Apple is now World’s 3rd Largest Mobile Phone Supplier - In Terms of Revenue

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Steve Jobs took the mic today at Apple’s conference call discussing Q4 - 2008 financial results.

Steve Jobs says that Apple has sold 6.9M iPhone 3G’s last quarter, that’s more than RIM (BlackBerry) who managed 6.1M in phone sales this last quarter. He also mentioned that Apple is now the World’s 3rd largest mobile phone supplier - in terms of revenue generating $4.6 billion in sales revenue from the iPhone 3G. Nokia and Samsung are first and second respectively while LG and Motorola are fourth and fifth.

(Apple had mobile sales of $4.6 billion for the quarter, Apple is ahead of Sony Ericsson $4.2 billion, LG at $3.4 billion, Motorola with $3.2 billion, and seventh place RIM at $2.1 billion.)

Apple has surpassed its 10M iPhone goal for 2008/9. Steve also mentioned that Apple has no plans to go forward with NetBooks or Tablets saying that the iPhone/Touch covers that market.

Other interesting things mentioned were that AppStore customers downloaded almost 200 million apps from the App Store by tomorrow, with the figure being reached in just 102 days. There are over 5,500 apps in 62 countries. “Competitors are scrambling to copy the App Store, but it’s not easy,” Jobs adds.

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Apple to Discontinue the Mac Mini?

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The Mac mini may be pronounced dead as soon as today’s Apple earnings conference call, according to Gizmodo.

Two major retailers in Europe have confirmed to Gizmodo that they can’t order any more of the little computers.

While this could signal an updated model coming in, they have been told by Apple to expect no more of it.

Their impression is that—once again—the Mac Mini may be dead dead DEAD for real, even while you can still order it at the Apple Store.

(via iClarified.com)

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Twittervision - Real-time Twitter Geo Positioning on your iPhone

Twittervision allows you to view the latest posts to twitter as real-time pop ups on a world map. Check out the Video for more info. Looks really cool and reminds me that I should twit more and go to bed.

Twittervision [iPhone] from Filip on Vimeo.

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Welcome SRASC to the MyTriniPhone Blog

I don’t know how many of you have noticed that we have a new contributor to the blog recently (besides the obvious theme change - i know I couldn’t leave good alone). Anyway, his name is SRASC and he started off by posting iPhone news in local automotive forums, then posting news, often before I could get a chance to, in our own forums. I invited him to become a contributor to the blog and I am glad he took up the offer.

I would like to officially welcome SRASC to the MyTriniPhone Blog and I hope that you all enjoy his articles and posts on the blog and forum. If you too are interested in becoming a MyTriniPhone contributor, please contact us or post in the forum. Thanks

- Aaron

Air Sharing Turns your iPhone Into a Wireless Portable Drive; View Documents On-The-Go

With 8GB or more storage on the iPhone, it seems logical to use it as a portable drive.

Though iTunes offers an elegant way to sync music and other media content; it does not allow iPhone users to sync other types of files such as Word documents, Excel worksheet, PowerPoint presentations to the iPhone.

This is where iPhone app Air Sharing, developed by Avatron Software comes in handy. It offers a very simple way to turn your iPhone into a wireless portable drive and also allows you to view documents of various file formats  when you are on-the-go.

Air Sharing works exactly as advertised, the iPhone app lets you transfer files to iPhone without any hassle.

With Air Sharing, you can mount the iPhone on Windows, Mac or Linux over Wi-Fi. And, you can then drag & drop files between your computer and iPhone.

It uses the open WebDAV protocol to accept and share files through your file system or web browser.

You can also view documents on the iPhone using Air Sharing’s full-screen document viewer. Air Sharing supports the following file formats:

• Microsoft Office Document including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Apple’s iWork Document including Pages, Number and Keynote
• HTML
• PDF
• RTF (Rich Text Format)
• RTFD (TextEdit documents with embedded images)
• Plain text document with Unicode support
• Source code file (e.g. C/C++, Java, Javascript, XML, etc) with coloured syntax highlight
• Movie file (Format supported: H.264, MPEG-4, 3GPP)
• Audio file (Format supported: MP3 VBR, AAC, WAV, etc)
• Image file (Format supported: GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, etc)

How to use Air Sharing

After you have installed Air Sharing on your iPhone, it takes you just a few steps to turn your iPhone into a flash drive. Please find the instructions on how to map your iPhone as network drive on the Windows & Mac (for Linux you can follow the instructions provided in the app under the Connecting tab - Linux).

For Mac OS X

1. Fire up Air Sharing and remember to turn on Wifi.
2. When Air Sharing is launched, it’ll show you all the shared folders available. And, you should find a URL (e.g. http://10.0.1.197:8080) in status bar.



3. Next, you need to connect to that URL. Say, for Mac users, you can start Finder. Click “Go” -> “Connect to Server…”. Type in the URL.
4. Within 10 seconds, your iPhone will be shown up in Finder. Now you can just drag & drop file onto your iPhone.

For Windows Vista

1. Make sure you start Air Sharing and turn on Wifi
2. On Vista, open Start menu and select Computer
3. Click “Map network drive” in the toolbar at the top of the computer window
4. Select a drive letter in drop-down menu
5. Enter Air Sharing IP address (e.g. http://10.0.1.197:8080)
6. Make sure the “Reconnect at login” box is unchecked
7. When prompted, enter your username and password. Please note that Vista may ask for your password multiple times.
8. Now your Air Sharing network drive should be mounted and ready for use.

For Windows XP

1. Make sure you start Air Sharing and turn on Wifi
2. On XP, open Start menu and select “My Network Places”
3. In the network tasks panel, click “Add a Network Place”
4. Click “Next” at the Add Network Place Wizard welcome screen
5. Select “Choose another network location” and click “next”
6. Enter Air Sharing IP address (e.g. http://10.0.1.197:8080)
7. Enter a name for this new connection
8. Make sure the “Open this network place when I click Finish” box is checked
9. Press finish
10. When prompted, enter your username and password.
11. Now your Air Sharing network drive should be mounted and ready for use.

You can even view and download your files from any web browser. However, I found this option to be slow and buggy.

Protecting Air Sharing from Unauthorized Access

Air Sharing also allows you to configure username and password to protect your iPhone from unauthorized access which is quite important for a portable device. You can enable password in Air Sharing’s Settings screen.

You have the option to turn off sharing in case you are not comfortable with the idea of someone being able to access documents in the public area or password protect it as mentioned above.

Avatron Software has recently released an updated version of Air Sharing to incorporate an improved image viewer, full-screen support for document viewing, as well as, support for very high-resolution images (over 100MB). If you have already purchased Air Sharing, go ahead to download the new version.

[via iPhoneHacks]

Apple’s MMistake

Apple has shipped at least one new MacBook with two M keys and no N key, according to pictures posted on Engadget.

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