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Almost since day one there have been consumer complaints about the iPhone, the App Store, AT&T. The iPhone is a revolutionary device and revolutions come with a certain amount of passionate “discussion.” But, for some users the time to talk is over.

Steven Frank, Michael Arrington, OM Malik are longtime iPhone users with a large sphere of influence. And they’re walking away from their iPhones. They’re not the only ones, just the latest to get fed up with Apple’s wall of silence and AT&T’s double-standards. All three site the recent rejection of Google Voice and subsequent pulling of  GV-style apps from the App Store as the insult that went too far.

There is still speculation about whether the rejection is motivate by Apple or AT&T. In the end, it doesn’t matter. Users are tired of watching AT&T customers get services that are routinely denied to iPhone owners — MMS, Slingplay and now Google Voice.

Developer Justin Williams succinctly captures one view on his blog:

With the latest app rejection being Google Voice, I am one step closer to selling off my iPhone products and focusing entirely on the Mac once more. I can’t help but feel that I’ve wasted the past 9 months of my life building on a platform that is so hostile and anti-developer.

Developers are one of the main reasons for the success of the iPhone. Apple and AT&T would do well to remember this. Yes, Apple created an awesome device. But, for most users it’s all about the apps — especially for those faced with less than stellar cell service from AT&T. If developers leave the iPhone, eventually users will surely follow.

Sure, iPhone users have more than 50,000 apps to choose from. But, we still want the ones that we can’t have. It’s even harder when those same banned apps are allowed on similar devices. And nearly unbearable when users and developers aren’t given adequate explanations of why the apps are banned.

For the record, the editors at AppCraver.com aren’t giving up our iPhones anytime soon. In fact, at least one of us has already upgraded to the iPhone 3GS. That doesn’t mean we’re not disappointed with Apple’s decisions to ban certain apps. Or that we’re thrilled with waiting for features we should had months ago (MMS). However, the iPhone is still an exciting device. And developers continue to do amazing things with its operating system. We see more improvements and great things on the horizon. Perhaps, we’re optimistic, but we’re not giving up yet.

We think that most users will agree with us. For many users joining the iPhone community now, this is their first smart phone. They’re happy with the apps — if not with AT&T — and will find plenty of programs to keep them productive and entertained. They’re not going to give up their brand new iPhone because of one app.

But, once again, it comes down to the apps. If Apple and AT&T continue to keep hot new apps off the platform, it’s only a matter of time before users switch to a phone that will give them what they crave… berrycraver anyone?

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G, App, Apple, Google, Iphone, Mac, OS

There are over a billion websites out there but not all of them are written or presented in English. While there are measures to help in the translation needs of surfers, one would need an Internet connection to make this understandable. But thanks to the PROMT German to English Text Translator, you just have to download it to you iPhone or iPod Touch and you easily read what exactly you have to understand.

Especially for people who travel, access to an Internet connection is normally hard to find. Hence, you can imagine the load that this new PROMT software takes out of your daily expenses. It can translate simple text all the way to websites without compromising the actual source.

PROMT German-English and English-German translators are now available from the App Store for EUR 4.99 each.

(Source) Press

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G, App, Download, Google, Hack, Iphone, OS

It seems the problem was a bit more widespread than we anticipated — Following a recent lawsuit brought before Amazon.com regarding the Kindle 2’s screens being prone to cracking, the company has released a press release stating that they will in fact replace cracked screens absolutely free.

If you are familiar with Amazon’s policy, they previously charged a $200 fee for the same repair. Perhaps Apple can learn a thing or two from Amazon.3

via Gizmodo

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G, App, Apple, Free, Hack, Iphone

The ASUS eee PC T91 is the first touch enabled netbook to hit the US market. The netbook converts into a tablet-style pc. Unfortunately the netbook does not include support for multi-touch. It comes with a 8.9 inch wide screen. It has 52GB of hybrid storage (16 GB SSD, 16 GB SD, 20 GB online).

Features:

• 8.9″ display in the world today.
• TouchSuite software
• Touchscreen and Convertible Tablet PC Form Factor for Flexibility of Use
• TV tuner
• Global Positioning System
• Extended Battery Life with Super Hybrid Engine
• 3G plus (HSUPA) technology*, enabling high-speed Internet access anywhere.
• 802.11n

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G, OS

GeoHot has added an entry to TheiPhoneWiki explaining how his purplera1n iPhone 3GS jailbreak works.

Below you can read the step by step description of what the exploit does…

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* purplera1n sends the enter recovery commands using iTunesMobileDevice
* once in recovery(iBoot), it sends the IBoot Environment Variable Overflow exploit
* the exploit adds a “geohot” command to the phone which runs the payload
* the “geohot” command is run, control is now transferred from iboot to the payload
* the purplera1n client is done

Inside payload
* the payload restores the default environment variable ring buffer and saves the environment to nvram(sets auto-boot to true)
* it patches iBoot to load unsigned img3s and not care about the tags
* it loads the purplera1n picture(sent with payload)
* the nor patcher starts
* llb is decrypted, patched, and increased in size to 0×24200. this is the resident 0×24000 Segment Overflow exploit
* a little loader code is put @ 0×20000 in the LLB to load it and fix the stack
* iboot is decrypted, patched
* everything else is read as is
* nor is written back, nor patcher is done
* kernel is loaded, decrypted, and patched
* ramdisk is loaded(sent with payload) and moved to ramdisk region at 0×44000000, patched kernel is tacked on to the end
* patched kernel is booted
* control is now transferred from payload to ramdisk

Inside ramdisk
* launchd is run, all stuff happens here
* /dev/disk0s1 is mounted
* fstab and services are overwritten here to allow disk0s1 writes and afc2 respectively
* Freeze.app is transferred and Freeze.app loader has SUID bit set
* patched kernel is read from end of ramdisk block device and written to filesystem
* ramdisk is done, rebooting…

Reboots as jailbroken phone
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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G, App, Free, Iphone, ITunes