AT&T to lose iPhone exclusivity?

US cellphone network AT&T, who have had exclusive rights to the iPhone since it's launch, are set to have competition.





The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple are working on a version o the iPhone that will carry data on a CDMA connection rather than GSM, which only AT&T use.

This move will mean American consumers will have a choice of network providers, including Verizon and Sprint, to choose when buying an iPhone, surely this will once again boost sales of the iPhone. Clever Apple!


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iPad will be WiFi driven

The CEO of AT&T (an American mobile phone network), Randall Stephenson, has suggested that Apple's iPad will be a WiFi driven product.

He says it's highly unlikely people are going to take out another mobile phone contract.

The main problem with this, as stated at Mashable is, WiFi connections are easily lost. So when trying to work on the move it will cause major problems, also if you need to send sensative data it's probably best not to do it over an open connection.

Having said that, I personally don't feel the iPad is a 'true' tablet device and therefore I wouldn't work on it, I would save that for an actual notebook or desktop.

For me the iPad is, as a lot of people say, a big iPhone so I won't be getting one.


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Apple sue HTC

Apple have filed a law suit against HTC claiming they have violated 20 patents.

Head of Apple, Steve Jobs, has said,
"We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it"

And it seems they are doing something about it, filing 2 suits with the US International Trade Commission and the US District Court in Delaware.

HTC are so far to comment on the suit saying they have only heard of it through the media.

The patents in question are said to include multi-touch gestures such as, pinch to zoom and swipe to scroll which had been disabled on HTC phones using Google's Android operating system. However updates for the Google Nexus phone (made by HTC) had these features enabled.



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iPad UK price rumors

Rumours over at Geeky Gadgets say that the Apple iPad will cost £389, £439 and £489 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models respectively.

The news comes from a "tip" they recieved. The source also revealed that we are more likely to get the iPads in April as opposed to March.

Obviously the news can't be 100% confirmed but these prices follow the tradition that Apple products are normally price higher in the UK than the US.



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