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ABC and Disney Eying Apple’s TV Subscription Scheme

Word has been buzzing for some time that Apple is working on some sort of TV subscription plan for iTunes, and that it may even appear as soon as 2010. Now the WSJ is reporting that both CBS Corp. and Walt Disney Corp. are considering Apple’s plan, which has the potential to change the television [...]

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AT&T Wins Out on Gizmodo’s 12 City 3G Data Test

Gizmodo recently performed 3G data speed testing across twelve U.S. cities, and now the results are in — surprisingly, AT&T’s 3G network came out on top. They didn’t test for call quality, dropped calls, or anything else aside from 3G data speeds, so their results say nothing of AT&T’s voice service. Their results also confirm [...]

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AT&T Keeps on Ticking After Operation Chokehold

We’ve covered Fake Steve Jobs’ proposal for Operation Chokehold, along with AT&T’s response, and now we can reflect on the outcome of the digital revolt. Basically, there’s not much to report. There were no reported AT&T slowdowns or outages during noon to 1pm PST on Friday the 18th, and one Brooklyn-based CNN blogger even noticed [...]

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Verizon Preparing Network for the iPhone

Staying on cue with their attacks on AT&T’s network, Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer Anthony Melone recently spoke to BusinessWeek about upgrades that the company is making in preparation for the iPhone moving over. While we don’t know if the work they’re doing is more extensive than what AT&T did to prepare for the iPhone, [...]

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Dilbert On the Brilliance of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 Strategy

While I don’t think the below Dilbert strip is pointing to Microsoft directly, it is making fun of their current culture which has led to things like Windows Mobile 7 not being released until the end of 2010. Meanwhile, all the hey have to show for WinMo is 6.5, which is in no way a [...]

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iPhone Has Captured Nearly 50% of Japan’s Smartphone Market, Android and Blackberry Lagging Far Behind

Proving that the iPhone dominates in pretty much every market it hits (unless saddled with restrictions like China’s legit iPhone), MobileCrunch is reporting on a Japanese report which concludes that the iPhone has captured 46.1% of their smartphone market . Earlier this year there was a story from Wired that the iPhone was failing in [...]

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U.S. iPhone Usage Beats Out Windows Mobile for the First Time

Microsoft may want to work on getting Windows Mobile 7 here sometime soon, because they’re losing market share fast. The research firm ComScore is reporting that, for the first time, Apple has overtaken Microsoft in smartphone market share. According to their chart (see below), between the months of July and October, Apple saw a significant [...]

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AT&T On Fake Steve Jobs’ Operation Chokehold

Yesterday, I wrote about Fake Steve Jobs’ digital revolt, Operation Chokehold, which is planned for this Friday. Now thanks to CultofMac, we know what AT&T thinks of the event. An AT&T spokesperson called the event “totally irresponsible”, and continued: We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical forum, but there is nothing amusing about advocating that [...]

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Microsoft Releases Bing iPhone App

Microsoft has just release an iPhone app for their Bing (free at the App Store) search engine. While the move may seem odd, it makes complete sense for Microsoft to want a mobile app presence for Bing. After all, Google’s iPhone app has been out for some time, and it offers a useful voice search [...]

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Useless App of the Day: Clink-Clink

In the first useless app  that I’ll be featuring here at iPhonefreak — Clink-Clink — you can clink glasses with your friends, virtually. Of course, the app assumes that you know someone else dumb enough to also get it — when in actuality, you’ll most likely be clinking alone. The app does offer a bit [...]

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