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PluggedIn: Next up for the iPhone ... video games?
Coming to grips with the iPhone's design
Hardware hacker's iPhone unlock may be illegal
Is Unlocking Apple's iPhone Legal?
The iPhone and the Technology Thieves
What's on iPhone's menu? Ease
The Mac Night Owl: Does Apple Hate the iPhone Hackers
PluggedIn: Next up for the iPhone ... video games?
Reuters Scott Hillis reports:
Your iPhone should be an ideal device for playing video games.
After all, it has a gloriously large touch-sensitive screen and sensors that can detect when it's being tilted: a mash-up of the best features of Nintendo Co Ltd's DS handheld and Wii home console.
But games for Apple Inc's iPhone are off to a slow start as the company concentrates instead on making sure the device's primary features of voice, music and Web browsing run smoothly.
"Apple wants to be focused on making sure the thing works as a core device," said Travis Boatman, vice president of worldwide studios for the mobile division of Electronic Arts Inc.
"The first few iPods didn't support games but eventually they did."
For the full report, visit:
http://in.tech.yahoo.com/070827/137/6jzgj.html
Coming to grips with the iPhone's design
CNET News.com's Tom Krazit
Is one hand better than two?
For years, smart-phone designers have built products around the premise that people should only have to use one hand to look up a contact, scroll through e-mail, or answer a call. Think of a business traveler rushing through an airport, trying to check voice mail while searching for the gate and recaffeinating.
But Apple, as it is wont to do, headed in the other direction with the iPhone. If you've got long, flexible fingers you can use the iPhone with one hand, but most of us have to use two to do just about anything on the iPhone's touch-screen interface, as shown in the demonstration videos produced by Apple.
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Hardware hacker's iPhone unlock may be illegal
IT PRO and Reuters Chris Green reports:
A teenage boy has successfully hacked Apple's iPhone smartphone, unlocking the device to allow its full use on networks other than the US AT&T service.
George Hotz, a 17-year-old boy from New Jersey claims he has unlocked the iPhone using a combination of hardware and software modifications, finding a way to get around the device's restrictions and allow it to be used not only on AT&T's network but also on T-Mobile's US network and overseas.
Holz published step-by-step directions on his blog at iphonejtag.blogspot.com, and also uploaded a video to social media site YouTube demonstrating the phone running on T-Mobile's US network. Another group, known as iPhoneSimFree.com, said on its site that it also had found a less-invasive software-only method for unlocking the phone....
However, unlocking the phone by modifying Apple's protected software may be illegal, especially if the modified phone is resold, as has been the case with at least one phone so far.....
For the full report, visit:
http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/123397/hardware-hackers-iphone-unlock-may-be-illegal.html
Is Unlocking Apple's iPhone Legal?
newsfactor.com's Richard Koman reports:
The legal status of unlocking an Apple iPhone is somewhat murky, as the main law in this area is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forbids the circumvention of copy-protection technology. But last year the copyright office created an exemption "for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network."
The battle of the iPhone hackers erupted over the weekend, after teenager George Holz released a YouTube video showing his iPhone connecting to the T-Mobile network. Apple's iPhones come locked so they only operate with AT&T's network.
For the full report, visit:
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=54918
The iPhone and the Technology Thieves
The New York Sun's Harold Furchtgott-Roth says:
The story begins with a familiar plot: With extraordinary expense and effort, Company A develops a wonderful new product filled with innovative intellectual property. After reviewing a wide range of options, Company A contracts exclusively with Company B to distribute the product. Then, a nemesis appears to thwart the contract and steal the intellectual property. Does the tale have a happy or a sad ending?
From books to pharmaceuticals, the story line is the same, with different innovators. J.K. Rowling of " Harry Potter" fame turns to Scholastic exclusively to distribute her books. The contracts between Ms. Rowling and Scholastic are mutually beneficial. No one held a gun to her head and said, "Sign this exclusive contract or else." When pirates steal " Harry Potter," public reaction ranges from condemnation to pained tolerance. No one lionizes the pirates.
But now, consider the wireless world, where Company A is Apple Inc., which developed the iPhone, and Company B is AT&T, with whom Apple contracted for exclusive distribution.
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http://www.nysun.com/article/61318
What's on iPhone's menu? Ease
AP's Peter Svensson says:
The Apple iPhone has one button on its face, and it always does the same thing: take you to the top menu, where icons are presented in a clear manner..
Not, mind you, at the iPhone itself, but mad at cell phone manufacturers that have saddled us for years with interfaces that lure us into labyrinths of menus.
The buttons that are supposed to guide us through this maze do different things on every screen: a single button can mean "Back" on one screen, "Cancel" on another, "Exit" on a third.
The iPhone has one button on its face. It always does the same thing: takes you to the top menu, where icons representing all functions of the phone - music player, Internet browser and more- are laid out in a clear manner. Wham, you're out of the labyrinth.
This makes me mad because this isn't just the way it should be done, it's the way it always should have been done. This became clear to me as I set out to look at the iPhone along with two other top-of-the-line phones, the Nokia N95 and Helio's Ocean.
The Nokia N95 costs $750, even more than the iPhone, and is jam-packed with features like a high-resolution camera, radio receiver and satellite Global Positioning System receiver.
There are 13 buttons on its face, and that's before you slide the screen out to reveal the keypad
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http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/aug/27/whats-on-iphones-menu-ease/
The Mac Night Owl: Does Apple Hate the iPhone Hackers
Months before the iPhone debuted, Apple was being asked over and over again about the prospects for running third party software on it. But a short time before the hot-selling gadget shipped, Steve Jobs was saying that Apple hadn’t decided how to handle development for the iPhone yet, but that a workable solution might come at a later time.
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