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Apple originally intended to use the “Non Disclosure Agreement” just to prevent competitors to steal secret technical information on how its popular device works, but it ended up to be a too heavy burden also for the developers whom wanted to write applications for the iPhone, since they were unable to even share programming skills between each others.

According to Apple, the developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering within days.

Links
Apple’s announcement: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/.

HTC G1 PRO SPECIFICATIONS

The slotMusic will have 1 GB of capacity and it will offer DRM-free music from EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner; it will be sold first on US stores, especially Best Buy and Walmart,� before Christmas and on the European market shortly after.

It sound like a good idea, but there is a catch: while the microSD slot is very common on many devices, there are not so many branded mobile phones and MP3 players that support it, not even iPod and iPhone.

Of course there also also benefits: distributing music via a high capacity physical media instead of relaying on the internet connection will allow easier offering of high quality version (up to 320 Kbs) of the music and the bundle of accessory material like liner notes, album art, videos, and other creative content.

SanDisk has not disclosed yet the detalils about the price, availability, and actual albums offered, but it claim that they will be announced in time for the coming holiday season.

Links
slotMusic web site: http://www.slotmusic.org/.

The problem lays on the metal prongs of the adapter that could break off and remain in the power outlet.

The defect is present on the adapters sold in the following countries:

• US
• Japan
• Canada
• Mexico
• Several Latin American countries

Both the adapters bundled with the iPhone 3G and those that can been purchased separately are affected, while the adapters supplied with original iPhones or supplied with iPhone 3G units sold in other countries not listed above are not affected.

Apple claims that “no injuries have been reported”, but as precaution it is offering the possibility to exchange the defective units. The exchange campaign will start on October, 10th, and the users can choose to receive the replacement either via the Web, which will ship within three weeks, or exchange it at any Apple retail store; in order to receive the replacement the users need to include their iPhone 3G’s serial number with the order.

Links
Apple announcement: http://www.apple.com/support/usbadapter/exchangeprogram/?sr=hotnews.

The update is relatively big as it weight 240 MB. The users who own an iPod with already the 2.x version of the firmware can get the update for free while those who are running a 1.x firmware can upgrade for $9.99.

Links

Apple: http://www.apple.com/.

BusinessWeek, on its article, is citing a test made by Moe Tanabian, senior principal at IBB Consulting, that noted that the e-mail capabilities of the Android are based exclusively on the Google Gmail platform; and that is raising some uncertainty if the phone will support Microsoft Exchange.

Beside that, the BW article is citing some positive details.

For example that Android will have access to T-Mobile App Store, which will be similar to the Apple’s store, but probably with fewer restrictions for the software developers.

Another curious details is that Google is planning to serve advertisement directly to the phones; while this idea may worrisome at first, the users can rest assured that the option actually require the opt-in, therefore they will not be spammed by ads automatically. The good side of this feature is that many reviewers are speculating that Google may justify the ads delivery with some discount on the phone price and probably also on the plan fees.

The first model will be made by HTC whom received the authorization by the FCC and it will release it on November, 10th on the U.S. market.

Links

Google Android: http://code.google.com/android/.

According to the images, that you can find here and here, the new Palm Treo 850 will have a full 3.5 mm headset jack for headphones, Wi-Fi, and, the usual touch screen, and a micro-USB jack for data transferring; it will run the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform. As communication technology, the new Palm Treo 850 will use GSM and UMTS.

Palm has not yet announced a release date for the new Palm Treo 850.

Links

Palm: http://www.palm.com/.

The Palm Treo 850 image is copyrighted by Palm, inc.

Previously if the user attempted to apply the 2.0.1 patch while the iPhone was set to “airplane mode”, the phone would not longer connect to the carrier network.

According to a BusinessWeek’s article, the cause of the problem was a faulty chip made by Munich-based Infineon Technologies. Considering the huge sales of the new 3G iPhone, Apple preferred to fix it with a software update rather than making a recall.

BusinessWeek states that, despite the great popularity of the new iPhone, only about 2-3 percent of the iPhone experienced the problem.

Links

Apple: http://www.apple.com/.

Apple did not provided a list of the changes included in the patch, but one thing that many news sites discovered is the reduction of the lag in different features, especially the contacts page.

In other to get the update the user have to connect the iPhone to the computer, launch iTunes and click the “Update” button in the device pane.

Two critical thing have to be done before the update:

• Sync the iPhone’s data (contacts, calendar, etc.) with the computer;
• Change the “airplane mode” to another mode.

These two steps are very important because many users reported a serious problem with the installation of the patch: in those cases the user found that after applying the patch they were unable to connect to their carrier. When this bug is triggered, the only procedure to fix it is the following:

• Connect the iPhone to the computer;
• Open iTunes and click the Restore button under the Summary tab.

The side effect of this procedure is that all contacts, calendars, photos and other data on the phone will be erased and substituted with the last backed-up information on the computer (so that is way a backup is imperative before the update).

Links

Apple: http://www.apple.com/.