Why waste time hacking the iphone to work on other carriers when you can just buy the iphone in France where it will come unlocked already.
Due to an overregulated market (i.e. Strange Laws), all phones sold in France must be available in an unlocked version. Apple therefore will be producing a premium priced unlocked iphone.
Steve Jobs has announced on the Apple Website that there will be a iphone Software Development Kit sometime early next year.
This has justified my willingness to jump into the iphone pool without knowing about the future of 3rd party applications. The release of the SDK will mean that we can expect some amazing things for the future of the iphone… The geeky brit is excited!
ATA Airlines harassed a guy who was using his iphone in flight.
The iphone was in “airplane” mode – i.e. no radio emissions, but they still insisted it was against FAA regulations to have a cell phone turned on. The ATA flight crew had the police escort the guy off the plane, and tried to charge him. From Casey’s account it appears that the ATA flight crew were being a little rash and incompetent.
I just hope I do not have this problem, otherwise my long flight down under that I have to take in a few weeks will not be fun 🙁
Wired Reports: Apple are looking at using Intel’s Moorestown platform for the next generation of iPhone.
So many people keep asking me if I will be dissappointed when Apple come out with the next rev phone in 2008. Well, the answer is yes, but I will not be upgrading – at least not until after 2 years. I love my iphone, and as Wifi is nearly everywhere I am not missing WiMax or 3g too much.
What would make me happy is for Mr Jobs to open the platform up so we can have some decent third party software apps. Unfortunatly, I disagree with him that Web 2.0 apps are sufficient. I want icons on my iphone screen, not bookmarks 3 levels down in Safari. Its the old adage that 3 clicks is far too many I am afraid…
