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As Rene mentioned over the weekend, the iPhone 2G has just turned one year old, we here at TiPb look to the future, though, and the future looks great. Great enough that we’re still planning on giving away an iPhone 3G to one lucky winner who’s made at least 20 posts in our iPhone Forums. Grab the full contest details here. Even better - when you visit the forums from your iPhone you should see a big ol’ “iPhone Version” that lets you interact with the forums via an iPhone interface. Don’t like it? The option to switch back is on the bottom of the iPhone version. What are you waiting for? Go on and register, post, and possibly win!

Also notable, you can now get your iPhone Blog six ways from Sunday. Ok, just two ways. You can now just punch in http://tipb.com into your browser to be brought to our main page. Easy, no? We’re not bringing out an iPhone version of the blog proper just yet — when we find / develop a verison that’s both fast and usable enough you’ll be the first to know.

Meanwhile, there’s only a couple weeks left now in the iPhone Wait-a-Thon, wherein we give away an iTunes Gift card worth $100 to somebody who’s commented on a Wait-a-Thon-tagged post (like, you know, this one). Details and rules here. Congrats to our latest winners, Tom, Mark, and Rafael. Your Gift Cards forthcoming just as soon as we convince Apple we’re not trying to defraud them by buying too many gift cards.

So with just a couple weeks left, we gotta ask: What’s your game plan for July 11th?. Rumor has it the launch will happen at 8 in the morning, so will you be camping out the night before? Sitting at home and pretending your iPhone 2G hasn’t been replaced with newer, faster, better, more? Answer in the comments for a chance to win!

hello ppl, i just wanted to ask, isnt there any way to work on the
iPhone SDK on Windows ??
Why is Apple doing this to Windows users.. [ My office kinda doesnt
allow me to get a Mac or get the OS X installed on one of the PCs
here ]..
Please help me wid an option…

Mobile Mag is reporting that the iPhone 3G may be sold at Radio Shack and Best Buy. Best Buy we can see — Apple’s already been making inroads there. Radio Shack, though, …ugh. Sure, since the iPhone 3G is being sold pretty much just like any other smartphone now, it’s not crazy that it could be sold by any of the usual suspects — Radio Shacks, Mall Kiosks, that one guy down the street who inexplicably has an AT&T store in his garage. But… Radio Shack? Maybe I’m old, but I remember a time when Radio Shack had, you know, electronic parts and wasn’t the laughing stock it is today.

Reconsider, Apple, because if this is true, it may help you reach your target, but it’s not going to do wonders for your image.

If it’s a day that ends in a “y”, then its likely the status of the Apple / China Mobile talks has changed! On again/off again seems to be on again, with reports now saying the obstacles have been hurdled, the chasm bridged, the bamboo curtain rolled up to let in some sun.

But can China Mobile beat competitor China Unicom, or even the massive gray market, to the punch?

Only time, and probably a bazillion more flip flops, will tell.

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Pop quiz. You run one of the few CDMA-based mobile providers in the world, and while you were rumored to have passed on the original iPhone, thus locking you out of the North American market for Apple’s revolutionary handset, even your Old World parent, Vodafone, has finally, desperately signed up to carry the iPhone 3G in many other markets. Bottom-line, you missed the boat to the point of now being landlocked, and what do you have to say for yourself? You’ll do better? You’ll try harder? You’ll stop with the iClones and actually try to out-innovate the iPhone?

Not if you’re Ivan “the Terrible” Seidenberg, who’s big answer to the iPhone 3G is:

“Steve Jobs eventually will get old . . . I like our chances.”

Yup. Steve Jobs, who helped bring the Apple II (command line), Mac (graphical interface), and iPhone (multi-touch) to the masses, in spite of health concerns that might make lesser CEOs (subjected company not only included but vehemently singled out) lose continence in themselves, will — gasp — grow old.

If that’s best Seidenberg can come up with, his board has a far bigger reason to panic than competition from Apple.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Seidenberg has opened his mouth about Apple only to firmly insert feet.

And luckily (for our funny bones), it’s not likely to be the last!

Reports suggest that Apple’s ongoing discussions with China Mobile are now back on track, with the distinct possibility the iPhone 3G could make it to the country this year…

A recent report at Alley Insider suggests that it could take up to six months to even be approved as an official iPhone application developer, and that’s before you even get to submit applications to Apple for inclusion in the online store. No word on how long it takes to have an application approved by Apple, but with over 250,000 downloads of the SDK, there’s sure to be a lot of interest…

Canadians have been waiting a long time for the iPhone to arrive — they’ve even signed online petitions — but now it seems that there’s a very large fly in the ointment. Unlike iPhone users in the US and the UK (to name just two countries), Canadian iPhone 3G users will have to sign up for a three-year contract with Rogers, and even then they’ll not get truly unlimited Internet access…

Canadians have been waiting a long time for the iPhone to arrive — they’ve even signed online petitions — but now it seems that there’s a very large fly in the ointment. Unlike iPhone users in the US and the UK (to name just two countries), Canadian iPhone 3G users will have to sign up for a three-year contract with Rogers, and even then they’ll not get truly unlimited Internet access…