What will new apps will be on the iPhone AND activation
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Wondering what’s coming when the AppStore launches in early July? So are we, and here’s what’s been announced in the past few days:
- Webstate is buildingiSharephone. It’s Sharepoint on your iPhone. It will connect your phone toMicrosoft Sharepoint portal servers.
- Want to create music on your iPhone? Intua is developing it’s BeatMakerproduct, which will let you beatbox, loop and sequence your way to musical joy.
- Ambrosia SW has announced Mobile Mahjong for iPhone. It’s built around Core Animation and promises a “Cover Flow interface for level selection.”
- EasyTask Manager is a simple task manager that’s getting ported to the iPhone. Here are a couple of early product screen shots.
- Rusty Red Wagon is porting Solitaire to the iPhone, with three variations: Klondike, Freecell and Spider.
- Synthesis is working on a SyncML data sync product. For now, it’s planned as a free contacts-only version but they’re hoping to expand it to provide calendar support, which their developers say is not currently available in the SDK.
AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel confirmed for Macworld that activation must be done at the time of purchase, in-store. Siegel also said that customers could keep their current iPhone or AT&T phone numbers and move to the iPhone 3G when it’s released.
According to the speculation around the Internet, you would be able to purchase a subsidized iPhone 3G and not activate it immediately. After 30 days, AT&T would bring up your account and charge your credit card for the subsidized amount of the phone.
In theory that sounds fine, but it does nothing to solve the problem of having hacked iPhones out in the market. That’s not to say that this measure will stop hacked phones, but the companies are trying to cut down a peg or two.
The fact that the iPhone will be legally available in so many countries now will also likely cut back on the demand for hacked iPhones.
Got this from:
apps~ tuaw.com
activation~ Macworld
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