Why the Japanese Hate the Free iPhone

Apple's iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it's being offered for free.What's wrong with the iPhone, from a Japanese perspective? Almost everything: the high monthly data plans that go with it, its paucity of features, the low-quality camera, the unfashionable design and the fact that it's not Japanese.In an effort to boost business, Japanese carrier SoftBank this week launched the "iPhone for Everybody" campaign, which gives away the 8-GB...

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Free iPhone Wallpaper: Jennifer Lopez

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Free iPhone with Qualifying Plans in Japan

Softbank offers a free 8GB iPhone with a two year contract.Japanese cell phone provider SoftBank has implemented a temporary promotion that offers customers a free 8GB iPhone with a two-year contract. The 8GB version is free with the basic, premium, or student plan. The 16GB version costs ¥11,520 ($120USD) and the cost is spread out over two years as an additional ¥480 ($5USD) added to the monthly fee. This is a common practice often used to tack on additional fees in Japan.The promotion is called...

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Sneak Peek at Google Latitude for the iPhone?

Google recently announced their Latitude service, which lets you and your friends share your location, and while they’ve made it available to some platforms, the iPhone version hasn’t surfaced yet… Or has it?A tipster has sent us a photo of what looks to be Latitude integrated into the iPhone Map App. Now, we know that Apple, not Google created the Map app. Based on Google’s back-end data, to be sure, but Apple made the interface. So, if Latitude is coming by way of Maps, Apple is going to have...

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Android vs. iPhone, Open vs. Closed, Love vs. Chocolate…

Our pal Casey over at Android Central, launching off the latest ruminations of GigaOm Malik, on the relative advantages and disadvantages of open source vs. proprietary software models, as straw-man’d into the current tech darlings from Google and Apple: the Android and the iPhone, says:We can’t deny that the iPhone is wildly successful in spite of (or because of?) their closed, proprietary nature. It’s essentially the dilemma that iPhone users have been trying to find the balance to–the iPhone’s...

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Why More Free iPhone Apps Are Now Available

Now, more than ever, the App Store includes demos of paid apps which folks can download and decide whether the program is worth the buySome developers learned the hard way that pricing an app too high, or just slapping a price onto an app that does almost nothing will not pave the way to success. In contrast, others learned coding the hard way, and the benefits of their strivings were enough and some to spare. Some of those successful iPhone developers are the ones who decided to offer up a free...

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50+ Free iPhone Apps to Make You Richer

The iPhone and iPod Touch are capable of a number of things, including helping you keep track of your money. From figuring out loan payments, to calculating tips and finding an ATM within your network so you won’t pay fees, there seem to be countless apps to choose from. If you truly want to save money, then FREE applications are the way to go, and we’ve gathered up over 50 of them that will help you complete a multitude of tasks.What are some of your favorite iPhone and iPod Touch financial apps?Banking...

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Social Media Break: 5 Free iPhone Apps to Fight Midweek Malaise

We’ve already shared our favorite Facebook applications to combat workday blues, and we’ve pointed you towards some great online shows to escape the daily grind, but sometimes you just need a mobile-friendly solution for those never ending all-hands meetings.So whip out your phone and download these five free apps that will either keep your gaming fetish in check or test your ability to shoot virtual hoops, smash digital moles, master finger mazes, and keep blob-like creatures safe from harm.1....

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Bolt! free iPhone browser

If for some reason you’re not satisfied with the in-built iPhone Safari internet browser, or you would just like to try a different one for the heck of it, then look no further than “Bolt!“, a newly launched internet browser app for the iPhone.The unique feature of Bolt! is that it allows you to browse the internet in completely full screen — allowing you more viewing space than Safari in both Landscape and Portrait modes.Another great thing is the Private Web Browsing feature, which ensures that...

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Free iPhone Wallpaper: Hayden Panettiere

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Rejected! 10 iPhone Apps That Didn't Make Apple's App Store

A 'throw shoes at Bush' app, a breast-jiggler, a naughty entry from the South Park guys--these are some of the iPhone apps that Apple unceremoniously denied shelf spaceApple has irked more than a few iPhone app developers by rejecting their creations for inclusion in the App Store, sometimes for reasons that seem to have little sense. The company won't reveal much about its mysterious and often seemingly-arbitrary process (representatives didn't respond to multiple requests to comment on this story),...

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BeerButton: Free iPhone App for Beer Drinkers

Stop rambling the streets after the bars are closed, desperately searching for your next source of cold beer. Locate the nearest liquor store in seconds by pressing the BeerButton on your iPhone.Since you probably couldn’t understand written instructions anyway, the app pulls up Google Maps and shows you exactly where your drunk ass needs to go if you want to buy that very necessary 32oz of King Cobra, two beef sticks, jumbo bag of Hot Cheetos, and a skull cap covered in skulls with spider legs*.Read...

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Free iPhone App Takes Picture, Gets the Fonts

Apple has approved a new free app for iPhone and iPod touch, placing it in the “Reference” category of apps, as it can identify any font by snapping a picture of it. WhatTheFont is the work of MyFonts studio (owned by Bitstream, Inc.).The official description of WhatTheFont goes (from the iTunes App Store): Identify the fonts in a photo or web graphic!Ever seen a great font in a magazine ad, poster, or on the web and wondered what font it is? Whip out your iPhone and snap a photo, and WhatTheFont...

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The newest top free iPhone apps

One of the big advantages of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch is the thousands of applications that you can install — some free, others not.Most of these applications won't necessarily blow your mind, but among the thousands there are a few that stand out.Below is a collection of what I believe are the best free applications that we can use here in South Africa.Backgrounds: get cool backgrounds.Bloomberg: for all your stock market information needs.eReader: ebook reader.Facebook: access your Facebook...

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iPhone apps for Oscars lovers

Are you a big fan of the Oscars? The 81st annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday. As an iPhone user, there are cool apps for you to enjoy the award’s show, trailers, news, history, outfits, wallpapers, games and so on.Here are the apps:iSlumDog Millionaire: The best-picture nominee Slumdog Millionaire’s soundtrack and production photos of . $0.99.Hollywood Trivia - The Oscar Quiz: Oscars-based games and quiz. $0.99.Access2Go: The hottest Oscars’ celebrity news. Free.Flixster: The Oscars...

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Study claims free iPhone games lack long-term appeal

Just 20 per cent of people who download a free iPhone app come back to use it the next day, while after 30 days, just 5 per cent are still using it.That's according to a study conducted by analytics firm Pinch Media. What's more, paid apps show a steeper decline in user interest.It should be noted that the study relates to iPhone applications of all kinds, not just games. We wouldn't be surprised if games performed better.Pinch also says free apps tend to be run 6.6 times more often than paid apps...

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proSEO Reveals the Inner Workings of Web Pages

If you make it your business to understand how well Web pages are optimized for search engines, proSEO is a good way to go for iPhone users. This handy app from Infinidigm enables to look at a Web page’s keywords, tags, HTML and other important attributes that factor into a site’s search engine ranking.Enter the URL of the Web page you wish to analyze into the app’s browser and bookmark it if you plan to revisit it. After the Web page loads, tap the Analyze button and proSEO does the heavy lifting.You...

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Apple Vetos South Park iPhone App

Apple says "Screw You Guys" to South Park creatorsApple's iPhone is the clear leader in the smartphone category and its App Store is doing exceptionally well with users downloading numerous applications for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Some of the apps have sold hundreds or even thousands of copies.However, some app developers are finding that getting their proposed apps approved by Apple can be challenging. The latest App to get the denial letter from Apple was from South Park Digital Studios....

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Free iPhone Wallpaper: Clown Fish

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SpeedDate free iPhone app makes love search faster

Good news, everyone. And by everyone, I mean those who are trendy and single. Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and we're here to help you speed up that dating process.You'll need to be an owner of either an iPhone or an iPod Touch, though. Thus, the aforementioned "trendy" notion.This is my friend. Come get him, ladies!Online speed dating service SpeedDate announced on Monday the availability of its free iPhone application. No more excuses. You can now find a match anywhere. Sort of.The...

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Watch TV on your Free iPhone with TubeStick

Equinux, the company that provides the TV-watching solution The Tube for Mac, announced Wednesday its all new hardware TV tuner called TubeStick. The device, when coupled with free iPhone apps Live TV and TubeTogo, allows you to watch TV right on the screens of your iPhones and iPod Touches.With Live TV, you can stream live television programs directly via Wi-Fi to your iPhone from your Mac that runs The Tube. TubeToGo, on the other hand, allows you to access and program TV recordings on the iPhone...

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Free iPhone Tethering Options - Get a Free iPhone Modem!

Tethering your iPhone for free used to simply require jailbreaking your phone and installing PDAnet, but JuneCloud got wise and has since have since started charging $30 per year for the software.But don’t fret, Gizmodo reports that there are at least two free options for tethering. One is iPhoneModem.de the other is iPhoneModem ($10 gets rid of the nags). The piece notes that there’s a third option called 3proxy but that it requires lots of manual configuration.If you’re gun shy about jailbreaking...

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Best free iPhone games on the App Store

Welcome, brave trawlers. It'll no doubt warm your winter-battered souls to learn the App Store's waters have been positively brimming with free puzzle titles this week.Sure, it's always nice to have a high profile freebie flop onto the Trawler's deck, as we've had in the last few weeks with the great Rolando and sneak-peek Super Monkey Ball lite versions, but in a way the dominance of relative underdog titles this week has been refreshing.So sit up, sip your brew and take a look what the net's brought...

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Free iPhone Wallpaper: Anna Kournikova

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RipDev Releases Kali Anti-Piracy Service to Protect iPhone Apps from being Pirated

We had reported about a jailbreak app called Crackulous which strips the copy protection from iPhone apps and render them free for distribution.At that time, we had commented that this was bad news for iPhone developers and that cracking iPhone apps or installing cracked iPhone apps was crossing the line which had resulted in an interesting debate among iPhone Hacks readers.We now have some good news to report for the iPhone developers. RipDev, the folks behind the Installer app have recently released...

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New Free iPhone App DRM Claims to Thwart Pirates

Piracy of iPhone applications has become quite a hot topic recently, particularly since ‘one-click’ cracking apps such as Crackulous have become available to the public. The Kali Anti-Piracy system from Ripdev believes it has the answer, putting pirates on notice that the easy ride to free software is over.Last week the one-click iPhone software cracking application Crackulous became officially available to the public. The software would give anyone the ability to remove the copy protection from...

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Download free iPhone theme for Blackberry - bPhone theme

While i was busy developing a free theme for iPhone through iPhone theme maker, my friend shared the theme that he was using in his Blackberry phone, and it totally resembled the iPhone interface and its buttons, sleek options etc. And it was called bPhone theme.The bPhone theme for blackberry is described as -The beauty of an iPhone. The power of a BlackBerry. And it holds true, as Blackberry is a strong device, and iPhone’s interface is always beautiful. Adding up both into one, would make it...

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