Apple continues to hit record numbers. Apple has just announced its financial earnings for its fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26, 2010. In this quarter, Apple has posted a record revenue of $15.7 billion with a net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion. International sales for the company has accounted for 52 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
From the very first generation of the iPhone, Apple has put it protection that makes it hard for people to get unhindered access to the iPhone OS software. In the US, AT&T has exclusive rights to sell the iPhone 4 and these phones have been carrier locked to AT&T (even those being sold without contract).
Firefox, the leading open source web browser from Mozilla, has just reached another milestone for making our personal surfing experience better. The Firefox Home (iTunes preview) iPhone app has just been approved and is now available for download from iTunes. Continue reading …
Fring is a very popular VoIP application with other features such as instant messaging and video calls. The good news is that Fring is now also on the iPhone 4. This enables iPhone 4 owners to make video calls not only to other iPhone 4 owners but also to other smartphone users.
What seems to be all around the Internet these days is the issue of the just released iPhone 4 antennae / signal strength problem. Almost every mobile related site has had some discussion about the problem. It has turned in so much buzz that people have named it the “Grip of Death”. Continue reading …
Today is the start of the 5-day Apple 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference in Moscone West San Francisco. This year there are several announcements from Steve Jobs that most people in the tech world have been waiting for. I am particularly interested because I believe that the news coming out of the conference will have a very important impact in the mobile industry.
If you have some 1st generation iPhone that happens to be lying around and gathering dust. You can try running the Android open mobile platform on the iPhone. A known as planetbeing has apparently been hard at work porting Android to the iPhone. Now he has finally posted the youtube video below of Android running on the iPhone.
After having been able to sync my Contacts with my Mac notebook using iSync, I was surprised that I could actually also sync the music on my Symbian based Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic mobile phone with my iTunes music library in Mac OSX. Being a long time Linux user, I had always find it easy to sync my phone’s music files with Ubuntu’s Rhythmbox. It’s was just a matter of being able to mount my Nokia mobile phone as a USB storage device in Ubuntu.
Foursquare is not the ball game played by four players. What I am actually refering to is the popular social networking game create by Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai, Harry Heymann, Nathan Folkman and Mike Singleton with design help from Mari Sheibley. The game is basically played by “checking-in” to different places that you go to. With the help of a GPS equipped mobile phone like the iPhone (although it works with an iPod touch the detected location is not as accurate), you can check-in to these places.
Here’s an interesting rumor that Digitimes is running. It seems that the company who won the image sensor orders for the iPhone 3GS, OmniVision Technologies, is seeing to increase it’s 2010 production of it’s 5-megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) to 40-45 million units.
So far, the iPhone has seen 3 generations (new model anually). If the pattern keeps up, a fourth generation is bound to be released by the middle of 2010. With the current competition from Android, Maemo and other mobile platforms having better hardware specifications. Apple would be at a disadvantage if it doesn’t consider improving the specifications of the next generation of iPhone.
