Countdown to 1 Billion Apps without Hong Kong

What a bummer! Apple’s “Countdown to 1 Billion Apps” in iTunes Store event is open to all country where iTunes Store is available but NOT Hong Kong.

The price is great and you can enter as many as 25 times per day!

The information from MacWorld below:

All you need to do to enter the contest is go to the App Store and download an app. You are automatically entered to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro. You can enter up to 25 times per day, according to the contest rules. You can also enter the contest without a download.

Sweet huh? So hope over to iTunes Store or enter the contest by filling in the form.

iPhone 3.0 will be speedier

Electronista posted an article talking about the next iPhone (iPhone 3.0) will carry faster 3G speed at 7.2Mbps while WiFi will updated to 802.11g vs the current 802.11b

iPhone 3.0 previewed

As expected push notification finally comes to iPhone OS in SDK 3.0. But the architecture has changed from background application to purely push API.

There are many other exciting features longed by many developers such as Google Maps can be used in any apps, access to hardware, MMS, and much more.

Full coverage from Mac Rumors here.

Apple has posted the 3.0 information here, and the QuickTime streaming here.

iPhone 3.0 preview next Tue

In case you still haven’t read elsewhere, Apple is having a media event next Tuesday to preview the iPhone 3.0.

Wired say Steve Jobs (as expected) won’t show up in the event but it should have major changes with the iPhone OS.

Third generation iPhone photo leaked?!

Is this the real third generation iPhone? MacRumors has posted some photos and the close up of the shot showing the model number A1303. Meanwhile MSNBC posted an article about US$99 iPhone coming this summer. I wonder what would be the local price in Hong Kong. Stay tune.

Flash is coming to iPhone for real?

Bloomberg.com reports that Adobe is working (with Apple?) to bring Flash to iPhone finally.

“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”

Well, we’ll see about that. It’s been a long time since Adobe & ARM announced their partnership back a few months ago. I guess it’ll be a slow process provided that it’s made for performance on ARM devices, iPhone particularly.

iPhone/iPod touch 2.2.1 update available

For all you iPhone and iPod Touch users, there’s a newly release 2.2.1 firmware update available in iTunes. News from TUAW.

Linux on iPhone

The iPhone DevTeam has ported Linux 2.6 kernel for 1st and 2nd generation iPhone and 1st generation iPod Touch!!

Video, download, etc available from their blog post.

iPhone firmware 2.2 launched

Apple has just launched iPhone firmware 2.2 shortly after iTunes 8.0.2. The update introduces podcast downloading straight to your iPhone and Google Map street view. It’s also supposed to lower the drop call rate.

Adobe & ARM announced to bring Flash & AIR to ARM platform

Today Adobe and ARM announced their plan to bring Flash and AIR to ARM 11 family in the second half of 2009. Why is it interesting? Coz iPhone is also using ARM 11 family, and Steve Jobs said Flash is no good for iPhone so to speak.

We’ll be seeing an very interesting future on mobile platform particularly iPhone. Could Flash 10 make it to iPhone v3.0? If so, will Uncle Steve enable the technology for the new iPhone? If Uncle Steve did enable Flash, will there be raging iPhone 1.0 & 2.0 users suing non-sense?!