iPhone News Updated

Getaround iPhone CarKit enables you to rent your vehicle by the hour

Getaround has finally launched with an all-in-one device that allows you to safely and easily “share” your car with different people. It could be a means of earning some extra income on the side, Getaround says owners can earn, on average, $2,000 per year for every hour per day their car is rented.

It can even save the renter over $1,800 per year by using a car sharing service over owning a car for the same number of miles driven.

To give you some peace of mind, cars outfitted with the Getaround CarKit are covered by “premium insurance” provided by Getaround and Berkshire Hathaway. Should something go amiss, they’ll take care of that. The device also has GPS, Wi-Fi, and keyless remote tech.

The iPhone app helps too. It allows a car owner to “conduct entire transactions, including reserving, paying for, and unlocking cars using nothing but their iPhone.”

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Behind the Scenes of the Verizon iPhone Deal

How the carrier kept a lid on one of the biggest announcements of the year

Like it or not, the Verizon iPhone deal ranks in the top mobile/wireless tech stories of the year so far, along with the the Nokia/Windows Phone partnership and AT&T’s planned purchase of T-Mobile USA. And while speculation about all the aforementioned deals existed before they were officially announced, neither of the latter two captured the same amount of media attention in their lead-ups or provided as much fodder for water-cooler office conversations as the “Big Red” iPhone.

Now, thanks to Adriana Lee at TechnoBuffalo, we’re offered a behind-the-scenes view into the Verizon iPhone deal via an unnamed Verizon source.

Six months before the January announcement of the iPhone (right around the time AT&T was rolling out the iPhone 4), select staffers were field-testing Verizon’s network connectivity at Apple stores across the country.

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