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MacNotes.de (German) provides early notes and experiences from customers who have bought unlocked iPhones in Germany. The first SIM-unlocked iPhones went on sale in Germany on November 21st with a considerable (600 euro) premium over the usual SIM-locked iPhones. “Unlocked” simply means that …

One of the more frustrating aspects of being a Mac owner is trying to sync with a Windows Mobile device (shockingly, not all Mac owners have - or even want - an iPhone, some of us like our Smartphones). Here’s how.

MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to.

A Guitar Hero mod for TapTap Revolution, the rhythm game which uses your own music for the iPhone and iPod touch, has been released. Due to some of the technical limitations of the game (the way it’s been coded), certain aspects from the actual Guitar Hero have changed, but the basic look has hopefully been captured. Screenshot previews included.

“The filing lays out improved techniques for rendering a peripheral — such as an iPod or iPhone — removable from a host computer without the user first having to perform preparatory unmounting actions through software.”

While we’re distracting ourselves in foolishness (Black Friday, iPhone, HD DVD, Transformers, Dancing with the Stars, etc.), the neocons and the evildoers in the White House are planning their next move, election 2008. …in some ways it is human nature to be in denial … but Americans have our own special version, which is profoundly dangerous…

Three patent filings set into motion by Apple just a month after the iPhone’s US debut open the door to curved multi-touch surfaces that can recognize more than just fingertips.

The data plans for the iPhone which will be released in France on November 29th with Orange as the carrier, have been leaked from Orange’s iPhone site. While the plans were online, they were not linked to.

I’m pretty sure everyone buying an iPhone has already bought an iPod. So, if you own an iPod, you’ll want to listen up to this.

A Hamburg court will hear the case on T-Mobile Deutschland’s German marketing rights for Apple’s iPhone November 29, the court said Friday.

Need both? Strap the Curve and iPhone back-to-back with Velcro. When your in intense power-user mode, engaged in rapid texting and data downloading, the Curve fits the bill. But when you want a wide screen for viewing the Web, PowerPoint displays or viewing photos, flip your iBerry around to the iPhone side.

Not bad for the “unsmart-phone”.

Apple may extend the multi-touch technology found in its iPhone and iPod touch to larger displays by implementing new inventions which allow users to touch with their palms or whole fingers, and even to recognize the gripping motion on a pen: look for an Apple tablet or multi-touch keyboard in the future.

Research - which polled 500 people across the UK - suggest that, despite the ‘Apple cult’ fans, who were prepared to queue overnight to be the first to buy the iPhone, uptake in the wider public will be limited. Of those surveyed, a huge 72% said that they would not buy one, due to the price.

I was talking to an iPhone owner tonight and he told me he hadn’t hacked his iPhone yet. The reason he gave was there wasn’t a “killer app” to convince him. Here I give you my top 10 list of applications.

How much is your iPhone contract worth to Apple? Today, we got a concrete answer!

TUAW’s own Erica Sadun reports on the efforts to get audio in working on the iPod touch. Will you soon be able to record voice memo’s with an iPhone?

Research in Motion (RIMM) is developing a touch-screen version of the BlackBerry designed to compete with Apple’s fast-selling iPhone

The iPhone currently only works with T-mobile in Germany. Vodafone protested over T-Mobile’s exclusivity lock on the handset

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“French law has already forced Apple to promise that consumers will have the option to buy a version of the iPhone without a long-term contract with Orange… And now T-Mobile is in a similar situation in Germany. The unlocked iPhone is now officially available but for €999, around $1,478 even if normally available with contract at €399.”

To be in compliance with a court ruling, Deutsche Telekom announced today that they will immediately start selling an unlocked iPhone without contract for 999 euro (US $1,477). The iPhone will still be sold, as before, with 2 year contract for 399 euro ($US $590).

T-Mobile just issued a press release in response to Vodafone’s efforts to unravel the iPhone exclusive offering in Germany.

A article published in the most recent issue of Discover has slammed Open Source and stated that only closed development can produce radical, new, technology such as the iPhone. Jim Hutchinson cuts right through the grossly inaccurate statements and hands them what they deserve.

80 packages have been sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by AlliancePartsPros.com and now they are giving away 3 i-Phones or Kitchen Aide Mixers to bloggers with their blogging contest!

Apple may ship a 3G iPhone as soon as May 2008, a report claims. The report in Spanish national newspaper El Pais cites claims made by a mobile software developer called SevenClick. That developer claims Spain’s biggest mobile network, Telefonica, expects a 3G version of the iPhone to make an appearance in May.

Apple Inc.’s iPhone has shaken up the “smart phone” business and set other manufacturers scrambling to add features and make it easier to get e-mail, surf the Web and enjoy music and movies on a cell (mobile) phone.

Blog contest that supports US soldiers overseas and you can win an iPhone or Kitchen Aid Mixer. Each blog post builds one item in a comforts of home care package - 5 posts build 1 package to help soldiers stay in touch with their family during the holidays.

1. It’s big and ugly - it’s no sleek iPhone - 8. Is it the Lynx browser all over again? 3. $399 to have the privilege of then buying books to read on the device?

A court order handed down Monday against Deutsche Telekom mobile arm T-Mobile demands that iPhone be sold in Germany unlocked and without a two-year contract, the Wall Street Journal clarifies.

Pretty good idea about buying refurbished tech toys like an iPhone. Pretty good savings on tech toys like flat screens, iPhones and iPods - direct from the manufacturer.

Apple is asking for 30 per cent of subscriber revenue and can’t provide enough iPhones for a Christmas 2007 launch in Spain, according to Spanish technology company SevenClick, which reports that it got the information from a senior manager at Telefonica. It also claims the May 2008 launch will see a 3G version of Apple’s super-slate.

This tutorial is for the Windows Operating System ONLY. This tutorial is for iPhones on 1.1.2 that were upgraded ONLY. This is not suitable for brand new iPhones on 1.1.2

Despite rampant rumors of a deal between Apple and China’s largest cellphone carrier, no one knows when the iPhone is supposed to hit China officially. But that hasn’t stopped Apple’s popular smartphone, known in China as “Ai Feng” (”Love Craze”), from becoming a bona fide black-market hit.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. im in ur threadz, replyin to ur commentz, all your balls are belong to us, I can has flat balls, Ron Paul for world emperor while calling his Ubuntu MacBook from his iPhone seeing what you did there, subscribing to your newsletter while in Soviet Russia where balls kick you, don’t kick me… See comments.

You have to see it to believe it.

All the goodness of the app on the iPhone from Frenzic.

German site Heise Online has tested Hackint0sh user XianLi’s claims about the iPhone sending its IMEI to Apple while accessing the web. According to Heise and other sources, this is not true:

Yesterday’s story was false. A German team has used a packet sniffer to decode the codes sent back to apple through the IMEI-related URL mentioned in yesterday’s story. And the result is… that every phone sends identical information to the source. You can take off your tin-foil hats now.

Amazon has added another chapter to the brief and almost universally underwhelming history of electronic book readers with its new $399 Kindle. To find out whether the Kindle is the best ebook reader out there, Popular Mechanics takes a look at how it compares, stat for stat, with the competition.