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Prices of iPhone 3GS in Hong Kong [Updated]

Vinko — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:10:54 +0000

This afternoon 3 HK, Apple’s official carrier partner in Hong Kong released details of their iPhone 3GS tariff plans. From the prices of these plans, it indicates that the “contract-free” version to be sold at Apple Online Store Hong Kong and other Authorized Apple Resellers will be around the same HKD5400.00 and HKD6200.00 prices respectively; as with [...]

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Review: AutoStich on iPhone

Vinko — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:21:44 +0000

I was introduced to this cool little iPhone application, AutoStich, that enables easy creation of panorama (pano) photos on the go. Most pano maker applications on the Mac or on the iPhone (like PanoLab Pro) require the user to painstakingly aligns the different photos that make up the final pano image, including skewing any photos to [...]

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Apple Asia Sent Out iPhone 3GS Marketing Email

Vinko — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:13:31 +0000

Just received the following email from Apple Asia. This was sent to several of my email addresses I have registered with Apple, including my MobileMe email address. There are no further information as to pricing or whether this pending availability is only through 3 HK, Apple’s official carrier partner in Hong Kong. I am hoping that since [...]

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Now Official, iPhone 3GS in Hong Kong

Vinko — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:10:51 +0000

Through a press release received by WinandMac, Apple’s official carrier partner in Hong Kong, 3 HK, has announced that it will begin selling iPhone 3GS on July 10th. Detail pricing for the two models (16GB and 32GB) will be announced on July 9, 2009, 15:00 HK time. I am still trying to confirm with my sources [...]

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Unlocking Your iPhone 3GS? [Updated]

Vinko — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:06:30 +0000

The quick answer is NOT YET! now possible. Yes there is the USB snoops method documented at iPhone Dev Team’s blog, but it is risky. There is also the George Hotz method, purplera1n, which is not the comparatively safer version from iPhone Dev Team version. Though the iPhone Dev Team did release a video of their unreleased tool unlocking an [...]

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Movie Review: Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen

Vinko — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:45:09 +0000

My Rating: This evening I saw the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at Grand Cinema, Elements, West Kowloon, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. Before I went to see this movie I avoided all the trailers on TV and at the cinemas, because there were more than the usual [...]

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iPhone Firmware 3.1 Beta

Vinko — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:05:51 +0000

It has only been two weeks since the release of iPhone firmware 3.0 and Apple has already released the first beta version of firmware 3.1 to its developers. The folks at QuickPWN.com has some details on what’s new in iPhone firmware 3.1 so far: The baseband has been updated to 5.08.01 - Ultrasn0w users should not use the iPhone OS [...]

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Should Carriers Have Exclusivity on Handsets

Vinko — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:09:57 +0000

Jarrett Rush of The Dallas Morning News posted the short post in the Opinion Blog of the newspaper web site titled, Should AT&T be allowed to be the iPhone’s exclusive carrier?. This sparked 65 comments on the newspaper web site, several hours ago it made it to the front page on Digg, which collected 191 more [...]

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iPhone Running 3.0 Now Jailbreakable & Unlockable [Update]

Vinko — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:12:34 +0000

Thanks to the dedicated hard work of the iPhone Dev Team, the iPhone running iPhone firmware 3.0; released on Wednesday, is now jailbreak able. For the layman, jailbreak is the hack to enable the iPhone to run Apple unauthorized 3rd party applications on your iPhone. Note: Personally I have less and less of a reason to jailbreak [...]

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Music For a Good Cause

Vinko — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:31:22 +0000

If you’re not in one of the six countries around the world playing with your new iPhone 3G S. Why not support a friend and a good cause UNHCR. Join me and Michael at JJ’s in Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong tonight from 21:30 - 23:00. You can RSVP via telephone at 2584.7606 or email to mandi.ng@hyatt.com. Related posts Prices [...]

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Tethering iPhone 3.0

Vinko — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:52:53 +0000

As many of you know the iPhone firmware 3.0 comes with the Tethering feature which many have wanted, especially those who have unlimited data plan. For those who do not know, Tethering is the ability to use the iPhone as a 3G (HSDPA) modem for your computer, connected via Bluetooth or USB. Since I am not using [...]

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Review: TweetDeck for iPhone

Vinko — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:54:55 +0000

I had been using Twitter for since 2006 and the iPhone since its initial release in 2007. Through out these times I had been searching for the ultimate Twitter client on the iPhone and on my Mac. Before I can get into the review of TweetDeck for iPhone, I have to provide some context. To understand this [...]

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MMS With iPhone 3.0 On iPhone 3G [Updated]

Vinko — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:45:40 +0000

When I the create the post, To iPhone 3G S or Not?, I was not able to enable the MMS function on my iPhone 3G. Before I explain how to enable MMS on an iPhone 3G running the iPhone 3.0 firmware, let me explain my context. My iPhone 3G is the officially “SIM unlocked” version of the [...]

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Movie Review: Duplicity

Vinko — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:21:12 +0000

My Rating: This evening I saw the movie Duplicity at UA Cinema, Time Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. I always enjoy movies with Julia Roberts and this one was no exception, but she was the only one any good. I never liked Clive Owen and his movies and [...]

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Online Identity

Vinko — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:49:26 +0000

Today shows the need for online identity. At 00:01 (US EDT) Facebook began allowing people to choose their own “vanity” URL for represent their accounts on Facebook.com. Facebook served and completed 500,000 requests in just 15 minutes. Being a web guy, of course I got mine at 00:01 If you’re reading this post and had not already chosen [...]

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To iPhone 3GS or Not?

Vinko — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:45:27 +0000

The question that many are asking themselves after Apple’s keynote announcement on Monday (June 8th, 10:00 US EDT) is, “should I upgrade to the new Apple iPhone 3GS?” This is a reasonable question to ask as rumors of the cost of the new iPhone models are in the USD600 and USD700 range without a new 2-year [...]

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iPhone 3GS in Hong Kong

Vinko — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:41:27 +0000

All of you should have heard by now, Apple announced the new iPhone 3GS last night (HKT) during the WWDC ‘09 keynote speech. Apple Online Store HK quickly updated their pricing of the iPhone 3G 8GB to HKD4288.00 when the keynote ended, but Apple fail to provide a pricing for either of the iPhone 3GS models [...]

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Do Not Install Safari 4 [Updated]

Vinko — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:00:45 +0000

If you rely on 1Password daily and does not want to use beta class software, I would NOT recommend installing the final release of Safari that Apple released last night (HKT). The Safari 4.0 final version broke the 1Password plugin for Safari and the previous hack does not work. The 1Password veresion that works with this version of [...]

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Movie Review: Star Trek (2009)

Vinko — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:59:49 +0000

My Rating: Last night I saw the movie Star Trek at UA Cinema, Time Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. It has been 7 years since the last Star Trek movie release in the theater. The last was Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002 with the newest crew of [...]

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Review: EatWillGrow on iPhone

Vinko — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:55:05 +0000

EatWillGrow is another one of those retro arcade style game with a twist. The goal of the game is simple as with others games of this genre. You have a little green ball figure; with a smily face, that you manipulate on the screen collecting different sizes balls, while trying to avoid land mines; diamond shapes [...]

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iTunes 8.2 and iPhone Jailbreaking

Vinko — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:55:47 +0000

iPhone Dev Team had warned against installing iTunes 8.2 via posts from their blog and tweets on Twitter, for anyone who likes to jailbreak their iPhone. So if you are one of those who likes hacking your iPhone stay away from iTunes 8.2 for the time being, until iPhone Dev Team or Apple releases a new version [...]

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Movie Review: Terminator Salvation

Vinko — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:00:48 +0000

My Rating: This afternoon I saw the movie Terminator Salvation at UA Cinema, Time Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. It has been six years since the last movie in the Terminator franchise, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and 25 years since the first movie, [...]

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Movie Review: Night At the Museum - Battle of the Smithsonian

Vinko — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:00:48 +0000

My Rating: This afternoon I saw the movie Night At the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian at AMC Theater, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. It was a typical performance by Ben Stiller that was nothing special. On the other hand his supporting casts were quite impressive, [...]

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Apple Media Tablet

Vinko — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:00:43 +0000

For the past 8 years and may be as far back as the Apple Newton days, many including myself had speculated about Apple releasing a tablet computing/media device. This device will not be a replacement of your notebook computer but to supplement the PC you already own. Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and the mobile [...]

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Movie Review: Angels & Demons

Vinko — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:12:49 +0000

My Rating: This afternoon I saw the movie Angels & Demons at Grand Ocean Theater, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. This is a movie from the Dr. Langdon franchise, the first being the 2006 movie, The Da Vinci Code. There were very little references to the previous movie [...]

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OS 10.5.7 is Safe for iPhone 3G

Vinko — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:27:02 +0000

Apple released the new OS X update 10.5.7 on Tuesday evening (US PST). When it was released most users with unlocked iPhone 3G were worry that the latest OS X update will further hamper their Mac’s ability to place the iPhone into DFU mode. Now the iPhone Dev Team has tweeted yesterday that OS 10.5.7 is [...]

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Kutcher Ding-Donged Turner

Vinko — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:00:55 +0000

After beating CNN (Ted Turner) to the 1 million follower mark on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher; or @aplusk as he is known on Twitter, this evening (US CST) pulled a guerilla marketing stunt in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, during a massive Tweetup in front of the CNN building. Kutcher and his wife, Demi Moore @MrsKutcher, tweeted about the [...]

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How-to: Apply OS X Update 10.5.7

Vinko — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:49:08 +0000

Everyone who are new and seasoned users of the Macintosh. Seeing that Apple had finally released the long anticipated OS 10.5.7 update. I want to once again reiterate the steps I normally take for applying OS X updates. Before you start, if you’re using a notebook Mac, you should ensure the power adapter is plugged in [...]

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iPhone Apps You Can’t Live Without

Vinko — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:02:03 +0000

I asked the following question on Twitter What is the iPhone app that you use most each day? After receiving numerous responds to my question, I decided to create this post to help others who may be interested in knowing about popular iPhone applications So far the list I have collected the following Rank iPhone Application At App Store 1 Tweetie 2 TwitterFon 2 Palringo Instant Messenger 2 Bloomberg 2 The [...]

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iPhone 3.0 Not Anytime Soon

Vinko — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:16:59 +0000

Today I found out that Apple sent an email to all registered iPhone Developers, to inform them that their iPhone applications must be compatible with iPhone firmware 3.0 or it will be rejected from the iTunes App Store. More importantly, if any applications already in the iTunes App Store are found to be incompatible they [...]

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Movie Review: X-Men Origins - Wolverine

Vinko — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:58:17 +0000

My Rating: This afternoon I saw the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Grand Theater, Elements, West Kowloon, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. There had been many prequels in the past, for example: Star Trek Zero, Batman Begins and Quantum of Solace. Aside from the first one the rest were [...]

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Review: Sticky Licky on iPhone

Vinko — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:37:55 +0000

From the folks at Vision Wise Inc. comes a game called Sticky Licky. It is as addictive as any of the old arcade genre games you spent hundreds of quarters playing at the arcade parlor in the 80’s. What it reminds me of is the old “Space Invaders” game. Of course, with much better looking graphics, even [...]

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Movie Review: Defiance

Vinko — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:17:55 +0000

My Rating: This evening I saw the movie Defiance at AMC Theater, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. The movie is a true story of “Tuvia Bielski“, played by Daniel Craig, in Poland during World War II. Tuvia the eldest of four brothers was forced to take [...]

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Reveiw: TweetStack on iPhone

Vinko — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:18:34 +0000

Ever since I started using TweetDeck this past January, as my desktop Twitter client, it had been my client of choice and I wished there is a similar client on my iPhone. Just a quick description of why TweetDeck is not a normal Twitter client. It has the standard functions to allow users to see @Replies [...]

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Movie Review: Knowing

Vinko — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:17:12 +0000

My Rating: This afternoon I saw the movie Knowing at AMC Theater, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. After watching the poor performance of Dwayne Johnson in Race to Witch Mountain last week, I was glad to watch a seasoned actor, Nicolas Cage, delivering a great performance. Although Cage’s [...]

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I just claimed my blog on Viralogy.com - #49

Vinko — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:08:54 +0000

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Why Skype for iPhone May Not Be Used?

Vinko — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:28:26 +0000

Last week Skype iPhone application was approved by Apple and made available through the iTunes App Store. This was one of the most anticipated application for the iPhone after Qik for the iPhone and cut/copy & paste. For those who do not know what Skype is, please allow me to quickly explain. Skype is classified as a [...]

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Movie Review: Race to Witch Mountain

Vinko — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:43:04 +0000

My Rating: This afternoon I saw the movie Race to Witch Mountain at UA Cinema, Time Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list. I went into the movie without much expectation, since it was staring Dwayne Johnson, famous for his WWE character “The Rock” and his motion picture [...]

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Review: Poddio on the iPhone

Vinko — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:06:03 +0000

I got a copy of the iPhone application called “Poddio” created by the fellow Canadian, iPhone developer, VeriCorder Technology Inc. in Kelowna, British Columbia. Poddio is an audio recorder with built in audio editing functions that you can only expects from a desktop application, at least until now. Even with the upcoming Voice Recorder application built [...]

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WordCamp Arrives in Hong Kong

Vinko — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:48:47 +0000

On April 5, 2009, WordCamp will arrive in Hong Kong for the first time. The event will be held at the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park. WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. [...]

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Does Business Get Social Network

Vinko — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:34:51 +0000

I just saw the following tweet in my Twitter stream. For those of you who does not know SCMP stands for “South China Morning Post” the only major English newspaper left in Hong Kong. Does SCMP realize they are a news agency. If there is a story about police in China arresting people carrying GPS devices as [...]

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影評:《收錯愛情風》He’s Just Not That Into You

Ann — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:02:56 +0000

My Rating: 今晚睇完套戲《收錯愛情風》，有一個好強烈的體會，也是感覺，更加強化了自己和好朋友的一套的理論…當你的男人真的愛你，想同你共渡此生的時候，不用你開口，他就會娶你；當他仍然不想放棄這個森林時，無論你怎樣要求，怎樣歇盡所能地要求-結婚，他寧願放棄，也不會妥協。這並不代表他不愛你，只是時間上彼此的需求有差距，不配合。一個很多人覺得是人生自然的階段，說來自然，但是，對一些拍拖多年的情侶來講，卻並不是那麼來得得心應手，從心所欲！我相信沒有一個正常未婚女人不期待婚姻… 兩人的相處，除了坦誠，還有許多，你懂得的，和你做到的，有幾多？你的少女心是怎麼樣呢？還有記憶和印象吧！毎一天期待着白馬王子的出現？是怎樣的？懷念嗎？覺得自己是傻瓜嗎？想起了嗎……從心裏笑了一笑沒有？想囬憶一下那些傻瓜的年代？ [Update: March 21, 2009] 套戲好好睇，結尾很感動，成套戲又很有娛樂性又多靚仔靚女睇，係 Vinko’s Must See Movies list 其中之一。 Rating...

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iPhone Firmware 3.0 Announcement Summary

Vinko — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:29:57 +0000

Numerous improvements to the iPhone SDK was announced. This included enablement of peer-to-peer connectivity no prior pairing required so two iPhone can talk to each other without prior setup, Streaming audio and video over HTTP, Data detectors, built in VoIP API, and more. Push notification finally arrives for developers to add to their applications. The hotly rumored and confirmed by [...]

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Review: Finger on the iPhone

Vinko — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:01:29 +0000

Today I was sent a review copy of the iPhone application called Finger, developed the Hong Kong company duo Headnix and BeansBox. From the name you will guessed that this application involves your finger, you will be correct. Finger is an ingenious application that takes advantage of the iPhone’s input methods allowing the user to enter text [...]

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What Will Be In iPhone Firmware 3.0

Vinko — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:07:07 +0000

Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, March 17, 10:00 US Pacific Standard Time) Apple will hold a special media event in Cupertino to announce the new iPhone firmware 3.0. In the past, iPhone firmware upgrades did not garner such fanfare. Especially when considering Apple’s recent trend of not holding special events to announce new products, like the new Mac [...]

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Apple Is Shuffling Its Way Into Our Lives

Vinko — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:42:28 +0000

What is Apple doing? They released a new generation iPod Shuffle tonight (morning US PST) that is ultimate in minimalist. Like the 2nd generation iPod Shuffle it had no display, which when the 2G was released back in September 2006, people thought Apple was crazy to release a MP3 player without a display. So much so, that [...]

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New from Apple March 2009

Vinko — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:20:36 +0000

Apple this morning (US PST) released new Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Pro. The former were not a surprise to me but the latter was. As I had thought Apple will leave the Mac Pro upgrade for WWDC, especially given the current economic climate. First the Mac Mini, the previously leaked photos, from China, was indeed [...]

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How-to: Enable Emoji Icon on iPhone Free [Updated]

Vinko — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:15:09 +0000

A month ago I wrote a post, Enabling Emoji On iPhone WITHOUT Jailbreaking, about enabling the hidden Emoji icon feature within the iPhone (with firmware 2.2 and later) without jailbreaking the iPhone. Back then the method involved purchasing an iPhone application that cost USD0.99. If your iPhone (with firmware 2.2 and later) has been jailbroken, you can then use the [...]

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Life Journey

Vinko — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:04:40 +0000

A good friend of mine once gave me a Forever Friends card many years ago, it has the following message on it: You may walk jump, run or fly, … but please never lose sight of the reason for the journey, and don’t miss a chance to see a flower on the way. My friend then added the [...]

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iPhone Officially in China

Vinko — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:23:46 +0000

… Well not quite. AppleInsider reported that: …China Unicom has tentatively reached an agreement and could start selling iPhones as early as May… Since China Unicom’s 3G network is a WCDMA standard unlike China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA standard, the current iPhone 3G sold worldwide will not require modifications to be sold in China. If this report is true, then I would recommend anyone [...]

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