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Fanboyism can sometimes go quite a bit too far - the latest super-fanboy is pictured below:

This Texas-based, 23 year old girl has posted the picture above to MySpace, but has since removed it from there - I don’t want to know what she was up to…

Even though I never was too fond of the CNET handheld team, their Don Reisinger has just lowered the CNET News bar to a new low with a piece looking at why he thinks that the recent yellowsn0w unlock is unnecessary.

As I am sure that the piece will be edited shortly, I decided to take out the best passage:

I’m not quite sure why anyone cares. Sure, it’s nice to say you unlocked a device that’s not meant to be unlocked, but it just made so much more sense to me last year when the iPhone didn’t have native apps. Today, browsing is faster thanks to 3G, more capable thanks to additional business features, and more useful thanks to the App Store. What possible reason would people have to unlock it now?

Once again: yellowsn0w is NOT a jailbreak! It does NOT affect the running applications in any way - instead, all it does is allow you to use a SIM card of your choice (e.g. when roaming).

Makes sense? For us, yes. But, apparently, not for CNET News…

I have to openly admit that Chinese handset fakers start to amaze me: the image on the left hits us via AppleInsider; they claim that they show a fake iPhone Nano which is currently being sold all over Thailand.

This definitely is not the first time that an unreleased mobile phone gets fakes - in fact, our sister site TamsS60 was among many other sites which were fooled by a fake Nokia N79 some time ago.

To clarify it once again: this is NOT a real image. The pictures below were part of a humorous presentation…
As everybody currently goes bonkers about renders of an iPhone Nano, I simply had to share the slide below:

It comes from a presentation of Dr. Schaffer, the head of the FH Hagenberg’s Mobile Computing department. Dr. Schaffer is a huge iPhone freak who uses his own iPhone heavily. I have no idea where he got the image from, but it gave me a good laugh…

The centrally planned economy commonly known as iTunes app store has begun to show its weaknesses recently - now, they also proove that some developers are more equal than others. A small developer called PlausibleApps just got the following email (33 days after submitting the app):

Upon review of your application, Peeps cannot be posted to the App
Store due to the usage of a non-public API. Usage of non-public APIs,
as outlined in the iPhone SDK Agreement section 3.3.1, is prohibited:

“3.3.1 Applications may only use Published APIs in the manner prescribed
by Apple and must not use or call any unpublished or private APIs. ”

The non-public API that is included in your application comes from the
CoverFlow API set.

According to the developer, the CoverFlow implementation used in their program is homegrown and was written from scratch - this could thus be a mistake on Apple’s side. However, it’s much more interesting to hear that Google’s Mobile Search app uses unsigned APIs, has publicly admitted to doing so, and yet saw no response from Apple’s.

While looking at a little ad on BrightHand, I stumbled across this truly wonderful handset:

Don’t ask me what the guys who had this idea were smoking - I want none of it…

This image hits me via the blog of a fellow software developer called Tunji Afonja - he doesn’t state any sources and thus has likely created it himself:

Even though I am fully aware that this comparison is rather biased, I nevertheless considered it funny - so please don’t shoot the messenger

The folks at Apple’s IMHO have a new enemy of choice - the British Advertising Standards Authority, which is a self-appointed watchdog organization responsible for all kinds of ads.

Apple already netted a complaint about the lack of Flash support: their latest issue revolves around device performance, which is shown in an unnaturally accelerated way in a series of ads.

After receiving a barrage of complaints about the ad above, the ASA banned it - the official ruling is as follows:

The ASA noted Apple maintained that the ad was intended as a comparison between the older 2G technology and the newer 3G connectivity upon which the advertised iPhone was based. Although we acknowledged that the majority of viewers would be familiar with mobile telephones, we considered that many might not be fully aware of the technical differences between the different types of technology. We also noted the ad did not give an explicit indication of a comparison with the older 2G iPhone.

We noted the voice-over claim “really fast” was used in conjunction with each of the functions shown in the visuals. Although we noted the on-screen text disclaimer, “network performance will vary by location”, we considered that the visuals, in conjunction with the repeated use of the claim “really fast”, were likely to lead viewers to believe that the device actually operated at or near to the speeds shown in the ad. Because we understood that it did not, we concluded that the ad was likely to mislead.

Yesterday’s PhotoAdventure games just took a funny turn - Oliver Bolch, one of the organizers of the funky event, went crazy and sent us the following email (translated by yours truly):

Dear Sir,
it’s your style of communication!

If you ever call an employee of mine a wanker again, I will tear up your small ass, so that a horse can walk through (SIC!!).

Best regards
Oliver Bolch

Want to find out more about this highly professional and noble man? Visit our sister site TamsPalm for the full scoop:
Oliver Bolch / PhotoAdventure - the show gets funny

Even though Windows Mobile and iPhones are targeted at completely different markets, Redmond top brass apparently feels a permanent urge to verbally attack the multitouch boxen.

The latest statement comes via BusinessWeek, and was issued by the head of the Entertainment&devices division: