Apple iPhone across the years, from Singapore pricing to docks, cases, and accessories.
Citibank has given its CitiMobile iPhone app a version 2 makeover. New features include improved search in Gourmet Pleasures and Citi World Privileges, plus shopping deals, rebates and e-coupon treats you can redeem instantly from your phone.
Here are Apple's own direct download links for iOS 4.1 across iDevices: iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4, plus iPod Touch 2G, 3G and 4G, all on build 8B117. Grab the firmware straight from the source for every supported device.
Apple finally released iOS 4.0 to the public at around 1am Singapore time, reportedly identical to the WWDC 2010 GM build. Direct download links from Apple cover the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and iPod Touch models.
Apple officially announced the iPhone 4 yesterday at WWDC 2010. I followed it live on gdgt, faster than Engadget, while Gizmodo merely aggregated, probably absent over the leak. Notably, the phone now uses a MicroSIM instead of the regular size.
Apparently Apple's next-generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone HD, was lost in a bar by software engineer Grey Powell. Gizmodo reportedly paid US$5,000 for the prototype and dissected it, though the unit had been remotely bricked and wouldn't boot.
Apple has refreshed its iPod line. The Shuffle gains pink, green and blue, plus a polished stainless-steel edition exclusive to the online store, and now announces a full battery by voice. Third-party headphones with the Shuffle remote finally work too.
I've been eyeing the Sony ICF-C1iPMK2 lately because it's quite affordable: S$179 retail, or S$159 at Challenger with member discount. It's an iPod and iPhone dock clock radio, with reviews over at iLounge worth a look before buying.
I've been hooked on Apple's Push Notification Service ever since I bought Prowl; the possibilities are endless. The service, released with iPhone OS 3.0 on 17th June 2009, uses push technology to deliver alerts to your device. Truly a godsend.
Before I start this tutorial, full credit to crimsontwo from xSellize and joshua.menke; I've merely improved on crimsontwo's work. In his thread on running the Prowl Python script on your iPhone, he explains how to get Gmail push working.
SingTel will launch the new iPhone 3GS on Friday, 10th July 2009, and I'm hoping it won't be during office hours. They've emailed to say I have a date with my new iPhone 3GS that day.
Looks like SingTel's iPhone 3GS launch is getting nearer; I got this in my mailbox yesterday. It thanks me for my interest and assures me that, having registered, I'll be among the first to receive pricing and launch event details.
My top 20 iPhone apps, in no particular order, sorted by price. The free picks include TweetDeck, Facebook, WordPress, Skype, SG Buses and Wikipanion, while paid favourites cover BeejiveIM, FTP On The Go, Byline and Bejeweled 2.
Apple has announced iPhone OS 3.0, arguably the OS the iPhone should have shipped with. Expected features include in-app purchases, peer-to-peer connectivity, custom apps talking directly to hardware, turn-by-turn navigation, push notifications, and finally cut, copy and paste.
Last Wednesday, the Apple Store Singapore ran a one-day shopping event with online discounts, though they were pretty paltry, just S$20 off an iPod nano. Still, S$20 off beats nothing, so I grabbed a Belkin charger.
I flew to Jakarta for one day to attend Sugih's wedding. My Valuair flight left on 9th January 2009 at 1.35pm, returning the next day at 3.20pm. His wedding was on the 9th at 7pm at Hotel Mulia Senayan.
Here's a tutorial on configuring your iPhone, iPhone 3G/3GS or iPod Touch to connect to NUS Wireless. We use the NUS SSID rather than NUSOPEN, since NUS is PEAP-protected and much faster. Note an iOS 4 bug affects this too.
A popular site that converted binary .plist files to ASCII text XML has been down for a while, so I've mirrored it, using PHP instead of Perl for the processing. Here's the link.
I spent over ten hours reworking lesterchan.net's layout to be iPhone-friendly. For now you can only view blog posts, not pages; I've no plans to make pages mobile-viewable yet, as it's a lot of work I find unnecessary.
It looks exactly like the old iPhone, but it's much cheaper: US$199 for 8GB and US$299 for 16GB, around S$272 and S$408 respectively, though both require a two-year contract. The key difference is the addition of 3G.