Telus Extends $55+ Voice & Data Plan For iPhone

This week, Telus has extended their $55+ Voice and Data organisation for iPhone until June 30, 2011. The organisation was originally ordered to expire on May 3, 2011.

For reference, the $55+ Voice and Data organisation is careful below:

• Minutes: 200 daytime
• Evenings/Weekends: Unlimited @ 6PM
• Data: 1GB
• Promotions: Unlimited Text/Picture/Video messages, My10 Nationwide, Free Voicemail 3
• Data flex details: At the $55 price, users get 1GB of data. If that accumulation amount is exceeded, instead of paying per MB old fees, the organisation is automatically bumped to $75 with 2GB of data. If 2GB of accumulation is exceeded, the organisation is bumped to $95 with 5GB of data. Anything over 5GB still is charged at $0.05/MB.

With this plan, an iPhone 4 is priced at $159/$269 for 16 GB/32 GB.

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Android Market To Exceed App Store Apps By August 2011?

According to a inform by research2guidance, a Teutonic research group, the sort of apps in the Android Market should outgo those in the App Store by August 2011.

Citing a recent example, in Apr roughly 28,000 apps were uploaded to the Android Market, where Apple accepted 11,000 apps into the App Store. This trend is reportedly ordinary period after month.

The forecast indicates that the Android Market will attain 425,000 amount apps when it finally surpasses Apple’s App Store. However, R2G further reports that the popularity of the Android Market may be a perverse factor for Android developers.

“On the contrary, the success of an app accumulation is negatively correlated to the success of an cipher developer,” the firm writes. “All psychotherapy on the early months of an app accumulation including the Android Market shows that cipher download numbers decrease dramatically after the first months or modify weeks after the start of the store. The long tail gets individual and individual while the crowning 5% gets richer and richer.”

Recent TV ads hit Apple using the sort of apps in the App Store as an plus of the iOS platform. If the Android Market becomes the maximal covering store, Apple may modify its ambulatory covering focus into a artist comparability of quality versus quantity.

[TechCrunch]

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Apple To Deliver iOS Updates Over-The-Air Starting This Fall?

These are the events that iOS users undergo when a newborn iOS update is available:

1.) Read online that a newborn iOS update is acquirable 2.) Go crazy bright because there is an update acquirable 3.) Plug iOS device into iTunes via a computer, and update

The pore here is step 3, updating through iTunes. This is the method that Apple has utilised for iDevice updates since 2001. In recent eld however, competing devices (Google) hit utilised OTA, or Over-The-Air, updates that push the updates to the user’s device. In other words, no machine required.

As 9to5Mac reports, and I really hope this inform comes true, Apple may be looking to provide OTA updates for iOS as primeval as Fall 2011.

Multiple sources say the newborn feature module entry in iOS 5, message iOS 5 module not become over-the-air but following saucer updates to it will. Just like tethering in iOS 3, Apple has the technology but cannot meet release it everywhere.

According to the report, the initial rollout may be with USA wireless carrier Verizon, with a possible international start to follow.

Also, if OTA is to be an iOS 5 feature, we crapper wait OTA updates to be acquirable on iPad and iPod Touch as well.

What do you think of OTA iOS updates? I can’t wait!

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Best Buy & Future Shop Apps Updated To 2.0

The Best Buy and Future Shop iOS apps have been updated to edition 2.0, bringing different enhancements to the already multipurpose features of the apps.

For the Future Shop app, the new features are:

• Check have levels in-store and online correct from the app • Rate and analyse products directly from your iOS figure • Checkout quicker with our faster and more robust impact • Get the clog that you poverty faster with In-store Pickup • Scan barcodes and QR codes instantly

For the Best Buy app, the new features are:

• Easily admittance added online noesis using the QR cipher detector • Place your visit correct on your figure and choose in-store restorative at any Best Buy location • See if the component you poverty is in have at your closest Best Buy accumulation or online • Rate and analyse products and verify us what you conceive • Faster checkout, shorter wait nowadays and an reinforced review experience

Of all the enhancements in both apps, I like that users can now analyse accumulation have directly from within the application!

The Best Buy and Future Shop apps are acquirable in the App Store for free.

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Electronic Arts To Acquire Firemint

Electronic Arts is one of the world’s maximal mettlesome publishers and they hit a campus falsehood here in Metro Vancouver supported in Burnaby. They move to near discover amazing titles much as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2012 for iOS.

Their stylish move is the acquisition of Australian-based Firemint, famous for their mega iOS hits Flight Control and Real Racing series.

MELBOURNE, Australia & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced an commendation to take Firemint Pty Ltd., the leading autarkical ambulatory utilization studio. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Firemint brings a proven worker of creative talent to EAi, with example hits Flight Control and Real Racing for iPhone® and iPadâ„¢, and an attractive future listing of games. The care is not touchable to EA coverall and is expected to close within four weeks. Financial details are not disclosed.

“The Firemint aggroup is important for its grave and commercial success,” said Barry Cottle, Executive Vice President and General Manger of EA Interactive. “Having them as conception of EAi module accelerate our position as worldwide leader in mettlesome utilization for ambulatory devices and online recreation platforms.”

Great move by EA, and congrats to Firemint. Can’t move to wager what these digit crapper conjure up for iOS gaming.

Thanks Alex for the email!

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