HTC has never wanted to compete with Apple

Speaking at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle, acting president of the American division of HTC Fitcher Martin (Martin Fichter) expressed his views on several pressing issues of today. One of them concerned the popularity of iPhone.

According to the head, HTC has never sought to create a so-called "killer iPhone". The company has always focused on that audience, which is not interesting products Apple. "I've heard the term" killer iPhone "as many times within the company and outside it. When I hear it on the internal meetings, I say, 'Look, there's a market for the iPhone". But I do not think that we will "kill "iPhone, because this unit is focused on a number of people with a certain taste. We're doing something else," - said the president.

As an example, Martin led video service Fitcher HTC Watch, which uses different methods of film distribution, compared with iTunes. Another original feature is the interface of HTC Sense UI, added the head.

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Android browser released for iPad

The popular Brower Dolphin came out first for Android, and was afterwards converted to iOS.

A few weeks ago came the iPhone and iPod touch and now is a version of Dolphin for iPad finally released.

The new Dolphin offers tabbed browsing and it has among other things, a "webzine" mode, which makes all sites with an RSS feed into a nice magazine.

System requirement for Dolphin Browser HD IOS 3.2 or later and an iPad.

You can download Dolphin Browser in the App Store.

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Angry Bird passes 10 million sold apps

Angry Bird has remained number one in the App Store almost constancy in 11 months. Sales figure has now passed 10 million copies.

It tremendously popular iPhone game Angry Birds have now passed 10 million copies sold in the App Store. It is nearly a year since the game came out, and with few exceptions, it has been number 1 in the App Store ever since. It is impressive, and sales show no signs of slowing down - rather, it is steadily increasing. This must be added to Angry Birds Halloween has sold 1 million copies in 14 days.

It is just as impressive to the average rating in the App Store is 5 out of 5 stars with more than 315,000 ratings in the U.S. App Store.

Angry Birds' success has naturally led to a large number of apps in the App Store that all attempts to spin a little gold on the success. Thus, there are countless guides or walkthroughs, and they can capture just a few percent of Angry Birds-customers so they will score box.

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Apple give "solution" to the alarm problem

Apple has published a support page that recognizes the problem with alarms after the changeover to standard time last week.

The problem appears at that some users are experiencing the iPhone alarms ringing an hour later than was asked of them. It is solely related to repeated alarms, so the solution is not to repeat the alarm, but to turn it on manually every day.

IOS 4.2, which is coming up, correct the error. Yet there is no official date, but since Apple support document writes that from the 7th November can set alarms to repeat again, it appears that this particular day is the day when IOS 4.2 comes officially.

You'll find Apple's support page on the problem here.

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Get your free iPhone locked up by 3 [Danish Users Only]

Mobile company 3 remove at a stroke the mandatory 6-month simlås of mobile phones purchased through the company. It writes 3 on their website.

This also applies to iPhones. The only thing to do is to visit 3's site and enter the iPhone's IMEI number. This number will find under Settings -> General -> About.

3 sends the message to Apple's activation server and when there is in place after a few hours, you must connect iPhone to iTunes and sync. 3 writes that one must insert a SIM card from another company before you sync, but my experience is that it is not necessary. But of course it is somewhat easier to check if unlocks actually happened, if there are any other sim card in iPhone.

Why 3 suddenly removes simlåsen from their phones or whether they will continue to sell them without simlås, reports nothing about the story, but I have contacted 3 for further details. So far it has cost 500 kr to get his phone unlocked during the vesting period.

1. Update

3 has still not replied to my request, but it seems that 3 have chosen to lock up people's phones, because its network has gone down due to a proposed update of the network. This gives their customers the opportunity to use their phone with another company. It means so probably also know that 3's offer is temporary. Therefore, it is about to strike now before the opportunity is gone again.

2. Update

I've talked with different people, and there are indications that the possibility of free unlocking in 3 are not from today, but actually from the 12th October. This means either that 3 is already the 12th showed that there could be problems with their networks today, and therefore would be slightly ahead of the situation. Or that the two things have nothing to do with each other. But why have 3 so devious offer unlocking out the back door without informing their clients via mail? Is it because 3 not really want their customers take advantage of the offer, but that by offering what may then say that they have done all they could to help customers? The case seems a bit speget and it does not help it, it is still impossible to get a comment from the third

You found 3's service here. Note that it may be difficult to get through to 3 right now.

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Steve Jobs on Android

Jobs believes that transparency is not always better than closed, "Google's allegations are a smokescreen for what is best for customers: integrated or fragmented? We believe integration will trump fragmented every time. "

In connection with Apple's disclosure of quarterly financial statements, were as usual held a conference call for shareholders. Very unusual participated Apple boss Steve Jobs at the meeting and he took the opportunity to get a little into the IOS's closest competitor, Android.

Apple sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, mesn are not supported by some official figures for Android. Analysis firm Gartner has predicted 10 million sold Android phones, but it is probably too early to proclaim a "winner" of the protection issues, although there have long been able to read stories in the media about Android is larger than the iPhone. Jobs are interested not so much the case. "Our goal is to be the best. We are not the largest .... It's Nokia. We admire them, but do not want to be them. We will make the best units. Android is our biggest competitor. We will compete with them for quite a long time, but we have different strategies and we believe in ours. We believe it is the winning strategy in the end. "

Android is fragmented

Steve Jobs believes that Google's claim that Android is open is untrustworthy: "Android is fragmented. TweetDeck (an Android app) has revealed that they must keep track of over 100 different versions of Android. Compare that to Apple's two versions. Amazon, Vodafone and Verizon have announced that they will create their own Android app stores. It's a mess for users and developers. Compare to Apple's integrated App Store ".

Jobs also notes that while Google was right is open is not always better than closed, "Look at Microsoft's Play For Sure system that they were forced to scrap."

Play For Sure would be an iPod killer

5 years ago Apple was under enormous pressure from analysts who thought that the iPod closed format was a non-starter. Apple should instead go for an open system like Microsoft's Play for Sure. Play for Sure was an open format such as Microsoft attempted to extend to manufacturers of portable music players and distributors of music. The idea was that different music players could play music purchased from various music stores, representing a completely open and free system. Critics of Apple's closed approach meant that a natural consequence of an open system was that it would win over a closed due to increased competition and consequent low prices and more options for users.

Play For Sure would be an iPod killer, but as we all know it happened of course not. The problem was that the technology was too unreliable. Microsoft supplied the software, while another company supplied hardware. This meant uncertainty about who was to blame for any mistakes, who therefore should correct them, and how everything was coordinated. This resulted in some quite grotesque situations when Amazon launched their video service based on the Play For Sure. That there should be an easy way to purchase movies, did not work for many people. There had to be installed drivers, updated programs and restart computers in an infinity. Eventually it ended that Amazon wrote on their website that "If your device is Play For Sure-kampatibel, it works maybe. "Maybe? Although there was honest talk, so life is too short to buy things, where the dealer writes that they might seem.

We believe integration will trump fragmented every time

The problem was short, that there were too many companies entangled case. It saw Microsoft as also dropping after a few years Play For Sure again and gambled instead of the Zune player on Apple's strategy, where the same company stood for the whole package: software, hardware and shop. Whatever one thinks of Apple's closed iPod or iPhone format, so it seems at least, and it is precisely this which is Jobs' point: "Google's allegations are a smokescreen for what is best for customers: integrated or fragmented ? We believe integration will trump fragmented every time. Users and developers will agree. "

If you find the above interesting, I can recommend the book "Steve Jobs - The man behind Apple "which I previously reviewed. It says a lot about Apple's system logic, focusing on user experiences and so on.

Since this topic on experience, opinion is divided and often ends up in the pure mudslinging, I will take this opportunity to remind the comments intended to provoke, insult or taunt others, including forward unfounded accusations will be deleted. We discussions to get smarter, which requires that we argue for its positions.

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EA presents autumn games for iPhone, iPod, iPad

EA Mobile has just unveiled a series of games being released in October and November for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

There is much to look forward to if you love games from EA.

In October and November releases namely EA Battlefield: Bad Company 2, EA Sports FIFA 11, Heroes Lore, High Caliber Hunting, EA Sports MMA, EA Sports NBA Elite 11 and SimCity Deluxe HD, built specifically for the iPad.

FIFA 11 is already released and can be downloaded via the App Store.

Read more from EA.

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Mac Mini taken apart

iFixit has already divorced, the new Mac mini apart and you can see pictures here.

The new Mac mini from Apple has a so-called unibody aluminum design which means that it is more robust and completely different design than the previous model.

At the bottom is it possible to remove a cover and get to including RAM and fan.

You must be a little further into the machine itself if you have to change the hard disk.

You can see pictures with a lot of information from iFixit.

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MobileMe Mail Beta Program brings iPad-like UI

Apple launched its MobileMe Mail beta program with a revised user interface that seems to be IPAD-inspired. MobileMe is Apple's subscription-based service that allows you to synchronize mail, contacts, pictures and other things to cloud servers. New features and performance has been added to MobileMe Mail client. MobileMe subscribers need to request an invitation to participate in opt-in beta program.

MobileMe subscribers can sign up for opt-in beta program, please log in to MobileMe and click on "Order an invitation". Thereafter, the user must wait for an e-mail to get started. The new MobileMe Mail interface has a widescreen display with three columns / windows now. Users can also define their own mail box rules to keep your inbox clean and smooth. As you type emails, the new toolbar Formatting be quite handy.

Apart from the new features, Apple has also improved performance Mail interface and argue that it loads faster. Apple also said it has increased security with Secured Socket Layer protection, while access to the account from Mac, PC, IPAD iPhone or iPod Touch.

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Apple frigiver iPhone OS 4 Beta 2 og SDK til udviklere

Apple i dag frigivet via iPhone Dev Center sin anden beta version af iPhone OS 4 og de tilhørende Software Development Kit (SDK) for udviklere at bruge til at skabe og opdatere applikationer. De første udgaver af iPhone OS 4 og SDK blev løsladt tidligere på måneden sammen med Apples mediebegivenhed at indføre elementer i næste generations operativsystem.

iPhone OS 4 vil medføre en række nye funktioner, herunder forskellige tjenester til støtte multitasking, e-mail ekstraudstyr, og større adgang til tredjeparts-program til indbyggede iPhone funktioner såsom kalendere, fotografier og kamera kontrol. I alle bemærker Apple, at iPhone OS 4 bringer over 1.500 nye API'er til udviklere til at bruge i deres ansøgninger.

Apple forventes at udgive iPhone OS 4 til iPhone og iPod touch brugere "denne sommer", vil selv tidlige modeller af disse enheder ikke vil være foreneligt med den nye OS og endda nogle nyere modeller ikke være i stand til at drage fordel af alle de funktioner. iPhone OS 4 vil komme til IPAD "i efteråret" also know how to unlock iPhone 3GS.

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Unlock iPhone 3Gs 3.1 (Ultrasn0w)

Hi guys, jeg i dag har tænkt mig at vise dig, hvordan du låser iPhone 3Gs kører OS 3,1. Du kan låse iPhone 3Gs med OS 3,1 skal du først hente PwnageTool-3.1.3.

Det er vigtigt at vide, at dette værktøj vil arbejde på Mac OS X til at låse iPhone, vil det ikke virke på Windows. Hvis du ønsker at låse din iPhone ved hjælp af Windows envirnoment så er du nødt til at finde "iPhone 3G ipsw" til at låse og låse din iPhone.

Denne tutorial handler om hvordan man kan låse iPhone bruger Ultrasnow. Og det er også meget vigtigt at huske på, at du skal jailbreak din iPhone, før du går til låse den op med Ultrasnow.

• Launch Cydia/icy (You must have installed Cydia when you jailbreak your iPhone).
• At the bottom click on “Manage” tab and choose “Sources”.
• Click on “Edit” button and add following url: http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com. Once added press the Return.
• Visit the http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com, and remember in ultrasn0w.com it’s zero in word sn0w, it’s not o infact it’s zero. Ok visit the url and from the list shown there choose Ultrasn0w.
• Press “Install” button, it’ll ask you for confirmation, confirm it and wait till it’s get completed.
• Now Press the “Home” button, then power off the iPhone and Power it on back again.

Hey, er du færdig. du har låst op din iPhone. Indsæt et SIM-kort og nyd denne store enhed. Jeg vil være tilbage igen snart jeg har tænkt mig at skrive en anden om Jailbreak iPhone 3Gs med 3,1 OS.

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Endomondo: Fitness App for HTC

While jogging or doing cycling your mobile phones can be a your best exercise assistant with mobile fitness software. With a little mobile fitness app endomondo you can do alot with health fitness exercises. You can use your mobile or Garmin watch to track your running, cycling, and other sports. Endomondo is a free mobile application for tracking your exercise data . It is available for all sorts of mobiles from Nokia to Sony Ericsson for the iPhone and HTC products. A version for Google Android is also underway. See our Iphone cool apps post.

This fitness mobile phone application provides sports free gps tracking and running data right on your mobile The built-in GPS antenna and access to the Internet makes it possible to combine all your race data in a personal profile. Exercise mobile communications application is a fun way to be fit as you can even Compete with your friends and follow them live throughyour mobile

Endomondo Installtion and Features

fitness app for htc

• To get Endomondo you have to visit Endomondo.com and create a personal profile, which will give you a link to download the program received as SMS.
• Once installed Endomondo provides all details of all your exercise activities immediately sent to your Netprofiler.
• What makes Endomondo special is that not having to struggle with personal information as height, weight, etc. on your mobile phone. This is entered instead of Netprofiler.

• Before you start your daily exercise you have to start the mobile exercise applciation so that your GPS connection is logged into your profile. Then select the current physical form such. running, cycling, walking, etc.
• While you can run your friends follow live online, and after the trip, the route can be found on a Google Map. Data from exercise such as average speed, tærrenhøjde, breaks, calories burned, etc. are automatically added to the current route.
• Are you a part of a team or do you just exercise friends can share data and services between each other. Read more about

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Opera Mini til iPhone, endelig!

Tre uger siden fremlagde Opera iPhone version af sin Opera Mini browser to Apple til godkendelse, og jeg muntert forudsagt det ville dukke op på App Store inden for et par uger. Jeg blev slukket med en uge: Mini er nu tilgængelig som en gratis download.

Jeg regnede den app vil gøre det, fordi ... godt, kunne jeg ikke tænke på en grund til, at det ikke ville. Apple er ikke involveret i episke slag med Opera (i modsætning til, siger Google). Det kan være temmelig sikker på, at vil forblive Safari by far iPhone's dominerende browser, selv om Opera Mini er ganske godt. Og hey, at lave ballade for browseren virksomheder, der ønsker at køre på dit operativsystem er beviseligt dårlige JuJu.

Opera Mini underskrift indslag er den måde, det compresse websider på serveren side, så sender browseren en slanket version til at fremskynde tingene op. Indtil videre har jeg kun prøvet browseren i komfort i mit eget hjem. Jeg brugte den på 3G og Wi-Fi, og IT-området med rimelighed bidsk, men ikke uhyrligt mere end Apples Safari. Jeg vil blot sætte min telefon i 2G mode, og Mini skønt gjorde ganske godt, men det kun virkede lidt hurtigt end Safari.

Jeg tilfældigvis bor i et område velsignet med meget stærke AT & T dækning i områder med shakier service, er det muligt, at Mini kunne føle mere forbavsende klart.

Mini er på ingen måde en Safari-killer. Dens sidegengivelse er langt mindre attraktiv og desktop-lignende end Safari, og nogle gange er det bare plain forkert. (Nu, Mini er på App Store, jeg håber, at Opera fortsætter to polske det op,) Ligesom Safari, betyder det ikke Flash, i modsætning til Safari, kan det heller ikke spille YouTube-videoer. Visse ting om det føles en anelse fremmed på iPhone, ligesom sine ikke-standardiserede grænseflade til kopiering af tekst.

Men selv om Opera Mini ikke er uden ulemper, det har en række attraktive egenskaber, som Safari ikke. En af dem er en jeg bruger konstant på desktop browser: muligheden for at søge efter tekst i en web-side. Dens fremgangsmåde to jonglering flere sider føles mere som tabbed browsing, det har en fuld skærm, kan det spare sider til offline læsning, og det virker med Opera Link, som lader dig synkronisere bogmærker mellem flere kopier af Opera. Samlet set det føles som en lidt mere feature-rige alternative to Safari, ikke en skrabet-down wannabees.

Med andre ord er det muligt, at nogle mennesker vil foretrække to Mini Safari eller det mindste finde det værd at bruge på en deltid. Er det ikke rart, at de vil komme til at træffe denne beslutning?

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iPhone breaks out from mobile games category

iPhone as a gaming platform is now so important that it gets its own category on one of the world's largest conferences for game development

This week conference held Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. It is the U.S., if not the world, the largest conference for game developers. Before the main event starts held some smaller events such as GDC Mobile, which deals with all aspects of game development for mobile and handheld devices. This year is no exception to this pattern, which held 18 seminars with titles like "Creating augmented reality experiences on Nintendo DS" and so on. There's even a seminar on how you can port its iPhone games in 2000 than other units. On the other hand, there is not one on game development to the iPhone in the two days GDC Mobile products.

This is because the GDC for the first time assesses the iPhone is as important a platform that does not belong with the other mobile devices, but deserves a category of its own. iPhone has been two days for themselves, which held 16 seminars dealing with everything from how to get hold of the female player, to how to maintain its position on the toplist.

One of the organizers of GDC, Simon Jeffrey, explains that one of the reasons that the iPhone has quickly become very widespread among an extremely broad demographic group. In addition, it is from a developer's perspective, eerily easy to start developing games. Anyone can do it for only $ 99 it cost to become a registered developer. For comparison requires both Nintendo and Microsoft (Windows Mobile 7) that must be approved before one can develop. The result is that the number of game developers for the iPhone is huge. In return, the industry hard, there are many on offer and prices are low. There are no other places where you can buy the same quality cheaper. But we can consumers know only rejoice.

Source: cnet.com

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New weather forecast for iPhone App from DMI

I follow some of the http://macnation.newz.dk to know what is happening in the Apple world.

Yesterday there was some good news: DMI has made an app (application) for iPhone, So you can easily access the weather forecasts. Since the iPhone has a built-in GPS, it is extremely easy to find out how the weather will be right where you are. Below you order a 2-day forecast for Copenhagen and environs. The application I think I - and many others - will get to spend much of it is somewhat easier than trying to see weather in the iPhone's native browser, Apple's Safari.

Price: Free.

Maybe you've thought about how I have made an image of the iPhone screen? Do you think it is available with a camera and then take a picture? Well - I found the solution to the network on a day when I was looking for something quite different.

You make a dump / screenshot / image by briefly pressing home and power button simultaneously - voila, then you have a picture on the camera roll of what you see in the iPhone. Camera rolling, Apple has even allowed us to see users in the standard fashion with the pathfinder. Oh what comfort.

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Tantalizing iPhone Kode Clues Tip på fremtidige Video Chat Capability

Morgen! Og velkommen til en anden udgave af "Hey, det ser ud til at iPhone måske snart have video-chat og en fremadvendte kamera." Dagens runde omfatter iPhone SDK, og det faktum, at den nævner en række video-chat-kommandoer:

At der billede er fra SDK, og alle, men rammer dig i ansigtet med to ikoner, der nævner "accept" og "faldende" video.

Parsing beviserne videre, vi opdager det, en mere direkte omtale af "video chat" i telefoni UI kode:

Så videochat på iPhone. Sandsynligvis kommer snart, i det mindste i form af en kode. Men hvad med de tunge pres på AT & T's 3G-net? Man skulle tro, at video-chat via millioner af nye iPhones vil beskatte helvede ud af et allerede beskattet system. Måske de vil rulle det ud overalt, men New York City og San Francisco, og skru disse byer lidt mere? Måske kaste lidt "for dårligt, så bedrøvet," San Fran / NYC stjerne forbehold i alle anti-Verizon Wireless annoncer, som de uden tvivl har gemt i den kan for, hvornår dette hypotetiske videochat iPhone lanceres. Vi får se. Editor's Note: eller video er ved at blive prepped for nogle andre selskabs net, som nævnt i bemærkningerne. Kunne være! -j.l.

Under alle omstændigheder, så vidt som en hardware genopfriske eller længere sagen går? Hvis videochat udvikling pander ud, det ser mere og mere sandsynligt.

Send en mail til Jack Loftus, forfatteren til denne post, på jloftus@gizmodo.com.

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Apple iPhone 3GS Vs. Google Nexus One

Phone Arena presents a parallel comparison between the iPhone and HTC 3GS Nexus One, so you can have a good idea of their similarities and differences.

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iPhone 4G the first test in April / May

According to the distributor KT Telecom new iPhone be called 4GWill have a processor dual core, Display OLED, A more powerful graphics chip, the removable battery and a completely new design.

Finally, the first phones will be distributed in April / May to test with customers.

Considering the energy problems of the phone, the changes are so important to me seem impossible. Moreover, the presence of a removable battery is against the policy Apple. They just built the batteries in laptops too.

Now there are rumors a lot about this phone, network I read that even in France say rumors of an iPhone 4G in May ... but I think voices are unlikely.

We'll see what awaits us in the spring and summer, the curiosity about this phone is always high.

Source tecnocino

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New version of Google Mobile App for iPhone in the App Store

Good News for iPhone users that new version of Google Mobile App for iPhone was approved and is now available on in the App Store everywhere.

Latest in this version are the redesigned search results display that shows more results at once and, more importantly, opens web pages from the results within the app. This will get you to what you need faster.

For those less utilitarian and more flamboyant, they've exposed visual tweaks settings called "Bells and Whistles" - some of our users had discovered this already in previous versions. You can style your Google Mobile App in any shade: red, taupe, or even heliotrope. If you're on a faster iPhone, like the iPhone 3GS, you may want to try the live waveform setting which turns on, as the name suggests, a moving waveform when you search by voice.

If you don't have Google Mobile App yet, download it from the App Store or read more about it.

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Google Goggles Demo Video

Lets talk about Google's new Goggles service and to show it off in staged demo videos — While reading TechCrunch Mg Siegler posted a demo video of Google Goggles. Further more he wrote that their own Jason Kincaid was at Google’s Search Event in Mountain View and got a chance to get a real world demo of Google Goggles. The service, which is currently an application for Android, is impressive. Google also promises to bring Goggles for iPhone.

Watch Video below:

How it works: You take a picture of an object, Google's software recognizes it, and searches for it online. Neat! Anything that makes Google a better and therefore more popular search engine, will naturally boost its bottom line.

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