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# The iPhone reviews are in | July 9th, 2008

Pogue and Mossberg have videos which sum up their reviews. Baig has a sidebar which does much the same. All list the nearly same pros and cons, only Baig is more enthused about the iPhone 3G. All point out that the reduction in price is more than made up for by AT&T with the increase in the contract price. Remember, AT&T is not paying full freight for their supply of that iPhone.

David Pogue, New York Times

Walt Mossberg

Ed Baig, USA Today

No voice dialing, copy-and-paste, Bluetooth stereo audio or phone-to-phone photo sending (MMS), in their order of importance, will cause me not to upgrade, as I do not consider this an upgrade. I have worked out how to do two of the four. I just have to accept not using voice dialing till I can get that voice dialing software available for unlocked iPhones.

We have a GPs device and will likely have more. The iPhone 3G does not equal any current devices, it tells you were you are, not how to get to where you want to go.

Oh, the 2.0 software, which allows uploading 3rd party software, is available for existing generation iPhones.

Case made.

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# Warning of a phishing scam purportedly from Apple, Not | July 9th, 2008

MacInTouch reader Douglas Broussard warns of a phishing scam that purports to be from Apple:

I just received a deceptively well-crafted e-mail from a sender purporting to be Apple, claiming that I have billing problems. The link in the e-mail goes to http://www.satc.net/https/.store.apple.com/us/, which does not appear to be a valid Apple URL.
The e-mail is well laid-out, and uses Apple’s graphics from the .Mac/.Me service. The title of the e-mail is: “IMPORTANT: Billing Problems”.
I received the e-mail just after buying a song from iTunes, so I was worried my account info may have been compromised, but after doing a little detective work, this appears to be a coincidence.
The long headers in the e-mails seems to indicate that “User (unknown [92.55.82.185]) by mail.decitre.fr ” is the sender. I requested that Apple add that IP/domain to its blacklist, since the headers opf the e-mail are forged and look as though the mail is coming from Apple.
Here are the headers. One easy tip off is the X-Mailer header; Apple doesn’t send e-mails using OUtlook Express 6 for Windows.
To see this information when you suspect an e-mail isn’t genuine, Click the View Menu, select Message, and choose Long Headers. Look for the “Received:” section, and see if it matches the purported sender in the “From:” field of the e-mail.

From: Apple
Date: July 9, 2008 11:05:39 AM PDT
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: IMPORTANT : Billing Problem
Reply-To: no_reply@apple.com
Return-Path:
Received: from smtpin132.mac.com ([10.150.68.132]) by ms232.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 64bit)) with ESMTP id <0K3R00JIR3LAB8I0@ms232.mac.com>; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.decitre.fr ([195.28.201.9]) by smtpin132.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0K3R008M63L7OO00@smtpin132.mac.com>; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from User (unknown [92.55.82.185]) by mail.decitre.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0390E1B008CB; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:05:24 +0200 (CEST)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=Windows-1251
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-Msmail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-Id: <20080709180525.0390E1B008CB@mail.decitre.fr>

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