iPhone vs Others

Source:  iPhone vs Others: The Mobile OS Market

Source: Apple drives USD 6 Billion App Download Market for This Year

Revenues from mobile app sales, however, are expected to decline by 2012, as competition has led to downward pressure on application prices; and a greater proportion of ‘must-have’ applications will begin to have free or advertising-supported substitutes. In addition, notes ABI, many handset makers such as Nokia, and Motorola with its Android handsets, have started to bundle applications that allow users to connect to popular social networks, instant messaging, and GPS services. 

 “As competition heats up, app makers are both dropping prices and ‘going free’ to stay on top of the download charts,” commented the research company’s VP of forecasting, Jake Saunders.

Windows 7 Slate vs iPad

The Slate's outperform iPad's Safari in terms of browsing experience.
But, I hate the Slate's virtual keyboard!

Malaysian Mobile Broadband Market Share Q1'10

Celcom has introduced a new Data Package.

It was reported, as of the first quarter 2010, Celcom had 52.7% share of the wireless broadband market, followed by Maxis with 25.5%, Packet One Networks (P1) with 13.7% and DiGi with 6.4%, while the rest altogether had 1.7%.

Question is: Is that based on 3G simcards or 3G data plan subscribed? :-)

How Malaysian telcos compares with other telcos around the world in Data ARPU?
Softbank which launched its iPhone has now more than 55% of its ARPU came from data traffic. Thanks to its expansion of mobile content and iPhone offerings.

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How To: Unlock iPhone 4

Finally! Dev Team released the Unlock Solution!


Dev Team is happy to tell you that their ultrasn0w carrier unlock now supports the iPhone4!
Version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w works for:

• iPhone4 baseband 01.59
• 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04

Step 1 - Jailbreak your iPhone 4 using JailbreakMe 2.0 star. (You can refer our guide on How to Jailbreak iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G iOS 4 / 4.0.1 and iPad 3.2.1 with JailbreakMe 2.0 star)
Step-2 - Start ‘Cydia’ on your jailbroken iPhone 4 iOS 4.0.1 springboard.
Step 3 - Select ‘Manage’ tab at the bottom of your iPhone screen and then select ‘Sources’.
Step 4 - Select ‘Edit’ and then select ‘Add’. Now enter a URL source. Type ‘repo666.ultrasn0w.com‘ and select on ‘Add Source’. Once Cydia has added the source click on ‘Return to Cydia’ button.
Step 5 - Once the installation is completed. Search for ‘ultrasn0w 1.0-1′ in Cydia and install it.
Step 6 - This app will automatically unlock your jailbroken iPhone 4 baseband 01.59.00 easily.
Step 7 - Reboot it.

How To: Identify iOS 4 Compatible Cydia Apps

Most of you have tried to install Cydia apps and that you already knew, that some of the Cydia apps works with iPhone 4 and some may be not, if not, it may crash your device and lead to problems. So here's the official list of compatible Cydia apps from the iPhone Dev Team.

This list (found here) is helpful and useful for everyone owns an iPhone 4 or got iOS 4 on it's device,