iPhone vs Others

Source:  iPhone vs Others: The Mobile OS Market

Source: Apple drives USD 6 Billion App Download Market for This Year

Revenues from mobile app sales, however, are expected to decline by 2012, as competition has led to downward pressure on application prices; and a greater proportion of ‘must-have’ applications will begin to have free or advertising-supported substitutes. In addition, notes ABI, many handset makers such as Nokia, and Motorola with its Android handsets, have started to bundle applications that allow users to connect to popular social networks, instant messaging, and GPS services. 

 “As competition heats up, app makers are both dropping prices and ‘going free’ to stay on top of the download charts,” commented the research company’s VP of forecasting, Jake Saunders.

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Windows 7 Slate vs iPad

The Slate's outperform iPad's Safari in terms of browsing experience.
But, I hate the Slate's virtual keyboard!

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Malaysian Mobile Broadband Market Share Q1'10

Celcom has introduced a new Data Package.

It was reported, as of the first quarter 2010, Celcom had 52.7% share of the wireless broadband market, followed by Maxis with 25.5%, Packet One Networks (P1) with 13.7% and DiGi with 6.4%, while the rest altogether had 1.7%.

Question is: Is that based on 3G simcards or 3G data plan subscribed? :-)

How Malaysian telcos compares with other telcos around the world in Data ARPU?
Softbank which launched its iPhone has now more than 55% of its ARPU came from data traffic. Thanks to its expansion of mobile content and iPhone offerings.

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How To: Unlock iPhone 4

Finally! Dev Team released the Unlock Solution!


Dev Team is happy to tell you that their ultrasn0w carrier unlock now supports the iPhone4!
Version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w works for:

• iPhone4 baseband 01.59
• 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04

Step 1 - Jailbreak your iPhone 4 using JailbreakMe 2.0 star. (You can refer our guide on How to Jailbreak iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G iOS 4 / 4.0.1 and iPad 3.2.1 with JailbreakMe 2.0 star)
Step-2 - Start ‘Cydia’ on your jailbroken iPhone 4 iOS 4.0.1 springboard.
Step 3 - Select ‘Manage’ tab at the bottom of your iPhone screen and then select ‘Sources’.
Step 4 - Select ‘Edit’ and then select ‘Add’. Now enter a URL source. Type ‘repo666.ultrasn0w.com‘ and select on ‘Add Source’. Once Cydia has added the source click on ‘Return to Cydia’ button.
Step 5 - Once the installation is completed. Search for ‘ultrasn0w 1.0-1′ in Cydia and install it.
Step 6 - This app will automatically unlock your jailbroken iPhone 4 baseband 01.59.00 easily.
Step 7 - Reboot it.

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How To: Identify iOS 4 Compatible Cydia Apps

Most of you have tried to install Cydia apps and that you already knew, that some of the Cydia apps works with iPhone 4 and some may be not, if not, it may crash your device and lead to problems. So here's the official list of compatible Cydia apps from the iPhone Dev Team.

This list (found here) is helpful and useful for everyone owns an iPhone 4 or got iOS 4 on it's device,

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Banned iPhone 4 Promo

Even though Apple's iPhone 4 clearly had bad publicity regarding its Antenna's problems, but still the whole world is lacking of iPhone 4 stocks. Even when the 2nd wave which was recently launched in July 30 in another 18 countries, the fans are still searching high and low for the stock. The only source for now is either to buy from the black-market with exorbitant price or buy via its online Apple Store which will take another 3 weeks plus 3 business delivery days.

In the meantime, enjoy the following "Banned" Apple iPhone 4 Promo..

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How To: Jailbreak iOS 4 and others

At last, Comex the main man behind the iPad Jailbreak scene has just released the Jailbreak for all iPhone devices out there. 


The anticipated iPhone 4 jailbreak has been released as JailbreakMe 2.0. The wait is finally over and iPhone 4 can be jailbroken on iOS 4.0 or iOS 4.0.1. JailbreakMe is actually all in one solution for iPhone 4 3G 3GS and iPod Touch 3G 2G along with iPad. Any iPhone on 4.0 or 4.0.1 iOS (actually works on firmware 3.1.2 and 3.1.3) can be jailbroken using JailbreakMe 2.0. Any iPod Touch 4.0 can be jailbroken untethered irrespective of MC Models while iPad 3.2.1 jailbreak is also possible.

Restore your iPhone 4 to iOS 4 and simply visit Jailbreakme.com it should directly jailbreak your device from your device :

Dev Team commented: There are currently some issues involving MMS and Facetime being disabled, and those are being worked on.  

For those needing a carrier unlock, use the existing ultrasn0w in Cydia on your iPhone3G or iPhone3GS.  After a short testing period, we’ll push out the iPhone4 version.

Step 1

GO to JailbreakMe.com

Step 2 Slide to Jailbreak

simply slide the “Slide to Unlock” style slider to jailbreak the device

You might see this message

Thats when the old famous saying comes in ” If at first you don’t succeed , Try again  “

Step 3

On trying a couple of time you should get a screen similar to this

Patience is the Key here

Step 4

Once done Cydia should be on your Home Screen . Enjoy !

IT WORKS THE SAME WAY ON ALL IPHONE DEVICES TILL NOW !


Now - I am ready to get my "4"...!!

If any of you guys faced some problems, see below:-

Q: Will there be a Windows or Mac Download
A: No. It is completely userland. It is all done from the iDevice through Safari

Q: I am stuck at a purple screen. Why isn't it working?
A: The server is backed up. Wait a minute and try again. Or get some sleep and try tomorrow.

Q: Where did my MMS and FaceTime go?
A: Restore from backup in itunes should fix it. Permissions issue that has been corrected for new downloaders.

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