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Cool news today for the future of notebooks, and for apple fans. Apple has reduced the price of the SSD (Solid State Harddisk) MacBook Air. These beauties used to cost of $3,000 and now they are a touch about $2,500. They reason for the cut is two fold, one was for the Core2Duo upgrade, now costs $100 instead of $200 and the upgrade to an SSD costs $599 instead of $999 for 64Gb version. So now for two and a half grand you can get a MacBook air with 1.8GHz Core2Duo processor and 64GB SSD. We have some MacBook Airs reviewed if you are interested in reading customer feedback.

via AppleInsider

Earlier this week there was an announcement from apple and Vodafone, that they will be brining the iPhone to more countries. The sales of the iPhone in the last year have been phenomenal and with the extension to 10 more countries it is expected that the high sales numbers will increase. Apple has been questions about their approach to delivering the iPhone to a couple of countries first. Part of this will of course create an even bigger hype once it is finally launched, but a source in Apple said that they simply can’t keep production in line with demand. And their goal at the start was to make sure that they can supply the US market first and then take it from there.

Countries with the iPhone

• United States of America
• Great Britain
• France
• Germany
• Austria.

New Countries getting the iPhone via Vodfone

• Australia
• Czech Republic
• Egypt
• Greece
• Italy
• India
• New Zealand
• Portugal
• South Africa
• Turkey

Countries getting the iPhone

• Ireland

This roll out has been longer than expected, and in the past months Apples share price has had a high volatility. Last month Apple’s iTunes surpassed WallMart as the top music seller in the US

David Beckham must be the happiest boy on the England squad seeing as he has just been presented with a new golden apple product. The English team members pitched in to buy him a special present for achieving his 100th cap for his country. David Beckham who is just 32, has already played in his 100th game for England last week against France. Although the game was a friendly, he still came away with a prize in Paris. These pieces of machinery can go for over $20,000. And here is the fine piece of gold

it’s good to see that they splashed out and got him the 32GB version, and for custom engraving We have seen gold shuffles before, but this is the first time we have seen an golden iPhone.

Edit: maybe this is an iPod Touch (Thanks JC)

Here is a quick video of one of the first car games for the apple iPhone. It has been developed by Int13, a French mobile game developer. The game itself looks very much like a watered down version of mario kart, but still it’s very entertaining. Check the video:

iPhone Car Game Features

1. Large enough screen size 320 by 320 pixels playing area
2. Touch sensitive controls, for the steering wheel. Touch free controls also possible, in the future via the tilt monitors on the phone.
3. 3 different vehicle classes (motorcycles, hovercrafts and karts).
4. 6 different characters with different vehicles and skills.
5. Downloadable content (new vehicles, new tracks) available from the retailer.
6. Wifi online multiplayer with match making and up to four simultaneous players at once.

Once Apple release the SDK (software developers kit) for the iPhone I’m sure there will be a rush of games and applications for the iPhone. It will almost be a whole year since they launched the phone, until they could launch the SDK.

A story from BusinessWeek suggests that because the apple iPhone is starting to sell out in some Apple Stores, that it’s possible the new version is soon on the way. If stocks are lowering and they are not being replaced, one reason could be that Apple are not giving their stores iPhones v1 because v2 is soon to be on the way. It is also possible that there maybe be a lack of iPhones being manufactured, due to some manufacturing problems.

So there we have it, are they stopping producing the iPhone v1 in order to build up stocks of the newer version. With up to 20 US Apple Stores sold out of the iPhone, and no known date for a restock it has to be looking this way. Bring on the 3G iPhone !