Let’s start the iPhone award season here, and let’s bet also that we’re going to see TONS of “iphone named number #1 of…”, “iPhone awarded…” “iPhone named best_____ of the year, decade, century…” in the next two months.

Well, Time wanted to be the first magazine to start the iPhone award season by naming iPhone, the invention of the year 2007.

Even though they say it’s hard to type on, too slow, it doesn’t have instant messaging, it doesn’t work with corporate email servers and it’s locked to AT&T, the iPhone is still this year’s winner for five simple reasons:

1. The iPhone is pretty.
2. It’s touchy-feely
3. It will make other phones better
4. It’s not a phone, it’s a platform
5. It is but the gost of iPhones yet to come

These are all good reasons, but our very own top ten reasons to buy an iPhone is still as valid as it was last June!

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Munir Kotadia is a man on a mission - a mission to berate iPod Touch and iPhone owners until they take his security concerns seriously.  In an article seemingly designed to drive the Mac faithful into a furious rage, Kotadia highlights the potential dangers of granting access to random strangers via “Unlock your iPhone” websites.

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Attempts to change the venerable keyboard are usually met with failure - despite promising claims of productivity benefits, there’s often too great a pay-off for users used to the traditional QWERTY ‘board - but if anyone can encourage us to upgrade, perhaps it’s Apple.  Their latest patent describes a MultiTouch surface particularly suitable for a MacBook (or a Mac Tablet, maybe?) which, thanks to a lifting framework of key-edges that presses underneath, can be both a smooth touchpad or a delineated keyboard.

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Thanks to Telstra Apple could be launching their iPhone in the land down under. Although maybe not unless Apple launches a 3G version.

You see, Telstra is rolling out a huge 3G network which is scheduled to be completed by January, so they are eager to find a major release device to launch on it, a 3G iPhone would surely fit the bill. So, as if requiring a 3G version wasn’t enough of a roadblock, Telstra seems quite reluctant to take the financial screwing everyone else has to get the iPhone.

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While much of the iPod praise has been saved for its glossy cousins - either of the compact nano or the touchscreentastic Touch flavours - the iPod Classic is nonetheless making its own waves among consumers.  Unfortunately, many of these waves are down to an issue with the PMP’s latest firmware update, which has seen some users left with a Classic that refuses to play music and instead drives itself into a fiery state with constant hard-drive thrashing.

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Let’s start with Verizon, they have been gradually losing market share ever since the release of the iPhone, and now all of the sudden they are releasing some really cool phones? Furthermore they have been in talks with Google and have even dropped their complaint regarding the 700MHz spectrum becoming open.

Sure, they probably aren’t anticipating the mobile wireless world becoming open as in source, but such a move means they are at least willing to accept it, and move on. Add on to that the fact that they are dealing with Google to make use of their impending mobile OS which should allow for cheaper phones since that OS is open sourced.

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Ever wish you could have an iPhone that looked more like a Touch and had the 16GB capacity of the Touch? Yeah me too, well you might get your wish from Meizu quicker than you will from Apple.

Their new M8 MP3 Player/Phone originally looked exactly like the iPhone, had nearly the exact same OS, the same multi-touch screen, there was literally so much in common that in order to make a significant enough difference to stave off lawsuits. They had to up and make it look like the Touch instead, same phone/MP3 functionality, but now it looks like the Touch, which is ok since the Touch isn’t a phone.

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Back in July the BBC launched their TV download service, iPlayer, to a mixed chorus of excitement and - from the Mac (and Linux) contingent - sobbing; the software was, and in fact still is, compatible with Windows XP only.  In a recent interview Ashley Highfield, head of the corporation’s Future Media and Technology unit, revealed that a streaming version of the application would be available for Mac and Linux users by Christmas (just in time for the Queen’s Speach, I suppose); in fact, he claims it was always in the timeline, and the error in fact was not missing out the non-XP formats but failing to publicise the coming alternatives.

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Not really, but you can paint it all black and add the older, multi-colored Apple logo in place of the home button, which would bring you a lot closer. It kind of looks cool, too bad you can’t draw in Notes on your iPhone like you could on the Newton.

That rainbow Apple logo was decommissioned somewhere around 1998 which was a good long while ago. Back then, it probably would have taken a lot longer to accumulate a couple hundred emails, but this guy definitely needs to check his, 3 digits is ridiculous.

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According to Apple, the rate plans for the iPhone with T-Mobile in Germany will start from 49 Euros. It’s not cheap, but it’s not too much as well. Anyway, to be legal with your iPhone in Germany, you will have to pay this price monthly… The equivalent in Dollars is $70.