iPhone being released in South Korea
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The iPhone is coming to South Korea this coming week. Local carrier KT Corp. began accepting iPhone orders online and in stores Sunday with the service going live on 28 November.
The announcement ends a long wait in South Korea for Apple’s iPhone with the South Korean market dominated by domestic manufacturers Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. Speculation has focused on how South Korean consumers, known for favoring the local makers, will react to the iPhone’s introduction.
Steve Park, Apple’s spokesman in Seoul, confirmed KT’s announcement, but declined further comment and would offer no sales projections.
The iPhone made its formal debut in China late last month via local partner China Unicom Ltd. It went on sale in Japan last year and is also available in India and Australia, as well as other countries in the region.
Worldwide the iPhone is available in 86 countries and territories and will be soon in four more, according to Apple’s Web site. Despite KT’s announcement, the site still did not mention South Korea.
“We are thrilled to bring iPhone to South Korea,” Kim Woo-sik, CEO of KT’s personal customer group, said in a press release. “Our customers will enjoy the power and benefits of using the revolutionary iPhone on KT’s 3G network.”
The iPhone’s introduction was delayed by regulatory hurdles, the last of which was overcome on Wednesday when the Korea Communications Commission approved the granting of a business license to Apple to offer location based services including functions such as maps and direction finders that are included on the iPhone3GS. South Korean law requires companies that provide such applications to obtain government permission.
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iPhone developer has had enough over Apple app approvals
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Apple’s App Store boasts over 100,000 apps and more than 2 billion downloads. Despite this not all of its developers are as happy and one well-respected developer decided to call it quits.
Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis has citing his frustration with the App Store approval process as to why he has quit development of iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone3GS apps. According to his company blog he is throwing in the towel on iPhone app development after experiencing a three-and-a-half month app approval period.
His growing irritation with the App Store centres on an update he wanted to release for his Airfoil Speakers Touch iPhone app. The app allows users to receive audio from any Mac or Windows-based PC and the update fixed some issues with audio sync.
Despite this Apple rejected the update because it used images of Apple products in the app. The way Airfoil Speakers Touch works is that it shows you graphically what machine and application your audio is coming from on the host computer. If you are connected to an iMac running Safari, that’s what will show up in the iPhone app.
This isn’t something that Kafasis hacked together–this functionality is freely available as part of Mac OS X for developers to use. In fact, Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0 was still in the App Store, approved by Apple, with these images.
“The only thing Apple’s process was doing was preventing a needed bug-fix from reaching the hands of our mutual customers,” said Kafasis.
In order to get the fixes to customers, Kafasis took out all of the offending images and replaced them with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) logo. If you tap on the logo, you will be taken to a page explaining why the images have been removed.
Kafasis is asking users to consider donating to the EFF. While the organization isn’t involved with his decision to place its logo in his app, “if Apple is to change, it may take such an organization to make it happen,” he said.
As a developer, Kafasis also wants users to know the frustrations they have to go through to put out software. “We wanted to ship a simple bug fix, and it took almost four months of slow replies, delays and dithering by Apple,” said Kafasis. “All the while, our buggy, and supposedly infringing version, was still available. There’s no other word for that but ‘broken.’”
This isn’t the end of the road for Kafasis. A Mac developer for 11 years, he will re-focus his efforts back to his popular Mac-based applications.
Source: cnet
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iPhone and Windows 7 have compatibility issue – Intel P55 chipset to blame
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The iPhone is one of the most wildly popular phones the world has ever seen, while the recently released Windows 7 is on its way to becoming one of the most popular operating systems ever.
Despite this persistent syncing issues have been reported on Apple’s support forums, wherein iTunes on Windows 7 machines recognizes the iPhone, but gives an “error 0xE8000065″ message whenever the user attempts to sync. Some users have found limited success with using PCI-based USB cards (which bypass the chipset) this is clearly a major issue and something which could give Apple a big problem as its Core i5 / i7 iMacs are likely to sport the chipset.
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Orange to release iPhone as early as 10 November in UK
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Orange customers could see the iPhone release on the network around 10 November.
Orange signed a deal with Apple at the end of September to start offering the iPhone later this year alongside original exclusive supplier O2. After the Orange announcement, Vodafone quickly announced a deal to also supply the iPhone 3G and iPhone3GS.
Orange has not yet provided any pricing information to potential customers although reports have emerged that those who signed up to express their interest have received an email to inform them that further news would be sent in a week or so.
Apple and O2 has been slammed for the high costs associated with the iPhone during their two year exclusivity deal. Hopefully these two new suppliers with help to boost competition and lower prices for consumers.
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Apple iPhone now with over 100,000 apps
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Apple has now approved over 100,000 applications for its App Store, dwarfing apps offered by competitors Android Marketplace, Windows Mobile Marketplace, BlackBerry App World and the Nokia Ovi Store. Android Marketplace is the closest competitor in terms of number of apps with just over 10,000.
Whilst only 93,118 apps are currently available, Apple has actually approved 101,887 as of October 28 with t he number available set to top 100,000 over the next few weeks.
Of all the app now available at the Apple App Store, 19,788 are free, with the average price per paid app being $3.25 (this figure excludes free apps).
However, despite Apple’s obvious success, analyst firm Gartner claims that Google’s Android platform will be more popular than Apple’s by 2012, mainly due to its use by multiple manufacturers,
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Nokia to sue Apple over iPhone patent infringements
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Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, is suing Apple in the federal court claiming that the iPhone uses patented wireless technologies.
Nokia claims that the iPhone infringes 10 patents it owns covering both mobile phone calls and wireless internet access. The company goes onto say that 40 other phone manufacturers have licensed these patents. Apple obviously isn’t one of them.
So far there has been no official responce from Apple.
iPhone on Watchdog update
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Further to our announcement last week that the Apple iPhone is to be featured on the UK BBC consumer affairs program Watchdog, we can report that there isn’t much to report.
The short feature was based around a handful of viewers iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models freezing under use – not an epidemic by any standards. As the latest update (3.1.2) had only been released a few days before the feature was filmed, it was unclear whether these issues were fixed in the update, although one user reported it wasn’t.
It looks like this one will just fade away.
iPhone on BBC Watchdog tonight
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The iPhone is being featured on the UK’s Watchdog consumer affairs program tonight.
The issue they are investigating is alleged freezing, leading to an inoperable phone.
If you’re in the UK tune in now. If you’re not then we’ll keep you updated later on. Let’s hope that the report is more credible than their PS3 effort a few weeks ago.
Palm Pre vs iPhone 3GS battle set to commence in UK
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The Palm Pre is launched in the UK tomorrow.
The device, which has been in development for some seven years debuts its own operating system – webOS – which aims to operate in a similar way to desktop operating systems allowing users to switch between applications in the same way as on a home computer.
The Pre has been well received in the US since its launch in June, being labelled an “iPhone killer”.
The Palm Pre will be available via 02, to anyone signing up for a two-year £34.26 monthly contract.
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iPhone app saves UK users £250,000 in two weeks!
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The 0870 iPhone application, which launched to UK users at the end of September, has so far saved its 92,000 users over £250,000 in unnecessary call charges.
The application lets people look up cheaper local number alternatives to the 08 prefix national rate numbers usually associated with call centres where users can typically expect to be kept waiting on the line for a substantial period of time.
So if you are in the UK take a look at this app. It is also available for users of the Android operating system.
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