iPhone & iPhone 3G News

Make your iPhone cool, this Christmas with some Free ringtones.You can get some great Christmas ringtones for your cell phone, and get yourself and everyone around you in the mood of the season. This holiday season, it is expected that the ringtone industry will be at its peak in terms of tone downloads. Most of us recognize and adhere to the holiday season that we download appropriate tones for the holidays.Faomous Christmas ringrones include the all-time famous classical jingle such as Joy to the World, Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, Jingle Bell Rock, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, All I Want For Christmas Is You, Silent Night, Little Drummer Boy, and hundreds of other tones suitable for this season.

According to a report from the New York Times, an updated version of the Google Mobile app will soon be released, and it will have voice recognition technology, enabling users to perform searches simply by speaking through the iPhone’s mouthpiece. Questions such as “Who moved my cheese?” and “Where’s your ice cream?” should then be treated as normal search terms on Google’s search engine.

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The French carrier is going to cut the iPhone 3G price to 99 Euro for the holiday season. That’s $126 in US money for the $8GB model. And that’s a 45 Euro price drop from the initial price of the $8GB iPhone.

The 16GB iPhone 3G will also get a price cut although it’s not official yet. It’s rumored that the 16GB model will cost 129 Euro instead of just 199. In US dollars that’s a drop from $253 to $164. The offer will be available from November 13th to January 14th, so if in France, go iPhone!

Softbank Mobile today announces a new external battery for iPhone 3G, letting iPhone 3G users in Japan to charge their iPhone anytime anywhere.The device allows users in Japan to charge their iPhone on the go. This battery extender can also function as the One-Seg media broadcast receiver and transmits the video via WiFi signal to iPhone 3G for up to 3 hours.

AT&T knows Wi-Fi is hot, and FREE Wi-Fi is even hotter. Which is why FREE AT&T Wi-Fi access is now available for Apple iPhone at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks*. Users can relax and access music, email and web browsing services with their favorite blend in hand from the comfort of their nearest location. For information visit www.att.com/attwifi.

*Wi-Fi available at U.S. company-operated Starbucks locations equipped with a hotspot.

If you feel that your iPhone 3G deserves some luxury, then you must visit Louis Vuitton store as they have some cases as expensive as your iPhone 3G. The new case Damier Graphite will surely make your phone look as stunning as ever. The new pattern in Louis Vuitton case for the iPhone is priced at $250.

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in its latest bid to use Internet Age technology to trounce Republican rival John McCain and connect with supporters, has released free software that turns Apple iPhones into political rallying tools.

“Obama ‘08: The Official iPhone Application,” available at Apple’s online App Store on Friday, gives users “the tools you need to make an impact and stay in the know,” according to the campaign.

The application, which also works on iPod Touch devices that are essentially iPhones without mobile telephone capabilities, contains information on Obama’s positions on the issues, photos and videos from the campaign trail and news on the race.

The software enables Obama supporters to automatically scan their digital phone books for friends in states where their preferred candidate needs more support and uses GPS features in iPhones to find nearby Obama campaign offices or rallies.

Vodacom is the happy carrier which sells the iPhone 3G in South Africa. The device will be available with special contracts and with prepaid plans.

The contract-free 8GB version will cost R6,389 or $761 whie the 16GB will cost R7,569 or $888. Depending on what plan you get you might end up paying only from R1,799 or $211 to R2,189 or $257 for the 8GB version while the 16GB version will cost from R2,899 or $340 to R3,299 or $387 with a plan.

There are three plans available: 120s, 240 and 500s. Each of them comes with 100 free SMS and 250 MB of data traffic. The number of the plans tells you how many voice minutes are included. I don’t have to tell you that the data is not enough do I?

For 7,000 euros (about $10,000), the Limited Diamond Deluxe Platin Edition of iPhone rings in luxury with modesty.The Sayn Design Apple iPhone limited Diamond deluxe Platin Edition is gilded in 24k Platin and equipped with two substantial Sayn Design crowns made out of 18k Platin. Totally 46 diamonds in brilliant cut of best quality are set on the crowns with at least 0,50 carat of weight.

Responding to widespread criticism, Apple said Wednesday that it has decided to do away with its non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software while it drafts a new agreement covering just non-released software.