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wot use do you still find for secure shelling?

true, i do all my youtubing on pc and download vids via keepvid. on the iphone i use MXTube. but really, devteam, its not like youtube is a killer app. then again they say it goes beyond youtube; apparently push notification doesnt work on non-legit carriers.

there goes my one reason for updating to 3.0!

texazzpete:
If i remember correctly Ex Inferis used to be a Zibri supporter

still am! got my second iphone classic on 1.1.2, with BL 4.6. ziphone 3.0 saved my arse.

right now im getting infuriated; wot's the devteam up to? dont really need youtube for now, release Quickpwn 3.0 or pwnagetool already! or maybe they figure they best wait for the 3GS and kill two stones with one bird.

PS: mac os x 10.5.7 has issues wit DFU AGAIN if running itunes 8.2

there is a free facebook application in the appstore; you just need an account. luckily iphone OS 3.0 allows you to do just that from the phone itself.

true blood naija, indeed. why you come pack your load run dey squat with those Pakis and loud indians? think the grass is greener? some of us actually got fed up and returned, and so far its all good, bar one or two hiccups. (ok, a million hiccups, but waddaya do?)

well its supposed to be 10am Pacific Standard Time which if i remember correctly should be like 6pm naija. im more family with the Eastern time zone, PST is not my thing.

you pimply lot on that dreary island use GMT, i presume? well go figure, Pinchley

actually, watchmen has always been a fan project; on that score, it worked.   .    .   .  sort of. its the visualization of Doc Manhattan that took the wind out of the sails. a god-like being reduced to a dreary, very mortal gay no thanks to ropey CGI and billy Crudup who cant act to save his nuts. and speaking of nuts, wots with the teensy weensy *woody* they gave him? i mean, in scenes where he's shown nude full frontal, that thing is just hanging lifelessly like a good 5 inches below average. you'd think a god would have some real *meat* on him. he can make castles out of martian sand but he cant give himself some quickie penile extension? wots up with that? me, with those thar powers, that'd be my fisrt act, if god forbid im that *short*.

Xmen Origins (or Franchise Origins) is just a rousing brain-dead commerce fun movie which requires you know precious little of the real Origins series from the comics and just accept it as a fun way to kill time. its not too bad if you forget X2 for a minute, but its great if you keep X3 in mind.

Transformers 2 is what you call More-of-the-same summer blockbuster sequel for the popcorn crowd.  hell, you can walk into your local multiplex high on a dozen pills and still enjoy the carnage Bay is set to unleash onscreen with typical abandon.

intellectuals, stay at home come june 26. this one isnt for you.

here is something funny: recently, Uwe Boll said Michael Bay cant direct.

best movie of 2009 so far: Pixar's Up.

lungwun:
well, aint nothing really wrong with beta stuff.

seriously? so anything locked in testing phase can be used in realworld productivity environments, abi? is that the jab of your point? ok, look, really, ditch the pills and chillax, guy, because anything deemed as beta means its teeming with bugs; hence the need to seed it prelease in order to find the bugs and quash them. then its on to Release Candidate (in some cases, except Apple) which is essentially to confirm the bugs have indeed been either eliminated or reduced to less aggravating levels. Next up is Gold Master (GM), which is the final product.

lungwun:
have been using windows 7 ultimate beta since february.

which means you're missing more stability and a few nips and tucks here and there on the UI. im running on Windows 7 Ultimate RC. loving it! finally MS is challenging Apple's leopard.

lungwun:
might still be in the clouds tho not with pills but free stella artois!

good luck with the Red Bull, challenger!

lungwun:
was so high yesterday i went to watch a friendly cricket match. cricket! of all things.

well, you English have always been a bit daft. i mean, what with bad teeth and smelly breath, you had to add a silly game to your list of infamy. whle the rest of the civilized world burns its insides on high-octane coffee, you silly ninnies guzzle tepid tea. any wonder why god, in wrath, punishes you blighters with incessant rain and Nokia?

if apple does pull the plug on 3.0 (unlikely) how in hell do you figure using beta fw on your phone? you nuts? get rid of those pills and get down here from those clouds, nucca.

wot you need to hold on to (if you absolutely have to) is the 3.0 GM which is exactly the same stuff everyone's getting come 6pm naija time today.

we all know who you mean, *cough* moonraker *cough*.

its no longer yellowsn0w, its called Ultrasn0w and will be available midnight naija time on Friday. it'll unlock any iphone 3G from 3.0 down.

which one be killer wifi again.

or an app to convert Cabali into a less-LOLing hobo

whle we're at it, i need an app to convert my 5800 XpressMusic to a Blackberry Javelin.

not to mention the 3g radio and GPS.

voice memo. now to find a use for it.

and still no numerical battery meter in sight. they lied to us on that one.

oh, and itunes sync is faster, providing you on 8.2.

cheers.

yah, just four more days until the official release. then it's anyone's guess when yellowsn0w 3g will be out, if ever. needless to say, the BB and BL on this one are locked tight. the mothership isnt taking chances.

and more

more pix

so here it is, iphone 3.0 Gold Master. everything is smoother and faster than 2.2.1, its got copy/paste (d'uh), voice memo, spotlight search, MMS, landscape text entry, etc etc.

but of course, you all know that already

no jailbreaks yet.

since when do high-end phones get released in naija? your question shoulda been, has it been imported yet?

@lungwun

abi? i wonder what sort of glory one craves to throw fibs like that. think it'll make him cooler if he was first to see and hold 3GS.


eventually a lot of us are going to get one or two anyway, same as happened with the previous iphones.

quoting you

moonraker:
the iphone 3g or S is quite different from the standard one provided by AT&T

The iphone here comes with a TV turner inbuilt into it.

the tv tuner you talk of is a third party accessory hooked via the dock connector to charge the iphone. it streams tv via wifi to a third party app installed from the appstore. does that sound like "inbuilt' or "quite different" from regular iphones out there?

dont make a bigger arse of yourself than you already did; admit you lied about handling the 3GS and hopefully we can all move on.

@moonraker

you do realize tv tuner is hardware, right? apple has never and will never segment the hardware based on regional or carrier quirks. tv tuner? that is so unapple-like. even the rumored fm tuner didnt make the cut, why should tv tuner?

apple, unlike other phone manufacturers, hand down terms to the carriers who have the choice to either accept or forgo the iphone. not even ATT, apple's biggest partner, has the right to demand what goes into the iphone.

besides, if softbank wants to be arsy about the iphone, there is always docomo.

probably you held one of those chinese iphones; some of them are so good they look like the real thing.

final point: iphonehardware is universal, the only variation across regions is official unlock. there is no way japan is getting a different hardware, which in any case was never mentioned during wwdc, nor anywhere on apple's site.

@ lungwun.

i only know of gevey sim proxies that unlock the 2.30 BB. why not wait until next week for the 3.0 and yellowsn0w 3g?

check www.ihazsupper.com

@moonraker

im not outrightly calling you a liar, i have far too much respect for you for that. all im saying is the iphone 3GS will be launched in the US on june 19th, two days after the release of iphone OS 3.0. the rest of the world, japan inclusive, wont get it until august, almost two months after the US launch. and Apple doesnt do pre-test else Engadget and the rest would have done a 'hands on" by now, or the good fellows over "at will it blend" would have done a tear-down.

in essence, no carrier is given a new iphone 2 months before officil launch. to put matters to rest, kindly furnish some pix.



@lungwun

seriously? you guys are talking about the xperia? are you deliberately trying to offend and annoy? crisis, i'd rather end my days with a G1.

im getting a Touch Diamond next week, and im installing SPB mobileShell 3 pronto. that thing is everything a WinMo 6 interface should've been.

palm pre isnt bad; its hillarious. ive seen videos of it, and im only baffled why there isnt a universal snicker at how they completely copied the iphone UI and functionality. and going by testimonies of defects and hardware issues and lock ups, im not buying even if the GSM version comes out.

wont mind getting it for free, though.

PC GURU, you're so right. openGL ES 2.0 on 3GS is a BIG deal. apple is trying to create a gaming platform on the iphone/itouch and that graphics technology will be a big deal. it might even force hesitant 3G owners to upgrade since the appstore has to splinter in order to make games and apps specifically for the 3GS. OpenGL ES 2.0 isnt compatible with the 1.1 the 3G currently runs on.

and i just got a PSPSlim!!!

also right about apple not redesining the iphone OS so soon. a re-write probably means re-coding itunes, itunes store, app store, new SDK, new APIS and frameworks etc etc. noone wants to have to ditch their app catalog so soon, just like it happened when nokia went from symbian 7/8 to 9. lots of people had to bin their app collection from the 6600 days

seriously, my last comment.

true. if symbian was a new OS then a few minor updates wouldnt be amiss. but its old and nokia has since hit saturation point. sadly the poor buggers dont know it. check it, even the N97's biggest selling point software-wise is.   .   . wait for it.  .   .  WIDGETS! like, yay, right?

not.


android just pushed out cupcake, which is 1.5. the biggest thing of note is virtual keyboard. so, minor update on new OS is good, since the ultimate objective is to establish a clear-cut platform. you dont create a dev-enticing platform by ditching midway or changing tracks tangentally just to please expectant fans and blogdom. hell, once you reach platform, you milk the OS dry and tHEN move on. Palm did with PalmOS, RIM is doing with Blackberry OS. why shouldnt Apple, which so far has the most successful mobile platform? nokia has milked the cow bone dry; now they flog a dead horse for all its worth, which is little. things have gotten so bad for symbian, that during apple's wwdc Nokia camped out and handed free 5800 handsets to developers to entice them into developing apps with which to stock up the lame OVI Store. nice try, espoo, those devs are so awash with cash from their iphone app sales they can afford to buy controlling shares in Nokia! what's a cheapo $100 phone going to do?

my only gripe with the new iphone 3GS is the hardware design: i wished they'd redesigned the thing, but then again its a minor upgrade, and it has smudge resistant glass.

and for the naysayers gawking for palm pre, here is the lowdown

1. it too doesnt do video recording

2. the bluetooth is same as iphone's; ie headset only. meanwhile iphone is having peer-to-peer via bluetooth coming in 3.0

3. it sucks battery faster than iphone

4. the interface lags

5. the UI isnt as slick as the iphone's

6. there is no universal settings app; everything is obscurely hidden in a dropdown submenu which isnt intuitive

7. so far 3D games arent possible

8. 18 apps only in app catalog

9. search isnt universal, unlike in iphone OS 3.0

10. copy and paste is restricted to editable text; unlike iphone's which is system-wide even across third party apps

12. storage is limited to 8gb and no expansion slot

13. no tethering (at least not from sprint)

14. finally, no developer access to hardware as well as accessories API


meanwhile unless nokia ditches symbian, im never buying a nokia device. ever. again.



my last comment. out

its interesting: Nokia every few hours releases a "new" hardware running the same OS as previous phones from the last hour all the way back to the last decade and people dont cringe and gripe. Apple refreshes its line with new hardware and tweaked software and suddenly its a crime against humanity.

ive trawled the blogs and im sickened by the senseless over-expectant Apple bashers (especially the idiot commenters on engadget) who carry on about how apple let everybody down. well, last time ichecked, apple didnt leak any rumors about OLED, HD, front-facing camera, new software etc. the blogdom and unrestrained fanboys did. indeed, apple never leaks any product in development, lets leave that to M$ (Zune HD?)

now, back to apple's supposed disappointment.

the key thing about iphone, as we've always taken pains to assert, is the magnificent iphone OS (which palm completely aped right down to itunes sync using ipod ID). steve jobs never said they were competing on hardware footing, which was nokia's forte (and which got it nowhere-leading to RIM stealing Nokia's thunder with clever software: BES and BIS).

the entire iphone experience is the OS and UI; that explains why the under-equipped original iphone sold so well while more-powerful hardware (those HTCs and Omnias) are still a drop in the ocean (WinMo is like fourth in market share).

the Apple App Store is a phenomenon, but ist built to work on frameworks existing in iphone OS. recently the appstore pushed 1billion apps from a catalog of over 50,000. developers are so happy!

so, why would apple suddenly up and change the OS and its frameworks (possibly killing app compatibility ala symbian OS 9.x)? iphone OS is just 2 years old, its too soon for a radical revamp. winmo, by contrast is over 15 (going by its foundation, WinCE). symbian (going by EPOC) is over 20. these two are due for overhaul to fit in with current trends, and hence the public outcry agasinst symbian and winmo 6.x.

the real competitor to ip[hone is really the palm pre; but webOS is a blatant ripoff of iphone OS and works almost exactly like apple's baby, so theres no danger of a "revolutionary" product right there. the most touted feature-multitasking cards-leads to severe memory leaks (hello symbian!), synergy works counterproductively in certain cases, and touchstone just makes no sense (overheating, leading to freeze ups).

since the nearest competitor, running on a troubled network (sprint) by a troubled firm (Palm) is in no danger of stealing apple's customers, why should apple then waste time and resources fighting off a doomed device? should apple be expected, because of the Pre, to kill app compatibility on a catalog of 50,000 apps just to ward off one single poorly implemented clone?

i dont think so. besides, when you have a near-perfect OS and a comfortable margin with a hefty war chest, theres is only little improvement to do. Leopard is so good that it successor, Snow Leopard, offers only tweaks and fixes. the whole gamut is there in the iphone anyway: 3G speeds, GPS, wifi, bluetooth, media playback etc. that leaves precious little to implement and really wow. hardware is near maxed out. the field left is software.

like i once said before, piling fantastic hardware upon hardware on silly software is a surefire way to fail. point proved with the BB Storm. Nokia packs the best the tech world has to offer but sadly straps everything on an ageing OS and thus watches as its market share and profits dwindle as the smaller players with better software take centerstage.

hell even samsung tried with the original Omnia, piling features upon features and all video codecs known to man. still, sales were poor because the underlying OS was WinMo.

so anyone who expected a wunder-device from apple replete with fantastic whizzbang features did themselves a disservice. afterall, the iphone 3GS is claassed as iphone2,1. meaning minor upgrade. AMOLED is fine and good but it makes phones more expensive; LTE is not quite ready for primetime, and bluetooth 3.0 is still to hit critical mass. so what can we reasonably expect apple to implement and still keep costs down? a bread toaster?

hold your hats for iphone2,2 next year when contract on the current 3G expires.

@lungwun


too much megapixels isnt always a good thing unless you have a monster display. considering that most people have a 1280x720 or slightly better they're better off with 3mp. otherwise the sheer size will overwhelm the display and entirely defeat the purpose. when it comes to cams, white balance, macro, auto focus, lens quality, etc all count a whole lot more vthan too many mps. so 3.2mp is pretty sensible on a mobile device. if you want pro-quality, get a DSLR.

@moonraker.

i very much doubt you've held the 3GS. no one outside Apple, not even devs and ATT have held one yet, which wont be available until june 19. ATT works on specs to upgrade, while devs utilize gold master 3.o to craft their wares. if Apple wants to test enterprise features, it'll issue current 3G phones running 3.0 since enterprise layers are software-based (remote wipe, authentications, eas, certs, etc etc).

hell, ATT signed up to the contract terms for the first gen iphone without even seeing the device first.


@everyone else

iphone 3GS is not available, wont be until june 19. stop saying you've seen it, or are planning to upgrade tomorrow.

or are you mistaking a Palm Pre for the 3GS (lolz)
a little honesty dont hurt none. or esle grace us with pix.

and how many megapixels would you rather have?

calculator and keyboard after skinning

iElegance, one of the best iphone themes ever. includes voice prompts for the dialpad.

the clock at the top of the home screen was made visible by creating four blank icons, the dialpad is RMM Dialer but still retaining the voice prompt.

completely themes the entire iphone UI.

total size: 22mb.

@lungwun

ah hah! i knew it cant be MTN's modem. i did a recalculation and i figure it took me 13hours off and on. the 28 hours i earlier mentioned was clocked by the downloader, which is totally wrong. remember i set it and forget it and sometimes dont even bother continuing for a whole day, so probably if ive done marathon straight up download it could be more hours. the biggest problem with MTN is not just the speed; it keeps dropping off or disconnecting.

my cousin in the US has Verizon FiOS. expensive, but good for Netflix! im gearing up for some mega downloads when i get off.

Appulo is slow today, trying to download Myst. imagine, an iphone game that's over 700mb!