Written by Ceasar S.
Apple's new hobby is being tailed by other hobbies, and the iPhone might be more the gaming platform than Apple would have originally conceptualized. A search at Google Code, a project site not very different from SourceForge, revealed a project entitled "iphone-sdl-mame," which was created to port SDL MAME to the iPhone.
In European iPhone news, French mobile operator Orange (not surprisingly) denies the recent report that stated that Orange already has the iPhone distribution contract for France in the pocket.
According to Australian IT, a spokeswoman for Orange said that “Orange has no comment to make on the rumours about the iPhone.” Nevertheless, Orange’s shares rose 1.5% based on this rumor.
European distribution deals for Apple iPhone were not announced as of yet, giving fruitful grounds for all sorts of speculations about who will get them.
Yes, you read the title of this article right. A Japanese man with too much time on his hands fabricated his own copy of the Apple iPhone, from scratch. And while it doesn’t really work, it looks 1:1 to a real Apple iPhone, thus beating the iPhone cake and the iPhone clay replica.
Using only freely available manual tools and materials (as in, he didn’t use any industrial equipment or capacities to accomplish what he did), Aoshima built an exact replica of the iPhone at home, save the functionality, even before the iPhone was launched in the USA — he used the Apple iPhone 3D model as a basis for his creation.
You can see photos of the the whole process on Aoshima’s website.
Some time ago a shop in Hong Kong claimed to be taking pre-orders for an unlocked iPhone. Although seemingly unlikely at the time, we now learn that the shop does in fact have unlocked iPhones for sale. According to Gearfuse, the iPhones sold in the shop will accept non-AT&T SIM cards, can both send and receive phone calls, and surf the web over Wi-Fi and EDGE.
