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Here is an iPod case that’s called “Apple Peel 520″. It allows iPod users to use their iPod as a Phone.  The official price for this adapter is marked around $388 RMB (about $57) and it has an one-year warranty.

I have personally contacted the main distributor of this Apple Peel 520, and I was told that this reviewed unit is still in prototype form, the final retail version will be a plastic case instead of silicon rubber. What’s more, we may help readers to buy it when it’s finally on sale, so please stay tuned!

So, let’s start off with the highlights. This Apple Peel 520 slap on a regular SIM card and make calls with your iPod touch. It does not support 3G, but includes a removable 800mAh battery which gives you up to 3 hours of talk time and 120 hours of standby juice. The funny thing is that when the battery is installed successfully, the adapter itself will vibrate, so we’re guessing it supports vibration.

The adapter has six main parts, a speaker on the top to hear the call, a removable battery, a SIM card slot, a “vibration motor”, a baseband chip, and a dock connector.

It’s not really thin…

The 800mAh battery.

The vibration motor.

The power button and the speaker (for hearing calls).

The Apple Peel 520 works with the iPhone voice calling and text messaging app, so the iPod touch needs to be jailbroken to allow those iPhone default apps to be installed on the device. The adapter will not automatically add these apps to the iPod touch and users need to do it by themselves.

Users need the “Yosion” and “YsSMS” apps on the homescreen to start using the adapter.

The UI of the Yosion calling app is pretty simple.

On the left pic, it shows the inbox of the SMS app on iPhone, while on the right it’s the inbox of the “YsSMS” app on the iPod touch.

The iPhone can delete messages one by one, while the iPod touch could only let you to clear all messages with no further options.

The iPod touch with the adapter allows you to import all contacts from the SIM card to the device memory.

Adding contacts works just like the iPhone.

The SMS app does not support full screen on the iPod touch.

According to PConline’s review, the adapter works very well. Making calls is perfectly alright, just like any mobile phones out there. There’s no drop calls but there’s a little bit delay when the call is made from the iPod touch. It supports 3G SIM cards but it still only allows you to make/receive calls and send messages. The reviewed unit does not support Bluetooth phone call and hands-free calling, but the retail version will fully support these functions. There’s one more thing to take note of, the 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack on the bottom right of the iPod touch has been “modified” to act as an antenna with the adapter’s dock connector, and users will access the 3.5-mm headphone jack on the bottom left when the adapter is attached. Here are some minor problems with the Apple Peel 520 for making calls:

And a few problems for the SMS function:

This magical adapter is not officially available yet. Chinese customers can visit the online store on Taobao to pre-order it, by giving a deposit of $100 RMB (about $15). The good thing is Apple Peel 520 supports all three generations of iPod touch. So, why not try to buy one for just making calls and sending SMS?

Source : PC Online China

Hey there,

I’m leaving for China in a few days. I know it’s holiday but I’ld love to keep connected with the world.

Unfortunately the Chinese government bans access to a lot of sites. (Facebook, Twitter, NYTimes …) So how to stay connected ?

I configured a VPN. I got a VPN server at home. The concept ? While I’ll be in China, I will be using my server to access all those banned sites.

This is what it looks like on the iPhone :

Just got my 50€’s Chinese Visa

After attacking a South Korean warship, North Korea or should I say Kim Jong Il killed 3 chinese men at the frontier. Is all this maid up ?
It seems so stupid of North Korea. They are alone against all. I really believe Kim Jong Il wants a war before he leaves this world. Yeah in fact he’s in a bad shape. He’s preparing the next government of North Korea. But will that be allowed by the people ?
I don’t know

I don’t really know what they want (beside war)

15 min doc about the future of the Web !

I just want to congratulate once again my friend @comex from the iPhone Dev Team for the amazing work he did on the 3.2 / 3.1.3 jailbreak !
Well done !

To use the jailbreak, download Spirit : http://spiritjb.com/

It jailbreaks the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch. All versions available until now !

I expect Apple to release a new update soon. So don’t settle !

I was told earlier this week that HP is acquiring Palm. I was quite surprised. I didn’t expect them to buy Palm. I would have expected a company like Nokia to be more interested.

But why did they buy Palm ? What will Palm products become in the future ?

Will they abandon WebOS or will they continue using the Palm ® trademark to sell mobile devices ?
I think that Palm has a lot of fans that probably will continue buying Palm devices even if HP owns it.

But HP has to make a choice. They can not continue R&D of future devices on WebOS if they are developing Android devices.

Therefore, they have to make a choice. I would continue developing Palm Technologies with a bright future like the Wireless Charger (patent by Palm ®)

Palm Pre is great and feels great. But the problem is that they don’t have a consistent AppStore.

This will probably make them choose for the Android development.

A lot of people are surprised that Apple bans the Flash compiler and don’t understand why Apple bans it. It doesn’t slow down the system, it isn’t hurting iPhone OS.

There are few reasons that explains Apple’s decision.

The first one, is to slow down the growth of other marketplaces. In fact, if Adobe’s cross-platform compiler would work, a lot of developers would use it to cover all the platforms at once. And Apple is at the moment the leader in term of Marketplace. That would change very fast if Adobe’s Flash Compiler would allow to make all versions at once.

Another reason is that Apple’s trying to get more developers for the Mac. Objective-C is one of the rare company owned languages. And developers have to learn objective-c to develop for the widely developed “iPhone OS”.
In terms of market share, Apple’s mobile platform is the “Windows” of the mobile phones.
They are dominating the market and they want to stay there.
Therefore they are trying to make cross platform developement as difficult as possible. It’s like if Windows decided that they only authorize Visual Basic Apps on Windows.

Most of the apps are cross platform developed with special libraries or “neutral” programming languages like C++ or Java.

The decision of Apple is completly understandable. I would have taken the same one.
Apple isn’t a country, it’s a company and it’s allowed to do it’s best to increase it’s market share.

Don’t forget, Steve’s only incomes are the one coming from Stock Options.

This is my culture. The pirate’s culture.