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Apple posts Japanese iPhone guided tour {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 5th 2008 8:17PM It's actually a little funny they actually mention SMS. In Japan, they don't really use SMS for short messaging. People send short messages to each other via email.
5th Avenue Apple Store starts iPhone 3G line {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 5th 2008 11:43AM It's funny most of us are pretty negative about the line while I consider most of the TUAW readers are loyal mac fans.
I have to admit, I did get in line last year, but that was on the launch day at 3pm (only 3 hrs ahead).
This year, I am planning on rolling into the Apple Store to get a iPhone 3G on the 12th as well...
Tevanian: Does Microsoft have the guts to slim down Windows? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 29th 2008 9:43PM Great thoughtful comments instead of the usual "Mac Fanboi rah rah and MSFT must lose for Apple to win, etc".... Good stuff. Keep it coming...
Softbank announces iPhone 3G pricing for Japan {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 23rd 2008 8:18PM Check AT&T's international Roaming. I suppose you are in the US.
My guess is, when you roam in Japan your AT&T iPhone 3G will hop between DoCoMo and Softbank's network and KDDI is out since they are CDMA shop.
Softbank announces iPhone 3G pricing for Japan {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 23rd 2008 8:15PM In Japan, you don't send MMS or SMS TXT, you send email from your phone. When you sign up mobile service with a JPN carrier you get an email address.
Domo arigato, the iPhone is coming to Japan {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 4th 2008 12:45PM Christian, you really need to correct the part about "I expect that the Japanese iPhone will be very different, internally, from its counterparts from other parts of the world."
2-3 years ago, that could be true since 3G in US and 3G of the rest of the world (Asia / Europe) are on different bands, and we ended up with US only 3G or Asia/Europe only 3G phones. Mind you, those phone can all fallback to GSM network.
But since mid 2006, true "World band 3G" radio chipsets became more and more common among smartphones (especially the ones HTC produced). These "World band 3G" phones can work nicely in 3G mode in the US, Europe and Asia (including Japan), and I am sure that's the type of chipset the iPhone 2.0 will use. After all, we're in 2008.
Educated guess points to a single streamlined design of iPhone 2.0 for the entire world. After all, it can be done. There's no technical reason why it can't.
Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 4th 2008 2:12AM because it's a developer conference, it's a logical place to show off up-and-coming bleeding edge next gen. Mac OS.
Apple to include Chinese handwriting recognition in iPhone 2.0 {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 5th 2008 9:06PM For the jailbroke iPhone, HWPen 1.0.1 Beta does hand writing input pretty well. Supports both traditional and simplified Chinese. You can find it at the iphonecake.com/repo.xml via the good old installer.
F-117 stealth fighters to make final flight no one will know about {Engadget}
Mar 12th 2008 1:12AM High resolution spy satellites made SF-71 obsolete.
Pixelmator 1.1.3 updates move, crop and zoom {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Feb 22nd 2008 6:50PM still no ruler? still no buy. sorry.
