[+/-] : Tencent Releases QQ Version For iPhone

Tencent (0700.HK) released a WiFi version of its instant messaging (IM) tool QQ for Apple's (Nasdaq: APPL) iPhone and began offering free downloads of the version in the Apple iTunes Store on Monday, reports CnBeta. QQ formerly only supported GSM, and users must download iTunes before installing the QQ software, said the report.


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[+/-] : iphone 3g unlock:Flash coming to the iPhone???

Adobe’s senior director of engineering told attendees at the company’s Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, England on Tuesday that Adobe is working on a version of the Flash Player for the iPhone.

Aside from the seemingly perpetual lack of copy/paste, MMS, and video recording on Apple’s iPhone, support for Flash content is another important and yet missing feature.

Mobile Safari may be the most advanced mobile web browser ever created to date, but its lack of support for Flash, even if the built-in YouTube player makes up for it a bit, somehow drags it down.





Adobe has been committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone for some time. But since Apple has the ultimate say on whether or not to allow the Flash Player on the iPhone, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs told shareholders earlier this year that he didn't think the current player is good enough for the iPhone, the situation is still up in the air. But Betlem added that once Apple gives its approval, Adobe will have the player ready in a very short time.

Flash support is one of the major features still missing from the iPhone. Without it, users are unable to completely recreate the desktop Web experience on an iPhone.


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[+/-] : iphone 3g unlock:Apple's iPhone Non Disclosure Agreement

Apple has lifted strict rules governing its iPhone NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) policy yesterday relenting on its traditionally tight code of silence surrounding product development. If you are a software developer and publisher for the iPhone, you will now be allowed to discuss the process of creating the programs for the handset. This means that a number of people will now be able to launch their books describing how the process works

Via:PCworld

Apple explained its decision stating: "The NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone's success."

The NDA made life difficult for iPhone conference planners, who had to limit topics of discussion, and publishers, who had to delay their iPhone books. Some developers paid each other a dollar so they could say they were subcontractors and therefore permitted to discuss iPhone software.

With Google's launch of its Android powered mobile phone, T-Mobile's G1, Apple may have to try harder to keep iPhone developers happy or risk seeing them switch allegiance to the Google Android platform development community. Google offers through Android an open-source mobile operating system and allows developers to freely develop, distribute and collaborate on applications they code.

Thousands of programmers were affected by this policy.They were not able to talk to the press, or write in trade journals. Not even among themselves - and this was a major barrier for them to progress faster and share programming techniques or collaborate with other developers.

Apple had maintained the NDA was in place to help maintain Apple's competitive edge by keeping mobile rivals in the dark about application development and Apple's iPhone app approval process.


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[+/-] : iphone 3g unlock:T-Mobile G1(Gphone) will launch next month

T-mobile has finally launched its foray into the smartphone market-Gphone or G1 or T-mobile G1.Gphone will officially hit the market next month 22th.

Starting at a subsidized $180 through T-Mobile (with a two-year contract), the new device is certainly priced competitively relative to Apple's iPhone 3G.






The Gphone strongest selling point will be its retractable keyboard.A nifty keyboard isn't enough to slay Apple, though. If anything, it positions the Gphone against the texting-friendly BlackBerry from Research In Motion.

Google apparently has a winner with its Android operating system. Taking a page out of the Apple playbook, the phone even has access to a Google-fied App Store. That's certainly nice, but program developers will want to see whether the public takes to the new phones before committing resources to it.

That point may become moot as other phones launch around the Android platform. The Gphone may -- or may not -- sell briskly next month, but Google's in this for far more than just this one handset. That's important, because cell-phone owners can be fickle.

The market is changing so quickly that even those two-year contracts may seem like prison sentences compared to the cool smartphones we'll be buying come 2010.


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[+/-] : iphone 3G unlock: iPhone boost to 32GB and home activation?

The primary reason appeared to be the new phone's much lower price, which required tying the new purchase to an in-store contract activation.

However, the in-store contract process not only takes time, but also doesn't work for foreign buyers who want to purchase an iPhone in the US for use overseas. Apple have hinted that possibility for selling the iPhone 3G without a contract in the US; it's already sold unlocked at full price in other countries that demand this option by law.

The latest whispers on the Apple iPhone 3G to hit the net waves is that Apple is about to boost the top end iPhone 3G’s capacity up to a nice 32GB.

With 8GB supplies running low,32GB might just be on the horizon.The timing for this seems just a tad odd on the heels of the Apple Let’s Rock iPod refresh, however when you take into consideration how Apple was forced to boost the iPhone Nano up to 16GB along with dropping the 4GB limited edition, it could well make sense.

There are also whispers that Apple customers can gain look forward to the activate-in-home option, but we’ll just have to wait for any confirmation on these whispers.





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[+/-] : iphone 3G unlock:Apple recalls tiny iPhone 3G adapters

Apple recalled all power adapters it packaged with iPhone 3G phones sold since mid-July in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Panama and Peru.

Apple said it will exchange the ultra-compact USB adapters for a redesigned model, without charge, in retail stores and online starting Oct. 10.


Apple told users to immediately stop using the small adaptors, which are about the size of the plug end of an extension cord.

In lieu of the adapters, and until replacements are received, users should charge their iPhone 3G phones by connecting them to their Mac or PC with the USB cable that came with their iPhone,

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[+/-] : iphone 3G unlock:Hidden mystery matrix code in iPhone 3G

fsjk85-the Australian Whirlpool forums was playing around with his camcorder's Night Shot function when he found something interesting -- a hidden data matrix code on the left side of the iPhone 3G. Guessing that's where Apple imprints the serial and IMEI numbers of each handset since it can't exactly hide them under a removable battery , but will leave it to the rest of you to decode this sneaky tag and solve the mystery once and for all.




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[+/-] : iPhone3GUnlock:Chinese Chinese consumers are not waiting Apple launch the iPhone

There is a huge appetite for mobile phones in a country which reportedly boasts over 600 million mobile subscribers. China is widely regarded the world’s biggest market for counterfeit and unlocked iPhones.

China Mobile plans to build its 3G infrastructure on the homegrown TD-SCDMA standard, which is incompatible with iPhone’s 3G WCDMA standard. In the meantime, smuggled and unlocked iPhones have been selling fast in China. AFP reported that at least half a million iPhones or “nearly a tenth of the phone’s global shipments of 5.2 million from June 2007 through March 2008″ were sold in China. On the other hand, as many as 40 percent of all counterfeited and unlocked iPhones are located in China. Possibly by now, over one million iPhones are already in use in China, but more conservative figures place that number to 800,000.



China Mobile and Apple have already been negotiating for a year now. “Steve Jobs and I hope the iPhone will enter China as soon as possible,” said Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile’s CEO, on the sidelines of the ITU Telecom Asia 2008 exhibition in Bangkok Tuesday. “We are discussing this issue but we do not have an agreement.”

Even when Apple does officially start selling the iPhone in China, the black market alternative might be more attractive.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked Apple to de-activate the wireless Internet function on all handsets it sells in China, BDA said.

The longer the delays, the more the black market eats away at the high-end customers Apple needs.

Apple also has to fend off Chinese iPhone clones, such as Meizu Technology Co's M8 MiniOne device. The Guangdong-based company exhibited the 200 dollar iPhone look-alike at Germany's CeBit fair in Hanover -- until it was confiscated.

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