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It seems we have to get up soon to buy the new Apple iPhone. For your information, the new Apple iPhone is “coming soon”.

The first and mostly: The new Apple iPhone 3G will go on market at 8 a.m. next Friday at AT&T retail stores and Apple phone stores. So, do planning on lining up? To be the first one to get it? You’d better be ready well before the sunrise going up. Beside that, AT&T also has finally clarified Apple iPhone pricing for current AT&T subscribers who want the Apple iPhone 3G.

In a nutshell, if you’re -upgrade eligible- (by log into your AT&T account to see if you are), you will be able to buy the new Apple iPhone for the cheap discounted price of $199:8GB version or $299:16GB model. AT&T is somewhat vague about the eligibility criteria, although your credit history plus the time remaining on your contract are the main factors. As additional, you will also have to pay a small fee of $18 as “upgrade fee.”

I’m planning to do the same analysis today, but Gizmodo came along and saved us some work. Exactly: We’ve acknowledged that the Apple iPhone 3G is going to be more costly than the original Apple iPhone over the course of its life, but how if we compare it with other smart-phones on the market?

Jason Chen ran the numbers against the three models that is: HTC Tilt, the HTC Mogul, and the XV6800, all most wanted smart-phones geared toward consumers. The results are all pretty close. Just $220 over two years separates the most expensive smart-phone (XV6800) from the least expensive HTC Mogul, not including the now-discontinued original Apple iPhone.

In-car navigation systems are really becoming a driver’s must have add-ons accessory, so manufacturers are really adding some quite sophisticated hi-tech features to keep people/driver interested. Actually in Japan, for example, the big ‘H’: Honda has developed a crime rate detecting GPS (Global Positioning System) that will search through local police database records to inform drivers in real-time if they ever happen to drive by high crime areas.

Nintendo announced that the wireless balance board accessory for the gaming console Nintendo Wii finally has a North American release date which is May 19. Get ready to workout those abs.

The Nintendo Wii Fit bundle pack (Disember in Japan) will sell for $89.99, it’s not exactly cheap gaming accessories, but at least it’ll bundled with a battery of exercises—including yoga, aerobics, training for strength, and balance—that’ll surely get you off the couch and will make you sweat.

Nowadays, you can see solar powered devices almost everywhere, and Intelligent Form wants to use the power of the sun(solar power) to charge your gizmos/gadgets and tech equipments like notebooks, laptops etc while you’re lounging by the pool.

The SOLo Lounge Table by Intelligent Form looks very minimal at a glance, but it packs silicon solar cells under its glass surface to harness over 17 kilowatts of solar energy every year, which according to the site is equivalent to 6,300 mobile phone charges, 8,400 digital camera charges, or 168 laptop computer charges annually — all without draining any traditional and overextended sources of energy.

In the next Sony Playstation 3 firmware update, it will allow the Sony PlayStation 3 to play upcoming “BD-Live” Blu-ray discs, this will make Sony PlayStation 3 an even greater for Blu-Ray device bargain in the market than it was before or at least until prices for stand-alone players start falling down.

The upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 firmware update ver: 2.20, which is due before the month is out, will let you access the great downloadable function, Net-enabled features and widgets that come with the latest Blu-ray movies recently. The newest Blu-ray specification such as the Net-related features (as known as BD-Live) is only available on a handful of upcoming Blu-ray players.

The iPhone’s functions like exchange support, true push-email, pro-level top security and configuration features - they’re all in store for the iPhone as the ‘big’ Apple tries to position its touch-screen smart handphone as a real competitor to the BlackBerrys, Palm: Palm Treos, and other Windows Mobile gadgets.Apple VP Phil Schiller said that this new features, which will allow business peoples to straightaway sync their exchange email, business contacts, and events, will be in the next iPhone firmware update. (The iPhone updates software will be announced later) But it seems there’s no iPhone’s updates until June.