A Byte of Apple: Our weekly wrap on all news Apple!

It’s been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride for the little big company from Cupertino this past week. Despite AT&T’s best efforts to keep the iPhone 4 out of the hands of subscribers – we wrote about the server meltdowns that the overwhelming demand for the new iPhone had caused last week – the iPhone 4 hit eager hands starting June 24th and for some lucky folks who’d preordered, as much as a day earlier! And how it hit! Apple’s reported first three days sales of 1.7 million iPhone 4 models, besting launch records set by previous iPhone models, with the iPhone 3G and 3GS selling in the region of 1 million in the first weekend after launch. Almost makes the other news from last week – 3 million iPads sold in 80 days – pale in comparison, doesn’t it?

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Tons of Nokia E7 Pics Leaked

The same guys who shared the video of the so called Nokia N9 have posted some cool pics of the device. This might be the E7 as it looks very similar to the E90 ! The hardware is marked as RM-626 and C0 and is a Nokia Protoype and not a final device. This is very old proto according to Eldar and final hardware might look different. How do you like the device if it was meant to be real ? It looks like a N8 with a 4-row QWERTY keypad.

UPDATE : E7 is official and here are authentic images


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Samsung EPIC 4G – Galaxy S Pro for Sprint

Samsung and Sprint have joined hands to launch the Samsung Epic 4G which is USA’s First 4G QWERTY Phone . The EPIC 4G is infact the rumored Galaxy S Pro and features the same Super AMOLED display. The HTC EVO 4G was the first 4G phone on Sprint and now the EPIC is the 2nd. More details follow .

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Is Nokia N9 a N8 with a QWERTY keyboard ?

The guys from NegriElectronics have kept their promise to show a video of the leaked Nokia device . They are still strongly calling it the N9.  Till know we were pretty sure that the N9 might be a MeeGo phone. But this thing is running on Symbian 3.  We are hearing from sources that the Nokia N8 has some siblings one of which might have a QWERTY keyboard. Having looked at the  Keypad it reminds of the N97 mini but this one has 4 rows unlike the min with 3 rows. We are not convinced that this is the N9. This might be a N8-01 or N8-02 or simply N8 QWERTY. It can also be the E7 or in a rare case the  C7 !

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The FoneArena Apple iPhone 4 Unboxing

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FoneArena presents the Unboxing of the Apple iPhone 4 which is selling like hot cakes in USA and UK. We managed to grab on from O2 UK so that we can bring you all the stuff about the latest iPhone ! Ours was the 32GB Black model. The phone uses the new microSIM card and we’ll show you a bit about it in the demo video below.

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Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices in just 3 days

Apple just announced it has sold 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices in just 3 days. Thats 17 lac phones or  1700000 phones sold in just 72 hours making it most successful Apple product launch in the company’s history. Apple CEO Steve Jobs also said sorry to customers who could not get the iPhone 4 due to supply issues. But no word about the Antenna or death grip issue .Apple is gonna grab a lion’s share of the smartphone marketing share for this quarter with such impressive numbers.

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HTC Desire and Wildfire coming to India in July ?

The HTC Desire is still not available in India. The company had planned to launch it in May but we don’t know what happened. But we are hearing fresh news that the Desire is coming along with the Wildfire in July

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Pictures: Blue Nokia N8 compared to N900 and X6

As reported before, I was lucky enough to get invited to a special little Blogger event, hosted by Nokia Austria. We have been shown and demoed the Nokia N8, the latest photography flagship from Finland. Since the Device were still in proto status, we weren’t allowed any exhaustive hands-on times, but the bit we got to see really impressed. I was lucky enough to grab one of those N8’s and quickly shoot some size comparisons, with a Nokia N900 and a X6 16GB. Enjoy the Pictures!

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An Apple iPhone 4 launch day story from London

Here is a Apple iPhone 4 launch day story from Fone Arena reader Neha from London. The above photo is a scene at an O2 Store in Brighton .  People are crazy about Apple  products in USA where Apple does majority of it’s business. But it’s interesting to see what Apple is doing across the seas in UK. Japan should be much more interesting ! Continue reading “An Apple iPhone 4 launch day story from London”

Is this the Nokia E7 or N98 ?

A new Nokia device has been leaked ant it looks like a E90 Successor and seems also like a N series member on the exterior.  The guys who got of the Proto seem to think it’s the N9 and calling it the N900 successor but they don’t seem to know the difference between Symbian and Maemo / Meego . This device is pretty much running on some version of Symbian . By now we are pretty much sure that the N9 would be a Meego Device and would be the first handheld from Intel-Nokia marriage of Moblin and Maemo.  Interestingly the model number on this  leaked phone says its the N00 while the front says its C0

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Ridiculously Awesome: Your Phone As A Vuvuzela

You know the WorldCup, don’t you? Errr not that worldcup, the Football WorldCup! Well, if you watched only one second of any match, you must have noticed a weird annoying sound: that’s the Vuvuzela! Apparently, in South Africa, they can’t play football without that sound. Overly disturbing, isn’t it?

Well, the Vuvuzela seems to be all the rage nowadays and you have got to admit that after a couple of matches with its incessant sound in the background, you kind of, sort of, mildly, unconsciously get used to it. So not to be left behind, developers have jumped on the window of opportunity and started producing one Vuvuzela app after the other. I guess the age of fart apps and other bodily sounds is over. Too bad.

Anyway, there’s plenty of Vuvuzela apps in the Apple App Store as well as the Ovi Store. If you’re becoming too addicted to that monotone sound, just search your application store for “Vuvuzela” and you’ll probably find one (if not many) to help you get through those long, long hours when there is no match being played and your craving is overwhelming you.

But here’s the kicker, the ultimate FoneArena advice:

If you have a speaker around, be it portable or a good regular speaker, just hook your phone to it, for the ultimate Vuvuzela experience. Seriously. We tried it. We even shot a video, with the FoneArena fade-in and out, all serious and such. Here it is, showing the free MMMOOO Vuvuzela app from the Ovi Store (you can even change its color, and press several times to simulate multiple simultaneous Vuvuzelas!) running on my N97 Mini hooked to the Nokia MD-8 Mini Speaker. Enjoy, ehm, I guess.

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Apple iPhone 4 Pics

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The Apple iPhone 4 has been launched in USA and UK and FoneArena readers have been sending us photos of their latest Apple toy.  Vinay from UK shared with us some great pics of the iPhone 4 Retail Box.  Abhishek shared some pictures of the phone in action from Los Angeles , USA.  If you have any gadget / interesting news to share  do mail us at tips at fonearena dot com

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Nokia C5 Available in India – Price Rs.8500

The Nokia C5 which was unveiled at CeBit Germany this year is now available in India for Rs.8500

A Nokia Dealer tells us that limited quantities of the phone are going to be available tomorrow and that you can book it today. The C5 is the first C-series phone and runs on Symbian S60 3rd edition

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