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.
Sprint is throwing away $100 million dollars.
You can watch their commercials at gizmodo.com, Spring made couple of ads that showcase it’s domination over iPhone. It’s based on it’s internet speed and map localization. Which means their Samsung phone has 3G and GPS in it. They are throwing away $100 million dollars on this compaign, which will be pointless in the matter of weeks, when Apple will introduce new iPhone with 3G, and most likely with GPRS. I really don’t think that this is a good idea for sprint to throw money away like that, they could make a cheaper plans instead of that, or keep this money :)
New Fake 3G iPhone look Fresh From the France
This is it, I totally don’t believe in it, so does gizmodo, but hey, isn’t it nice to think that new 3G iPhone is going to look alot better than some guys want it to be. I think it’s time for Apple to announce that damn 3G iPhone, so those rumors were stopped. This one looks like Chinese fake tPhone with rubber coverage. Apple has a habit of doing everything shiny, well I wish new iPhone will look just exactly like the old one, so I won’t be bothered to change my current ;)
And if you think the front of this fake rumor looks more that awful, try back:
And thanks for iphon.fr for showing us their endless imagination skills.
New iPhone SDK Beta - Yes to Backgrond Processes?
The most dissappointing thing in SDK was that Apple limited software to run as a background process, which means, you won’t be able to have programs such as Instant Messagers, or maybe apps for themes and many more possabilities. Here is the quote of an developer who has reviewed latest SDK Beta 4:
There are definitely some very interesting methods added to UIApplication’s delegate, including methods for badging the Springboard icon, and methods related to gaining and resigning “active” status - seems like background apps may be permitted somehow.
No Firefox for iPhone, disappointed in Steve.
So you own an iPhone, and you heard of 2.0 firmware that will bring you applications you want to your phone. And if you chose your phone to be Apple, it must be because of the “Internet in your pocket” statement, made by Steve Jobs. But now, whole Mozilla crew is pissed off on Steven for his iTunes automatic updates have Safari 3.1 in it, you are now having “Safari 3.1 in your pocket”, which consumes twice more Memory than Firefox. Full Story on webware.
Apple iPhone 3G design rumor
So here is the rumored 3G iPhone back.
Well, as long as most rumors concerning Apple iPhone are made just to get some attention, I have decided to write my own opinion about this one.
I’ve tried to come up with something that will approve this design, but found nothing that would make Apple do the 3G iPhone like the picture above.
First of all, this one looks like it’s made of plastic. -1, lately Apple does every product made of aluminum, it’s even rumored that they are going to do their MacBook with aluminum cover just like their MacBook Pro and Air. And also Apple does all things shiny, but they could serve a variety for some spoiled UK and French people who would want to stand out of American crowd.
With a little effort yo could do this yourself, not even with a Photoshop, there are commercially available black skins for iPhone.
One more last detail - writing at the back, it’s very blurry and it’s out of format. Take a look at iPhone’s original back, and the first iPhone ever introduced’s back, They look no way like the one on this *most likely fake* 3G iPhone back.
And, last but not least, quality looks extremely crappy, if you had a MacBook and exclusively 3G iPhone, I guess you would certainly found a good camera to get some good flicks, and not only one with bad quality. But you would certainly did the bad quality if this was an attempt to get some visitors on your blog about mobile phones :)