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App Store tops 25 million downloads

It may have taken just three days for customers to download those first 10 million apps from the App Store, but it took 10 days more to hit the 25 million mark. While still an impressive number it does seem to be slowing down just a bit. If you consider that the first 3 days [...]

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Analysts calling for another month of iPhone 3G shortages

Say is isn’t so, it already seems strange that we are still seeing long very long lines at Apple Stores on a daily basis, but the simple fact is that is seems like the demand has been higher than the supply. Based on analysis from Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray these short supply issues could last [...]

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Estimates claim Apple made a $330 million profit during the iPhone 3G launch weekend

While we have seen the report from Apple announcing they quickly hit the 1 million milestone for the iPhone 3G, they have certainly not announced just how much profit they made from those sales. Well thanks to some recent analysis, we are now able to get an idea of just how much they added to their [...]

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Still not digging the yellow-tinted iPhone 3G, use iTunes “Restore” to easily correct it

We have seen many people complaining about the yellowish tint on the new iPhone 3G’s, and personally it was hard to deal with. Apple later released a statement explaining just why this was done and that it was indeed intentional. “the screen’s color temperature has been purposely altered on the new iPhone to produce warmer, more [...]

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App Store serves up 10 million app downloads during launch weekend

In addition to the one million iPhone 3G’s that were sold during this first weekend, the App Store was also a huge success with more than 10 million applications already being downloaded from both iPhone and iPod Touch users. “The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three [...]

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Apple sells one million iPhone 3G’s during first weekend of sales

With the lines that we have been seeing, not only on Friday, but Saturday and even some on Sunday this news should come as little surprise, however Apple has announced that they have already sold one million iPhone 3G’s. With just three days, and totaling sales from 21 countries Apple sold their one millionth iPhone 3G [...]

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TeleNav confirms iPhone GPS navigator application

TeleNav has confirmed plans to offer a “turn-by-turn in-car GPS navigator app” that will be available for the iPhone 3G. According to the details, the app will offer users voice guided turn-by-turn directions, traffic-aware routing and they will be full color 3D maps. While they have confirmed their plans, they have not yet mentioned when it [...]

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Caution: Some jailbroken settings carrying over from jailbroken 1.1.4 iPhones

A word of caution to new iPhone 3G owners who had jailbroken 1.1.4 iPhones. I had a jailbroken iPhone with firmware version 1.1.4 and purchased a new iPhone 3G this morning. It was set up and activated at the Apple Store with no issues. When I arrived home and plugged it into iTunes, I had the [...]

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iPhone Jonny gets the first retail-sold iPhone 3G

Greg Packer, aka iPhone Jonny has completed his goal, and become the first to get a retail-sold iPhone 3G. Of course that really does not give him anything, other than some jelous looks when he first leaves the store, but hey, he was the first. That has to be worth something…right? If nothing else it does [...]

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The iPhone 3G gets opened up

As promised the team over at iFixit made their way over to Auckland New Zealand and managed to secure the #4 spot in line and have purchased and dissected an iPhone 3G that set them back $979 NZ (about $742 US). They nicely documented the tear down offering quite a few images showing off all the [...]

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