Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

We all love a bit of outright public feuding.  People’s inner school kid tends to come out as we all gather round screaming ‘fight!’ at the top of our voices.  It is even better when large corporations drag each other into the gutter.  For once their focus isn’t on ‘how to best fleece the general [...]

We all know that Apple is incredibly protective over its precious app store.  Whether that approach is right or wrong really depends on which side of the fence you sit on.  On the one hand you have developers who sometimes feel that their creative freedom is curtailed by the stringent restrictions that Apple place on [...]

Now that ‘antenna gate’ seems to have blown over people have ran out of things to say about the iPhone 4.  It was all a heady mix of controversy and praise for Apple’s baby for a while but now the internet seems to have got over the plucky but popular handset.
But Vodafone have added fuel [...]

Playing god is fun.  Just ask any leader from the slippery Tony Blair up to verbose Venezuelan mouthpiece Hugo Chavez.  Playing with the lives of ordinary citizens can be a bit of a rush.  Now thanks to SimCity Deluxe for the iPhone we can do just that.  Even when you’re sat on the toilet.  Yes [...]

The other day you may have noticed that we were distinctly nonplussed by the deals that Vodafone were offering for the iPhone 4.  Well it turns out that Orange have made Vodafone look reasonable by announcing a series of ‘deals’ that only those with enough spare change to buy a private jet can afford.
We’ll start [...]

If a company is launching a new product, details of that new product are usually kept in levels of security that even the Pentagon might find a little excessive.  Not so at Vodafone where the entire tariff structure for the iPhone 4 was leaked out yesterday.  The cynical among you might suggest that this reeks [...]

So after months of furious internet based speculation and rumour mongering Steve Jobs, or Techno Moses as we like to call him, has finally unveiled the most desired gadget of the year: The iPhone 4.  At Select Mobile we delight in disproving hype and telling it like it really is but for once our expectations [...]

With everyone tripping over each other to write about how amazing Android 2.2/Froyo is going to be we’re perhaps forgetting one thing.
How are the Android phones of 2010 (HTC Desire, HTC Legend, Google Nexus One) going to fare against the iPhone 4G/HD even with 2.2/Froyo running under the hood?
The Germany-based iPhone [...]

Yes people Steve Jobs, or ‘techno moses’ as some like to call him, is due to give the keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June the 7th. The internet has been on fire with rumours that suggest that he is going to reveal the all new iPhone, surely an announcement which [...]

After filing a lawsuit against HTC, Apple has obviously decided to step up its campaign against the Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer. We don’t know what Apple is expecting to achieve by this cunning tactic, maybe it is just trying to stop people getting used to the Android OS?
Find some pictures of a recent HTC Desire [...]