Yes, there are a lot of mobile phone manufacturers who have tried but didn’t generate much interest as Apple’s iPhone. Nokia hugged the headlines when information about its touch screen phone Nokia Tube 5800 leaked online. It was considered as an iPhone challenger for a while but even as the unit has not been released to the market yet, the Nokia Tube fever has died down and all eyes are now back to iPhone with the coming of the iPhone 2.0

Now, Research In Motion (RIM), the creator of the phenomenal Blackberry is reportedly hot on the trail of iPhone when the reported introduction of a new Blackberry unit that will surely challenge the status of Apple’s baby.

Which is just the right thing for RIM to do. Introduce revolutionary touch screen phones that will compete with the iPhone if the company still wants to take a bite at the smart phone pie. If it remains stagnant and feel confident with the way its Blackberry is selling, RIM is doomed.      (more…)

Apple’s iPhone continues to stir the mobile phone world especially with the coming of the iPhone 2.0 in the next few months. And even as the 3G iPhone news is still hugging the headlines, Apple has announced the introduction of a tactile feedback to iPhone, which means when you press the keys on iPhone’s screen, it will give a sensation, a feeling that you are pressing a real button.

Isn’t that nice?

At the Research In Motion (RIM) office, the atmosphere beams with so much pressure. The company that makes the Blackberry are is in full blast in research and development to keep up with the iPhone hype, which can kill the Blackberry in the near future if the company remains stagnant.   (more…)

Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 32.9 percent, down from 35.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 44 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

The company also said it was able to sell 1,703,000 iPhone in the first quarte of the year. It aslo shipped 2,289,000 Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10,644,000 iPods during the quarter, representing one percent unit growth and eight percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter.

“We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over $17 billion in revenue for the first half of our fiscal year, we have strong momentum to launch some terrific new products in the coming quarters.”      (more…)

All eye’s were still on iPhone in the past week especially with the scheduled 80 iPhone essential sessions at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, California, where developers get upclose with iPhone engineers and their questions about SDK answered in the various sessions.

The week also witnessed the announced of VoIP in iPhone 2.0 through Fring.

But the most controversial iPhone issue of the week is the price cuts that have been taking place around Europe. It was O2 that first introduced a £100 iPhone bundled with a monthly plan. Then follows Orange which is in talk with Apple to cut the price of iPhone due to “sleepy sales”.       (more…)

This week ended with a big question: Will Nokia shake the status of Apple’s iPhone with its own touch-screen unit named Tube 5800?

This week also marked several important development for the iPhone: the BD Touch that enables the iPhone to interact with Blue-Ray disc devices, and the Nike+ Workout System that will be introduced for the iPhone soon.

The SDK 3 was also introduced a couple of days ago for developers to tinker on the iPhone and introduce useful programs. But several developers are asking if Apple is really serious in dealing with small developers or whether or not it already has forged partnership with big companies for its programs.

The iPhone fever is still up and we are expecting more news about the iPhone in the coming days!

Nike has yet to announced it formally, but multiple sources online revealed that the sporting company and Apple are already in the final stages of brining the Nike+ system to the iPhone and iPod touch.

Nike+ is a special kit that will record the distance and length of a walk or run through a little sensor in your shoe. Nike+ was originally made for iPod nano but a Nike insider said the system will be modified to support the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

While no one from Nike and Apple would confirm the reports, bringing the Nike+ to the iPhone would be in the best interest of Nike considering the popularity of the iPhone (that is if Nike wants to remain competitive in the industry).

Nike+ will surely work well with iPhone, especially when the 3G handset will be released, and anyone can easily update his profile online using the mobile phone.          (more…)