Mobile Apple Me

Mozilla and Skype also joined in to endorse a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act related to iPhone jailbreaking --which is a practice that Apple Inc. considers against the law.

Mozilla, the maker of Firefox,

insists that Apple would probably not allow it to offer a mobile version of Firefox for the iPhone, based on its reading of the iPhone SDK, which forbids the installation of alternative runtimes.

While Skype, a prominent early adopter in iPhone software development,

stating "copyright law should not interfere with a user using his or her phone to run Skype and enjoy the benefits of low- or no-cost long-distance and international calling."

via Apple Insider

Seems live television could be making its way to the iPhone. PacketVideo (PV) announced its mobile video application for the Apple iPhone, allowing iPhone users to watch operator-branded TV and on-demand video. The application is available immediately and will be sold via operator distribution.

The iPhoneWorld wrote:

The way it works is PacketVideo receiver decodes digital TV signal, and then sends it wirelessly which then is caught and play backed by the device, like iPhone. The mobile broadcast receiver is compatible with many industry-leading phones, iPhone including.

PV CEO James C. Brailean, Ph.D said, operators want to offer branded services. "The popularity of the iPhone makes it a very strategic device for the delivery of advanced media content.”

via Business Wire

Mophie will launch its Juice Pack Air, a rechargeable external battery (as well as a case), for the iPhone 3G. Compared to the current model (called 3G Juice Pack), the new model offers better and full protection, integrated power switch, thinner and light-weight.

China's mobile users have to wait a quite while to get their own iPhone. Apple’s latest attempt to bring iPhone to China broke down for the third times --this time over App Store mechanism. From Japan, FreeBit offers a new iPhone application called "ServersMan@iPhone", allowing your iPhone to be  any other web server on the Internet. The app is only available in the Japanese App Store.

Thanks to Google, iPhone users now can sync their Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to their lovely device. Just visit m.google.com/sync to get started. British news agency ITN has launched a video-focused news iPhone application, allowing users to watch video news reports on their iPhone, even if they have no Wi-Fi connectivity or 3G reception.

Seems Google doesn't want to fight against Apple's iPhone multi-touch patent (as Palm will do it to keep its Pre's multi-touch technology), they already dropped multitouch support from their Android platform.

Apple may be planning a cheaper USD 99 iPhone sometime this summer, according to RBC analyst Mark Abramsky. It is told that the $99 iPhone will not run on AT&T's faster 3G. The report also says Apple will start selling updated iPhone 3G.

Images of the back cover of next generation iPhone has started circulating on the Internet, according to MacRumors. Looks pretty, right? I hope it's the real deal...

The bad news: Apple has publicly saying that "jailbreaking" (and seems it's involving "unlocking" as well) an iPhone is breaking the law and voiding the warranty.  But the good news is:  AdMob says that Apple’s iPhones now dominate the U.S. mobile Web traffic, gives the iPhone a majority 51 percent share of smartphone market in the country.

One of the largest mobile Web ad networks, AdMob, says that Apple’s iPhones now dominate the U.S. mobile Web traffic, gives the iPhone a majority 51 percent share of smartphone market in the country.

Based on analysis of the billions of ad requests in January conducted by AdMob, here is the iPhone's achievement:

• The iPhone OS now represents 51% of U.S. smartphone traffic, leaving RIM’s BlackBerry (19%) and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile (14%) in the dust.
• The iPhone and iPod touch now represent 18.3% of worldwide ad traffic — second only to Nokia with 30.1%.
• Worldwide requests from Apple devices grew 28% month over month to 1.2 billion in January.
• The iPod touch is rapidly catching up to the iPhone; it now represents 40% of Apple requests, up from 20% in September.

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