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The BlackBerry Storm is no iPhone | The Digital Home - CNET News. So even users know about the iPhone, and perhaps they have heard of a BlackBerry, but doubtful that they have heard of the BlackBerry Storm. So even if it’s ten times better than the iPhone it probably won’t be as popular or amass as many sales due to it’s popularity and scope. Scope, you say? But of course! The RIM devices are more of a corporate centric item versus a mainstream consumer item, even though they are (of course) equally available to both markets.

Apple’s famous iPhone has GPS, syncs your iTunes, connects at 3G speeds and will give away your personal data! Who wants one? The flaw allows anyone to access the personal data on the iPhone even if it is locked with a passcode.

What is required to bypass the security, according to Macworld: “hit the ‘emergency calls’ button, and then hit the Home button rapidly twice when they will be automatically transported to a users ‘Favorites’ folder (by default).” From here you can get to a user’s email, contacts and their web browser even though you have not entered the passcode. Apple is working on a patch, but until then there is a ‘fix’ that involves changing the home button to pull up something other than your favorites.

While Apple can’t compare to the sheer volume of other companies, they are growing. For example, everyone was excited that Apple sold over 1 million iPhones during their weekend launch. Nokia ships over 1 million phones every single business day. The numbers vary, but the same scale is true when comparing Apple to their software counterparts like Microsoft, or the OEMs like HP.

But, be small as they may, Apple does have around 200 or more stores globally. Their newest addition to this figure? Beijing, China! As is the typical norm with Apple events, there were people lined up overnight to be the ‘first in line’ at the new store. Haven’t these people heard of Apple.com? Anyway, not much to this story, but it is Apple’s first store in China so who knows what they are up to…

It’s been, what, not even a week since the 3G iPhone has been released? For those who have been considering using the 3G iPhone on other networks, consider no more…see the original blog who broke this story or the cNet story on this, but soon it’ll be all over the place (if it’s not already). Sure, it’s more Apple and iPhone news, but you have to admin it’s kinda funny. =)

Busy news day today, wow…so Apple says that they not only sold over 1 million iPhones during their first weekend of sales but that they also had over 10 million applications downloaded as well. Maybe that’s why there were so many stories about iPhone activation problems with AT&T and the iTunes store being down? Hmm, go figure. You know, if this was a Microsoft story, it’d be a bashfest for the average blogger, right?

I should be careful here…if I keep up this iPhone and Apple coverage I may get accused of being a fanboy. =^.^=

For the technical side, this ‘update’ is well over 200MB in size and is supposed to come already installed on the new 3G iPhone. So…maybe that’s another reason why you have to activate the phone at ATT/Apple instead of having it shipped directly, because they can update the firmware at the last minute. There is a slew of items that 2.0 brings for the typical home user as well as the corporate user, according to Macworld and other sources. Most exciting about the 2.0 release is the support for 3rd party apps, or at least the 3rd party apps that Apple ‘approves’ that is.

Ok, I’ll leave it at that…I know some of you are sick and tired of the iPhone news. =)

Just a quick note: AT&T has released more pricing details on their site.

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iPhone.jsp

Some interesting items, there is no specification of text messages, as in do you get any or not. Also, the $30 has been confirmed for the data plan…but…do we get any texting with that? Check their site and see, leave a comment if I missed it!

So, you think our data and voice plans are expensive here in the US? Try Canada: to get a mear 2GB of data, 300 text messages and 800 minutes (with Rogers , a Canadian wireless provider) will set you back $115 per month. To compare, for roughly the same price in the US, you can get unlimited data + unlimited text messaging with 900~1000 minutes of talk time.

Noticed this story over at lifehacker , and thought it was pretty amusing. Basically, someone got tired of the Bzzzz noise that their iPhone was making and decided to create something ‘low-cost’ as a solution. Granted, it works, but personally I’d be more worried that this solution would slice open my hand when I reached for my phone. But…that’s just me.

Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Nice profit margin for Apple and AT&T both…if this PC World story is legit that is. (For the record, they’re referencing market researcher iSuppli as their source.) However, given the large volume Apple probably promised the vendors, it could be feasible. Granted, AT&T has not ‘officially’ said one way or another regarding how much the actual data/text plans will be for the new 3G phone. We can all bet that they will be making their fair share, thought, there is no doubt about that. As with all things tech, only time will tell…

What do you think about this?