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8.000.000 iPhones sold this year, 5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs added to the 2.4 million first-generation iPhones the company reported it had sold in the first six months of 2008. That means Apple has manufactured more than 8 million iPhones this year. Even if we plus this number with 2007 sales, Apple has sold 11.71 million iPhones worldwide.

WOW :D

Therefore that means, not only that Apple make lot of money with its device, it means that Apple create and market its products like no other to reach with them as a great success, even history icons, and of course it obtains this.

Congratulations Apple for this great success, and for bringing us this great machine.

Via Fortune

Why people can use their mobile phone as a 3G modem and iPhone users not? Maybe because “Steve” or somebody from AT&T don´t want make it real. Why not?

There was an application on the APP Store some time ago, today banned by Apple because of the AT&T complaints, which allowed you to connect your iPhone on your computer and use it as a modem.

Today, rumors on internet claims that Apple and AT&T are working together on an similar application, like the app banned before. This app or service would be probably not for free as RIM makes on BlackBerry (30$ per month).

Be an iPhone owner is hard, I know, but I want it now and for free! :D

If you have your iPhone jailbroken can use it as a 3G modem, but in a harder way. Check this post to know how.

Via Applesfera

This is one probably the most impressive app developed for the iPhone,Created by David O’Reilly, iHologram there is no more than a cat walking on the screen, but the use of the iPhone’s gyroscopes to create an hologram sensation is incredible.

David’s application assumes a constant viewing angle of 35 to 45 degrees, which is the usual angle when anyone watches the iPhone screen. Knowing that angle, the application calculates the orientation of the screen relative to the viewer using the iPhone’s motion sensors, so when you turn it around, the 3D world perspective gets skewed accordingly.

Unfortunately this app is not available, so check this video to see how it works.

Via PixFans

Day after day, we hear about new austounding videogames being developed for iPhone, but just some have already been released on the App Store. This could change and speed up thanks to Exit Games. The company has recently announced support for iPhone Online Multiplayer Gaming on their Neutron platform and they are developing their own iPhone SDK for gaming. Neutron minimizes time-to-market and project risks, providing an infrastructure not only for developers (SDKs, doc and code centers, etc) but for the distribution and billing of your game, as well as services (e.g. webservices for MMOG).

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Apple said to us Tap into the App Store and you’ll find applications in every category designed to take advantage o iPhone features. And iPhone users must being done, because Apple have announced that over 60 million iPhone and iPod touch apps have been downloaded in the one month since the iPhone 2.0 firmware has been availabe.

Although there are a lot of free downloads, the benefits reach about $1 million per day, generating a total of about $30 million in sales per month. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software”, Steve Jobs says, adding that sales could “crest a half a billion” in short order and that $1 billion could arrive “at some point”.

It seems that the most important for the success of a device, is the applications that it provide. “Phone differentiation used to be about radios and antennas and things like that”, Jobs explains. “We think, going forward, the phone of the future will be differentiated by software.”

Vía AppleSfera, Electronista.

Our friend from Ungatonipon published yesterday an article talking about the magazines created exclusively for the iPhone in Japan, a land where next generation mobile phones are better than iPhone in features.

I always thought iPhone would be a success in Japan, perhaps this success has not been as great as I thought, but as everybody know, japanese love technology and love to make merchandising of everything. In this way, Ungatonipon bring us his pictures taken from lots of magazines availables in Japan, magazines in which you can find user manuals, start guides, app reviews…

Of course iPhone can not beat any of cellphones available in japan, remember japanese use their mobiles almost for everything, even to pay their meals, but iPhone is cool and different and japanese love cool stuff, so its success could increase in months.

Via Ungatonipon

Apple has decided to eliminate push mail service to its iPhone firmware 2.1 , “supposedly” because  they need more time to develope it. This service should be available next september but it could be delayed indefinitely.

Maybe never? I hope not.

Link Appleweblog

Qik allows your mobile phone to broadcast videos on live by streaming on the internet.

At the beginning of the year, this application was published but in a restricted way, only available for pre-registered or invited users. Now it has been published in a beta version and it is available for anyone who signs up in the website, even if you doesn’t want to stream videos but see and comment other people videos.

If you sign up you will be able to stream videos on a website directly from your mobile phone using your data plan to connect to the internet. In this new version you will have the chance of creating areas for your videos, grouping and making them public or private.

This new public version includes support for new phones such as Motorola Q or Nokia N96, and in following versions it will include support for iPhone 3G and several devices from HTC as HTC Touch Diamond.

One more feature of Qik is that the latency from the start of the recording to the beginning of the broadcasting on the internet is just between a half-second and 3 seconds. Half a second is extremely fast! This makes Qik the fastest and most live system of the online video streaming sites.

I’m sure that live video streaming from mobile phones is becoming something important in our lifes, better than just sending multimedia messages so that with Qik we can share on live our streams with whoever we want.

Via xatakamovil

After doing a great job on jailbreaking iPhone 1.0, we all were waiting for ‘iPhone Dev Team’ jailbreaking iPhone 3G too. And it took only five days after launch.

Anyway, I think much fewer people is going to liberate its iPhone 3G. When first version of iPhone was released it was available only in few markets: USA, UK, Germany, France,… Many people from other unfortunate countries was interested in buying an iPhone, not signing the contract with operators, unlocking it and then using the iPhone with their current SIM - and tariffs- in their country.

Now, iPhone 3G is available much broader over the world and flights to New York for buying and iPhone will stop - specially from Europe.

Moreover - and this is a key point - iPhone 3G is given the end user only when the contract with the mobile carrier is already signed. So, you could unlock your iPhone and use it through your previous operator network, but this will not save you from paying the fees to the operator who sold you the iPhone.

For sure, not many people will be interesting in paying twice for its mobility bill.

Yes, the App Store have more than five hundred apps and counting… however, just a few are useful and I have not been surprised by any of them, there´s nothing we already didn´t know.

Via TUAW, I discovered DataCase, a new iPhone app which will be uploaded to the App Store next 28th July. I´m really looking forward to test it. DataCase seems to be all I were waiting for: it turns your iPhone/iPod Touch into an external wireless drive (withouth syncing iTunes!), it lets you drag and drop files and even view them (powerpoint, excel, pdf, etc).

We will have to wait for benchmarking it, I´m not sure about its performance as on its official website it says they use “industry standard FTP” as well as HTTP. Let´s hope it´s quicker than iTunes (well, that´s not too difficult).

Via TUAW |  Link veiosoft - DataCase