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Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet) 202

Posted by kdawson from the fat-lady-sings dept.
danaris writes in to inform us that John Gruber has done some digging on the reported rejection from the App Store of Opera Mini, and has written up his findings. Some choice excerpts: "My understanding, based on information from informed sources who do not wish to be identified because they were not authorized by their employers, is that Opera has developed an iPhone version of Opera Mini — but they haven't even submitted it to Apple, let alone had it be rejected. ... If what they've done for the iPhone is [to get] a Java ME runtime running on the iPhone — it's clearly outside the bounds of the iPhone SDK Agreement. ... What Opera would need to do to have a version of Opera Mini they could submit to the App Store would be to port the entire client software to the C and Objective-C APIs officially supported on the iPhone. It could well be that even then, Apple would reject it from the App Store on anti-competitive grounds — but contrary to this week's speculation, that has not happened."

Comment Re:great screen, too (Score 1) 520

by kommers (#19798043) Attached to: Open Source Linux Phone Goes On Sale
Newspapers (in paper) often contain articles with 2.8" wide columns -- and I thought those 'papers were meant for reading! I mean, I think your eye will quickly adapt to a text with relatively narrow pagewidth. While not having to jump so much horizontally, you can rather scroll the text with your thumb on the hand holding the device in a tempo suiting your own reading pace to compensate for the vertical eye movement for each line. I think it'll work out fine, reading several meters of 2.8" wide books quite neatly.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Order your OpenMoko open mobile phone

Submitted by kliese
kliese writes: You can now order your OpenMoko open mobile phone. "OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms."

According to a mass mailing received today, "Today is the day that we've all been waiting for: We can finally take your order for the world's first freed phone."

http://www.openmoko.com
Communications

Submission + - Open Source Linux Phone Released (openmoko.com) 1

Submitted by
andyfrommk
andyfrommk writes: "The worlds first truly open phone has been released. the Neo 1973 has been designed for the open source hacker.
From the website

The Neo 1973 boasts the following hardware specifications

* 2.8" VGA TFT color display
* Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers
* 266HZ Samsung System on a Chip (SOC)
* USB 1.1, switchable between Client and Host (unpowered)
* Integrated AGPS
* 2.5G GSM — quad band, voice, CSD, GPRS
* Bluetooth 2.0
* Micro SD slot
* High Quality audio codec
"
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - Norton ate my Half-Life

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Norton Anti-virus has disabled some of the older Steam games (at least) from playing, including titles like CS, Half-life and Natural Selection. Currently there is no fix apart from turning off Norton protection. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.p hp?t=575061 This seems to be either a real virus that Norton has detected, or Symantec just didn't test Steam against their new pattern definitions.

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