Customers get assistance purchasing the new Apple iPhone 3G S at an Apple store in San Francisco on Friday, the first day the phone was available.
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A million new iPhones, $30 apologies, and two kinds of cracking
By Andrew Heining | 06.23.09
Let’s talk numbers.
1,000,000: The number of iPhone 3G S sales Apple rang up over its opening weekend. This beat analysts’ predictions and easily outperformed Palm which, despite breaking its own sales record, moved fewer than 100,000 Pre smartphones on its first weekend. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in his first public statement since taking a medical leave of absence from the company in January, touted the 50,000 third-party applications available for download in the company’s App Store. The Atlantic saw the high sales numbers, but reminds readers that the faster iPhone still can’t outrun recessionary economics.
20: The percentage of iPhones (original, 3G, and 3G S) that have sustained some kind of damage, according to a survey conducted by warranty company SquareTrade, as reported by TechCrunch. The most common cause of iPhone death? Drops or falls. (That 3.5-inch touchscreen is easy to break.) Next up? Water damage. Remember this summer: remove iPhone from swim trunks, then cannonball. Read the full results here (PDF link).
30: The number of iTunes gift certificate dollars that Apple is reportedly offering new iPhone 3G S owners stuck in a frustrating purgatory of long activation times. Some new iPhone owners have had to suffer through 96 hours without phone access after forking over their two Benjamins. Gizmodo has a copy of the email that affected users are reportedly receiving from Apple.
7: The number of days that would-be hackers had to wait after the iPhone 3.0 operating system’s release before jailbreaking and unlocking became available. The (very unofficial) iPhone Dev Team released its “Ultrasn0w” unlocking program Tuesday, letting motivated users free their iPhones from AT&T and install themes and applications not approved by Apple. For now, this is the only way US iPhone users can make use of the multimedia messaging service (MMS) and tethering features promised in the 3.0 software update but absent because of AT&T-imposed limitations. As always with this sort of unsanctioned activity, use at your own risk. “The one caveat,” according to PC World: “this jailbreak doesn’t work for the new iPhone 3G S, so if you’re enjoying your ‘S’ for ’speed,’ you’ll also have to ‘W’ for ‘wait.’”
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2. iphone app developer | 06.23.09
Just downloaded 3.0 OS to my first gen iPhone, seems to work nicely. Tried to battle the lines on Friday to get a new 3Gs and lost.
4. william steinberg | 06.24.09
Let’s clear a few things up here. One needn’t jailbreak or unlock their iPhone to access the new tethering and MMS features of the new 3.0 firmware. In fact jailbreaking and unlocking won’t get you there, and even though there is no jailbreak or unlock available yet for the new 3GS phone, you can easily access the tethering and not so easily the MMS features. This is done by changing the AT&T profile to ver. 5.0. available at;
http://www.teknojunkie.com/apple/how-to-enable-mms-3g-tethering-on-iphone-os-3-0-gm-build/
This profile must be loaded onto the phone through the beta iTunes version also available at the above site.The various hoops one must leap through to get the MMS going are layed out here as well.
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1. Mary A McKinley | 06.23.09
Just received a Video on my computer from my daughter’s new IPhone which is an upgrade from her first one - the first model that came out. It has been and is a business asset. No problems!