iPhone. News and Tips

flexfit has sent me an interesting link to a video where Medvedev and Nicola Sarkozi are talking to journalists. At 45th second of the video our President picks up the phone and slides a finger across it. SLIDE TO UNLOCK?

You can watch the video on YouTube.

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I couldn’t help myself to post a funny example of Russian localization of Apple MobileMe. This is the main settings window in Windows XP. Guys, even Goblin’s humorous translations aren’t that funny.

If anyone else has interesting screenshots to show, feel free to do so.

There are some who seek for thrill in their life.
But not as doers but as watchers. So, if you’re missing horror series, then here is a bedtime fairy-tale for you: iPhone cemetery.

[Gizmodo]

I figured I need to answer the questions about the sponsorship of some news: [1], [2] and [3].

I wrote a short FAQ for you.

Mainly this service will be useful for those who want to be a short-term spotlight and get some traffic. If you compare this opportunity with Yandex.Direct, then you’ll see that it’s much cheaper because iPhones.ru website has quality audience and the clicks will be more profitable.

Let’s say you received a party of iWood cases and you need to sell them fast. This sponsorship will allow you to momentarily find customers. THe same applies to any type of goods or services.

P.S. To those who read the news only, I remind that our forum has special market sections for selling iPhones and any other Apple products. For example, Mac computers can be bought there for 10-15,000 Rubles less than from the official dealers in Russia.

Today is the birthday of one of Apple’s founders – Steve Voznyak. He turned 58.

Let’s congratulate this outstanding developer and businessman. Wish him further success in his sphere.

A little history. Voznyak founded Apple Computer (Apple, Inc. nowadays) together with Steve Jobs in 1976. In seventies, he created Apple I and Apple II computers. Apple II became very popular and was the top sold personal computer during 70-ties and the beginning of 80-ties.

Thanks to hellra1ser

There are rumors about iPhone Nano since the iPhone first generation annonce. And up until now Nano remains a rumor and a myth.

Many analytics doubt that there will ever be such a device. But the fans don’t give and continue to believe. So do we…

The strip was done with the help of some forum users. Thanks.

via gizmodo.

Update by SeaBreeze: Gazeta.ru thinks otherwise and publishes an extract from the speech of Eldar Murtazin:

“The new iPhone nano will be presented to the audience on November 17, in December it will be possible to buy it, – Eldar Murtazin, the lead analytic of Mobile Research group, told Gazeta.ru. According to him, the new model will be more about music and calling. “It will have a screen, but not as large as the one iPhone has, – he said.

A classmate of Eldar is the head of Apple rep in Russia (not IMC Russia), so he apparently knows all rumors. Blah-blah-blah…

Leopard-s

Van Gogh turned into iMobilco a media content store. All these who participated in the guessing game have received some money for their accounts. I’ve already begun spending it. (read more…)

The epic about I Am Rich continues. (Part I, Part II, Part III)

A clone program “Am I Rich” appeared in Cydia today. The size is 80Kb, and it costs nothing. )))

Download and enjoy.

Thanks to Roony for pointing out.

The story about the most expensive app at AppStore continues.

Lee5279xx has accidentally purchased this program. He had his “buy with one click” option turned on.

He thought it was another joke, but when he saw his bank statement, he began to ask AppStore and the developer (by that time the app was deleted from AppStore) for his money back.

He was lucky that the money wasn’t already taken from his bank account, just frozen until things are clear.

What can we say? Some people are just dumb!

After NetShare disappeared from AppStore, the developers managed to contacts Apple and receive an explanation for what had happened.

It turned out that the contact stopped because both sides used auto-reply clients. The letter was pushed back and forth and then was destroyed by spam-filter. Nullriver is trying to establish the contact again, but I think they won’t have any luck today: Apple crew is too busy getting kicked by Steve Jobs.

As it turned out, Germany has no projects similar to our website, so we decided to fill the niche. The German version of the site at iPhonePlatz.com. Dmitry (DiNErO) is responsible for it, he lives in Germany and is obsessed with iPhones as much as we are.

Great week ending It’s good that we grow.

Everybody who switched to the new software has already noticed some bugs that need to be fixed…

So, here is what we want to see fixed:

1. Stability. The new software behavior is unacceptable sometimes. It is slow, it freezes, and you need to reboot it every couple of days.

2. Keyboard bug. If you type fast, the screen shows symbols with delay. (read more…)

When our favorite store opened, it had about 500 apps for sale. Now the number is getting close to 1001 (at the time of posting it’s already bigger).

As Steve Jobs said, AppStore is a major breakthrough. By the end of 10th day after the opening, 25 million apps were downloaded. I’m not sure what the numbers look like at the moment, but I think it’s getting close to 50 million.

Top five paid downloads are:
- Units Convertor 0.99$
- Texas Hold’em 4.99$
- Recorder 0.99$
- Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D 9.99$
- Units 0.99$

Top five free downloads are:
- Labyrinth Lite Edition
- Break Classic
- Sudoku (Free)
- Apache Lander
- PegJump

I think you’ll agree that no other platform had so many applications made for it at the same time.

It’s amazing!!!

Mr Geohot got himself a girlfriend. Her name is Wiki.

The girl is quite intelligent and knows a lot about iPhone and iPod Touch. Plus, she is ready to listen to anybody and write everything down, so she can share it with everybody later.

Let’s document this device better than anyone at apple knows it.

Everybody is invited.

The update of Page Rank Google took two weeks. Finally everything is settled and here is what we got:

The PR of iPhones.ru is now rated 5. There are only 8338 russian websites with this rating, and it took us almost 2 years to grow up to it. Yandex Quote Index is now 1000, and 6 months ago it was 600.

“I’m not a hiker, I’m a hacker! I steal as you do, but over the internet!”
picture from cаricаtura.ru

Guys, just imagine: the developer company invests a lot of money and effort into development of a game or some other app for iPhone. Dozens of managers, designers, programmers work hard to create and test it. All of them dream about success and popularity of their project, they’ve their heart and soul in it. A lot of times, everything holds by enthusiasm and opportunism only. A new platform, big perspectives, cool ideas. Finally, the project is finished, tested and sent to Apple. Inc.
(read more…)

Not so long ago we’ve told you about the Palringo instant messenger.
It supports not only ICQ and other services but chats also.

clickable

How do you use it? First, you need to download and install a program from AppStore. Then, register at the authors’ website. After this, you need to enter you login/password in the program.
Further instructions:
1. Open Palringo. In the middle of top row you can see: “P”, “Human”, “2Human”. Click “2Human”.
2. Click “Join a Group”.
3. Enter: iphones.ru.
4. Join this group.
5. Done. You’re in the group.

I think it will be nice to hang out in our own chat-room.

Thanks to Ton4ar and Acid XL.

P.S. I have a piece of advice for you: you don’t have to register the account to your real e-mail address, because there is no check or activation. You can enter anything you like (zerto@phones.ru, for example).

The discussion is at the forum.

At TOPMUFFIN.COM, which was created a month ago, you can check the statistics of iPhone 3G stock at Apple Stores in US.

At the moment 190 stores’ statistics look like this:

3 of 190 stores (2%) have no 3G iPhones in stock
8 GB Black available at 164 of 190 stores (86%)
16 GB White available at 185 of 190 stores (97%)
16 GB Black available at 174 of 190 stores (92%)

The info is collected through RSS channels.

Dear mac-users and windows-lovers you can now take your revenge on your opponents.

Just follow this LINK, choose your idol and duel!

It’s Friday, a holiday, so let’s have fun as we are supposed to.

Thanks to damad for the link.

Sources close to Steve Jobs state that since the iPhone 3 release the Apple’s CEO have come to work only a couple of times. And every time the employees had to compare him to the old pictures to make sure it was indeed him.

Four years ago, the founder of Apple had an operation to remove a carcinoma in his pancreas. And now there are serious suspicions that the great workaholic is sick again. Jobs is growing thin by the minute and nobody knows why. Some say that the last months of intensive work have suck “the black turtle-neck” dry. But the majority thinks that the carcinoma is back again.

Anyway, the market reacted instantly: Apple’s stocks are down by 11%. Nobody wants to take the risk. The analytics give prognoses that if Apple loses Steve, the irremediable will happen.