iPhone News Updated

Click here to find out more! New Apple iPhone draws throngs to stores around the world

Some analysts are projecting that Apple will have sold up to 1 million iPhones by the end of the gadget’s first day in stores.

Apple loyalists by the thousands waited in lines around the world for the company’s new iPhone on Thursday, in what has become a boisterous tradition for the company’s product launches.

Cole Rich displays his new iPhone outside the Apple Store at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica after waiting in line with hundreds of others. (Al Seib, Los Angeles Times / June 23, 2010)

Observers across the nation reported sold-out stores, with lines twice or three times the length they were for previous iPhone launches.

As the Apple store opened at the Grove in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, Randy Cruz was the first in line to buy the new fourth-generation phone. To get that spot, she arrived at 10 the night before.

[Thanks: http://www.latimes.com]

eBay scans RedLaser barcode scanning app for iPhone and makes it free

One of my favorite and most used apps for iPhone is RedLaser. The main reason is that it has saved me a ton of money since I first downloaded it for 99 cents.

If you’re not familiar with RedLaser, you simply launch the app and then hold your iPhone so that the bar code of the item you want to scan is in view of the iPhone’s camera. Seconds later it does a lookup to the internet and shows you the prices that the item is selling for at various stores and internet sites. My favorite moment was when I used it to scan a cordless phone package at Best Buy only to find that same cordless phone on sale on BestBuy.com. Moments later I showed the scan to the cashier and she price matched.

Read the rest of this entry »