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For those owners who have unlocked and jailbroken their 3GS 3.1.2 OS – DO NOT update to the new 3.1.3 OS if you have not backed up your signed signature. Wait for the Dev Team or Geohot to deliver the Hack for 3.1.3. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Remember how those ‘iPhone haters’ (Monkey Boy and Co.) pretty much predicted the doom for the iPhone? Now, if you recall some of these ‘haters’ also predicted the iPhone’s doom in the Japanese market. If you are one of those ‘iPhone-will-not-work-in-Japan-because-the-Japanese-network-is-far-too-advanced-for-it’ and those ‘Japan-hates-iPhone’ read this and you find that having an open mind will just make you look a lot less stupid after the test of time.

“For Softbank’s chairman and chief executive, the company’s role as the only official supplier of the iPhone in Japan gives it a strong attraction in a consumer market characterized by a fascination for gadgetry. “When we launched the iPhone [in the summer of 2008], some people said those phones were not suited for Japanese cellphone users,” said Masayoshi Son at a news conference. Most Japanese cellphones are smaller and lighter than the Apple device. “But those [skeptics] have been proven completely wrong … The iPhone is selling so well that we are really feeling the boost from it,” Mr. Son said. He declined to say how many iPhones Softbank had sold, but described the handset as “the biggest contributor to third-quarter handset sales,” and “a major contributor to growth in data communication revenue.” – Wall Street Journal

Here’s an interesting feed on the excitement of being able to use Skype over the 3G network

Side Note: Defying Apple’s request NOT to use this feature on all Google’s future phones, latest Nexus 1 software update uses Apple-patented multitouch technology. So that means all gloves are off.

Size and Weight

Height:

9.56 inches (242.8 mm)

Width:

7.47 inches (189.7 mm)

Depth:

0.5 inch (13.4 mm)

Weight:

1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;

1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G mode

External buttons and controls

Display

• 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
• 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Capacity

• 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive

Processor

• 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip

Sensors

• Accelerometer
• Ambient light sensor

Wireless and Cellular

Wi-Fi model

• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology

Wi-Fi + 3G model

• UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
• GSM/EDGE (850, 900,1800, 1900 MHz)
• Data only²
• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology

Location

• Wi-Fi
• Digital compass
• Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
• Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

Input and Output

• Dock connector
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
• Built-in speakers
• Microphone
• SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model only)

Audio Playback

• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
• User-configurable maximum volume limit

TV and Video

• Support for 1024 x 768 with Dock Connector to VGA adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component A/V Cable, 576i and 480i with Apple Composite Cable
• H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Battery and Power

• Built-in 25Whr rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
• Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
• Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system

Mail attachment support

• Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)

Apple’s 1st quarter Fiscal Blowout

On Monday, Apple revealed the results of its fiscal 2010 first quarter, which ended Dec. 26, 2009. The company posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion.

Apple Americas garnered $6.092 billion in total from the U.S., including sales of 1.187 million Macs. In all, 3.362 million Macs were sold in the quarter. Asia Pacific accounted for $1.183 billion, including sales of 313,000 Macs. And Japan was $783 million, selling 105,000 computers. (Mac sales were broken down into 2.128 million portables, and 1.234 million desktops. Desktop sales were up 70 percent year-over-year, and saw a 60 percent increase in revenue. They also spiked 57 percent in sales from the previous quarter)

iPhone Sales

Record 8.7 million iPhones sold Revenue for iPhone handset sales, accessories, and carrier payments was $5.58 billion. (Beat that CrapBerry!) Over 70 percent of the Fortune 100 deploying iPhone. Penetration doubled since the iPhone 3GS first shipped this last summer.

Need we say more?

Looks like the N1 is a bit behind in their expectation.

The App Store had reached 3,000,000,000 downloads. within a short 3 years. How are these iPhone killers to go beat that? Monkey Boy Ballmer tried to undercut Apple’s Jan 27th announce by announce his own ‘vapor software’ tablet – the rumored ‘Courier’. as quoted in macrumors:

Just as Ballmer took the stage this evening, Microsoft prematurely posted a press release covering the highlights of Ballmer’s presentation, and in highlighting the impact of Microsoft’s Windows 7 release, the report notes Ballmer’s demonstration of three new computer systems, including a brief mention of a slate-style PC from HP.
Current and future hardware shown on stage included:

- A new touch-enabled slate PC from HP
- The Sony VAIO L all-in-one laptop built for HD entertainment and multimedia content creation, and including a 24-inch touchscreen
- The Lenovo A300, one of the thinnest PCs yet at just 18mm, but with a 21.5-inch HD widescreen LED display

Ballmer’s introduction of slate-style tablet devices briefly highlighted three examples from Pegatron, Archos, and HP. In focusing on the HP slate, Ballmer offered an example of the device running a Kindle application and noted only that the product will be coming later this year, with no pricing information given. HP has also posted a brief video teaser for the forthcoming device.

Here’s their lame HP ‘trailer’

Leave it to Monkey Boy Ballmer to show something that’s half baked, with no price and has no specific release date.

Google finally lived up to their hype by introducing their own ‘superphone’ – Nexus 1. Based on the Android 2.1 OS, this ‘superphone’ has a lot of spunk in the display and speed; built in voice recognition feature that works throughout the phone’s OS and app and has the heavy Google Marketing Tank behind it. We’ll see how this phone holds up after the new iPhone is released in the 2nd quarter of this year.

Finally, after it’s failed bid on AdMob, Apple took 1% of it’s war chest and purchased Quattro Wireless, the 2nd largest mobile ad company. Anticipate on seeing ads on your Mac OS, iPhone, and the Tablet in the future.