Some ppl say Apple is gonna cancel iphone unlocks on updates! Is it true?

I unlocked my iphone and using it with Tmobile but I am afraid to update it now…

that’s what Steve Jobs said.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137330-c,iphone/article.html

just don’t update to any new software … until your hackers have had a chance to re-hack it!

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As the Apple iPhone continues to grow in popularity more and more iPhone download sites are springing up. With so many new download sites appearing it can be difficult to decide which one to sign up with. To make your decision easier here are some reviews of the top iPhone download sites.

#1 – iPhone Unlimited

iPhone Unlimited is highly recommended to every iPhone owner. As a member not only will you be able to download easy to use software to unlock your iPhone you will also get a lifetime membership to a download area literally crammed with software, music, movies, games and much more.

One of the best things about iPhone Unlimited is the excellent value for money. As your membership is a one off payment for unlimited lifetime access you don’t need to worry about paying for every single download or having to pay monthly bills. In addition some other sites offering lifetime access only provide you with the download area. At iPhone Unlimited not only do you get the download area but you also get the software to unlock your iPhone should you wish to use it on another network plus many other great tools.

The unlocking method provided by iPhone Unlimited is 100% safe unlike some of the cheap scams currently floating around on the internet that will damage your iPhone. If you want to unlock your iPhone take care and only use the safe software provided by iPhone Unlimited.

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#2 – iPhone Nova

iPhone Nova is a very close runner up to iPhone Unlimited. There is a vast selection of downloads available including movie, music, TV shows, games and software. There are also a number of very useful tools to help you transfer your media on to your iPhone as well as DVD to iPhone tools. The site is very user friendly and easy to navigate.

At iPhone Nova you also get excellent customer support. There’s free 24 technical support to help you if you ever have any problems and free step by step tutorials to help you start making the most of your membership immediately. Like iPhone Unlimited your membership is a one time unlimited lifetime payment so again there are no per download or monthly fees to worry about.

If you are looking to copy your DVDs onto your iPhone then iPhone Nova would be your best choice. The free DVD to iPhone software that is included in your membership makes transferring your DVDs very easy indeed.

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#3 – iPhone Download Pro

iPhone Download Pro is another impressive download site. Like the previous two sites it also provides you with plenty of features and an impressive amount of downloads. There is a very large selection of games, music, movies, TV shows, software and much more.

As with iPhone Nova there is also free 24 technical support to help you out should you need it and step by step video tutorials to assist you. Again your membership is a one time payment for unlimited lifetime access so you don’t need to worry about per download or monthly fees.

There is also free software to help you transfer your DVDs to your PC and to your iPhone which makes iPhone Download Pro even better value for money.

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What’s the best way to set up Gmail on my iPhone 3GS?

I want to set up my Gmail account on my iPhone so that it can be checked through the “mail” icon, rather than using the web browser based Gmail. My question is how can I get it set up so that when I delete a message, it gets sent to the archive “all mail” folder, rather than a trash can on my iPhone. I see info online for older version of the iPhone software, but nothing telling me how to do this with the new 3.0 software. Thanks.

Set it up using IMAP (not the Gmail setting given). There are instructions on the Gmail site’s help section (setup for iPhone).

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Why can’t my iPhone connect with iTunes?

I have tried all the guides on the Apple website. Nothing.
I reinstalled iTunes. Nothing.
I created a new user account on my windows Vista laptop… Nothing.

The only thing you didn’t list is resetting / restoring the iPhone. I had a similar problem & that worked.

Even if you have to reset the iPhone, it should restore from the last backup.

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Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China.

Those apps, which appear in most countries’ versions of the App Store, do not currently appear in the Chinese version. Another app related to Rebiya Kadeer, who like the Dalai Lama is an exiled minority leader reviled by China’s authorities, is unavailable in the China App Store as well. The apparent censorship comes after carrier China Unicom launched iPhone sales two months ago, making regulatory approval of the phone’s contents in the country necessary for the first time.

“We continue to comply with local laws,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said in an e-mail when asked about the missing apps. “Not all apps are available in every country”

At least five iPhone apps related to the Dalai Lama are unavailable in the China store. Some of those apps — named Dalai Quotes, Dalai Lama Quotes and Dalai Lama Prayerwheel — display inspirational quotes from the Tibetan spiritual leader. Another, Paging Dalai Lama, tells users where he is currently teaching. A fifth app, Nobel Laureates, contains information about Nobel Prize winners including the Dalai Lama.

Test searches done on four out of five iPhones displayed at the Apple Store in Beijing this month returned no results for the term “Dalai.” The apps also did not appear for searches done with a computer on iTunes after switching the country selection in the program to China. One of the iPhones at the Apple Store did display the Dalai Lama apps, though it was unclear why.

Chinese officials condemn the Dalai Lama as a dangerous “splittist” seeking to separate Tibet from China, and have called him a “devil with a human face.” The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after Chinese troops crushed an uprising in the capital city of Lhasa, solidifying Chinese control there. The religious figure remains widely revered by Tibetans.

Kadeer, an exiled leader of China’s Uighur minority group, gets similar treatment by Chinese officials and state media. An iPhone app named 10 Conditions, based on a documentary about her life, also did not appear in test searches of the App Store in China.

Apple lets developers choose in which countries’ versions of the App Store to sell their products, but it is unlikely that the Kadeer and Dalai Lama apps are unavailable in China by the choice of their makers. The app about Kadeer was submitted to the App Stores in all countries, James Boldiston, the app’s developer, said in an e-mail. Other developers said they could not recall if they had excluded China, but most had other apps for sale in the China store, showing that in other cases they had included the country.

“Given that Apple has cooperated with China before (by not distributing games), it’s of course very likely that it’s Apple, not the developers, that are preventing certain apps from appearing,” said one China-based app developer, who asked not to be named, in an e-mail. Games were not sold in the China App Store before recent months.

Boldiston and other developers of the missing items said Apple had not told them their apps were unavailable in China.

“I didn’t know the app had been pulled, and wasn’t informed,” said James Sugrue, who designed the Dalai Quotes app. “Apple reserve[s] the right to do this sort of thing, and while from a censorship point of view I disagree with this, I can understand why they did,” he said.

Apple joins other U.S. technology giants including Yahoo and Google that have come under fire for complying with Chinese government demands on sensitive political issues. Human rights advocates criticized Yahoo when Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, landed a 10-year prison sentence in 2005 partly because of e-mail evidence gained from his private Yahoo account. Yahoo said it was obeying Chinese law by handing the evidence to authorities.

Google has been criticized for offering a censored version of its search engine for China at Google.cn, which blocks pornographic and some politically sensitive search results. Google has similarly said it must follow local laws and regulations.

Chinese authorities previously took aim at Apple last year during the Beijing Olympics, when the U.S. iTunes Music Store was blocked in China after it started selling a new collection of songs about Tibet. The U.S. iTunes Music Store and App Store are both currently accessible from Beijing.

The Chinese iPhone also appears to be subject to the country’s set of Internet controls known by critics as the “Great Firewall.” Searching the App Store for “Falun Gong,” the name of a spiritual sect banned in China as a cult, caused iPhones in the Beijing Apple Store to display a results loading screen indefinitely, though no Falun Gong apps appear to be offered in any countries. In contrast, searches for other terms quickly returned a results page.

Other iPhone apps that might be seen as sensitive by Chinese authorities are still offered in the China App Store. Apps that, for instance, show YouTube videos or let users update their Twitter accounts remain available even though YouTube and Twitter are blocked on the Internet in China.

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Do you have the skills to write a killer iPhone app? If you do, and you create one that becomes popular, you could watch your bank account grow at an astounding rate. And even if you don’t know anything about programming, if you’re willing to hire someone to do the iPhone application development for you, you could still make a tidy profit. A few iPhone application developers have hit the big time, thanks to thousands of downloads of their programs, most at only $.99 each.

If you’re a programmer already and you have some basic knowledge, there’s a slight learning curve when it comes to programming for Apple’s iPhone. But you can download information and the SDK (software development kit) that will help you learn how to do it. That’s what some have done to avoid paying $150 and up per hour for qualified Apple iPhone developers.

Some programmers are writing iPhone apps in their spare time, hoping for a little side income stream, then quitting their regular jobs to pursue iPhone application development full time once they realize how quickly the profits an add up.

But just writing an iPhone apple doesn’t guarantee success, as many have found, too. So hundreds or thousands spent on design, development and testing if you pay someone to write the code for you could be for nothing. There’s no way of knowing until Apple approves the app and the program is officially entered into the App Store.

Competition is pretty fierce among iPhone application developers. The iPhone App store has only been open since 2008 and there are already over 25,000 applications for buyers to choose from. Creating one that many will want isn’t necessarily an easy task. And if you have the idea, someone else may have had a similar one and an application that does nearly the same thing is already for sale.

Some people become an iPhone developer and earn hundreds of thousands of dollars-a few have earned over a million, while others are pretty much ignored. But the chance that the next new iPhone app could be a big hit keeps people flocking to iPhone application development classes in the hopes of learning to do it themselves and becoming an Apple iPhone sensation.

Once the application is created and tested, then it’s necessary for Apple to approve it and list it in the Apps Store. After that, automation takes over and the developer’s job is done. Apple handles the sales details and keeps 30% of the money from each sale for their trouble. While that seems like quite a chunk, there’s no better deal going since you can’t sell iPhone applications anywhere else.

One might think sales of iPhone apps would slow down, since sales of everything else have in the current recession. But with such a huge portion of the population owning a phone, we’re now in an almost completely mobile economy. People talk, send pictures, surf the Internet and now run programs and play games all on their mobile phones. Because of that, iPhone developers can still earn huge amounts of money if they hit on the right app, so iPhone application development doesn’t look to slow down anytime soon.

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Can you search txt messages on iPhone?

I was wondering if the iPhone search function allows Iphone users to also search text messages. The results I get are only from emails, contacts notes etc. but not text messages. Thanks!

With the iPhone’s (after 3.0) Spotlight feature, no you can’t. But you could (if not done already) jailbreak the iPhone & download QuickGold (which was essentially Spotlight before Apple brought it themselves) which allows you to search texts as well. (I used to have it on my 2.2.1 iPhone).

As far as I know though it is not available for 3.0 just yet. They are trying to integrate QuickGold into Spotlight.

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Can the 1st Gen and 3G iPhone use the same case??

I was wondering because the phones are shaped differently and I kind of dont want to spend another $30 if I dont have to.

I don’t think they can. As you said, they are shaped somewhat differently and since the back of the 3G phone is not flat like the 1st gen, I suspect you’ll have to buy a new case for the new one. I hate having to replace the case on a new model phone too, so I feel your pain. Sorry.

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