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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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Catergories: Apple, Featured, iPhone Tags: Buying Guide, Gadget, Mac OSX

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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Catergories: Apple, Software Tags: Mac, Mac OSX, UX

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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Catergories: Apple, General Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPod, Mac, Mac OSX, Microsoft

i3Theme Cool Three Column Wordpress Theme

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:03:44 +0000

If you read my Top ten best wordpress theme series you might have seen the Itheme which is a really cool WordPress theme based on the Mac look and feel. While Itheme was a two column theme mangoorange has made a variant of the theme into a three column wordpress theme. For people who like three columned themes this theme might become a favorite. You can drag drop the sidebar blocks. The Theme has has a cool Search box on the top.

Rating 8/10 Grab the Theme here

Source anieto2k

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Catergories: Blogging, Download, Wordpress Tags: Downloads, Mac OSX, Templates