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After waiting in line for what seemed like an eternity, we finally got home with our shiny new iPhones 3G. Meanwhile, we had time to peruse all the other rah-rah, hand-picked reviewers fawning all over Apple’s new baby, and wondered if any device could possibly be so perfect. As we took the bauble through its paces over the weekend, we found lots of tidbits about the iPhone that few others have even noticed. After the Continue jump, read the 10 things you haven’t heard about the iPhone 3G, as observed by DVICE Editor Peter Pachal and me. Fellow 3Gers, add your own rants and raves in the comments below. Onward!

Most Glaring Nickel-and-Dime Omission: A Dock
Charlie White: Opening Apple’s gorgeous packaging, we suddenly wondered, where is the dock for the glorious iPhone 3G? Maybe it’s under this false bottom. Nope, not here. That’s OK, we’ll just use the dock from our old iPhone. Nope, no luck. I guess that’s proof the iPhone 3G is bigger than its predecessor, since it doesn’t fit… at all. Cold comfort, though, so we surf to the Apple Store, and what do you know? There’s the dock, the new one, for a steep $29. Add that to the $18 “upgrade fee,” the extra $10/month for 3G, the extra $5/month for 200 SMS messages, and pretty soon we’re talking about some real money.

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The people at Pure Digital Technologies were kind enough to send us a Flip Mino HD to review and I’ve spent the last several days testing the device in a variety of circumstances and shooting conditions to help provide you with what you can expect if you’re thinking about purchasing one of these little HD camcorders. Released last week, the Flip Mino HD can record an hour’s worth of 720p high definition video encoded in H.264 MP4 at 30 frames per second on its 4GBs of internal storage. The device measures 4 x 2 x 0.6 inches, weighs only 3.3 ounces, and connects to your computer via a flip-out USB plug, no cables required. I tried a variety of shooting circumstances over the past several days, including recording in the rain, attaching the device to a fan and turning it on, attaching the Flip Mino HD to my dog for a dog’s eye view, hanging the Flip Mino HD out the window of a moving car on a tripod, and standard shooting on a tripod. Read on to discover what I found.

The Build

The Flip Mino HD feels solid but is extremely lightweight for its size, and, therefore, one wants to think it is fragile. Having dropped it several times during my test, I can say that it’s pretty sturdy and nicely scratch resistant. Feathers rarely break when dropped. The Flip Mino HD isn’t featherlight of course, and doesn’t slowly float to the ground, but having dropped it several times from about four feet at the highest and about a foot at the lowest, I can tell it’s well enough built to survive the normal tumbles that cellphone-sized devices tend to take from time to time as they’re knocked off desks or dropped out of pockets.

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While many hoped that February’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona would be a sort of debutante ball for Google’s Android mobile operating system, in reality Android’s showing was more like a small wine and cheese affair. To those hungry for more Android-flavored handsets and an end to food-related cell phone metaphors, take heart — in addition to the one major announcement that did land at MWC confirming the upcoming launch of the HTC Magic (aka T-Mobile G2), HTC this week indicated it has at least two more Android phones slated to launch this year. CEO Peter Chou confirmed “at least three” including the Magic but declined to comment on outside reports that as many as five new Android handsets are in the works for 2009.

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Apple announced the third major version of the iPhone and iPod touch operating system software at an event in California today. iPhone OS 3.0 focuses mostly on adding features long-demanded by iPhone owners and critics alike. For example, MMS (multi-media-messaging) will finally be implemented, so you’ll be able to send images, sound files, and even GPS coordinates to your friends via text message.

Another much-anticipated addition is the ability to copy, cut, and paste text from any field in any application to any other. For example, you could pull a website address from the Safari web browser and paste a link to it in a text message or an e-mail.

Push notifications have also been added, so some apps will be able to tell you when something happens that demands your attention even if you’ve already returned to the home screen or opened another application. IM apps (like Meebo, which was announced at the event) will benefit from this in particular, but the potential uses are broad.

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Despite the initial problems a few of us had this morning getting Kindle for the iPhone to actually register our iPhone with the Amazon Kindle Store, we finally managed to get the application installed and purchased a few titles, so we thought we’d write a review of the application for you, highlighting the good and bad points of the application. There are two main reasons why anyone with an iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPod touch should install this free application whether you own a Kindle, a Kindle 2, or not. First, it opens up your Apple device to a whole marketplace filled with books for reading on the go, immediately adding the value and power that the Kindle Store lends to the Kindle itself to the entire Apple line of portable media devices. Secondly, it works with Amazon’s Whispersync so that all the titles you purchase are available for download from the Kindle Store, where you were last when you were reading a book is remembered, and, perhaps most importantly for Kindle owners or potential Kindle owners, it allows you to sync the same book between multiple devices, so that you can read a few pages while you’re on the train with your small and always-in-your-pocket iPhone and pick up where you left off when you pick up your Kindle at home before bed. Nevertheless, there are some very noticeable weaknesses of this new application that should be kept in mind and that we hope will soon be fixed by Amazon in an upcoming update.

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If you upgraded your Iphone to the latest Iphone firmware 2.0, you won’t be able to unlock it with software such as ziphone, neither the Iphone 3G cannot be break with these tools. Luckily the Iphone Dev Team – a bunch of hackers that believe in the freedom of software have released a piece of software called Pwnage ( Winpwn for windows) that will unlock and jailbreak your Iphone 2G or 3G completely free.

This tutorial applies to Iphone 2G with firmware 2.0

The original tutorial can be found here PLEASE pay attention to all steps, and don’t rush through the process, otherwise you will end up with a screwed up Iphone. The tutorial works perfectly on Windows XP, and according the some people, does not work that good all the time on Windows vista.

Now if you want to skip all the steps on the tutorial above and only do a restore of the firmware 2.0 Using the Custom-iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore software I used to break my Iphone, you can download the custom software from the following link:

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It’s not exactly the level of technology that’ll cause Lucius Fox to storm out of a room, but this new so-called BEAM 3D mapping software developed by a pair of students from the Engineering College of Aarhus is still pretty impressive, and could be of real use to firefighters and others in an emergency. While complete details are a bit light, the software is apparently intended to be paired with a 3D sensor of some sort that’s carried through a building by a firefighter or other individual, which relays information back to a handheld device that pinpoints the person’s location. The downside, and a fairly big one at that, is that it only works if there’s 3D plans of the building pre-loaded on the handheld. No word on a commercial version just yet, but the students did receive a bit of help from software firm Systematic, which is apparently “extremely pleased” with their efforts.

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A mobile phone, a.k.a mobile, wireless, cellular phone, cell phone or hand phone, has been evolving rapidly since its conception by Martin Cooper who made the first call on a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973. Every year mobile phone manufacturers will compete against each other to bring out the best in features and looks to capture the ever growing market of consumers. Anyways, below are 10 of the coolest mobile phones, in my opinion, available in 2008 that are worth your attention and maybe, your money too. They are arranged in no particular order.

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A couple of days ago new firmware for iphone version 2.2 was released and bring a couple of changes a couple of bug fixes (still there are too many bugs so dont get surprised) some more eye candy, some new icons and 2 new features Google Street View and Podcasts.

One of my friend was able to unlock/jailbreak this new version of firmware and successfully got it working on his iphone 2G so I’ll today enlighten you with the method he described on his blog.

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Finally, the tool, Yellowsn0w, to unlock iPhone 3G firmware 2.2 has been released. This would be the biggest New Year’s gift for iPhone 3G users as Yellowsn0w by Dev Team, which has previously brought tools to unlock iPhone 2g and iPod Touch.

Yellowsn0w can unlock iPhone 3G firmware 2.2, which means you can now use the iPhone 3G with any carrier you want! Yellowsn0w download was supposed to be released right on New Year’s Eve, but got late due to some reasons.

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