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How did Apple make a 3G iPhone with GPS, yet also reduce its price? One explanation is clearly letting operators subsidise it - witness O2 UK’’s free iPhone on a £45 contract - but a report from trade site EETimes suggests Apple is also making up the shortfall with efficiencies in its touchscreen assembly (more…)

In theory, a 3G mobile network is capable of data speeds of up to 384Kbps. However, UK operator O2 has been outed as capping many of its 3G customers to a third of that - 128Kbps - based on mysterious `customer profiles’. The Register exposed the practice, which isn’t good news for any music companies (more…)