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iPhone users will enjoy VoIP capability in their iPhones soon. Apple just announced that they already encourged developers to create VoIP applications for the iPhone. Fring will be a pioneer to put make VoIP available in the iPhone.

Fring described themselves in the website:

fring sits at the heart of the fringsters™ online communication world allowing the freedom to communicate with all popular communities’ members (Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™, AIM®) without boundaries, and regardless of device, network operator, platform or the community(ies) to which they belong.

The ethos of encouraging freedom and mobility extends to giving fringsters the choice between available connection types (3G, EDGE, GPRS or Wi-Fi) and the enjoyment of fring’s benefits without subscription; fring is totally free to download and free to use - the only cost incurred by the user is the mobile internet connection.

Source: Inquirer

It’s hard to believe, indeed, but I kept curious to know and follow what’s happen next on this issue:

Citing some anonymous sources, TimesOnline noted that Apple could unveil in June not just one new model of iPhone, but three.

An Asian analyst said for the British newspaper that the 3G iPhone will be “radically different” to the current device, which has a 4.5 inch screen and slick, aluminium backing. “Among the possibilities are flip version, which would enable the screen to be larger, and a sliding model with a regular qwerty keyboard - as opposed to a touchscreen one,” Times Online wrote.

Source: eFluxMedia

Blu-ray users can enjoy their favorite movies now in their iPhones: just simply using BD Touch applications from NetBlender.

According to NetBlender site, some implementations of BD Touch will include:

• Pushing digital copies of movies to an iPhone from the Blu-ray disc menu.
• Automatically cataloguing a viewer’s Blu-ray disc collection and providing movie suggestions.
• Updating and managing a viewer’s rental queue.
• Displaying trivia and extra information about a movie in sync with the movie’s playback.
• Turning existing Blu-ray discs into games that use the iPhone as the game. controller.
• Viewing fan-created content in sync with the disc.

Source: UnwiredView

SingTel (Singapore Telecommuniations) will become the first company which officially launch iPhone in Singapore in this September, according a report.

CNN Money via 3GWeek

…we were starting to worry we’d get through the week without someone suing Apple.

via Topix.net

Based on 3G chip supply from Infineon, Apple will release a 3G iPhone in 2008, an UBS analyst said.

I4u via 3Gweek

According to ZDNet blogger, the iPhone and the Google Android platform, actually aren’t mobile telephones, but Internet clients.

Internet clients use exponentially more data bandwidth than ordinary digital phones, which use thin streams of compressed data. Maybe several exponentials.

Source: ZDNet

A web application casino games for the iPhone and iPod touch launched recently.

It seems that Apple is serious about “invading” Japan, the centre of gadgets and advanced technologies.

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Merry Christmas to you all!! May this holiday brings peace to you and your family. In the spirit of giving, I would like to give several Christmas-related wallpapers for iPhone.

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