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Officially unlocked iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong

This week, Apple have updated their online store for Hong Kong with iPhone 3G which isn’t availble before from Apple Store directly. 8GB iPhone at HK$5400 and 16GB iPhone at HK$6200.

What’s the best thing about this is the iPhone 3G is unlocked!!! It doesn’t bind you to any mobile operator!! Woohooooo!!!! Yes, it’s about time!!!

Update: HK$5400 and HK$6200 translate to US$675 and US$775 respectively. So iPhone doesn’t start at US$199 at all. Plus the 3G data plan will only satisfy you and make you happy unless you choose the most expensive “unlimited” access plan.

Such plan will cost roughly HK$500 per month from all mobile operators in Hong Kong. That’s US$62.5 per month and also requires at least 1 year of service committment if not 2 years.

All in all, the total cost of ownership for a entry “happy” iPhone 3G user will be

HK$5400 + HK$500 * 12 = HK$11400

And for the so-called “unlimited” access may not be truely unlimited as in common sense of any broadband users. There are terms like the mobile operator can cut you account or something like if your data transfer amount is huge. That’s such a lie for so much so “unlimited” access.

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PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 Firmware released

The iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 devices including iPhone & iPod Touch. You can now jailbreak your iPhone as well as iPod Touch to release the power of the device under the hood.

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iPod Touch 2.1 Jailbreak released

Just for a few days after release of the new iPod Touch 2.1 firmware, Jailbreak is updated to good care of it.

Here’s the link to the iPod Touch 2.1 Jailbreak GUI. Enjoy!

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Your privacy is illusory on iPhone & iPod Touch

According to this Wired article “iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do“, iPhone & iPod Touch will take a screen shot whenever you press the “Home” button and these images can be recovered later on

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Photo of the 4th generation iPod Nano

Engadget has post the unboxed photo of the fourth generation iPod Nano!

Or if you like they have photo of the iPod Nano in its package.

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iPhone Document Scanner!!!

This is not a machine but rather it’s an accessory, or a paper model if you prefer. Here’s the iPhone Document Scanner. This is an interesting design no matter what

You can register with Ponoko to download the EPS.

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New iPod Nano & Touch dimension revealed

The dimension of the new iPod Nano & iPod Touch is posted, not just the case.

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New iPod is coming on 9th September, 2008

There’s an Apple event coming on 9th September, 2008 10am in San Francisco. The invitation features the iconic iPod interface.

Same reports from Engadget and MacRumors.

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Peninsula.com is launched today!

After all the hard work and time put into this huge project from both side, it finally debuts!! The all new SEO friendly Flash web site of The Peninsula Hotels is launched today!

I’m glad to be part of the team to create this sensational giant web site. And I can now take a step back from it for a very very very short time.

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iPhone 3G as bad or as good as Nokia or Sony Ericsson’s 3G phone

There are review / comments about how bad the 3G reception of iPhone 3G is all over the net. This iPhone 3G antenna test pointed out someting different though. iPhone 3G is simply as good (or bad) as Nokia N73 or Sony Ericsson P1.