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A lot of our readers are probably familiar with TurboSim - one of the first hardware based iPhone unlockers that tricks the device into thinking that it’s working with an authentic AT&T sim card through a process called double-booting — which consists of the user attaching the TurboSim to his real card.
The original TurboSim was made by a Czech company called Bladox, whose online store does not accept orders at the moment. But Taiwanese manufacturer Taiwan Star Telecom (who manufacture MagicSim) made their own version of the TurboSim.
According to the description it works on latest OTB (out of the box) v1.1.2 iPhones (week 45 or newer), with 3G Sim card support and with STK function support.
While we can’t verify that this works, a demonstration video (below) is provided. For more information see the manufacturer’s website.
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Written by dennis on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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After Apple halted talks with China Mobile, the only contenders left are China Unicom and China Telecom.
Talks with China Mobile were halted due to a disagreement over revenue sharing, according to unnamed industry insider.
So the only 2 companies big enough to deal with Apple is China Telecom and China Unicom. Unicom has smaller market share then China Mobile, and is more likely to accept Apples request for high sharing portion. On the other Hand, China Telecom has no mobile license yet. Still, the uncertainty goes on!
Thanks: BusinessWeek
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Written by David on January 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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It seems the diplomacy between China’s providers and Apple has come to a halt. China Mobile is saying that Apples demands are simply too high, and they can’t comply.
Apple stands out as the only cellphone provider out there, that demands a share of subscriber revenue - something around 20% to 30%.
China Mobile’s base of subscribers is over 350 million, so Apple is obviously missing out. It would seem that in order to sell in China, the iPhone will have to be cheaper.
Thanks: Cellphones.ca
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Written by patrick on January 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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We already covered the news on Apple’s talks with DoCoMo on selling the iPhone in Japan. Now, according to Information Week, the companys chances to win over its main competitors -Softbank and KDDI- are even bigger. As the Nikkei news service reported from Tokyo on Wednesday, Google will provide a cluster of its services for NTT DoCoMo. Google is already an important partner of Apple in the US. NTT DoCoMo is to benefit from Google services including search, e-mail, calendar, and photo-sharing options over DoCoMo’s i-Mode network.
DoCoMo is the biggest mobile service provider in Japan. Together with Softbank (another popular provider in Japan) DoCoMo is using the WCDMA infrastructure, which is far better than Apple’s Edge/GSM in Europe. Adapting to the local infrastructure’s specifications remains to be the biggest challenge for Apple.
Japan’s second largest mobile services provider: KDDI, is not posing a threat to its competitors in the run to provide iPhone in Japan. The main reason for that is the highest quality of infrastructure used by KDDI. KDDI’s CDMA2000 makes it even more hard for Apple to adopt its iPhone to its specifications.
Apple must be ready with all the adjustments needed to operate in technologically advanced Japanese infrastructure soon, as it has announced to introduce America’s handset in Japan 2008.
Thanks: www.informationweek.com
Written by Krzysztof on December 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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A partner of the Japanese DoCoMo, KTF hopes to be supplying the iPhone in South Korea sometime next year.
KTF seems rather confident that they will be the main provider of the iPhone for S. Korea, and if DoCoMo (KTF’s second largest shareholder) can succeed in nabbing Japan’s provider status, they’d certainly gain a chunk of revenue out of it. Steve Jobs’ ‘OK’ of the deal is apparently the only thing holding KTF back.
“We want to sell it, but Steve Jobs has been playing hard (in the negotiation),” says Vice President of KTF, Kim Yeon-Hak.
He continued with: “It’s difficult because the size of the Korean market is small. But someday we will do it, using our relationship with NTT Docomo.’’
We will continue to cover the iPhone moving into KTF’s hands as more pops up.
Thanks: The Korea Times
Written by patrick on December 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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