Here’s a quick round up of iPhone news:
1) AT&T is finally offering an iPhone service plan for business.
2) iPhone sales are reportedly not as strong in Europe as Apple hoped for. (Europeans are no doubt waiting for 3G)
3) The hackers are getting close to jailbreaking 1.1.3.
4) The code behind 1.1.3 clearly looks like Apple is readying the phone for legitimate third-party applications via the soon-to-be released SDK.
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Apple posted very strong Q4 results yesterday. It was the strongest quarter in Apple’s history. And the company partially credited the iPhone for the success.
Sales numbers were:
- 2.3 million iPhones were sold through the December quarter.
- Total revenue for iPhones, iPhone accessories, and payments from iPhone carriers sit at $241 million.
Apple said it was on track to hit its sales mark of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008.
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Hot on the heels of the announcement that China’s largest Telecom, China Mobile, was in talks to acquire the iPhone, Singapore’s MobileOne phone operator is also announcing it is in talks to bring the iPhone to Asia.
Singapore, a tiny nation-state, is almost completely saturated with mobile phone users. MobileOne sees the iPhone as a way to differentiate and upsell current mobile subscribers. MobileOne also is in talks to acquire other Mobile carriers throughout the world.
From AP:
M1, Singapore’s No. 3 telecommunications company by subscribers behind Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and StarHub Ltd., also wants to diversify its revenue base by offering wireless and fixed-line broadband services in its domestic market and branching out into new areas such as mobile advertising.
It’s starting to feel like Europe all over again.
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According to the IDG News Service, Apple is in talks with China Mobile to sell the iPhone to the World’s most populus country. While Apple has already announced that it will sell iPhones in Asia starting mid 2008, no formalized partners or locations have been discussed. China Mobile’s 350 Million(!!) subscribers would go a long way in reaching the goal of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 however.
From the story:
China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company’s CEO said on Tuesday. But he’s not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.
Who is?
"Our customers like this kind of fashionable product," Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile’s CEO, on the sidelines of the GSM Association’s Mobile Asia Congress in Macau."
Who doesn’t?
As you may recall, China Mobile was also present at the unveiling of the Google Android platform that will likely be bearing some fruit about the time iPhones hit Asia. It will be interesting to see what develops.
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So you have your 1.1.1 iPhone/iPod hacked. It is working great. You are rockin’ the Voice Notes, Navizon GPS and Mobile Chat. Of course you’ve fixed the TIFF exploit security hole weeks ago. You have international languages and keyboards as well. Heck, you might even be on another carrier than AT&T.
What is the reason to upgrade to 1.1.2? Apple’s latest update doesn’t offer much that the community hasn’t already built/fixed. For those of you in Europe who get a 1.1.2 out of the box, obviously (bummer) if you want to have all of the hacker goodies - you’ll have to do the downgrade/upgrade with the symlink. There is currently no way to unlock a phone without activating it first.
As for now, we are staying on 1.1.1.
Oh, btw, for those of you who, when asked how long it would take to hack 1.1.2, voted "Within a week" you were more optimistic (and correct) than us.
Hackers 4, AppleT&T 3
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