Apple overtakes Microsoft as world’s #3 smartphone OS vendor in Q308, Gartner Report

With the introduction of Apple Iphone, the handheld market industry has make a leap from traditional usage of smartphone. By far, iphone is still consider the most advance smartphone devices despite it lacks of basic feature, their multi-touch screen has been a revolutionary design that chance a consumer browsing a page on their smartphone devices.

In this Q3 2008, Gartner report, we saw a change for OS dominations on the 3rd placing which dominated by Microsoft Windows Mobile has been replaced by Mac OS X, while Symbian(owned by Nokia) & Research in Motion (by Blackberry) still the stay on their 1st and 2nd place. Growth for the Nokia sales has been decline of 3% due to the expansion of growth for Blackberry & Apple devices.

Stiff competition ahead or decline of market share for symbian platform next year but will maintain their leading position on the market according to Gartner.

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How to Jailbreak Your 2.2 3G iPhone Using QuickPwn (Windows)

Recently found a good guide for jailbreak the Iphone 3G.

Snapshot of the guide,

Source: Please visit, http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1881 (Iphone 3G) or http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1880 (Iphone 2G) for complete instruction

Download:-

QuickPwn 2.2 - Dev Team

Link 1 Link 2

Firmware 2.2 Downloads

3G iPhone Firmware Firmware 2.2

2G iPhone Firmware Firmware 2.2

Bootloader Images 3.9BL, 4.6BL (For 2G iPhone Only)

Iphone 3G in Malaysia, when?

Is being sometime since i update the site.

Today, i'm gonna look into something that Malaysians wanted it to be on our shore for so long, but yet our hope is yet to be materialize.

Guess what, our neighbouring country Singapore and Thailand (coming soon), has got/getting it.

If you read mind title earlier, you probably have know what products i'm talking about.

Yeah, Iphone 3G... much awaited official phone has yet got any news towards the end of the year. Probably would have to wait till next year.

This site shows the countries that available or soon to be available, http://www.apple.com/iphone/countries/

List of wireless carrier that support activation,

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937

N95 classic firmware 30.0.15

Hooray ,another firmware upgrade for Nokia n95.  Auto-rotation has been a default feature in this latest firmware. Well, the rotation is not that smooth though. Nokia Maps 2.0 built in. Noticable user interface improvement, but yet to try it. Prefer Garmin XT with Malsingmaps at the moment.

Full N-Gage client also install by default, i'm not a fan of N-Gage games. Have my PSP for that. Probably it is a good one for those N-Gage fans. 

Others feature enchancement include Share online 3.0 easy upload to Vox, Flickr and Ovi) and Nokia Search (now includes Google as an option). 

To upgrade to this version, visit Nokia website to download Nokia Software Updater and follow the on screen instruction.

** Beware, "ALL Data will be erase" backup your phone data before attempting to upgrade the firmware.**

Google Chrome - Another open source browser by Google

Google Chrome yet another new browser that provide competition to IE, Firefox, Opera which is no available for windows xp/vista user. MAC and Linux user will be coming soon. It is a open source browser which you can download it for free over here. (http://www.google.com/chrome)

Some key feature highlight of the browser includes:-

Incognito mode -  A private browsing feature that will not store any history in the computer.

Application Shortcuts - Certain apps like facebook, yahoo mail, gmail, friendster are being treated like computer apps for certain ppl. With "application shortcut", one can launch it in the desktop like real apps without the address bar and all other unnecessary add-on that is not needed.

Simpler Download - Google has make it easy to access download files by placing shortcuts at the bottom of the page, without forcing user to search through folder.

One box for everything - Which is also called "omnibox" is a both address & search bar. It incorporates a feature that fills in the blank, remembering sites where you go regularly. 

Dynamic Tabs - The ability to drag a tab to become a seperate windows or gather multiple tabs into one windows thus making it convinent to re-arrage tab as dynamic as the user preference. A feature that missing in IE 7.

Best of all Google Chrome is open source, point your mouse to this link to try it out (http://www.google.com/chrome).

P1 WiMax - 19 August 2008

P1 WiMax Launching

WiMAX - P1 Beyond Broadband in PC Fair

Had a quick drop by in PC Fair 2008 in KLCC yesterday. It was so crowded.

Probably for most of Malaysian that live on the internet world, you would probably heard of WiMAX. Among the 4 licenses that has been awarded by the goverment (P1,AsiaSpace, Redtone, YTL-e), so far P1 has the most publicity on the role out in the market.

If you live around the following area, you can sign up for the 2 weeks trial:-

1. KLCC
2. Gombak
3. Setapak
4. Sentul
5. Subang Jaya
6. USJ 1 and USJ 2

You can sign up during the PC Fair 2008 (1 Aug to 3 Aug) or register yourself at their P1 WiMAX website (http://www.p1w1max.com/).

Check out their website for more information http://www.p1w1max.com/ or http://www.p1.com.my/