Apple Refunds $100 To Angry iPhone Customers September 8, 2007
READ MORE Apple , Gizmodo UK , Mobile phones , Smartphones , iPhone
Sony, take note. Steve Jobs has apologised for the big price cut of $200 on its iPhone, just two months after it launched. The original fanboys are understandably upset that they had to fork out top dollar for the device. Still, unlike other corporate apologies, Jobs has said he’ll give them back $100 in credit to help unruffle their feathers. Considering how it's selling like hot cakes, what's $100? In his now common open letters, Jobs wrote:
“I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions. First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to 'go for it' this holiday season.”
So, those customers that got one early from Apple or AT&T will get a $100 store credit at Apple’s retail or online stores. Details are being worked out but information will be posted online soon.-Martin Lynch
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Set Phasers To…..TV? September 8, 2007
READ MORE Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , TV
This year marks the 41st anniversary of Star Trek beaming into our homes for the first time with an episode entitled the ‘The Man Trap’.
The folks at Thinkgeek feel that to truly mark the occasion [seeing as we overlooked the 40th anniversary] we need something else that traps men just as effectively as the aliens disguised as the fairer sex: the TV remote.
Except, in this case, it’s a really cool Type II phaser. It would be nice to think that you could atomise annoying neighbours now and then but I’ll settle for changing the channels with something that boasts lights and sounds.
You get four power settings – each one louder and flashier than the last – a light control knob and a flip-up sight, for when you’re smashed and there seems to be two or more TVs floating in front of you.
Best of all, you can detach the Type I phaser from the stock to reduce your geek factor [a little] but still keep all those Trekkie lights and sounds.
Yours for £15. Bargain. That’s around £5,000 cheaper than Spock’s spacesuit and a whole lot less trouble than the Star Trek home cinema.-Martin Lynch
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