Apple Bought an Online Maps Company

Apple has quietly bought a online maps company.

http://tinyurl.com/y93kgxf

Could This Be Hint Of Things To Come On iPhone?

AT&T data detail filter options

This may be nothing but I don’t recall seeing all of these choices before on my AT&T iPhone account area? Does anyone else know if they have always been there? The view filter choices just seemed interesting to me.

Could it have to do with planned iPhone video calling, multimedia messaging, and video exchange? Maybe these are choices that have been there all along but I just don’t recall seeing them.

Update to AT&T Rural Coverage Posting

The link for Cellular Ones MI coverage area changed. I have changed the link on that posting and here’s the link for Cellular Ones MI coverage area. It now has both the AT&T and Cellular One logos on the page and att is in the URL so maybe you can use the iPhone in all of those areas now? Here’s the coverage area link directly from AT&T’s site.

First Native IM Client for iPhone

Apollo Supporting AIM, ICQ, .mac, and MSN.

iPhone 8GB Model Will Sell For $399

The iPhone 8GB model is NOW selling for $399!

New iTunes WiFi Music Store for iPhone and iPod Touch

Steve Jobs announces that there’s a new WiFi iTunes store for the iPhone and the new iPod Touch.

The iPod Touch looks almost just like an iPhone and has Multitouch interface, iPod, Calendar, Contacts, Calculator, Settings, WiFi, Youtube and Safari Web Browser! You can surf the web, buy songs on iTunes WiFi Store and watch Youtube videos!

The iTunes WiFi Music Store will be available later this month and to the iPhone through a free iPhone update.

Also announced is a partnership with Starbucks. When you get near a Starbucks a fifth button will appear in the WiFi music store which will tell you what song is playing at that time in the Starbucks and you can buy the music with the tap of a finger.

Also there will be free access to iTunes WiFi Music Store while at Starbucks with no login required. It will take until the end of 2008 for most major metro Starbucks to have this implemented.

Ringtones for iPhone

Steve Jobs has announced at Apples “The Beat Goes On” event which is taking place today there will be a custom ringtones builder for the iPhone in the new version of iTunes, which should be available tonight I believe, ringtone service will be turned on next week. When an iPhone is docked a Ringtones tab will pop up. It will cost 99¢ to make a ringtone from one of 500,000 songs on iTunes, there are more than 6 million songs on iTunes but only 500,000 are participating with the ringtone feature. You can pick up to 30 seconds of a song and make fade ins, fade outs and create the ringtone before you buy the ringtone.

iPhone Leaflets

If you have an iPhone you may want to check these out?

From their site

Flickr – “Save that precious iPhone memory and view Flickr photos faster.”

del.icio.us – “Access your del.icio.us bookmarks and browse the most popular.”

and more…

iPhone now has Exchange Support

Originally posted July 11th, 2007

An article from Macworld explains how the iPhone has gained Secure Exchange support.

AT & T to Add Rural Mobile Coverage – (iPhone News)

AT&T has announced a deal to acquire Dobson Communications which owns Cellular One. Cellular One has a large rural network in many states. Maybe I will have an iPhone in my future?

Read more from my source MacRumors.com. They have linked to the AT&T announcement also so it’s not just a rumor.

Here’s a link to a Cellular One coverage map for MI. If you look at all of the areas together and AT&T’s exsisting coverage MI should be pretty well covered. My BIG question is, is there a National plan for the iPhone? To answer my question, Yes they are national plans.