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‘iPhone 3G’ Stories
Android for iPhone 3G hack released
Ever since we saw Android running on an iPhone 3G we've been itching to try it ourselves, and - somewhat appropriately timed for Google IO this week - hacker David Wang has just released everything you'll need. It's been polished a little since we saw it last, though it's still not ready for everyday use; Wang is yet to implement power management, so a fully-charged iPhone will last just an hour running Android. Ironically it's not like you'll see massive speed in return for that power-guzzling, since it's also apparently "usable" but "won't be fast".
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iPad cannibalizing iPod sales, not Mac reckons analyst
Early analysis of Apple sales figures suggests that, rather than eat into sales of the company's Mac range, the iPad has cannibalized iPod sales. According to Gene Munster, outspoken analyst at Piper Jaffray, Apple's domestic Mac sales were up 39-percent year on year, while iPod sales dropped an estimate-quashing 17-percent for the three month period. Munster reckons this is down to clever positioning and feature-selection on Apple's part, commenting that "Apple has successfully limited the iPad functionality to primarily content consumption, versus content creation on a Mac"
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Visa In2Pay iPhone contactless payment system unveiled
Visa and DeviceFidelity have announced [pdf link] their contactless iPhone payment system, In2Pay, consisting of a special case for the Apple smartphone and a microSD card that contains a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip. The case itself has a microSD slot that's interfaced with the iPhone's dock connector; when paired with the In2Pay Visa app from the App Store, you can tap your iPhone to make payments in participating retailers.
Video demo after the cut
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App Store reject Wi-Fi Sync gets Cydia release
Remember Wi-Fi Sync, the iPhone app that promised to break the USB connection between your handset and iTunes, instead enabling synchronization over wireless? Unfortunately, as semi-expected Apple has rejected developer Greg Hughes' App Store submission, so he's promptly slapped the app into the unofficial Cydia store.
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HTC sue Apple; petition ITC to freeze US iPhone, iPad & iPod imports
The ongoing legal bust-up between Apple and HTC has taken another turn for the litigious today, with HTC suing Apple for alleged patent infringement. They're not just looking for a slap on the wrist and a chunky pay-check, either; HTC have filed a complaint with the ITC requesting that importation and sales of not only the iPhone but the iPod and iPad be halted in the US.
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Apple: smartphone market claims based on “a very limited report”
After research firm NPD reported yesterday that Android had overtaken Apple's iPhone OS and clinched the second place spot in the US smartphone market, the Cupertino company's PR team have come out fighting. According to Apple spokesperson Natalie Harrison, "This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide."
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Android ahead of iPhone OS in Q1 2010 US smartphone market
Analysts NPD are claiming that, by their count, Android has crept past Apple to take the number two spot of most popular smartphone operating systems in the US. Based on figures from Q1 2010, Android-based devices accounted for 28-percent of smartphone unit sales, ahead of Apple's iPhone OS at 21-percent but still lagging behind RIM's BlackBerry OS at 36-percent.
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Apple, iPad & why the stylus isn’t dead
“It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it.” The audience sniggered. There was no small sense that Steve Jobs had carefully prepared that line earlier and had it waiting; that like the repetitious declarations of the iPad as “miraculous” by every person to take the stage at its launch, this snub at Microsoft’s expense had similarly been rehearsed, a barbed nugget guaranteed to set the gathered journalists, bloggers and Mac-faithful a-titter. A stylus is, after all, old-school; a flawed halfway house before the advent of the iPhone and iPad. Jobs’ Apple can’t see a reason for one, and they reckon you should think so too. And yet, as input methods go, the stylus remains one of the most misunderstood.
Nokia sue Apple over iPad 3G
Nokia's ongoing legal spat with Apple has taken a tablet turn for the worse today, with the news that the Finnish company are now setting their lawyers on the iPad WiFi + 3G as well as the iPhone. According to a Nokia press release, the company alleges that Apple have impinged on five "important" patents, relating to "enhanced speech and data transmission, using positioning data in applications and innovations in antenna configurations."
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iPhone 3G Android hack [Video]
After the first-gen iPhone saw its Android hack, it's now the turn of the iPhone 3G to get some Google magic. Arch hacker David Wang and his team of tinkerers have fettled the port for the second-gen Apple smartphone, and while it's described as "slightly more rough" than the last achievement, you can still browse the web over the cellular connection, send/receive SMS messages and pretty much use any app which doesn't require audio support.
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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 brings new media controls, file sharing, more
iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 is out, and there are some reasonably juicy additions that Steve Jobs failed to mention when he took to the stage last month. BGR has been digging around the new release and has turned up not only an updated multitasking system - tweaked for quicker use - but media playback controls, file sharing with iTunes and an orientation lock.
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