Daily Interesting iPhone News

Last week the European Commission announced that as from 1 July 2012, the European Union’s mobile roaming regulation will be extended to include price caps for data downloads which will mean significant savings for those using maps, email and social networks when travelling.

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The Tu Me app will use a customer’s data plan instead of the usual minutes and text messages allowance, and will be free to use at launch.
O2 said that “the service will continue to be developed with added value functionality”, and that it would be launched for Android users and other platforms in the future.

Read more www.telegraph.co.uk

A HAPLESS forger produced £28,000 worth of fake notes using pictures from his iPhone. Cash-strapped Ian Beaton used the Apple device and a colour printer to pull off the audacious fraud.

Read more www.dailyrecord.co.uk

British iPhone users could be overpaying by several hundred pounds per year in their tariffs, according to analysis by the price-comparison website, Mobilife.

Read more www.cellular-news.com

We headed down to the Apple Store on London’s Regent Street to chat to the dedicated Apple fans waiting patiently to get their hands on the new iPad, which went on sale at 8am this morning.

Read more www.macworld.co.uk

A German court suspended a trial in which Apple alleged that Samsung Electronics copied the slide-to-unlock technology of its iPhone and iPad devices pending the outcome of a separate suit.

The regional court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday it would wait for a decision in ongoing proceedings in a Munich court over the feature, which allows users to switch on a device by swiping over the touch-screen.

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Radioplayer, the internet platform powering all BBC radio content and the majority of the UK’s commercial stations, is launching a mobile and TV app, a year on from going live.

Read more www.telegraph.co.uk

British schoolchildren are more confident using a DVD player or iPhone than tying their shoelaces, research claims

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The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has quashed a complaint from a fanboi disappointed by Siri’s lack of UK knowledge - and said the punter had above-average expectations compared with what it would expect from the “average Brit”.

Read more www.theregister.co.uk

A STOLEN Apple iPhone has created a rather embarrassing situation for police that followed its GPS signals to the wrong address. Coppers tracking down the stolen iPhone used what has become a tried and tested method of tracking, turning on the tablet’s GPS and following it.

Read more www.theinquirer.net

MUNICH - Apple’s German arm has been forced to stop automatically alerting iPhone users when they receive an email after it lost a patent battle to Motorola.

It is being viewed as a significant development as it is the first time that the smartphone industry’s high-stakes patents wars have affected iPhone users directly by restricting the capabilities of their handset.

Read more www.todayonline.com

Apple’s iPhone 4 was the most acquired phone in both the USA and the EU5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK) according to a February 23 report by analysts comScore.

The comScore report found that over the past year Apple’s iPhone 4, the original model of which was released June 28, 2010, was the most acquired device in the United States and the EU5.

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The new Nike+ range of footwear, which hooks up to your iPhone in order to display performance ratings and statistics, will be on sale 29 June. Comprised of three stykes, Nike Hyperdunk+, Nike Lunar Hyperworkout+ and Nike Lunar TR 1+, the shoes fit into two distinct ranges: Basketball and Training.

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The UK is falling further and further behind as 4G LTE mobile networks roll out around the world. Have our telco giants left the door open for a new competitor to disrupt the market?

The fourth generation of cellular wireless networks will offer almost every compatible device in the world a big boost from the current 2G and 3G data speeds - equivalent to current fixed line broadband.

Read more www.cbronline.com

The iPhone is a hugely useful piece of technology to have in your pocket. It can help organise your life in so many different ways. Just by itself, there is plenty of functionality there to make your daily goings on a lot easier. Without apps, however, you will never truly approach German levels of efficiency.

Read more www.pocket-lint.com

As Spain enters its second recession in as many years, Apple is flourishing. Renovation on a 19th century, seven-floor building with more than 64,600 square feet of floor space on Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol square is under way to house Apple’s new Spanish flagship store, according to the mayor’s office.

Read more www.sfgate.com

A UK college has become the first in the world to offer a course on taking photographs on an iPhone - because owners don’t know how to us the inbuilt camera properly.
The ‘iPhoneography’ classes were set up by Richard Gray, a photographer for 25 years, who claims the iPhone can be used to create incredible images without the need of expensive equipment.

Read more www.dailymail.co.uk

Following its success in the United States, Starbucks, the popular coffee chain is planning to install a payment system in its iPhone app for around 700 branches that it has across United Kingdom and Ireland.

Read more www.itproportal.com

Who says central banking is boring? The European Central Bank, now grappling with safeguarding the survival of the euro zone, has made it to iTunes, with its monetary policy app “€conomia”.

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Siri technology may sound robotic and “like an alien”, according to some users, but real people are behind the voice technology. Although those in the US hear a female version of Siri, those in the UK hear a male version of Siri in a British accent.

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