iPhone News Updated

Worth Ave Group Now Offering iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple Notebook Insurance

If you meandered over to the Worth Ave. Group booth at Macworld Expo, you might have noticed their staff hammering on expensive gadgets. Per Macworld, the Worth Ave. Group is now offering notebook and iPhone insurance and invited Macworld Expo attendees to take a hammer to some of the MacBooks, iPhones and iPod touches they had on hand.

The Worth Ave. Group claims to be the only iPhone insurance company around and has stated that they’ll cover stuff that won’t be handled by your typical warranty from Apple. Whether your iPhone has been dropped, stolen, or damaged by liquid, you are covered. The annual premiums are pretty reasonable too, starting at US$55 for 3G/8GB or earlier models and going up to US$79 for 3GS/32GB models. If your iPhone encounters a fall into a toilet or falls out of your pocket at some juncture, they’ll buy you a new one.

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Could Samsung’s Wave Outsell Smart Phone Rivals?

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second largest mobile phone maker after Finland’s Nokia Corp., on Sunday launched the Samsung Wave –- the first touchscreen smart phone running on its own bada operating system — at a glitzy event at the annual Mobile World Congress industry showcase in Barcelona.

Today, Ireland-based bookmaker Paddy Power was offering odds of 4/1 that Samsung’s new touchscreen device will outsell both the Google Nexus One and Apple iPhone globally this year.

However, the iPhone remains the bookies odds-on 4/6 favorite to wave goodbye to the competition and easily become the best selling mobile device in the world this year.

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