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Apr
23
2010

Apple's iPhone is REALLY Big in Japan – 72% Market Share

| April 23, 2010 13:27 UTC | 1 comment |

Apple’s iPhone is selling really good in Japan. Bloomberg wrote today that the iPhone accounts for 72 percent of Japan’s smartphone shipments.

Shipments of the iPhone, which began selling in Japan in July 2008, climbed to 1.69 million units in the year ended March 31, Tokyo-based MM Research Institute Ltd. said in a report yesterday. That raised the total to 2.3 million, Hideaki Yokota, an analyst at the research firm, said by telephone today.

The iPhone helped smartphone sales more than double last fiscal year in Japan as shipments of regular mobile phones shrank, according to the report. Smartphone shipments will probably exceed 3 million units in the 12 months started April 1, even as the overall market is forecast to contract for a third year, it said.

HTC came in second with a market share of 11%, followed by Toshiba with a share of 6.8%.

[Bloomberg] [via]

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Apr
23
2010

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 available from the App Store

| April 23, 2010 09:00 UTC | 1 comment |

Sonic, the world’s fastest hedgehog, is back! Introducing Miles “Tails” Prower, Sonic and Tails must stop Dr. Eggman’s diabolical scheme to take over the world. This time, Dr. Eggman is enslaving scores of Sonic’s friends in order to create an army of Badniks, which will build his ultimate weapon – the Death Egg, a planet-sized space station of unthinkable power. Dr. Eggman must be stopped before he can collect all seven Chaos Emeralds and power up the Death Egg – a move which would spell the end for Sonic and Tails! Using only his super sonic speed and the all new super spin dash, Sonic races into action! Are you up 2 it?

The game is available in the App Store for 4,99€ [iTunes link]

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Apr
22
2010

iDroid: Android Running on iPhone – How to Install

| April 22, 2010 11:13 UTC | 14 comments |

Wow, this is big! A hacker has successfully installed Android on the original iPhone. Currently it can not be installed on a 3G or 3GS.

In the video you can see the first generation iPhone running Android, and successfully making calls, using Wi-Fi and receiving messages.

Installation
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  1. Jailbreak your iPhone.
  2. Under the jailbroken environment, put ramdisk.img, system.img, ramdisk.img, userdata.img, cache.img, android.img.gz, and zImage in /private/var.
  3. Follow the instructions for installing openiboot.
      1. sudo ./loadibec openiboot.img3
      2. Use Hold button to select Console
      3. Push Home button
      4. sudo ./oibc
      5. Type install
    • Essentially:
    • loadibec and oibc are compiled for x86 Linux.
      • Need libusb, pthreads, readline.

Full readme for iDroid 0.1 after the break.

Update: New instructions here.



							
						


						




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Opera Mini for iPhone downloaded over 1 million times in its first day

 | April 15, 2010 13:24 UTC | 1 comment |




														


Apple said “Yes”, and iPhone users around   the world said, “Yes, please”. Opera Mini was downloaded more than one   million times in its first day of availability in each market. Opera  Mini   is currently the number one iPhone app in the 22 featured Apple App  Stores   on their site, as of 8 a.m. CET today.


According to Apple’s download count, Opera Mini has been added to   1,023,380 Apple devices. Opera Mini is the world’s most popular browser    that brings the Web to nearly any mobile phone. Opera submitted its   browser to Apple on March 23, following the unveiling of Opera on iPhone    during the Mobile World Congress, CTIA and SXSW. Initial previews of the    browser garnered rave reviews, indicating that Opera Mini delivers up to    six times the speed, especially on congested networks, and significant   Web-page compression to keep roaming and pay-per-MB costs at a minimum.


“Today iPhone users have a choice, and, as the numbers show, they are    eager to explore new and faster ways to surf the Web on the iPhone –   especially during heavy Web traffic,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera   Software. “With any widely available and frequently downloaded Opera   product, we are appreciative of all the feedback we are getting, as it   helps us to continually improve our product and better meet the needs of    our users.”


							
						


						




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Google Mobile released for Apple iPad / updated for iPhone

 | April 13, 2010 06:51 UTC | 1 comment |




														
A Google Mobile update just made its way into the Apple App Store. The new version is 0.5.0.3644.


What makes this interesting, is the support for Apple’s iPad. iPad owners now have for instance the ‘Search by Voice’ feature on their iPads.


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Opera Mini for the iPhone now available in the Apple App Store – First impressions

 | April 13, 2010 06:43 UTC | 1 comment |




														


Some of us were skeptical if the Opera Mini would ever be approved to the Apple App Store, but I can tell you that it is now available for download in the App Store.


When I just played around with it for a little while, I could clearly tell the difference in browsing speed. Browsing really is ‘lightning fast’. But, the zooming didn’t seem to work correct, or as I would expect it to work. Zooming in or out doesn’t work nearly as good as on Safari, and neither does the ‘tap to zoom’ feature. When I tap on an object that I want to look a little closer, it will normally be zoomed in either too close or too far away.


Personally I can’t yet change from Safari to Opera because of this really disturbing zoom issue. If they change it in a future release, I will reconsider this.


Read the full press release after the break.


							
						


						




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New iPhone ad: Concert

 | April 7, 2010 07:10 UTC | 1 comment |




														


							
						


						




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New iPhone ad released – Commute

 | April 1, 2010 18:02 UTC | 1 comment |




														
Apple has released a new ad called ‘Commute’. Normally their ads compose of applications seen in the App Store, and this one is no different. Here are the apps of the ad ‘Commute’:



Check out the video after the break.


							
						


						




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Video of the iPhone 4G screen

 | March 29, 2010 17:36 UTC | 6 comments |




														


This appears to be the same screen that was leaked last month(link here). Can’t tell if this is real or not, but it could be the screen of the iPhone 4G.


							
						


						




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Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone and iPad

 | March 26, 2010 10:09 UTC | 0 comments |




														


Geohot, the guy behind the famous one-click-jailbreak-solution for the iPhone, has released a video of what he calls an Untethered Jailbreak for the iPhone. This new way should also work on the iPad, and it remains to be seen if geohot will actually release this when the first iPads get to their users. And the new untethered means that it is all software based, no tethering/loaders are needed for this to work.


Here is what Geohot wrote on his blog:


The jailbreak is all software based, and is as simple to use as  blackra1n. It is completely untethered, works on all current tethered  models(ipt2, 3gs, ipt3), and will probably work on iPad too.


Don’t  ask about a release date. You won’t make it happen any sooner.


For the time being, you can download the current Blackra1n version here.


							
						


						




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