Shiny Fruit on the back of your iPhone?
This video of modded rear-shell of iPhone is pretty convicting, russian modders made Apple Logo at the back of iPhone shine just like on MacBooks. It’s very interestin how this affects battery and is it made with leds or using phone’s own screen backlid. They are saying brightness is controllable in settings. Very nice, but it’s kinda passe considering alot of people are switching over to 3G version of the phone with plastic back.
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Personal Experience with iPhone 2.0 Firmware. Good
It’s been almost a month since I updated my iPhone to 2.0 firmware and jailbroken it. Broken with pwnage tool 2, the breaking process was quite easy, as I figured it out in the end. With default pwnage setting I got Cydia, it’s an Installer competitor. As I figured out Cydia is more user and developer (also hacker) friendly.
My 1.1.4 firmware iPhone was broken with ziPhone, and I have to say to you, after I upgraded to 2.0, my battery life was twice better as it used to be before. Maybe it’s the ziPhone breakage sucks, or apple did so much optimization that OS now consumes less battery, I don’t know, but the end result is still very good, I have the same battery life as it was when I first got my iPhone. Impressive.
Favorite Apps so far:
- Trism - Very nice “puzzle” app, I played the demoon 1.1.4, so i decided to buy the full version now, pretty good game, with 3 different gaming modes it makes the game even better. Best game you can get on the iPhone, and only on iPhone, because it uses touchscreen and accelerometer. There is a luck factor in the game but still, for $4.99 it’s very good game, I would even pay twice as that for it!
- Cube Runner - A free game, navigate your “ship” through randomly placed cubes and labyrinths using accelerometer. Pretty good game, it’s a pity it’s free, but I’m sure developer must be putting an effort in the paid version. As it is free, the graphics are lousy and there are only 3 levels, but you can make your own if you know how to program them.
- GTS World Racing - Car racing game, pretty classic ones, good, not great graphics. I really like the control, you steer, accelerate and break by tilting the phone. 4 play modes, I’m still completing the Challenge Cup, since you can only play this game while sitting still, I like to play games while I’m in the process of lying on the bed. So, for $7.99, quite a time killer, but price should be a little lower in my opition, I still don’t regret.
- Light - a free light app that makes your screen completely white + maximum brightness. There are so many apps like that in App Store, I prefer this one because it’s free and is controllable through Setting, not itself. I don’t need this control but it’s better when you screen is solid white :)
- Remote - a remote controller of iTunes application on your Mac or PC with your iphone, very good, I bet you already heard of it. Free, published by Apple.
- Eventful - keep informed about events in your area, demand artists to your town, see your what events your friend are going to visit and more. It’s actually a client app for website www.eventful.com, I like it. There is also an alternative app by Yellow Pages, YPMobile app, Events tab. Eventful is Free.
- midomi - Song recognition application, works pretty well for me, now I’m out of songs I know that don’t have a name for me. Free
I’m looking forward to buy MobileFinder, Super Monkey Ball, BeatMaker and some more racing games, maybe also a puzzle game.
What I have to add is that App Store is a big success for Apple, bringing applications right to the user. Apple recently confirmed App Store brought them $30 million and 60 million apps downloaded. Knowing Apple gets 30% of an Application price, it’s $100 million paid for 60 million apps, as long as most apps are free, and other are more than $1,7 I’m not afraid to tell that free apps are most commenly used (who woulda thought? :)
Apple iPhone 3G Finally Here, Reviewed.
Guys at Gizmodo already reviewed new wonder-phone the iPhone 3G. Well, what can i say, there is an interesting 3G vs EDGE comparison graph. The tests say 3G is 4.8 times faster, but at the end, we all now the only that matters is how fast we will be able to open google.com and search results there. So on website lovelyplanet.com 3G hit 2.6 times faster, and nationalgeographic.com only 1.9 times faster, well, better anyways.
The new casing. Well, my opinion, while it looks and “feels” better than the previous aluminum one, you have to admin it, it is also cheaper, and gets warmer faster and keeps the warmth longer. What’s the deal you’ll say? The thing is that warm is the worst thing to the battery, thats why you shall never leave your phone or other battery-powered gadgets on the sun or in hot places.
Good part everybody already know, the headphone jack is not recessed. Camera is the same.
iPhone 3G Ad Kicks All ‘em Wannabees In The Nuts
It’s finally here: the first phone to beat the iPhone.
And yes, it’s iPhone 3G who beats the iPhone. Prices are $199-299, for 8GB and 16GB Models. These photos turned out to be real, 16GB version goes in 2 colors! And those are totally fake, iPhone 3G doesn’t get a front camera for videocalls, what a pity!
3G iPhone Will Have $200-250 Price Tag?
Well tomorrow, we will have a strong picture of what 3G iPhone look like and how much will it cost, but until then, some people try to fake the new device. And some try to figure out how AAPL stocks will behave in different situations, to make some sort of a money. Last year, stocks were climbing up just before the announce, but it was just rumored, but pretty obvious. Then, on the MacWorld this year, some geniuses thought iPhone 3G will be annouced, but it didn’t and stocks felt down very fast. Now stocks of Apple are at the peak, and only hours left for big stock holders to figure out what to do, keep them, or sell them and buy out when they will fall *if they will*. Financial Times posted this recently:
The new version of the Apple iPhone is set to be sold at significantly lower prices than the existing one, in a tacit acknowledgement by the US technology company that its previous sales strategy was not sustainable. Apple has bowed to pressure from mobile phone operators and agreed they can subsidise the latest iPhone, expected to be unveiled by Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on Monday.
Nominal price of the phone is much bigger, but it will be covered up with AT&T plan prices, and this way AT&T take care of expenses to sell this phone cheaper, to make people buy it. Financial Times
P.S.: Idea is floating in my head that low iPhone prices will probably kill iPod Touch? That’s why they are giving it away with iMac to students :)
3G iPhone in Red color kinda sorta confirmed, will be thicker but thinner.
Leaked pictures, show the thing that we supposed earlier, iPhone is going to be in black and red colors. Those may be not real pics! Rumors been going around it’s going to thicker, and thinner. What I have to say, it turned out to be thicker, but the feel will be thinner, because of thinner edges, just like Motorola RAZR had, the phone itself wasn’t so thin, but it felt like it because it was trimmed with metal and thin edges. 3G iPhone has videocall camera, what a wonder. You will now be able to iChat not only with other iPhone users, but also with Windows Mobile users, using 3G or Wifi if you are able. Photo credit goes to Crunchgear.
EDIT: How cool, when the next iPhone will be about to be announced, I’ll photoshop new iPhone too, to get some clicks on my blog :)
New Rumors Hit 3G iPhone, 22 percent thinner? No-believe.
New *Most likely fake* 3G iPhone specs leaked (if it can even be called specs), here. It’s only 7 days until it’s announce, and yes, rumors are still floating. The picutres on that site shows iPhone in aluminum cover, which is believed to be plastic for 3G iPhone. It will have GPS as supposed, but most likely will be useful feature for car drivers, becausewho will waste battery life on that? Joke. Anyways, I don’t believe this rumor to be true, while Apple really likes to make all things smaller, and smarrel, and then even smaller. This is not the case, it’s not that easy to get twice as much RAM memory, 3G and GPS chips, and what is most important, keep price tag the same! Do not believe in this. [Picture Gizmodo]
Flashback: Apple’s First Appearance In The Phone Industry
This is Motorola ROKR, first phone to have iTunes synchronization. It was available with Cingular. You can get up to 100 songs on it, pretty cool huh? The interesting part is that it was $249.99 with 2-year contract with Cingular. Let’s do the math, it’s $2.5 a song. Now we can get an iPhone for 25 cents a song (8GB) or 18 cents a song (16GB). And you won’t only get more songs per dollar, you will also get video and ass-kicking user interface on your phone, internet browsing and much more useful and useless stuff. Two Steve Jobs quotes:
We’ve worked closely with Motorola to deliver the world’s best music experience on a mobile phone,
We’re also thrilled to be working with Cingular, the largest wireless carrier in the US, to bring this pioneering phone to market.
I don’t know if this was a mistake for Apple to do so, because Motorola is still successfully doing that ROKR mobile phone line, which is labelled as music phone. Maybe some disagreements caused Apple to do their own mobile phone?
Official specs of Xenium aka X800 aka iPhone by Philips.
Do you remember that iPhone Clone, Xenium by Philips? Well it was in the Rumors category, now it’s offcial. No price yet, neither release date. And again it’s Called iPhone Killer, but not by RIM now, by Philips (when will the kill the iPhone by the way? They never tell…). So let’s look at the specs now:
Display: Type TFT touchscreen supports 256K colors, 240 x 400 pixels, 2.9 inches
Ringtones: Polyphonic (64 channels) or MP3, Vibration
Memory Expansion: MicroSD
Data: GPRS Class 10 (32 - 48 kbps)Connectivity: Bluetooth v2, USB,
Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS
WAP 2.0, XHTML Browser
Appearance: Black Color, Customizable themes.Entertainment: 2 MP Camera with Autofocus and Video, JAVA, Media Player, Office Document Viewer, Organizer, Loudspeaker
Battery: Stand-by Up to 850 h, Talk time Up to 8 h
Now, let me ask the question, how are they gonna kill the iPhone with no EDGE and no 3G? Crazy guys. Well if you are reading this, then most likely you are from US, so let me tell you that what concers mibile phones, Philips is oriented to Asian market, so you won’t have the chance to kill the iPhone :)
New 3G iPhone Photos Discovered, iPhone is getting thicker.
New, almost looking like real 3G iPhone photos are discovered at Chinese iPhone website WeiPhone. The phone meets all the specs that were posted previously. We can clearly see it is getting thicker and wider, and has a 3G Camera to the left. This is not the iPhone itself, most likely these are just bodies. Looks like they are being made of plastic, or painted aluminum, without chrome on the borders. If someone knows Chinese and you can translate what do they say on Chinese website please let me know 
Well this photos only look real, no any confirmation, but the fact that they match 3G iPhone case layouts and photos come from China, where they do assemble iPhones, those may be true. We can just wait for MacWorld this summer.