Today Adobe and ARM announced their plan to bring Flash and AIR to ARM 11 family in the second half of 2009. Why is it interesting? Coz iPhone is also using ARM 11 family, and Steve Jobs said Flash is no good for iPhone so to speak.
We’ll be seeing an very interesting future on mobile platform particularly iPhone. Could Flash 10 make it to iPhone v3.0? If so, will Uncle Steve enable the technology for the new iPhone? If Uncle Steve did enable Flash, will there be raging iPhone 1.0 & 2.0 users suing non-sense?!
You can customize interface font on your Nokia N73 & N95 if and only if you are on Vodafone in UK. Monotype is providing FlipFont application to mobile users with a selection of 10 nice scalable fonts to customize the user interface. No, it’s NOT free. A signle font starts at GBP 1.99 though.
There’s a bogus software MacGuard claiming to be spyware, adware remover but it actually will hijack your Mac. It’s a clone of the Windoze app WiniGuard.
So beware. Don’t install it. Tell your friends don’t fall for it.
Read more about it here.
This security bug is uncovered by a 12-year old kid of Karl Karft. It’s related to emergency call again. You can read all the details here.
This week, Apple have updated their online store for Hong Kong with iPhone 3G which isn’t availble before from Apple Store directly. 8GB iPhone at HK$5400 and 16GB iPhone at HK$6200.
What’s the best thing about this is the iPhone 3G is unlocked!!! It doesn’t bind you to any mobile operator!! Woohooooo!!!! Yes, it’s about time!!!
Update: HK$5400 and HK$6200 translate to US$675 and US$775 respectively. So iPhone doesn’t start at US$199 at all. Plus the 3G data plan will only satisfy you and make you happy unless you choose the most expensive “unlimited” access plan.
Such plan will cost roughly HK$500 per month from all mobile operators in Hong Kong. That’s US$62.5 per month and also requires at least 1 year of service committment if not 2 years.
All in all, the total cost of ownership for a entry “happy” iPhone 3G user will be
HK$5400 + HK$500 * 12 = HK$11400
And for the so-called “unlimited” access may not be truely unlimited as in common sense of any broadband users. There are terms like the mobile operator can cut you account or something like if your data transfer amount is huge. That’s such a lie for so much so “unlimited” access.
Although Apple has released the promised 2.1 firmware update to iPhone to address issues like dropping calls, there are a bunch of applications may not work properly after applying the update. Here’s the complied list of possible conflicting applications. Hope the list won’t get too long or Apple has to come out to comfort the public again.
The iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 devices including iPhone & iPod Touch. You can now jailbreak your iPhone as well as iPod Touch to release the power of the device under the hood.
Just for a few days after release of the new iPod Touch 2.1 firmware, Jailbreak is updated to good care of it.
Here’s the link to the iPod Touch 2.1 Jailbreak GUI. Enjoy!
According to this Wired article “iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do“, iPhone & iPod Touch will take a screen shot whenever you press the “Home” button and these images can be recovered later on
Engadget has post the unboxed photo of the fourth generation iPod Nano!
Or if you like they have photo of the iPod Nano in its package.
