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Apple iPhone 3GS

dewei — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:22:53 +0000

The new iPhone 3GS announced at WWDC 2009.

Credits: Apple.com

iPhone 4G – Me Want

dewei — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:46:27 +0000

Source: Gizmodo

Journey to 2.1

dewei — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:33:26 +0000

Pwn iPhone with Quickpwn 2.1 (Windows). [Guide]
After getting into DFU mode, everything is pretty much automated from here on.

Custom firmware is being downloaded.

Pwnage tool executing its magic

Bootneuter unlocking the phone.

iPhone 2.1 goodness!

iPhone and its Singapore Link

dewei — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:12:30 +0000

I was reading an article about how today’s china is reprising her role of copying branded luxury consumer products – Copying the latest in technology, from cars to mobile phones (iPhones).

Some where in the article, it was mentioned that the all-important touch screen on the iPhone was actually a Chinese technology. And so I did some further investigations and came up with some more interesting facts!

What made iPhone so awesome is primarily due to its multi-touch interface. And the hardware that made that possible, among is many other components was the touch sensitive screen. Apple had contracted a German company called Balda AG, which is famous for making wireless-phone components for companies such as Nokia, to make the touch screens for the iPhone. Balda did not have the technology to make touch sensitive screens until it acquired a Chinese company called TPK Holding. It was TPK Holding which had developed the innovative glass-surfaced touch screen.

So where’s the Singapore link? Well…As of July 14, 2006, TPK Holdings Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Balda Investments Singapore Pte Ltd.

There you have it!

Back to the topic of China cloning technologies, I’m not all against them copying. All technologically developed nations like USA, Japan, South Korea copied from some where at some point in time. It’s part of the “learning” process.

In fact i think China has the capabilities to come out with inventions that would change the world. Case in point: The Chinese invented the wheel, paper and gun powder. Just imagine the world without the above 3 items.

Sources: China’s iClone, Apple’s Magic Touch Screen, Apple in touch with China

Tags: iPhone, China, touch-screen

Watch your videos anywhere

dewei — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:34:57 +0000

One of the many cool things you can do with the iPhone:

Record your favourite TV shows using EyeTV, and watch them anywhere as long as you have internet connection!

Tags: iPhone, EyeTV, Wireless Streaming

So Close, Yet So Far

dewei — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:42:06 +0000

[See post to watch Flash video]

Today I was about 5 feet away from the iPhone. 5 feet! But I didn’t had the chance to touch it. It belonged to one of the managers at my workplace.

And so I could only admire it from 5 feet away. It’s a real beauty. Thinner than I imagined it would be. Sexier than I imagined it would be..

I WANT ONE!!!

iPhone needs iLife

dewei — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:52:55 +0000

Snapped this piece from July 16th issue of Newsweek magazine.

Tags: Apple, iPhone

iPhone wannabes

dewei — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:59:03 +0000

This is another testament to Apple‘s unparalleled ability of coming up with innovative products. So much so that other (major) companies see it a threat that they have to come with something to match it, or use it as their “design” mold for their “new” products.

Since the announcement of the iPhone, there had been numerous attempts by many manufacturers of mobile communication devices to come out with phones that have functionalities that mimic that of the iPhone.

Below is a list of 3 of them:

LG Prada – This is one of the better of the lot. Credits for the stylish design. The interface is kinda intuitive but somewhat unresponsive.

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HTC Touch – Basically a Windows Mobile 6 device with a souped up theme. They even tried to copy some of the transitions of Mac OS X – with very little success of course. Navigation is well, what you would expect of a Windows based machine.

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Worst of the lot – Total rip-off. Similar to HTC Touch, it runs on Windows Mobile 6; with an iPhone theme. They have 1 Billion + people, can’t they think of something good?! Heck they even copied the logo.

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iPhone Ringtones

dewei — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:20:32 +0000

I love the iPhone, and these ring tones just made me love it a lot more!

Original(MacWorld 2007) iPhone ringtone – This is the one debuted by Steve Jobs.

Remixed iPhone ringtone by Chris Baker – I like this the most! It’s my default ring tone now.

Classical/Musical iPhone ringtone by Craig Reynolds – Stressed? Tune to this one and relax…

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Ringtone

The killer App is not Voice nor Music

dewei — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:44:34 +0000

In an open letter to Apple Inc., Tomi T Ahonen highlighted that the killer app on the iPhone, voice calls, that Steve Jobs have been touting at Macworld 2007, is not really the killer app. Instead, SMS-text messaging is.

Here’s an excerpt:

There is only one killer application in current (2.5G/3G) mobile phones. It is not voice calls. It is not music. It is not the camera function. The only killer app is SMS text messaging. Ever since Nokia first released its global messaging survey in 2001, to operator studies from the UK and France in 2002, to customer surveys in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia in 2003, onto South Korea and Japan; to the university study of phone addiction by the Catholic University of Leuwen in Belgium; and even now proven by the first American survey of SMS usage by ComScore Media Metrix – every scientific survey on the topic verifies that SMS text messaging is addictive. And that heavy users of SMS prefer text messaging to voice calls. Already more than half of British total population prefer communicating via SMS than voice on their mobile phones.

According to him, the fact that iPhone has no physical keypad, would actually put many people off. I sort of agree with him. Read the article and decide for yourselves, quite an insightful read.

Read Full Article

Tags: Apple, iPhone

iPhone Hands-on Videos

dewei — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:08 +0000

Back to the sexy, juicy, lickable, kissable, uber-cool, i-badly-want-one iPhone.

John Blackstone of CBS news with Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing.
(if nothing appears, it’s Youtube’s fault)

Rex Crumb from MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal with Apple’s Vice President of iPod marketing, Greg Joswiak.

Tags: Apple, iPhone

Apple iPhone Racks in $6.1 Billion

dewei — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:11:06 +0000

Although the iPhone still in the prototype stages, awaiting approval from the US FCC, Apple Inc. has already made US$6.1 Billion from it – Through the stock market, that is.

Meanwhile, Blackberry-maker Research in Motion losing nearly 8% on the NASDAQ and 7.7% on the Toronto exchange. Palm suffered nearly as badly, with Nokia and Motorola posting much smaller declines. For the homes of the Treo and the Pearl, “Black Tuesday” represented a total loss of market value approaching $2.2 billion dollars.

Source: Engadget | TUAW

Apple iPhone

dewei — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:07:01 +0000

Sweet, glorious specs:

115 x 61 x 11.6mm, weighs 135 grams
a 3.5-inch, 320 x 480-pixels wide touchscreen display at 160 PPI (pixel per inch) with multi-touch support
3 advance sensors
- proximity sensor to turn off the sensor when it’s close to your face
- acceleromoter
- Ambient light sensor
2 megapixel cam
4GB or 8 GB of storage
GSM Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900), EDGE
Bluetooth with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range
runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the gate.
Support IMAP and POP
Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode — no word on standby time yet.
The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

More photos from Engadget!

Apple iPhone Product Page

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Macworld 2007