[+/-] : iPhone3GUnlock:Apple iPhone 2.1 firmware update now available

Apple has posted the new 2.1 firmware update for 2G and 3G iPhones.Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised that the new iPhone firmware will fix some of the device's most egregious issues, including call drops and truncated battery life. The 2.1 firmware will also improve the accuracy of the 3G signal display. Users should notice performance enhancements as well, from better responsiveness in the text messaging application and contacts to a significantly shorter time to backup the device when syncing with iTunes.

Here’s the lowdown on some of what the 2.1 firmware fixes, according to Apple:

• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Significantly better battery life for most users
• Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• Faster installation of 3rd party applications
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
• Improved performance in text messaging
• Faster loading and searching of contacts
• Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
• Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
• Genius playlist creation

Another interesting additional is the nod towards better security with the option to erase the iPhone’s data after ten failed attempts to enter the passcode. Apple has also closed the security loophole that allowed the iPhone Favorites to be accessed by bypassing the passcode.



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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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[+/-] : iPhone3GUnlock:dTunes is an alternative to iTunes and it free

dTunes, a new app by Richard Shearman, lets you grab all the free music you'd like, downloaded straight to your iPhone using some magic to combine SeeQPod's streaming .mp3 service and Jonathan Misurda's useful Safari Download Plugin.

Download dTunes (available via Cydia now on the MMi repo), and once installed, tap the magnifying glass or the Search Seeqpod button. dTunes will bring up a window with Seeqpod in it - simply search for the music you'd like, and when found, tap the song.

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dTunes will bring up a download screen, and pull the .mp3 from Seeqpod's source to your iPhone. Then head back to the main screen of dTunes, and simply tap the song you'd like to hear to play it! dTunes includes a media player directly in it, so you don't have to switch applications, etc - its an all in one solution.

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[+/-] : iPhone3GUnlock:Mockup of new iTunes 8.0 interface published

With the iTunes 8.0 reports receiving support over the weekend, digg.com's Kevin Rose has gone on to publish an interface mockup of the new media cataloging software now expected for release this week.



From the interface, the old version iTunes left bar rename Smart playlists to Genius Playlists.Genius Playlistsfeature would be able to generate a playlist based on the qualities of a selected song, giving a Pandora-like experience with your own music library. This, however, remains unconfirmed and is published for interest only .While a new Genius sidebar on the right-hand side of the application will recommend music from the iTunes Store that a user doesn't already own.

iTunes 8 aslo provide 3 view mode ,though instead of List, List with Artwork, and Cover Flow, version 8.0 will offer List, Grid, and Cover Flow. Grid view will display album covers in an aligned matrix and offer playback controls via mouse-over.
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[+/-] : iPhone 3G Unlock:Apple iPhone 2.0 Appstore Mote-M 1.1 Cracked

Mote Massacre is a variation of Tower Defense(similiar with warcraft tower defence) for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Players place offensive towers onto a field to prevent incoming units (called motes) from reaching the other side of the field. Three different classes of towers may be strategically placed and upgraded. Only a limited number of motes may cross the field.

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