After much delay, the iPhone is finally coming to South Korea. Based on the mobile industry as a whole we expected South Korea to be one of the first to get this handset. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) had been requiring handsets to use the locally built WIPI mobile platform, but that has changed.

“…considering global industry trends toward the use of general-purpose mobile operating systems, we concluded that there was a need to allow carriers the freedom to decide whether to use WIPI or not,” said Shin Yong-sub, the director of KCC’s policy bureau.

Restrictions such as this have kept many foreign manufacturers, like Apple, from bringing their handsets to South Korea. Carriers KTF and SK Telecom will be testing the iPhone out in South Korea for the next few months. People in South Korea who have been patiently (or impatiently) waiting to get their hands on one will still have to wait because as the rule requiring WIPI will be effective until April of 2009.

[Via MacDailyNews]

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Today Truphone added the Truphone Anywhere functionality to their iPhone application, enabling users to make international calls for as little as £0.03/$0.06 per minute even when not connected to the internet. Truphone also added inbound calling on the iPhone for the first time.

Truphone currently works in 33 countries around the world to save iPhone users money on international calling when not on Wi-Fi. Unlike calling cards, there is very little to placing a call. Whenever an international number is dialed from outside a Wi-Fi area, Truphone Anywhere will ask if you would like to make a Truphone call and you accept or decline.

“No-one likes big mobile bills, and they don’t come any bigger than for international calls” said Geraldine Wilson, Truphone’s new CEO.  “But for iPhone users, that no longer needs to be the case.  They can choose either to pay standard international call rates, or to reduce them to as little as 3 pence or 6 cents per minute.  It’s as simple as that, no catches.”

Truphone has added a new presence feature to see which one of their other Truphone using contacts are online. Now for the first time users can place a free iPhone-to-iPhone Truphone call. The new inbound call capability means that iPhone users can avoid inbound call charges – for example, when abroad – provided they are connected to a Wi-Fi network, enabling significant cost savings. Here is a list of benefits those who do not know the benefit of using Truphone for the iPhone:

• Truphone routes calls over the Internet whenever possible, saving loads of money both on international calls from a user’s home country and on calls when connected to Wi-Fi abroad

• Truphone routes calls over the Internet, so customers don’t need to worry about poor mobile reception.  Calls are crystal clear and voice quality is superb from almost any Wi-Fi zone

• No monthly line rental, subscription or other hidden charges.  Truphone customers only ever pay for the calls they make.  Additional credit is simply purchased online, or an account may be set to top up [refill] automatically when it falls to a certain level

• Truphone is free to download via the iPhone App Store and takes seconds to install.  New customers receive £1/$1 [UK/RoW] free calling credit to get them started

• With Truphone’s American Tru Saver bundle, calls within and to the USA and Canada can be as low as 0.75 pence/1.5 cents [UK/RoW] per minute

• Calls within and to 40 countries (including UK, Australia, Brazil and most of Europe) are £0.03/$0.06 [UK/RoW] per minute to landlines and £0.15/$0.30 [UK/RoW] per minute to mobiles

• Making a Truphone call couldn’t be simpler: open the Truphone application and dial as normal.  Truphone uses the iPhone’s own address book.

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Apple’s App store is seeing more than 2 million applications downloads everyday. Even though people thought that the initial swell in applications downloads would eventually top off and slow down, the App Store is actually seeing more traffic flow than before.

It was not long ago that Apple advertised claims of 300 million downloads since the App Store opened. Just back on October 22nd Apple announced the 200 million download mark. At this rate, who knows when the daily downloads will start to peak? As more and more users download premium applications, Apple will see its residual iPhone income increase.

“It’s unbelievable,” says Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. “It’s a differentiator. We think in ‘09, it’s going to be a $1 billion market place and Apple will probably take about 30 percent of that. There’s virtually no operating expense for them. They just approve the apps.” Apple now has the most robust and integrated software and media platform in the mobile world with over 10,000 applications to choose from.

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Today, the Google mobile ads team announced a new option that allows AdWord advertisers to show your desktop text and image ads on the iPhone and many other mobile devices with full HTML browsers. These ads can point to desktop landing pages so there is no need to create mobile landing pages at all.

These ads will have many of the same benefits as the standard ads, such as the delivery of mobile-specific calls-to-action. iPhone users may have already seen these ads on because Google Search shows desktop results pages that are modified for these handsets. Just recently, the Google mobile team launched new results pages formatted specifically for the iPhone.

Now advertisers can create ads to be displayed exclusively on the iPhone, create campaigns for them, and get separate performance reporting. If you choose not to have your desktop ads shown on these phones you may opt out and show these ads only on desktop and laptop computers. Also if you’re currently running mobile ads, the new option will not affect your campaign.

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We recently reported on rumors that a 4GB version of the iPhone 3G was going to be sold at Walmart for an unbelievable price of just $99. Well it seems that these rumors are untrue, but Walmart will indeed be selling the iPhone at a discount.

December 28th is still the shelf date for the iPhone 3G. You will be able to pick up an 8GB version for $197, that’s a whole 2 dollars off. They will also be selling the 16GB version for about $399. It looks like Walmart is trying to hold strong to their famous low prices. According to Bloomberg’s Connie Guglielmo, “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will become the second mass-market retail chain [after Best Buy] to start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone, with two store representatives saying the world’s largest retailer will carry two models of the Web-surfing handset this month.”

Managers at several stores say that the iPhone 3G may be in stock before Christmas. We all know Walmart is known for letting products slip out early, why should the iPhone 3G be any different? One source did say however that they would be selling the handset on December 15th, but like all rumors this may end up not being true.

[Via Bloomberg]

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The iPhone is finding many new uses lately, both useful and useless. The latest one we have stumbled upon is the webcam dog treat dispenser with iPhone remote. Apparently it took no more than 90 minutes for Stephen Myers to create.

Constructed from a CD spindle case, scraps of cardboard, a servo motor and some random junk, you can view your dog and even give him a treat or two without even being there. Talk about easy babysitting. For this PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, creating such a device apparently was not very hard.

Myers gives credit to ioBridge’s smart boards, which is an Internet interface that requires no programming skills from users. The ioBridge software will either set up an online interface page for you, or spit out Javascript commands for you to embed into your own site.  For those who are more interested in the details, you can read more in his blog.

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Apple has finally opened the door to a new promotional code system that allows developers to get full versions of their applications into the hands of reviewers. Now developers can issue up to 50 promotional codes for their application.

These promo codes allow anyone who the developers wish, to download the full version of the application for free. By distributing these applications to reviewers and beta testers, developers can better get the word out about new applications that they have released.

In the App Store, codes may be entered in by using the “Redeem” link. This service is currently only available in the US. We are really curious to see what other changes Apple will make to help developers promote their applications in a sea of over 10,000.

[Via TheiPhoneBlog]

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Flickr has had their hands in many applications for the iPhone allowing users to upload photos directly to the site. They have just announced that they have decided to bring it to the next level and offer video among other things on their m.flickr.com mobile site for iPhone and iPod Touch users.

With the iPhone and iPod Touch being the only who devices that are able to play videos, Flickr plans on implementing this feature into other mobile devices in the future. It works by plying videos with Quicktime, avoiding the need for Flash support entirely.

You can also comment on photos or even save the to you’re your favorites list if you wish. This site still works at a very fast pace, as you would normally expect it to work. It appears that iPhone users are not the only ones who are very impatiently waiting for the Flash. Lets just hope that many other companies decide to work around the problem.

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Remember when we brought up the rumor that Walmart is going to get a discounted iPhone 3G? Well there are now more claims that these rumors are true. Apparently Walmart is getting a special version of the iPhone 3G that is going to sell for only $99 with a two-year agreement.

What makes this version so special you might ask, well this handset has only 4GB. Now for many that is just not enough, but for some that is plenty, especially on a budget. This version of the iPhone 3G really makes the iPhone virtually unstoppable. This is not a final confirmation however because the tip came in from an unusual source.

Apple previously dropped the 4GB iPhone from their lineup pretty early on. We are expecting the new 4GB version to sell really well at $99 in these trying times, as compared to the $399 price tag the previous version had. Other than the amount of internal memory the 4GB version will have all the bells and whistles as the 8GB and 16GB versions do.

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It appears that not long after the T-Mobile G1 comes out the iPhone starts snatching features like there is no tomorrow. First feature the iPhone received was Google Street View, a feature thought to be an Android exclusive. Now the iPhone gets its own Amazon store.

While this Amazon application is not the exact same as Amazon MP3, it still takes a little bit of the G1’s sunshine. The Amazon app allows you to browse and shop Amazon.com, read reviews and even snap a picture of an item that you are interested in.  The photo is then uploaded to your account where it will be matched up to the photo of the product you would like. If your product is found you will receive a notification email.

See someone wearing a pair of socks that you simply must have? Just snap a photo and your well on your way. This service is still in the experimental stages, but seems to be a fantastic way to help customers shop for whatever they need while on the go.  The Amazon app has a very clean usable interface that makes browsing and comparing prices a breeze.

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Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.

The Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G as well as the first generation iPod Touch. AS with all first advancements this is still just a rough draft of the port Even though the alternate operating system is running on the iPhone, many drivers are missing.

So far the development team has managed to get a serial driver, frame buffer driver, serial over USB driver and Interrupts. MMU Clock, ect.  They also have read-only support for the NAND, but it has not been ported over yet. In the future we will see support for sound, accelerometer, baseband support, touchscreen, write support for the NAND and wireless networking,

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