The iPhone will gain a cult following its launch, according to the Vice President of Harris Interactive’s Technology Practice Joseph Porus. Porus made the prediction after Harris Interactive recently surveyed more than a 1100 Internet users and found that 47% were aware of the iPhone and 17% expressed an interest in purchasing it.

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It’s been an exciting and unpredictable couple weeks for Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry. The company on April 11 announced fourth-quarter earnings were up and its subscriber base has hit 8 million users. But the latest talk has been about an overnight outage Tuesday that affected its 5 million North American users.

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Buy- and sell-side analysts are running around Wall Street’s high-tech conferences questioning the impact iPhone’s launch could have on the wireless handset market and smartphone devices like Blackberrys and Treos.
The presumption is Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) move is an offensive one and a natural extension of the 100 million iPods that have been sold around the world. It is also presumed that iPhone’s launch will succeed.


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Even as Apple and Cisco were staging a legal flack over the name “iPhone,” most sources — including us — suggested that the scuffle was actually the first round of negotiations between the two firms, with compatibility with the iPhone being Cisco’s ultimate goal.

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The iPhone rumors this week are non-stop. As if the ruckus over rebates and subsidies for the iPhone weren’t enough, now an online newsletter claims that the iPhone is suffering from poor batter life, echoing an earlier rumor broken by John Dvorak two weeks ago. The poor iPhone just can’t catch a break.

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A study carried out in the USA by analysts at Piper Jaffray has reported that there is a very high awareness of the new Apple iPhone amongst teens - and a strong interest in purchasing the handset despite its fairly high price point. Of the students surveyed by Piper Jaffray, 84% had heard of the iPhone, and 25% would buy an iPhone at the US$500 price point.

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If there’s been one standout concern about the iPhone, it’s been the price of the thing. Well according to one analyst, it looks like Apple is reconsidering its $500 and $600 price tags and is looking at the possibility of offering rebates.

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miniSync™ synchronizes and charges your iPod, all in an ultra-portable form factor. With the miniSync™ you can also use your iPod as a portable hard drive for transferring and storing any type of files!

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Hand-crafted from fine, premium grade leather, BoxWave’s Designio Leather Sleeve™ is a slim leather case that is custom fitted for your Apple iPhone.  This durable leather sleeve protects and neatly stores your device everyday.

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We’ve gone ahead and preemptively created several accessories for the iPhone—including two different styles of the hand crafted Designio leather case, and both ClearTouch Crystal and Antiglare screen protectors.  As always, you should expect terrific fit and fantastic quality.  You can expect fresh announcements as we’ll be bringing even more accessories for this ground breaking phone shortly.

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