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POPSiPhone 3GS vs. Palm Pre BillShrink.com CEO Peter Pham explains why someone would choose the iPhone over the Palm, and vice versa. His company helps users decide on the best phone to meet their needs across all networks
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POPSOutsiders Serve Up iPhone Nanos Outsiders meaning firms with absolutely no connection to Apple. Ubergizmo spotted this clamshell, iPod-like design (above) from China's HiPhone. Other knockoffs (like the second example, from Thailand) are just scaled-down versions of the original iPhone. Apple will likely update the iPhone line in June.
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POPSNearly One Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded Apple has placed a counter on its site to mark its impending one billionth app served. The giveaways (free MacBook Pro, etc.) are no doubt helping goose numbers, but Apple's been doing pretty well without them--remember, the App Store only launched 9 months ago. It's mesmerizing to watch the counter flip...click through to see.
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POPSReasons Not To Make An IPhone Application iPhone apps aren't a sure thing, Ad Age cautions marketers. That said, as CTIA--the big wireless trade show--kicks off this week, there's sure to be a lot of news surrounding new iPhone apps.
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POPSiPhone as Medical Assistant Check out this columnist's interesting take on the medical device applications that were introduced at last week's Apple announcement. Do you use your iPhone or PDA for health and wellness purposes?
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POPSThe iPhone Reads Your Blood Pressure This was just a vague note in Engadget's liveblogging of the new iPhone software release. But it brings to mind images of Star Trek-style medical tricorders. Combine it with IBM and Google's plan to stream data from devices directly to Google Health, and all of this starts to get very weird.
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POPSApple killing Micro-USB standard? Apple makes lots of money selling charger cords, converters and docks, so they're resistant to adopting Micro-USB. But this could come back to bite them; come 2012, if the iPhone is the only device with a proprietary charger, don't you think that's going to turn off consumers?
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POPSApple rejects South Park application The App Store is Apple's outlet, and they can refuse to sell whatever they want. But the company really should come up with a more consistent set of standards, and apply them to all its different products.
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POPSKindle iPhone App Coming This sort of app might help sell kindles, too -- i'd be more likely to want one if i could trade books back and forth between devices.
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POPSDoors Open For Flash On The iPhone? Enough of the good stuff on the web is flash based to make missing support one of the big problems with Apple's iPhone. But don't get too excited --this is still a long way from happening.
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POPSSee 10,000 iPhone Apps All At Once OK, this is kind of a gimmick. But click through the second link above and you'll see a mind-bending mosaic of icons representing close to 10,000 iPhone apps. As some astute blogs have reported, Apple's App Store doesn't currently contain 10k apps--more like 9,700. The 10k figure is the number that have debuted.
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POPS6.9 Million iPhones Sold Last Quarter ...along with nearly 200 million App Store applications. The figures mean Apple has already met its goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008. AT&T shares also rose on the news. T reports its third quarter earnings tomorrow.
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POPSQuarter Of All Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone There are lots of teens who hold down part time jobs, and they don't have to deal with the same sort of economic woes as their parents. So the kid market may provide Apple with a little bit of recession-proofing.
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POPSBuyer's Guide To Android Vs. iPhone Lifehacker produced a useful side-by-side comparison that, unfortunately, didn't copy well because of its formatting. Click through for the chart which lists price, storage, screen size, hardware specs and features like camera and browser type.
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POPSGet Me an iPhone, Now! For those who love clothes as much as their shiny new iPhone 3G, Style.com is launching a fashion week treat: a new iPhone ap that allows users to watch runway shows.
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POPSVerizon's Cheat Sheet For Battling AT&T, iPhone Oops! Verizon obviously didn't plan for this flyer--essentially a list of anti-iPhone talking points for its employees--to become public. While the specifics are interesting--there are a lot of exclamatory points!--it's not surprising that the company drew up such a list. I'm sure plenty of consumers walk into Verizon stores inquiring about the iPhone. It's sound business to prepare your employees for such conversations.