quarta-feira, 7 de maio de 2008

Breaking News - Vodafone secure ten market iPhone deal for later in 2008


Vodafone have issued a short press release confirming that they will be selling the iPhone in ten markets later on this year. These will include Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Previous sources had tipped the Indian deal, but this is a significant step for the carrier overall.
Prior to the launch of the iPhone in Europe, Vodafone was heavily tipped to be a key player. It was a surprise, then, when O2, Orange and T-Mobile ended negotiations with the all-important UK, French and German distribution deals. Vodafone later took T-Mobile Germany to the courts claiming their exclusive deal was “anticompetitive“.
While nothing is confirmed, the fact that the list Vodafone have released contains no markets in which the iPhone is presently sold suggests that either negotiations there are still ongoing or, perhaps more likely, that the existing carriers have been given - and taken - first refusal on the 3G iPhone.

Press Release:
Vodafone to Offer Apple’s iPhone in Ten Markets06 May 2008
Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.
[Via topiphonenews]

Breaking News - New versions of the Iphone SDK and Firmware available for download.


Word is out: new versions of the iPhone SDK and firmware are available for download at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/. Word about the details are still trickling in from developers. This is Apple's fifth beta release since the iPhone SDK was released in March. There's just under a week left until the end of the Apple Design Awards submission period. No word if iPhone developers who submitted under earlier firmware will be able to re-submit outside the 72 hour period that Apple allots for "re-dos".
Readers report that this is a smaller download (just over 1 GB) and details are trickling in through the comments.


[Via Tuaw]

terça-feira, 6 de maio de 2008

Upcoming Iphone 2.0 software includes Chinese Handwriting recognition


The latest private beta build of Apple's upcoming iPhone 2.0 software apparently includes a handwriting recognition interface for the Chinese language. According to a source close to the story, build 5A258F of the forthcoming software update adds several new Chinese input methods under the international keyboard settings, including handwriting recognition.
"Unfortunately, handwriting recognition is only avaliable in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) and doesn't support English," the source told AppleInsider.
Apparently as the user draws symbols on the screen, the iPhone's handwriting recognition interface begins to suggest possible character matches in a column to the right of the input area which can then be chosen from and used.
Apple had previously posted a job listing for a handwriting recognition engineer, which may coincide with this emergence of the possible new feature.


[Via AppleInsider]

 
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