Next year we are waiting for a huge inflow of different company’s smartphones with a touch screen feature. This video will show you what a giant Nokia company is offering to the customer in 2008. Nokia’s flagman will be S60 model with huge 2.8 inch touch screen - with physical feedback, well this is i think is the most important innovation from Nokia. But still after video watching i have found in Nokia S60 at least 10 features cloned from Apple iPhone.

iPhone will remain as the first-in-a-kind device in the world, forever, and now every cellphone novelty could only repeat Apple iPhone…

In his letter Steve Jobs has precisely named the term of release of high-grade SDK for Apple iPhone - February. Well, probably, it also can be counted as a reference point when necessity in AnySim or IPSF will cease to exist. Who knows? The future will show who was right. Besides Steve has told, that developers will can create applications for iPod Touch too.

Read the full text of Steve Job’s letter below:

“Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.”

Steve

Our opinion - we shall wait for something unusual on MacWorld.

Micromat Company has released Syphone beta (0.99b10), the public Beta-version of free utility intended for viewing and archiving of SMS text messages on Apple iPhone.

Syphone Beta supports archiving and viewing of messages, including SMS that has already been deleted from smartphone. The application allows users to import and export SMS-messages, to look through them in offline mode in the color interface like iChat, supports Address Book, and shows the number of sent and received messages for each contact on several different iPhones.

As well as usual mobile phones, iPhone has restriction on the amount of SMS-messages which can simultaneously be stored in its memory and when the limit is exhausted, you need to delete old messages to free some space for new SMS. Syphone allows to archive SMS-messages, and send them to Mac from connected Apple iPhone, and for each separate cellphone own archive is created.

“Syphone - our first step in the market of products designed Apple iPhone”, - the president of the company Jeff Baudin has noted. “We have decided to create the best utility for archiving SMS in Apple iPhone”.

The application is distributed free-of-charge, but Micromat does not exclude in the future the occurrence of the paid professional version with set of additional opportunities if Syphone will find user’s support.

System requirements: Mac OS X v10.4 and higher.
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