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Cheap iPhone 4: Buy Official Apple Factory Unlocked iPhone 4 For the Best Price

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:20:01 +0000

Factory Unlocked iPhone4

This is an update to my previous post on how to Buy Factory Unlocked IPhone 3GS For Cheap. With the release of iPhone 4, a lot of people will now be ditching or trying to sell off their iPhone 3GS in favor of the newer and faster iPhone 4G. The iPhone 4 has a significant number of notable hardware improvements over the 3GS. I have listed some of them below.

FaceTime lets you do free video chat over wifi to the person you are calling.
Front facing camera
512Mb Ram for faster multitasking
Retina Display which gives you twice the resolution of the 3GS
HD Video Recording and Editing.
5 Megapixel Camera with LED Flash
Better battery Life

Right now the iPhone 4 are selling in the US, Canada, UK, France and Japan. In each of these countries you can either buy it from the Apple store or from the Service Provider. The iPhone 4 will be locked into the service provider and usually there is no way to unlock the iPhone unless you hack it or jailbreak it. Hacking an iPhone not only voids your Apple warranty but also makes it difficult for you to update your iPhone firmware everytime Apple releases an update.

There are some countries were it is against the law to lock the phone to a mobile service provider, these are the countries in which Apple sells the phone which are factory unlocked by default. You can insert any mobile carrier services SIM and make calls.

Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, NewZealand are the few countries where due to government policies and restrictions, Apple is forced to sell factory unlocked iPhone 4. You can freely use these official factory unlocked iPhone 4 devices with any cellular service provider anywhere in the world, while maintaining your Apple warranty.

Unlike iPhone 3GS even countries like UK, Canada and France are selling Unlocked iPhones but for a much higher rate.

Cheapest Official Factory Unlocked iPhone 4 Prices

The Cheapest place to buy an Official factory unlocked iPhone 4 from Apple would be Hong Kong. Compared to unlocked iPhone 4 prices around the world Hong Kong sells it for the cheapest rate. Check out the iPhone Prices on the Hong Kong Apple Store

Price Listing for an unlocked iPhone 3GS in Hong Kong.

iPhone 4 16GB is 5388 Hong Kong dollars = 696 U.S. dollars
iPhone 4 32GB is 6288 Hong Kong dollars = 812 U.S. dollars

Apple itself has a official page with mobile service carriers in various countries, where iPhone 4 are sold. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937 by going to each apple store and comparing the prices in different countries you’ll find that Honk Kong has the cheapest price for an iPhone 4.

Other Countries Where you can buy an Official Factory unlocked iPhone 4 from Apple are listed below.

Australia 16GB = 879 AUD and 32GB = 1040 AUD
New Zealand 16GB = 1149 NZD and 32GB = 1349 NZD
Belgium – Mobistar 16GB: 575 EUR32GB: 675 EUR
Czech Republic – O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone 16GB: 15 777 CZK32GB: 18 377 CZK
Greece – Vodafone, Cosmote16GB: 569.00 EUR32GB: 668.99 EUR
Hong Kong – 316GB: HK$ 5,38832GB: HK$ 6,288
Italy – TIM, Vodafone16GB: 619 EUR32GB: 719 EUR
Luxemburg – Vox Mobile, LUXGSM
Macau – 3
Malaysia – Maxis16GB: RM249032GB: RM2990
New Zealand – Vodafone16GB: 1,179 NZD32GB: 1,379 NZD
Russia – MegaFon, MTS, Beeline
Saudi Arabia – Mobily
Singapore – SingTel
Slovakia – Orange
South Africa – Vodacom16GB: R750032GB: R8500
Taiwan – Chunghwa Telecom
Thailand – TrueMove
Turkey – TurkCell
United Arab Emirates – Etisalat

Buy Unlocked iPhone 3GS For Cheap, Official Apple Factory Unlocked iPhones

Arpit Jacob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:50:40 +0000

Unlocked iPhone 3GS

This post is for all iPhone lovers, if you are like me and totally frustrated by the locked iPhones that Apple sells the good news is Apple sells Official Factory Unlocked iPhones 3GS. Unlike the US there are some countries that have sane laws about locking the phone that a Mobile service provider gives you. I own an iPhone 3GS which I brought for the full price contract free from AT&T, straight off from Cupertino, California, US when I was there a few months back. Using the iPhone 3GS was a great experience while I was in the US. Once I came back to India I had no other option but to hack the iPhone 3GS or Jailbreak it as its called, once the iPhone is Jailbroken you can Unlock it to make it work with your local Service Provider.

The jailbreaking was not an issue, the iPhone worked great after unlocking it, but I get frustrated when I think about how I brought such an expensive gadget with my money and was not being allowed to use it in the way I wanted to, also the ethical factor bothered me a lot. And every time there is a firmware update I have to wait for the unlock to come out.

I am a great Apple fan. I work on a 15″ Mac Book pro and all my design and development work is done on it, Apple is great at churning out really cool products that just simply work out of the box, the User Experience, right from the packaging, Design, Hardware and Software is extremely streamlined. But they have one big drawback they lock you down into their system whether its Hardware or Software.

So I began my quest for an Official unlocked iPhone. First I started by looking on eBay and was horrified by the prices at which the 3GS was selling. Now by cheap I don’t literally mean cheap but you can get it for the exact full price that Apple sells it for, without the need for buying it off from eBay for $$$ and then when you get it you realise it’s badly scratched or doesn’t work properly or is truly locked.

The Cheapest Place to buy An Unlocked iPhone 3GS

The Cheapest Place to buy An official factory Unlocked iPhone 3GS now is Hong Kong. Hong Kong is one of the few countries where its illegal to lock a Phone down to a Mobile service provider, hence Apple sells it unlocked. check out the iPhone Prices on the Hong Kong Apple Store

Here is what it states on the Apple iPhone Page.

iPhone 3G & iPhone 3GS purchased at the Apple Online Store can be activated with any wireless carrier. Simply insert the SIM from your current phone into iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS and connect to
iTunes 8.2 to complete activation.2 Purchase limitations may apply.

Price Listing for an unlocked iPhone 3GS in Hong Kong.

iPhone 3GS 16GB is 5388 Hong Kong dollars = 696 U.S. dollars
iPhone 3GS 32GB is 6288 Hong Kong dollars = 812 U.S. dollars

Official Unlocked iPhone 3GS Hong Kong Prices

The Other places to buy unlocked iPhones but not so cheap prices are

Australia iPhone 3GS Apple Store Prices

iPhone 3GS 16GB is 879 Australian dollars = 820 U.S. dollars
iPhone 3GS 32GB is 1040 Australian dollars = 970 U.S. dollars

New Zealand iPhone 3GS Apple Store Prices

iPhone 3GS 16GB is 1149 New Zealand dollars = 853 U.S. dollars
iPhone 3GS 32GB is 1349 New Zealand dollars = 1002 U.S. dollars

The List of Places where you Can buy an unlocked iPhone are list below. the data might be a little old. But you can check for an Updated list on the Apple Website itself which lists all the places in the World where the iPhone is sold and also which Wireless provider sells Unlocked iPhones

Belgium – Mobistar 16GB: 575 EUR32GB: 675 EUR
Czech Republic – O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone 16GB: 15 777 CZK32GB: 18 377 CZK
Greece – Vodafone, Cosmote16GB: 569.00 EUR32GB: 668.99 EUR
Hong Kong – 316GB: HK$ 5,38832GB: HK$ 6,288
Italy – TIM, Vodafone16GB: 619 EUR32GB: 719 EUR
Luxemburg – Vox Mobile, LUXGSM
Macau – 3
Malaysia – Maxis16GB: RM249032GB: RM2990
New Zealand – Vodafone16GB: 1,179 NZD32GB: 1,379 NZD
Russia – MegaFon, MTS, Beeline
Saudi Arabia – Mobily
Singapore – SingTel
Slovakia – Orange
South Africa – Vodacom16GB: R750032GB: R8500
Taiwan – Chunghwa Telecom
Thailand – TrueMove
Turkey – TurkCell
United Arab Emirates – Etisalat

Source my google search turned up hackint0sh.org/

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Get 6 Paid Mac OS X Applications For Free

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:13:18 +0000

Hurry up MacHeist is currently giving away 6 paid applications worth more than $ 175 for free. Just head to the homepage and signup. They will unlocked and give the serial keys to everyone when they reach 500,000 participants.

ShoveBox

Price: $25

Shovebox Sceenshot

Catch all the little scraps of information that you can’t immediately act on, but don’t want to forget. ShoveBox sits up in your menu bar, waiting for you to drag in text, images, URLs, and more.
ShoveBox makes it very simple to enter stuff, just drag it in from any app or use the handy QuickJot feature to type in notes, etc.

WriteRoom

Price: $25

WriteRoom Sceenshot

WriteRoom is a simple, but powerful app that provides you with a distraction-free writing environment. WriteRoom does one main thing and does it incredibly well: It’s all about writing.

Twitterrific

Price: $15

Twitterrific

Twitterrific is an exquisite app that enables you to make the most out of your Twitter experience. It has a clean user interface that’s designed to take up little of your precious desktop space.
Millions of people have discovered how much fun Twitter can be. Now you can make it an even more enjoyable experience with one of the pioneer Twitter apps. Twitterrific is packed with features, so that you’ll feel like you’re in total control over everything you do on Twitter.

TinyGrab

Price: $14

TinyGrab

TinyGrab is a simple, powerful app that enables you to quickly share screenshots of everything on your Mac.
Simply press Command, Shift, and 4, then select the area on your screen that you’d like to grab. Or tap the spacebar to select a whole window to grab. Then TinyGrab quickly uploads the screenshot and puts the URL for it on your Clipboard so you can easily share it via email, IM, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Hordes of Orcs

Price: $25

Hordes Of Orcs Game

Hordes of Orcs is a Tower Defense strategy game where you build walls and towers to defend your village from orcs gone rogue.
There are several different towers, each with it’s own unique abilities. Build Arrow Towers, Radiation Towers, Fire Towers, and more to keep your village safe from the deadly clutches of green meanies.

Mariner Write

Price: $50

Mariner Write

Mariner Write is a fast, streamlined word processor that’s useful for everyone… professional writers, educators, students, casual computer users, and everyone in-between. It has a simple, elegant user interface so that you can create beautiful documents the very first time you start using it.
This is the word processor with perfect balance of features. Too many word processors bog you down with “kitchen sink syndrome”, while others skimp on important features. Not Mariner Write… you get all the tools you need to do the job, without any feature-bloat.

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Why Apple Is Good at User Experience And Design

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:05:07 +0000

The first two point from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, Presentation at SXSW caught my attention.

Pixel Perfect Mockups

Most companies or designers are pretty ok with creating wireframes or paper prototypes. Apple on the other hand spends a huge amount of time and effort on making pixel perfect mockups. This gives a clear focus to what the application does and looks like.

10 to 3 to 1

Apple designer have come up with 10 completly different designs. A huge amount of creative energy is spent in coming up with the designs. Heck I have trouble coming with more than 2-3 designs and tend to get brain dead if I try too hard. Out of the ten designs, only three are selected. Then more time is spent on those three mockups. At the final stage they nail down the best design out of the three.

Read More about Apples Design process at Businessweek.

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Did Someone Say Macs Are More Secure Than Windows?

Arpit Jacob — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:07:23 +0000

George Ou who writes for the security column at ZDNET did an analysis of security for Mac OS and Windows using data from impartial Secunia. The Results maybe pretty surprising depending on what your views are regarding MAC Vs PC. I am personally not surprised but I certainly didn’t expect such a big difference. I have never had any viruses or significant crashes with windows in the past 1 year that I running windows XP with Service pack 2 and the latest updates.

This shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isnâ€™t even close.

Also noteworthy is that while Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that werenâ€™t present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and itâ€™s something I am glad I donâ€™t use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.

Source CybernetNews

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2007 Year Of the Apple Bashing

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:05:20 +0000

Apple is the new Microsoft or so they say, 2007 has been a great/bad year for Apple. I am seeing a lot of Apple bashing taking place place, grow up people its just a company. Though I admit it is one of the most tight lipped closed company. Lets see where they seem to be screwing up.

Locked iPhone and iPods. (Apparently according to Apple Safari is a SDK)
The lacklustre launch of leopard, Major Upgrading problems. 300 new features yeah right, take a look and tell me if Descriptive Error Messages, Updated Language Guide, Russian Localization and ripping off Spaces from Linux counts as new features, you know something is wrong with what you are doing when people are hacking your code to make the menu bar opaque.
Hardware problems, System Hangs, Restarts etc. (after paying them a premium for their superior hardware)

I wasn’t aware Apple needed to hire PR people, it gets free press from most of the media journalists and bloggers, they’ll gobble down anything to do with Apple.

Found this today on the valleywag Blog.
A British journalist attempts to ask Apple executive Phil Schiller a question about the effective iTunes monopoly on downloads for the iPhone. Apple’s PR people jump in and try to end the interview, saying how they’re “excited” about the iPhone and “want to stay focused.” The problem? Their body language betrays them.

More from the valleywag Blog.
I never ran this myself, but through a friend of a friend I heard that Apple PR teams are not allowed to communicate internally with one another, i.e. the iPod PR people are not allowed to know what iMac PR people are up to. It is totally divide-and-conquer inside the company.

Externally, you’re also not supposed to cultivate relationships with journalists. It’s the complete opposite of other vendors. In fact, my friend said, if you’re an Apple PR person and you are seen in the company of a journalist, at a party or any place other than an Apple event, you better have a good reason why.

Source: Valleywag

Get A Mac Ad: Choose A Vista

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:31:07 +0000

One of the very few apple ads that I completely agree with. One of the Biggest screw ups with Vista are the various different version.

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Apple Numbers

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:38:46 +0000

With this whole hype of the iphone, Mac OS X Leopard, new ipods and the new imacs, much of the attention is focused on Apple. Bad luck Microsoft! But has Microsoft released anything in past 6 months? The answer is ‘Yes’ and they are:

Windows Home Server 2008
New Microsoft Zune models
Halo 3
Windows Live services

Since the attention is focused on Apple, here are it’s earnings, market share and sales:

On the Apple earnings call, CFO Peter Oppenheimer cited some research from Strategy Analytics placing the iPhone as the â€œfourth highest selling handset in the U.S. market in the September quarter.â€ (The Motorola V3 was No. 1).

Apple has sold 1.4 million iPhones in a little over a quarter. It took the iPod more than two years to reach the same number of sales. The price cut helped it reach that number, by nearly doubling the daily sales of the iPhone. And Apple says it is on track to sell 10 million iPhones by next year.

Of those 1.4 million iPhones, Oppenheimer estimates 250,000 (or 18 percent) were unlocked to work on networks other than AT&T. (That explains why Apple was so aggressive in bricking those iPhones. Apple only gets paid by AT&T for iPhones connected to its network).

The iPhone starts selling in the UK (with O2) and Germany (with T-Mobile) on November 9th, and in France on November 29th (with Orange).

iTunes has now sold 3 billion songs, and 100 million TV shows.

Appleâ€™s retail strategy continues to power an increasing portion of its sales. In the September quarter, 57 percent of Appleâ€™s sales were direct through its stores or Website, compared to 53 percent a year ago.

[Credit/data: Tech Crunch]

This post is by Michael. Find out more about him HERE

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Good Bye Apple You Suck Really Bad

Arpit Jacob — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:06:32 +0000

Apple you suck. Here’s Why

I have more than 900 Songs from iTunes in the last 1 year and I can play it only on an iPod or using iTunes on a PC I can’t play them on my Phone or portable music player.
I wanted to buy a Mac Book Pro, I decide to check the Apple India Store and find that they are listing Products which are more than 2 years old. I send a mail to Apple complaining about this I receive no reply and the site is take down the next week and hasn’t been put back or updated in the past 2 months and currently still shows an under construction page.
When I call up Apple Customer Sales Support they don’t pick the phone most of the time.
I finally manage to get a Friend to find out the price of a Mac Book Pro from the Apple Store in Bangalore and found out they cost $ 525 more than the one being sold in the US. Dell sells a much better configuration and laptop model(Inspiron 1520) for a lower price and the price is almost the same as the one being sold US price.
You dropped the price of iPhone by $200 in just 2 months. Which means you sold it for much higher price to the early adopters.
You are blocking Third party Apps for the iPhone. (Nokia should step in with a better touch screen phone).
Your Mac vs PC ads are beyond stupid.
Lastly while not really important the number of search results for Apple Sucks have doubled in the last 3 months.

4+1 Things the iPhone Can Teach Us about Blogging

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00:04 +0000

This post was guest blogged by Dev Basu. Dev authors Daily Moolah dot Com, a blog on making money online. He is an established internet marketer and serial entrepreneur, based in Toronto, Canada. Daily Moolah dot Com covers topics such as blog monetization, affiliate marketing, Wordpress SEO, PPC advertising and much more.

Zeitgeist! No I didn’t sneeze…but there sure seems to be a trend about Apple going on in these guest posts. While Arpit’s taking time off from Clazh designing a Wordpress theme, I’ll try to shed some light on what all this buzz about Apple’s iPhone means for bloggers worldwide.

Establish Your Niche Early On : ‘iPhone’ is currently the 7th most popular search term on Technorati, with over 1700 blogs dedicated to Apple’s brand new ‘uber’ device. Lesson learnt bloggers – Get in on the game early on, because you are competing in a niche with over 306,337 posts at last count.
Press Release Your Way to Buzz-dom: Ok, so buzz-dom isn’t a real word, because I just made it up. But neither is ‘iPhone’. Apple’s marketing campaign has been ingenious to say the least, and hopefully your blog (and mine for that matter) will share a fraction of that success. Establish the same buzz Apple did by issuing a Press Release for your blog or website. You will be surprised to know how many bloggers haven’t considered a Press Release a viable way of boosting their blog’s popularity. Find out more here
Dare to be Different: Touch technology, task scheduling, and the ability to play mp3’s on your mobile phone aren’t all that revolutionary. But the iPhone is as successful as it is because Apple dared to be different, and so should you. I’m talking about uncommon wordpress themes, opinionated posts, disruptive content that makes you and your brand stand out among the rest of the herd.
But Don’t Re-invent the Wheel : Wait a minute – didn’t I just suggest being different from the rest? Yes, be different in your design, content, and opinion. But in doing so, choose technology, platforms, and design that is tried and tested in your niche. The iPhone, while touted as an all-in-one uber device, is still a phone at its core. Similarly, be the best you can be at being an authoritative blogger, coder, or marketeer. In code speak, why use flash when valid CSS is the prevailing standard?
Keep it Simple Sherlock – Is your blog easy enough for a one year old to use? Apple’s iPhone sure is based on this YouTube video. The key here is to have usability and interoperability at the top of your priorities when going about your blog. Make your RSS feed more accessible, your blog easier to navigate, and yourself easier to reach.

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Catergories: Apple, Blogging, iPhone Tags: Blogging, Usability, Web