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iPhone news in brief…

Right a long winded catchup on iPhone news…

•  Apple appear to be building up stock of flash memory - presumably assuming demand for the next phone, other iPods and perhaps the air
• iFund spends some cash - reports from BusinessWeek that Pelago is developing location specific software called Whrrl that provides information about places where you, your friends or anyone has been. From what I have found about this it will be an iTune style star rating of restaurants , bars etc that you have visited. Current figures show that about 1,700 people have applied to the iFund for backing with the only other investment being in iControl - a piece of kit that allows control of various household devices from lighting to curtains. One more unnamed company has been offered monies with ten more being seriously considered.
• Apple on the hire again. Wireless engineer and and iPhone product designer. Job specs including various wireless technologies including GSM,GPS and wifi. It’s gonna be a real shock if the next phone doesn’t have all these technologies as we expect!
• BBC released a load of figures about it’s iPlayer usage in April. Macs represented 10% of the users accessing the service with the iPhone adding an additional 3% to Apples tally. Not bad going considering the service has only been available for a few short months to these platforms
• TeliaSonera is to provide the iPhone to the Nordic states (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia) - about time they were feeling all left out
• Lots of news around the globe about iPhone offers. Rumors that there will be various offers in France to encourage users to upgrade to the iPhone from other handsets, Germany offering discounts to clear it’s inventory etc
• What about the next iPhone… well I believe that there will be offers from various companies across the world including O2 in the UK (which it is where it counts for me) that the new iPhone may be a free upgrade (at the right price as these things always are).  If I am right on this where does that leave the iPod Touch?! The end of the iPod Touch market - price points too close? To be honest I don’t care (I have my iPhone and I am happy )

Well Not a very rounded news item and I thought I’d leave my last point as my prediction Enjoy your iPhones - right off to the iPlayer - what no Doctor Who!!! Damn Eurovision song contest