Apple recently filed a patent for a new display technology, this new technology is said to feature an “always-on” display that won’t drain the battery at all. It is said that the display won’t be lit up at all times, just a small part that will show the always-on display. Apple says this feature will give iPhone user feedback at all times without having to go to the main display. The always-on icon will be low-power to avoid draining the battery. The patent doesn’t really explain how all of this works. Stay tuned for future info on this new feature.

-Ray

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The Apple iPhone 3G was at first sold only at Apple and AT&T stores, then Best Buy retailers joined in on the fun and carried the iPhone 3G as well. Now reports are saying the largest retailer in the world Wal-Mart along with Sam’s Club will begin to sell the iPhone 3G after Christmas. As usual buying an iPhone will require a two year contract with AT&T and should go for about the same amount as in the AT&T and Apple stores. This move should bring even more profits for Apple and more new customers to AT&T. Who knew Wal-Mart would be next in line to sell the iPhone, it makes good business sense as millions of Americans shop at Wal-Mart this will bring even more consumers to the Apple side.

-Ray

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The Apple iPhone 3G has recently passed the Motorola RAZR as the most popular cellphone in the world. The study from AdMob compares ad requests and it showed that the iPhones went from 2.1 percent up to 4.1 percent a month later. The rest of the list had devices from Nokia and RIM. In the US market share of cellphones was still dominated by RAZR at 7.1 percent but the iPhone 3G is definitely catching up as the iPhone jumped from seventh all the way to second place at 6.9 percent. Looks like things are getting better all the time for Apple.

-Ray

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The one thing that really irks me is the fact that the iPhone, which I believe is the best phone out there in the market, still lacks some simple basic features, such as copy and paste. But the one feature that the iPhone should not lack is flash. Adobe yesterday introduced their latest version of the Flash player for the Windowns Mobile and Google Android operating systems. Adobe has stated that almost 98% of all computers carries some sort of Flash. Although, Adobe has announced they are working on a version for the iPhone, it seems it is very unlikely the iPhone will get Flash. This is due to Apple’s ridiculous and absurd Terms of Service and lack of open-source technology. If the iPhone were to get Flash, then iPhone users would be able to watch videos on Hulu.com or play free flash-based games. But what would Apple do then. They would then lose business because people would stop going to iTunes for videos or the Apple App store for video games. If Apple does not implement Flash into their phone, I predict that other companies would develop phones that do support Flash, such as Windows Mobile and Android, and therefore Apple would lose some market share. The lack of Flash could mean the demise of the Apple iPhone. Not having Flash prevents the iPhone from being the best phone ever developed.

- Geoff

Have you ever got caught doing something you shouldn’t? I know I have, I know I’ve passed the buck on many times as well. A worried wife posted on an Apple Support site that she found explicit images on her husband’s iPhone. The images were sent via Yahoo email to another woman, but the husband admitted to taking the images but claims he never sent them. Then who did? He claims his iPhone did! The husband explained to his wife that we fell victim to an “iPhone glitch.” The iPhone has had problems but taking raunchy pictures and automatically emailing them to another woman is not one of them.

-Ray

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It seems Apple just won’t get a break. It has been reported that Apple is facing another lawsuit regarding the hairline cracks of the iPhone 3G. Apple is already facing a number of other lawsuits and they now have to worry about this one. Avi Koschitzki from New York is accusing both Apple and AT&T of the usual crimes of low 3G reception, slow speeds,  software problems, and hairline cracks of the iPhone 3G casing. The hairline cracks are a problem I have recently been seeing among recent iPhone 3Gs. Many of my friends who own an iPhone 3G has some sort of crack all along the iPhone 3G casing. Although I do not believe customers should be suing Apple for issues like this, Apple should be more careful about what they give their customers. They should be more thorough when they inspect every iPhone 3G at the production line to avoid hardware issues like this. But then again, the iPhone has software issues as well. I don’t know what Apple should do, but they better think of something quick.

- Geoff

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The Apple iPhone 3G has sold over 10 million units worldwide and has been released in many countries around the world, and now it’s finally coming to Thailand. True Move of Thailand is bringing the iPhone 3G to their country. True Move, the third largest wireless company in Thailand just signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone 3G to Thailand. True Move will be the first mobile carrier to bring the iPhone to the Thai market which has been growing year over year. No release date has been set as True Move is still testing their 3G network. If you live in Thailand and you don’t have True Move don’t worry as the deal between Apple and True Move is not exclusive which will let other carriers bring the iPhone to Thailand as well.

-Ray

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SquareTrade recently released a study on the failure rate of cellphones. The research group tracked 15,000 phones over the handsets first year of use and found some interesting results. The iPhone had a malfunction rate of 5.6% while various BlackBerry models had a rate of 11.9% but the Palm Treo had a rate of 16.2%. None of these numbers are stellar, I hope these results will cause these manufacturers to design and build even more reliable smart phones. These phones cost from $200 well into the $500 range so we as consumers should have a phone that works almost 100% of the time.

-Ray

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Callpod has just announced their Fueltank portable battery charger. The Fueltank from Callpod can charge two gadgets at the same time. The Fueltank uses the same adapters as Callpods Chargepod so it can support even more devices other than just the iPhone. The Fueltank from Callpod will retail for $59 and should be out soon.

-Ray

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AT&T that tethering with your new iPhone 3G will indeed be available, but rumors are that it will come with a price. Sources say that AT&T will charge an additional $30 a month on top of your iPhone 3G monthly plan and will have a cap of 5GB. This plan is pretty much the same for BlackBerry users so it is no surprise. They went into detail saying that your connection will be cut off if you go over the 5GB cap which will prevent overage charges. The transactions are said to take place over iTunes. Stay tuned for official info from AT&T and Apple.

-Ray

[Source: gizmodo]