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Apple iPhone Coming to South Korea This Week

Apple-iphone-sg3Apple Inc’s iPhone is coming to South Korea this week, a local carrier announced Sunday, bringing the iconic communications device to one of the world’s most sophisticated mobile phone markets.

KT Corp. began accepting orders for the iPhone both online and in stores Sunday and service will start Nov. 28 as part of an official launch, said Alice Park, a spokeswoman for the country’s second-largest mobile carrier.

The announcement ends a long wait in South Korea, which has lagged behind other countries in Asia in introducing the sleek smartphone that has grabbed headlines around the world and solidified Apple’s status as a purveyor of cutting-edge consumer electronics.  Read more...

How to Reset Your iPhone or iPod Touch

apple-iphoneSometimes the simplest solutions to problems are the hardest to remember or find. If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch and it has frozen up or seems locked on an app or a screen, try holding the home button for up to six seconds. This usually brings you back to the “home” screen to you can continue on.

Now, if that doesn’t work, don’t worry. Here is how you reset your iPhone or iPod Touch. Put the sledgehammer down, take a deep breath and simply hold the sleep/wake button and the home button and the same time. Press and hold until the Apple logo appears. If this is the first time you have seen the apple logo, it is probably time you reset your Touch/iPhone – it has been a while  Read more...

Apple iPhone Makes China Debut Without WiFi

iphone-china1 Apple’s iPhone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world’s most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models.

Apple’s local service provider, China Unicom Ltd., hopes the iPhone will give it an edge against giant rival China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest phone company by subscribers.

Unicom was to start selling iPhones equipped for third-generation service Friday night at 2,000 stores in areas as farflung as Tibet. Chinese news reports say Unicom hopes to sell 5 million in three years, but the company declined to confirm that.  Read more...

Apple Denies iPhones Are Exploding

Shattered Apple iPhoneApple has been very firm in denying that the incidents of supposedly “exploding” iPhones reported recently in Europe are due to defects. It’s been suggested that overheating batteries have been the cause.

In a statement, the company said:

“To date, there are no confirmed battery overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS and the number of reports we are investigating is in the single digits.”

“The iPhones with broken glass that we have analyzed to date show that in all cases the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone.”  Read more...

10 Must-Have Gadgets

As you may have noticed if you’ve leafed through a SkyMall catalog or walked into a Brookstone store lately, there are a lot of stupid gadgets out there. If someone can make a buck off it, it will be built. (And as the recent bankruptcy of Sharper Image proves, sometimes even that isn’t a prerequisite.) But before you write off the premise of better life through gadgets entirely based on your experiences with an ionic air purifier and a battery-powered margarita blender, take a look at the more practical side of gadgetry. We’ve rounded up a few of the most downright useful technologies out there. If you haven’t already gotten on board with some of them, we’ll try our best to make you reconsider.  Read more...

10 Worst Tech Trends

It’s hard to argue with the conveniences tech has bestowed upon our modern lives. Ubiquitous Internet acess via smartphones gives us answers anywhere we happen to be, we never get lost anymore thanks to GPS, and we have face-to-face discussions with people thousands of miles away – for free- using webcams. Technology’s uninterruptable march forward has brought us some pretty cool stuff.  Read more...

10 Best iPhone Alternatives

High-priced plans, dropped calls and bumpy 3G connections? Now that the glimmer has faded, the iPhone is starting to fall short of its miracle status. Good thing for us there are plenty of other mobile handsets eager to step up and feed our desire for smartphone bliss.

LG Prada Phone 2LG Prada 2, Price: TBD

Update to the popular high-end smartphone. Touchscreen up front, slide out keyboard below. 5 megapixel camera, full HTML browser and Wi-Fi. Price TBD. Available by year’s end. www.pradaphonebylg.com

Samsung InstinctSamsung Instinct, $279

A solid 3G iPhone alternative on Sprint. Full touchscreen, 2.0 megapixel camera, traditional HTML browser and GPS. Read our Samsung Instinct review. www.samsunginstinct.com  Read more...

AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi for iPhones, Again

AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi for iPhones, Again

After giving iPhone users free access to its nationwide Wi-Fi network then pulling it away several times in the past year, AT&T has yet again opened up its network of Wi-Fi hotspots to smartphone users for free. On Thursday, the carrier announced that both BlackBerry and iPhone users would have access to all 17,000 of its locations for no additional charge.  Read more...

42 Percent of Shoppers Considering iPhones

42 Percent of Shoppers Considering iPhones

Sometimes, when combing through the results of a survey, it’s possible to totally miss the most remarkable tidbits, even though they’re buried implicitly in the results. For instance: When PriceGrabber.com reported that 54 percent of online consumers responding to its survey didn’t plan to purchase an iPhone, that missing 46 percent looked like a throbbing red piece of the pie chart. And indeed it was, since the same survey showed that an amazing 42 percent of survey respondents who didn’t yet have an iPhone were considering buying one, demonstrating monumental interest in a single product.  Read more...

20 Pct Of French iPhones Sold Unlocked

It wasn’t trumpeted in the press, but in France you can buy an unlocked iPhone. In Germany recently, the courts overturned an injunction that had made mobile operator T-Mobile sell unlocked handsets.   But Orange, which has the exclusive license with Apple for France, has been quietly and legally selling the unlocked iPhones. According to the company, about 20% of its customers have opted for the unlocked version.   With a two-year contract, Orange is selling the iPhone for about $570, and almost $1100 for an unlocked version with no contract. In the fist five days on offer, Orange shifted 30,000 iPhones, 48% of them going to new customers to the network.   Elsewhere, notably in the US, hackers have unlocked iPhones.

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