iPhone ubiquity has rapidly grown in the past months, and the sales are through the roof. Half of the mobile device traffic has been conducted on Apple's product, iPhone. This 3.0 OS version is the latest one, and it is somehow the best OS on the market. Everybody likes iPhone because it offers a lot of features, no matter the place and time, and the most important one is connectivity. Being connected to your friends, family and work colleagues through this amalgam of silicon, plastic, glass and metal is in the same time a blessing and a curse would say some people.
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Losing the iPhone would be an important bad event in your life, but more than the amalgam of materials I was talking about earlier, the lost of the information stored on iPhone is important. Personal information in a stranger's hands doesn't sound too good, right? There are a lot of solutions for at least blocking the access to this information, like password management applications, or blocking codes for users. These applications are the first step in fighting the thieves who try to steal and access this information.


Neither AT&T and Apple sell insurance or a non-warranty replacement plan in case the iPhone is damaged. So if your iPhone is lost or stolen, it will cost you $500 to replace it, but no one will pay for the information lost with the iPhone. It is not typically covered by the home insurance, and the information is not covered by most of the policies on insurance market.


State Farm, in its huge insurance policies offer include also iPhone insurance. The logic is like this: the iPhone is insured only if it is tied to a personal effect, like the laptop is, or a musical instrument. Bicycles are unfortunately included in this category. The premium for a laptop and the iPhone is for example $35 a year. In this case, the storage capacity of the insured iPhone was 16 GB. It was interesting until now the situation, because everybody had and still has iPhone, but there was no insurance policy for it. The iPhone insurance segment insurance market is, in my opinion a good sector to get into, especially with all this fuss around the iPhone. It is a great startup for people who want to start a business, and it also brings benefits to iPhone users, which can safely insure their device.

It's important to have an iPhone insurance, but I hope you will never have to use it!

If you would like to have an iPhone, you can find it easily in AT&T stores, and the prices mainly depend on the storage capacity so you can get an 8GB black iPhone for $199 or a 16GB black/white one for $299. Both models require a two year contract and the customers eligible for these prices are the iPhone customers who have purchased the smartphone before July 11th 2008, the customers who activate a new line with AT&T carrier or current customers of this carrier which are eligible for an upgrade discount. Go Phone Prepaid is not available for iPhone 3G, so you might want to know which are the plans suitable for purchasing the iPhone.
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The most simple and common plan is AT&T Nation, which costs between $69.99 and $129.99 depending on some factors: Anytime minutes, Night&Weekend Minutes and Additional Minutes. For 450 anytime minutes, 5000 minutes in weekend and additional minutes which cost 45 cents, this plan will cost you $69.99. Other three options for this plan offer unlimited weekend minutes and night minutes too, and for $89.99 you will get 900 anytime minutes and the additional minutes will cost you 40 cents. If you would like 1350 minutes at anytime, you will pay for additional minutes 35 cents, and the plan will be $109.99. The unlimited version offers you all the minutes mentioned here for only $129.99



The family plan offers shared minutes with the family, additional minutes, and you can also purchase an additional iPhone line. This plan has more versions, which have a price between $129.99 and $359.99. These plan categories vary in offering shared minuted between 700 and 6000 minutes, and the additional minutes' tariff varies from 45 cents to 20 cents. The unlimited version costs $259.99 and if you want an additional iPhone line, you can get it for $129.99.



Text messages are not included in these plans presented above, and these messaging plans are set up on categories: there are the individual plans, which cost between $5 (for 200 messages) and $20 (unlimited), and the family talk messaging plan which costs $30 per month for unlimited messaging, and if you have no voice plan selected, you will be charger with 20 cents for each message sent.



If you use the iPhone for a business purpose mainly, you can choose the Enterprise Data Plan, which offers you access corporate email, company intranet sites and other business applications. This plan costs $45.

An year ago some rumors appeared on the Internet about the iPhone nano product released by Apple. Later they turned to be fake, in the aspect that Apple did not release this kind of iPhone, but legend seems to be still alive, and now it revived in the market. There are various forms of the iPhone on the online market, and they origin is for sure Asia. These forms of iPhone are tiny in size when compared to the original Apple product, and vendors sell it as the iPhone nano or iPhone mini.
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All the products available on the market are successful fakes, which are using the Apple name for selling a product which has been copied. It is obvious that Apple would have sustained a real campaign if they wanted to release a mini iPhone, and actually, Apple Inc. declared that they do not have an intention of introducing such a product on the market, at least in the near future. These mini replicas mimic every part of the original product, and they copy everything beginning with the design and ending with the form factor, including the logo and the icons' design in the main menu.

Apple would not consider such a device for the consumers, because creation of this product would require a whole innovation process in the basic technology, and reconstruction of the whole product. Another disadvantage would be that the display will shrink its size, and this is currently the only unique hardware of iPhone which makes it better than the other touchscreen smartphones on the market. Consumers are advised to purchase the original iPhone products, because they might get a mini iPhone and they will find out that the operating system has bugs, or that the hardware component doesn't have the same high quality as the original products have.

The mini version is called Meizu M8 and it first appeared on the Hong Kong market. This smartphone is two-thirds of the size of the normal iPhone. Even if it is called mini iPhone, it has no features like multitouch, 3G, access to the AppStore, iTunes or other Apple media sources. It has no internal storage and it relies on a microSD slot card for storage. It is actually a dual-band phone which has offers the possibility to use two SIM cards, which has a 2.4 inches display and you can use a stylus for the touchscreen.

The packaging suggests just a ripoff. The price tag is around $107, and this is a WOW for iPhone users, because it is quite high for the quality of the mini smartphone. A very interesting component of the purchasing package is the phone sleeve, which has a Acura (a car company) logo on it, and under the logo is written iPhone and this is only a true sign of a fake product. It is not at all a good deal, but gadgets hunters might want to have the mini iPhone in their pockets next to the original one, and I understand their desire, because it is a special device, but the quality is fishy and this mini iPhone is a bad replica of the original iPhone.

Apple MacBook is one of the finest brands you can find on notebooks' market right now, but not everyone can afford an expensive MacBook. For those who can't afford them, can buy some on second-hand, and there are also websites which are specialized on selling cheap MacBooks.
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One of them is MacBook Mart which sells a lot of cheap MacBooks. If you're looking for a budget black or white Mac Book, a MacBook Air or the cheapest MacBook Pro 15" or 17" or the new Aluminum MacBooks, then  they can help. Their custom search engine integrates eBay to find you the best deals.

If you are not satisfied with them I made a rough research on the Internet to present some of the best choices for very cheap apple MacBooks under 1200$.

Apple 13.3 Macbook Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4GHZ, 2GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, nVIDIA.. 2.0 GHz - 2.0 GB RAM - 250 GB Hard Drive - 13.3" Display - Mac OS X.   Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB DDR3, 250GB SATA, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 13.3" Display, Aluminum unibody, SuperDrive, Gigabit Ethernet, AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, iSight camera, OS X 10.5 Leopard.The price you can find it is around $1000.

Apple 13.3 Macbook Intel Core 2 DUO 2.0GHZ, 2GB, 250GB, Superdrive - Aluminum. Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 2GB DDR3, 250GB SATA/100, 256MB DDR3 Nvidia GeForce 9400M, 13" Display 1280x800, Super Gigabite Ethernet, 802.11n WLAN, Bluetooth, OS X 10.5 Leopard . Price at $1,189.99 MB4.

The Apple MacBook (MB403LL/A)  has a sleek, 1.08-inch-thin design MacBook. These characteristics make it easy for the product to hit the road and also thanks to its tough polycarbonate case, built-in wireless technologies, and innovative MagSafe Power Adapter (it releases automatically if someone accidentally trips on the cord), this product is an amazing one.

These are some options for very cheap apple MacBooks you can find on the Internet. These products, although are very cheap MacBooks compared with others, are very well built laptops.

We are already used to be surprised by the new gadgets  iPhone has to offer. We already like the iPhone 3G and the other previous versions. But watch how a simple rumor like the iPhone 4G is enough to gain millions of fans' attention and many rushed to imagine about what kind of new smartphone is this one.
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Maybe it has a better camera, or maybe has video recognition, but we don't know yet. What we know is that iPhone engineers have forgotten the beautiful curves of the old iPhone and adopted titanium for extra strength of the new version.

Some say it is smaller than the versions we know and other voices say that OS is supposed to be "cool".

On July 11, 2008, Apple Inc. released the iPhone 3G in 22 countries. Apple Inc. has released the iPhone 3G since then  in upwards of eighty countries and territories.  iPhone 3GS has been announced to come on the market on June 8th, 2009, along with plans to release it later in June, July, and August, starting with the U.S., Canada and major European countries on June 19th. Many potential users have objected about iPhone's cost, and 40% of users have annual incomes over $100,000. In an attempt to gain a wider market, Apple has maintained those 8 GB of  iPhone 3G at a lower price point. This is the latest of several price reductions over the years; it is now sold for one sixth of the price of the original 8 GB iPhone,the price when it first became available. In the U.S., it costs now $99, down from $599, although it includes a two-year contract and a SIM lock.



The iPhone 4G has new updated features: OLED display passed for clarity and superior contrast, it also has 3.2 megapixel camera and video function, a camera for iChat is on the front, and the internal memory increased to 32GB.



We hope that we'll see the new 4G iPhone sooner and that it will be a cool gadget like the others that we already have been seen by now.