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Hutchison Telecommunications Limited announced that the iPhone would be coming to Hong Kong and Macau later this year. Hong Kong and Macau, 29th May 2008 - Hutchison Telecommunications Limited today announced that it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Hong Kong and Macau later this year.No other details as has been typical for these international iPhone...

In addition to the earlier string giving user a method to turn on and off 3G ("Using 3G loads data faster, but decreases battery life."), Apple has added two warning strings if a user tries to turn 3G on or off during an active phone call: - "Disabling 3G will end your phone call. Are you sure you want to disable 3G?" - "Enabling 3G will end your phone call. Are you sure you want to enable...

French website PCInpact reports that Orange, Apple's official carrier of the iPhone in France, has been contacting existing customers with upgrade offers for the rumored 3G iPhone. The first solution is a direct swap where owners can trade in their existing iPhone and get the second gen version for 50 euros. The other option for those who would to keep their current iPhone, but also want the...

Apple is reportedly using the technology behind HWPen to build its Chinese character recognition, according to a report from iPhone Atlas. HWPen (western character mode) and Apple's beta implementation of Chinese input Apple's betas have shown Chinese character input as well as Japanese character input. The general assumption has previously been that Apple has been developing the...

TeliaSonera issued a one-sentence press release today announcing that they will be bringing the iPhone to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. They provided only a rough timeframe of "later this year" for the rollout, provided no details on iPhone or service pricing, and did not address whether the agreement is exclusive or if other carriers will be permitted to...

Griffin Technology announced a new version of the iTrip that is compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch and regular iPods. The iTrip AutoPilot broadcasts music from your iPhone onto any open FM frequency so you can tune in with your car radio. FM transmitters are useful for cars without any other form of audio-in. The $99.99 device ("Coming Soon") includes the following features: -...

T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan expects to continue to exclusively offer the iPhone in Germany when the 3G iPhone is rolled out, according to Reuters. "We have a very good relationship with Apple...at least in Germany it is exclusive, and we expect it to remain as such," Akhavan told the Reuters Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in Paris. "If and when there is a 3G iPhone we expect to have it...

A few more iPhone notes that we missed last week: - Google is preparing more native iPhone applications that will be ready for the launch of the iTunes App Store in June. While not divulging the specifics of what Google is planning, Gundotra says the company is eager to take advantage of access to the native device. It also plans to continue offering Web-based apps, which offer the advantage ...

The flood of announcements regarding iPhone carriers continued today with a one-sentence press release from Orange announcing an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to a number of countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland,...

CrunchGear posts an internal AT&T memo that was sent out today revealing that the free iPhone Wifi was supposed to be launched today. Unfortunately, the launch has been canceled for unclear reasons: The iPhone Wi-Fi offer that was scheduled to launch today has been canceled. Nothing has been announced by the company to our customers and will not impact existing customers. Additional communication ...

Image from Gizmodo Aliph introduced a new version of its Jawbone bluetooth headset today. The new version replaces the original Jawbone and promises a smaller, lighter design with upgraded noise-canceling technology. A PCMag review notes the impressive noise canceling technology, which was notably better than the first generation Jawbone: In a series of calls plus 15 voicemail tests, the...

Intelliborn has released a beta version of their Intelliscreen application for the iPhone. At present, you must have a Jailbroken iPhone to install this software. Intelliscreen replaces your "Slide to Unlock" screen with a customizable screen that shows you information from Calendar, Email, Text Messages, News, Sports, and Weather. View Calendar, Email, Text Messages, News, Sports,...

iPhoneVideoRecorder is a trialware application presently available for Jailbroken iPhones that adds Video recording capability to your iPhone. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB. iPhone Video Recorder boasts a frame rate up to 15fps which guarantees better...

AT&T's 3G network beat out Verizon and Sprint's competing networks in testing done by ComputerWorld. To gauge the speed and reliability of these three wireless data networks, I used my ThinkPad X300 to collect nearly 500 data points at eight different places in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, within a 50-mile radius of midtown Manhattan's urban canyons. I timed how long it took to...

In a very brief press release SingTel announced that their companies would be providing the iPhone to multiple countries: SingTel, Bharti Airtel, Globe and Optus today announced that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia later this year. More information will be released at a later date.The countries include Singapore...

While we haven't been able to independently verify this ourselves, one blog post claims the latest Beta 5 iPhone Network.plist file contains 3G preferences, and that somehow can be activated. The claim reads: Note that this is not fake, it is in the beta 5 .ipsw, but will normally not show up on an EDGE iPhone. Turning 3G on will just crash the phone if you use an EDGE phone. If you do not...

Silicon Alley Insider first reported that NBC has developed an iPhone-specific version of their website that will stream Quicktime versions of some of their television shows. iPhone and iPod Touch owners need only to point their mobile browser to NBC.com and they will automatically be redirected an optimized version of their site that offers video clips and full episodes. The quality of...

Despite numerous hints about AT&T's plans to offer free Wi-Fi to iPhone users, AT&T has yet to make an official announcement and the service is currently unavailable. The reason for the delay may simply be that they have not yet deployed their Wi-fi hotspots to all Starbucks locations. AT&T only recently took over Wi-Fi service from T-Mobile at Starbucks and it appears the transition...