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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

Woke up early. Visited the Buddhist Temple of Lama in Beijing. It really was a wonderful place. Unfortunately, pictures inside the temples are prohibited. We saw the biggest buddha in the world. Really inspiring. After that we went to the Great Wall. It’s really a great place to visit. Like my sister said “I had a great walk on the Great Wall”. You can either go by cable car or on foot to the top. We went by foot. It’s really exhausting when the temperature exceeds 40° C.

After that we went back to town. And met a friend of mine. She showed us some kind of huge store where you can buy a lot of fake stuff (clothes, technology, shoes …)

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yTJcs_XQk0

We found some copies of the new iPhone 4 and the iPad. The copies are looking like the original ones but aren’t working like expected. I asked a spanish man who bought 5 copies of the iPhone 3Gs why did he buy those. He answered me that he hadn’t enough money to buy iPhones and that they wezre quite looking like the iPhone.

For the iPad I was impressed. The system is Android and it’s running smoothly. You can use USB memory because it has a USB port.

For the prices, you can buy a fake iPhone for 40€ and a fake iPad for 80€.

Another reason why Chinese people buy this is because the iPhone 4 isn’t released in China. And the iPad isn’t even announced.

I’ll be covering the opening of the Apple Store next week in Pudong, Shanghai.

See you there.

After that we had a great luck together eating the Peking Duck wich is vey good.

See you !

Apple stated that this iPhone was the thinest smartphone on the market. I have to admit that that’s true. This phone is really thin. And also very powerful.

Since the Apple introduced the original iPhone back in 2007, they took a huge leap forward with this. It inside design is really brilliant too.

First significant change, it’s easy for the user to disassemble his phone. Yeap, that’s right. Changing the battery is only 2 screws away. And the battery is no more soldered ! There is now a connector which you can easily unplug.

Yes it’s really that easy. We can see that the battery takes a lot of space in there. It’s the only component we are unable to miniaturize. It’s really huge. It allows the user to use his phone intensely during 10 hours with a high definition display and multitasking !

The iPhone is now working with 3.7 V and a battery with 5.25 Whr !

And here is the camera. The 5MP camera shooting 5MP pictures and filming at the incredible rate of 30FPS with 720p HD. Don’t forget the LED flash and the noise-canceling microphone.

Processor speed: Goodbye Samsung S5PC100 ARM A8 600MHz. This iPhone is now equal with the Nexus One being powered by a 1Ghz ARM Cortex A8 core. Called Apple A4, sibling of the iPad processor. On this board you can also see on the left the Gyroscope ship with isn’t commercialized. It’s only build for Apple.

Other important piece here is the micro-sim card reader.

Communication Board:

Yes there are also a lot of changes on this. What’s new ? Single-chip GPS receiver (Broadcom BCM4750IUB8) for better signal and a multi-function chip (Broadcom BCM4329FKUBG – 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR and FM receiver ! You could be able to listen to the radio. Or streaming to the radio ?!? Crazy Apple )

Logic Board

Like you would expect it :

- Samsung K9PFG08 flash memory

-Cirrus Logic 338S0589 audio codec (Apple branded). This is the same part as in the iPad

-AKM8975 – newest magnetic sensor that promises to improve the performance over the prior generation.

-Texas Instruments 343S0499 Touch Screen Controller

-36MY1EE Numonyx NOR and mobile DDR

Original Teardown by iFixit

Now that you know what it is made of, enjoy your iPhone 4 ! Brilliant beast !

This thing is a breakthrough device. Yes I really believe it.
It’s all based on small details that make this iPhone incredibly better than the previous generations.

First, a noise canceling microphone. This is really useful. It’s maybe not a game changer but interesting tough.

Another cool thing is FaceTime, ok it’s iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 for the moment. But Apple made it an open standard. This means that Android phones will probably introduce FaceTime in the next months. It’s far more advanced that the actual 3G calling.

Next point, Retina Display. This is the most accurate screen you’ll find on a smartphone. Far more interesting than having a AMOLED screen. This means the eye doesn’t perceive any more dpi. iPhone is now ready for iBooks. I’ld like to see a Retina Display on the iPad. But it will be quite hard to get a fast enough processor for such a resolution. And what could you use it on ? 1400p movies ?

Finally, the design is really cool. I remember Apple patented this external antenna technology which made people feeling dissapointed about the design. I honestly like the design.
A flatter iPhone will be a good deal for my pants. And the new glass is much more resistant. No more broken glasses !

All this seems good news.

And we do know now what the news iPod will be like. Retina display, new glass, A4 processor.

Oh yes and One more thing. Do you like that iOS name ?
That name was owned by Cisco but they licensed it recently to Apple. Honestly I feel weird seeing iOS 4 GM in the Developer Center.

To conclude, I’ld like to introduce the biggest loser on this new iPhone.
Samsung
They always built the processors ARM-Based for the iPhone. No more Samsung processor in the iPhone is a game changer contract.

Enjoy iPhone 4 !

PS: For Belgians it’s a dissapointement to get it only in July. Is this linked because of the contract with Mobistar ?

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 !

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.

Brought to you by Geo !

Keys for the 3.2 iPad firmware

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KEY: 1E3A1CA2F45D15452B16B9FE0A2C214A0AF897F09EE269F8E5967FC74B1022AC
IV: 36E1BCD042AC193F7305C8E6077D3DF7

018-7226-009.dmg
KEY: 31E7ECD9C364414205A8FA0092CC80C0D67EAE40E75FFA27B37048C42335A106
IV: 9C051576DDD94F48C324CF7AC3197FE1

And of course, the bootrom:
SecureROM for s5l8930xsi, Copyright 2009, Apple Inc.
03203A4EBC24BD2488EFDAAA19F0C9589496011F

This is more exciting than a lot of you realize.

Check out Apple’s Website

Check out Amazon’s iPad Page

iPad accepted apps :

* Ammoin HD
* Azkend HD
* Flight Control HD
* Grind HD
* HD Recovery
* Labyrinth 2 HD
* NBA Hotshot HD
* Numba HD
* Plants vs. Zombie HD
* Sparkle HD
* Worms HD

The iBook feature is the most exciting application.

You’ll be able to download 30 000 free books from the eBook Store.

Pricing:

Just imagine walking in an Apple Store with your jailbroken iPod Touch and being arrested by the police. Yes that nearly happened to HotRod1964 . He told us he was chatting with an Employee who called the store manager about the jailbroken iPod and the “Genius” called the cops. Read the full story !

The story was revealed on the iPhone Download blog.

Went to local APP STORE about 2 weeks ago. For nothing other then I was in the area and had an hour to kill. Figured I’d browse around. Obviously, they were very polite and a salesperson approached me to see if I needed some help (store was not busy at all). Told him “Nope, just browisng”. Being that they were not busy he starts asking me what type of comp I have, what kind of phone and etc…When I told him I dont have an iphone he asked why and if I was interested in 1. I explained why and told him I am not interested due to apples unwillingness to allow owners to ‘do their own thing’ and that I have no intention of paying for an iphone if apple is going to handcuff me….he kept going on and on about what I was missing out on……I then told him I was more then happy with my new droid and I was more then happy with my Itouch. he said “Oh, so you do have an iTouch then?” I said yep and pulled it out. Flipped the case open and hit the home button and he saw my lockscreen, which is the Grateful Dead with some other ‘goodies’ on there. he sort of stepped back and his eyes popped wide. he asked if he could look at it..I would NOT hand it to him, but what the hell, it is my device so screw em….I slid the lockscreen to access the device and very obviously (i’m sure he knew as soon as he saw my lockscreen) at first look he knew it was JB’d. he didnt say anything other then going sort of quiet and saying “wow”……He walked away…..I was then approached by the manager. He said ” I was informed you have an ILLEGAL iTouch”…..I replied “I do have an iTouch but that it was not ILLEGAL”. he then asked if it was ‘modified’…..I said ( and happily I may add) “Yep, it IS MODIFIED…You should get one yourself as you dont know what you are missing out on”….he then said “Sir, that is an ILLEGAL device”….I said “Your NUTS….It is my device I paid for. I own it and can do anything I damn well please with it”…..he then said “Sir, the device you have IS illegal….I must now ask you to turn over the ILLEGAL device at once”. I responded and said “Dude, your nuts, it is not illegal and if you think I am giving it to you, I have a bridge in the sahara desert I’d like to sell you”….he then said “sir, if you refuse to turn over your ILLEGAL device I must have a copy of your drivers license”……I said ” Dude, you really are nuts..your not taking my itouch and you have no right to ask for my DL”..he then said I had to either give him my itouch or my DL or he will contact security…LOL..Oh boy..the MALL POLICE!!!…..I told him “go right ahead..I’ll make myself comfy and wait”…..Instead of the MALL POLICE..and actual Police Officer came….They spoke to the manager..then came to me…..I told them I am breaking no laws and there is no way in hell anybody is taking my itouch unless the COURTS order me to turn it over…I said..here is my info…take me to court…..Otherwise, get off my friggin back or I will sue apple and file complaints against you as just because you have a badge does NOT give you the right to detain me or ask me to give you my personal possessions unless you can tell me WHAT LAW I AM BREAKING…..They walked away…..talked to the manager…came back and said “sorry for the inconvenience. You have a pleasant day”……and I left………Anyway, just thought I’d share this since I see others posting about geting banned from their stores and etc, and I want to make sure everybody knows..DO NOT LET THEM CON YOU INTO GIVING UP YOUR DEVICE…some are intimidated by the authorities so may give up their device out of ‘fear’….DONT DO IT…..Tell them to explain what law you are breaking and to either arrest you or get F*cked…do not let them CON you into giving up YOUR PERSONAL iphone/itouch!!!!!