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Earlier this week, iPhone fanboys rejoiced after securing their place in history with an official fanboy entry in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Perhaps “iBrick” will be the next addition to the dictionary after today’s debacle at the Apple data centers which turned 6 million iPhones into useless, shiny bricks.

Yes, today was supposed to be Steve Jobs’ magnum opus for the iPhone, heralding the release of the iPhone 3G and its revolutionary new mobile operating system, iPhone 2.0. But alas, Gabriel’s trumpet began to play Taps for Apple as reports flooded into Cupertino about new iPhones getting thrown into a loop during the activation process turning them into iBricks.
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The iPhone 3G will be finally be available Friday morning when the sun shines on New Zealand at 8 o’clock in the morning. Then following the terminator across the globe, Apple Stores will open their doors at 8 am in their respective time zones. New iPhones and iPod touches will be pre-loaded with the App Store. However, if you already have an iPhone or iPod touch, you can get the iPhone 2.0 software update today and start using native apps without jailbreaking your device! This firmware update is free for iPhones, and $9.99 for iPod touch.

The App Store is where you will find native apps to download to your device. The App Store officially launched this morning with over 552 applications available, of which 135 of them are free. The remaining pay for apps range from 99 cents to $69.99. The apps fall into categories like games, business, sports, education, music, productivity, travel, social networking, news, and many more. Apple will be adding apps to the App Store almost daily. Read on to find out how to get access to the App Store and start downloading apps today.
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After weeks of speculation and rumor-mongering, it’s finally official. iPhone 3G is Apple’s newest mobile phone that takes an already amazing device to a whole new level. Apple listened closely to its customers to come up with a feature-laden offering in an improved form factor that is thinner than its predecessor. It’s faster, thanks to the 3G high-speed network support. And it’s cheaper, with the 8GB model priced at $199 US.

As if that wasn’t enough Apples throws in GPS, the ability to add third-party native applications, and out-of-the-box support for Exchange which thrusts the iPhone into the enterprise. It’s enough to make a lot of companies very nervous at the thought of losing tremendous market share to Apple. RIM’s BlackBerry has been the darling of the enterprise mobile workforce, but the tide may turn towards iPhone. Makers of portable GPS devices must also be worried. And surely Nintendo is sizing up the iPhone 3G’s potential to unseat the DS as the king of handheld gaming.
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The past seven days have given us a lot to chew on. First, we hear about Apple’s plan to get the iPhone into more countries across the globe which brings its iPhone sales goal for the year clearly into the crosshairs. Then we get reports of customers who are unable to buy iPhones at any online outlet, and retail stores soon follow. Where are the iPhones going? Analysts see right through Apple’s ruse and claim a new improved iPhone is looming near. Will the 3G iPhone be available soon? It will, and in less than three weeks from today!

Read on to learn all about these latest breaking iPhone news stories.
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Google has updated its iPhone optimized version of Google Reader making it the absolute best way to read news feeds on the iPhone. You can expect a bevy of native RSS apps to flood the App Store in June, but we think they’ll have a tough time trumping Google’s web-based reader for the iPhone. This week’s update enables mobile users to star items for later reading, and browse large lists of items. These changes bring Google Reader for the iPhone much closer to its sibling app for the desktop web. One really nice new feature is the expanding list that shows you the entire news item within the context of the list so you don’t have to go back and forth between article content and the list view. The new features are still in beta which means users navigating to Google Reader will still see the old version unless you point to the URL to the beta below.

Google Reader for iPhone and iPod touch (beta)

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Create a web clip for PopURLs and you will have one-tap access to the most popular news items being shared on the best social news and bookmarking services. PopURLs is ideal for people that don’t use RSS news feeds on the iPhone or iPod touch but still want a single entry point to news items from various social media sites. This all-in-one interface gives you a quick way to get the pulse of what news items are currently being shared on the web. PopURLs lists the top ten links from various social media sources such as Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Newsvine, Metafilter, Truemors, Google, Yahoo, Wired, TailRank, BoingBoing, Slashdot, Fark, and many others. PopURLs also consolidates the most timely links into two categories right at the top of the list so you can see what’s popular right now, or all day today. PopURLs wraps this all in a nice iPhone interface available at the link below.

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The life evolution of iPod touch jumps the track and produces Chumby, the platypus of web-enabled touch devices. Like a forbidden mashup, the unholy communion of the iPod touch and the popular bean-filled footbag has produced a quirky new breed of web-enabled touch devices that make you say WTF as you fall hopelessly in love with its cuddly charm. Chumby is about the size of a cup of coffee and makes a perfect bed mate for your night stand, or even a desk pal at work; always within sight and just a touch away. Chumby’s squishy, Italian leather body features a color touch screen, audio, and built-in Wi-fi all running on a Linux-based operating system with Adobe Flash. Chumby comes loaded with widgets that deliver Flickr photos, weather, stocks, sports scores, news, internet radio, video, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, email, and on and on and on. Heck, you can even play games with Chumby, and not just hacky sack, either. Find out more about Chumby after the jump.
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Sure, we know that web portals are soooooo nineteen ninety-eight, but we also know that the iPhone age is breathing new life into these destination sites, especially when they are optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Take myijump.com for example. At first glance this looks like another iPhone portal site offering a convenient starting point for web surfing from mobile Safari. However, a deeper dive into myijump reveals a virtual cornucopia of web sites and web apps that are all optimized for the iPhone or iPod touch. The web apps are all categorized under tap-formatted buttons designed for the touch interface. With games, entertainment, news, sports, social networking, productivity, free iTunes music, and more, you will find something for everyone here making myijump.com worthy of a web clip on your device.
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