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