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Since Apple announced the iPhone, using a touchscreen equipped phone without a stylus looks more appealing than ever. Primarily, it’s more practical. However, the problem with most touchscreen-based devices is that they not only come with a stylus, but with a virtual keyboard optimized for using it.

Thanks to the application called PocketCM Keyboard, Windows Mobile-based device owners can now add the iPhone-like virtual keyboard to their touchscreen enabled handsets and actually type sans stylus. Unlike the traditional Windows Mobile virtual keyboard, this one — and the one on the iPhone — doesn’t reacts when you press the letter on the screen. Rather, the key is triggered when your remove your finger from the screen, hence you can “preview” the letter you’re about to enter. In addition, the PocketCM Keyboard is a standard Windows Mobile Soft Input Touch (SIP) app, meaning you will be able to use it in (almost) any application.

I’m not sure whether this kind of software infringes some of the Apple’s patents, but I find it looking quite cool and above all useful. In fact, this kind of virtual keyboard should come pre-installed with HTC Touch and other all-touchscreen Windows Mobile devices.

[Via: the::unwired]

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Mobile-review have posted an article talking about the messaging capabilities of the iPhone. He puts the iPhone up against the Nokia N95. Here is final impression.

You should overhype the lack of MMS support though – this standard can be easily replaced by regular email. As I see, for many manufacturers MMS is a mere act of paying homage to the decisions they made in the pas t- the market has almost no demand for this service.

Wrapping it all up, I can say the following on the iPhone’s messaging options – it is an unlimited storage for messages, which turns out to be worthless for the want of the most essential features like sorting, search and general message management. All information you deem worthy should be literally written down – like on that foot-operated spaceship.

Today any handset offers more than the iPhone on the messaging front. As far as smartphones are concerned (which the iPhone has nothing to do with in the first place) S60 tears the Apple’s product to pieces without breaking a sweat. If we were to give this phone a one-word characteristic, it would be “beautiful”. For it doesn’t have any other merits. You can meditate, watching over dialogues or pop-up windows, but the usability is in question here, no matter how you look at it.

P.S. If you can give us some constructive criticism on this article – you are more than welcome, but please save us from the likes of “I don’t use SMS, so nobody needs this feature for sure”. Also, I can’t take such arguments as “they will chunk this/that in some time in future”. This product is on sale today, at this very moment.

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Just like he promised, George Hotz over at iPhone JTAG has released the tutorial for his hardware unlock hack to free the iPhone from the evil grip of AT&T. But, in a surprise move, geohot went live with the instructions ahead of schedule.

Now, if you’ve got the guts and soldering skills to give it a go, head on over to iPhone JTAG for the instructions you’ll need to crack open that iPhone and unlock it for use on any network.

If any of you out there actually attempt this hack, please let us know how it goes. And good luck!

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TUAW’s Erica has released the new iPhone application, Song Sender, which allows users to send their songs via email and set them as ringtones with a single click. Once the application is started, it will read your library and create a scrolling list of all the music on your iPhone. Tap the song name, and from there you can play it, email it, or add it to your ringtones.

The Song Sender is a free download, and is one of those apps which should have come pre-installed with the iPhone. Anyway, the unofficial solution is here, and many who have tried it found it quite usable!

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Earlier we brought you the iPhone v N95 Battle Royale - a much fairer fight than battling a recliner couch. This time the Apple iPhone goes up against the reclining mechanism of kwarren’s couch. And, as we would expect, the iPhone loses…badly.

Apparently, this guy’s not-even-one-month-old iPhone slipped in between the seat cushions of his reclining couch. Getting up and folding the couch back into it’s upright position basically caused the steel bits underneath the seat to crunch the iPhone into an unholy mess of glass and metal.

But, as gruesome as the resulting damage was, his local Apple Genius replaced his iPhone on the spot. Wow, we gotta hand it to Apple and their customer service. We’re pretty sure that if we mangled any other phone even a week after we bought it, we’d be SOL.

Hit up kwarren’s Flickr account for the rest of the gory pics.

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There have been a slew of Apple iPhone vs. Nokia N95 comparos in the past weeks, nay months. Who could forget our very own Stefan’s hilarious “I’m an Apple iPhone” mock commercials (if you haven’t seen the entire series, check it out now). Both phones are the pride and joy of their respective companies, so hype and buzz are basically a requisite when mentioning either the iPhone or N95, but which one is right for you?

Cnet’s iPhone v N95 match-up seeks to answer just that question - the gloves come off for this one. Fight!

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This announcement comes as no surprise, AT&T has decided to drop the extra large phone bills that subscribers got that itemized their call and data information last month.

Instead they’ve decided to opt for a summarized bill that will be only a few pages long. Anyone that wants to access the information provided in the larger style can still see this information online.

“It’s going to be in a decidedly thinner envelope. Given the fact that some of our iPhone customers are going to be heavy data users — and we like that — we also don’t want them to be burdened by getting tons and tons of paper in the mail, figuratively.” said AT&T spokesman Mark Siege.

Summarized billing statements will begin on September 28, 2007.

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Perhaps no other cell phone in history has been as anticipated as Apple’s iPhone. From the moment it was announced by Apple to the time it was released six months later, the cell phone was a constant topic of rumors and speculation. Now that it’s here, we can report that the iPhone largely succeeds on most fronts, particularly as a music player, but it’s hardly the only cell phone with multimedia prowess. The Nokia N95 also offers a raft of music and video features and admirable performance. So which one is better, you ask? Well CNET is here to provide an answer, as we pit the two phones against each other in their first head-to-head match-up.

Let’s have a clean fight, fellas. Ding ding.

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Steve Jobs made waves in the wireless industry by getting AT&T to bend to his will - revamping the voicemail system to accommodate Visual Voicemail, nixing any handset subsidies or rebates, and even sharing revenue (not to mention new contract bounty) with Apple. Now, the Financial Times is reporting that he’s at it again. Ever the arm-twister, Jobs & Co. have finally managed squeeze a commitment out of T-Mobile Germany, Orange France, and O2 UK for a revenue sharing plan on the Apple iPhone. The deal outlines a 10% kickback to Apple for all revenue from call and data transfers made on iPhones.

While sources close to the matter (the best kind of source) are claiming that the deal is slated to be announced at an IFA trade fair in Berlin at the end of August, neither Apple nor the European trio will comment on the situation.

The deal, if true, basically confirms rumors that T-Mobile will be getting the iPhone in Germany; Orange in France; and O2 in the UK (although, we have reason to believe that O2 will share the iPhone with Vodafone). Futhermore, if this deal turns out to be legit, it could open the door for other handset manufacturers to demand similar revenue sharing plans from carriers. Who said the iPhone wasn’t revolutionary?

We’ll keep ya’ll updated on the latest developments on the overseas iPhone dealings.

[Via: Financial Times]

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The iPhone will be hitting Europe in the near future, and analysts have a number of questions concerning the launch. It’s believed that the distribution of the phone in Europe will be much different than that done in the States. Apple has apparently already signed agreements with three major European telcos to handle the phone.

Germany’s T-Mobile Deutschland, France’s Orange, and Britain’s O2 (UK) are reported to have signed exclusive deals to sell the iPhone in their respective markets, with an announcement expected as early as next week, according to the report, which cited unnamed sources.

As part of the deal, the operators agreed to give Apple 10 percent of the revenue they generate from the sale of voice and data services for the device, the report said.

All three operators declined to comment. Other potential partners, including Telefónica and Telecom Italia, are keeping mum as well.

Vodafone Group, Europe’s largest mobile phone company, diplomatically pushed the ball into Apple’s court. “We really don’t have a lot to say, I’m afraid,” a company spokesman said. “This is really a question for Apple.”

It’s unlikely the plan will be anything like the exclusive deal Apple signed with AT&T, but details currently remain sketchy. AT&T needed to make a number of concessions to win the business from Apple, and it’s likely the same will be expected of European counterparts. They will do it, of course, for a chance to service a lucrative market of consumers.

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