Cui – On My Way

Just happened to get this new theme from the admin page by the part of plugins->most popular. After a little bit playground I think it deserves a new post to recommend to my readers.

Official website is here. And the latest version is 1.9.2.2(Thanks to WP for its very charming feature of installing/upgrading the plugin in the admin page directly. Very nice.)

Below is what this site looks like in the iPhone’s safari browser.

I don have other mobile devices like gPhone or Blackberry, so don know how it performs in that devices. It does look quite nice at least in the iphone.

Besides, it loads fast and the user experience of the whole ajax-powered interface does make me very satisfied. Not mention its very nice feature of allowing the reader to switch between the regular lookings and wptouch version. Really cool, isn’t it?

I should say, with wptouch, time to say goodbye to my long-used iwphone plugin.

I’ve been waiting for it for a long time, really. I love it so.The reason? I’ve talked it before, not mention so many new features has been added in this release.

To quote a few, brand new UI design(i think it cooler), full screen browsing, support direct installation from .deb,.pxl,.ipa, support music(.3gp,.mp3) and movie(.mov,.mp4)) download and playback, last session restore…

I myself still haven’t enough time to digg deeper into it yet. To get more, you better try it out by yourself. Just give it some patience ‘coz it’s still in beta and buggy, from from as stable and user-friendly as Safari.

However, it IS worth of a try.

Cydia/Icy source is: http://wap.ucweb.com/iphone/cydia.

Compatible Firmwares: 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.2.1 | 3.0 | 3.0.1

Here’s the new home and a downloaded mp3 ready to play.

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Update(Sep.28,2009): UCWEB 6.7 beta rocks on iPhone firmware 3.1!

It’s my first time to see this: sad iphone. Just wonder why choose the  letter of ‘F’ and ’3′ to mean sad.

Anyway, you’ll see this when SpringBoard crashes which leads to the phone entering safe mode. Below is the message box as it happens.

BTW, i’m on 3.0 right now.

News by Sina: 详讯：联通明日发布苹果iPhone手机事宜

It said China Unicom will announce the coming of iPhone tomorrow, i.e, Aug.28 of 2009. The exact date that customer can get the phone would be in someday of Oct. The model would be iPhone 3G 8G and 16G, while 3GS has been delayed until perhaps Oct. And the price would be lower than the unofficial price of related iPhone 3G which is currently 8G by 3000RMB(439USD) and 16G by 4000RMB(586USD).

It also mentioned China Unicom has spent 10 billion RMB(1.46 billion USD) to get 5 million iphones from Apple, who has given up the revenue-sharing-contract model in this deal.

Unfortunately the imported iPhone has been ‘customized’: No wifi module, no iTunes and App Store applications.

So the question is: would you buy it?

Maybe you already know that Google Mobile Team has made lots of improvements on the page of search results for the mobile devices like iPhone(link created by online proxy zend2.com, ‘coz blogspot has been blocked by GFW), here’s what I’ve found on what the details are on Google.cn.

1. Universal search for sure

I’ve checked the search results one by one by taking a comparison with g.cn on my laptop searching for the same keyword.

Yes, they are the same.

2.Mobile formatted

Absolutely my favorite feature, always. ‘Coz that will take a big cut the traffic and reduce much cost accordingly when I use it on the China Mobile’s network.

Strongly recommend it, esp. when you use iphone a lot to surf the net in the cellular network.

This is tested in my iphone 2G using China Mobile’s GoTone(全球通) service by my Windows Xp laptop.

1.Install ActivateMMS2G via Icy or Cydia by adding manually this rep http://cydia.alpden.com . Credit goes to hackint0sh user ‘micked’ on this post.

2.Install this customized carrier bundle CMCC_Cui via iTunes by following this tutorial by iclarified.

This installation is to fix the issue of cannot saving the MMS APN settings after the step 1.

Besides, i’ve just updated the carrier logo for China Mobile. See the screenshot above, on the top-left corner, the icon, which originally is chinese characters of 中国移动.

And one more things, for all Windows users that still haven’t find a tool to edit the .plist file, here’s the one for you: pledit.exe.

3. Check your Settings->General->Network->Cellular Data Network, make sure everything goes the same as the picture below shows.

4. Go to Settings->Messages, turn MMS Messaging on.

5. Reboot and enjoy.

Seems iPhone coming to China becomes much closer, from the announced approval by State Wireless Inspection Center of China. See picture below. Source query page is here.

The device is marked as ‘GSM/WCDMA/蓝牙移动电话机’ ,which means ‘GSM/WCDMA/Bluetooth Mobile Phone’, not the famous ‘iPhone’. But is any other phone devices made by Apple?!

PCWorld has a detailed report here. But what I’ve learned is from Sina News(Chinese).

It even says due to the Apple’s nonnegotiable attitude on his business model of revenue sharing with the carrier China Unicom has become not so eager and enthusiastic as used to be.

Besides, to enter the mainland market there’s another barrier: WIFI module. ‘Coz MIT officially doesn’t allow the existence of such a mobile device with WIFI  function.

Update(Jul 13,2009): Sina says Apple has agreed that China Unicom will be the one that will sell iphone to the market. As to when and how, just a matter of time. And no wifi for sure.

Yeah, I’m on the latest OS 3.0 beta 3(iPhone1,1_3.0_7A280f_Restore.ipsw, go to mybittorrent and search for it) right now already

Credits goes to the Russian hacker who released the QuickPwn-030-3, by which you can activate and jailbreak the latest beta 3 OS.

My way to the beta 3 was not as smooth as expected, however.

The first time I shift+restore the phone to the beta 3 surely worked. But the problem was when it’s done I couldn’t get it out of the DFU mode. Really weird.

So I had to do the whole things again. and this time I was lucky. It worked.

BTW, in order to not to let the phone activated by the iTunes when first time the phone was connected to the computer just after the restore process, I chose to take the SIM card out all the time. I have no idea if it will work if keeping the SIM in.

Good luck.

Here’s how i get there, terribly straightforward. btw, i’m already on iPhone OS 3.0 beta 1 before upgrade.

1. Download the unoffical quickpwn here(discussion here) and the iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 on Demonoid(use iphone firmware to search).

2. Launch iTunes(i’m on 8.1), Shift+Restore to choose the firmware(iPhone1,1_3.0_7A259g_Restore.ipsw) to update.

3. After done, start quickpwn.exe to jailbreak and activate. No unlock necessarily ‘coz the restore process won’t touch the baseband.

4. Sync back all of your stuff by iTunes. In my case, I always set it up as a new phone ‘coz doing so makes me feel it’s a like brand new one

Enjoy the beta 2 now.

Apple said there are more than 100 new features for the non-developer iphone owners like me in the iPhone OS 3.0. Same as usual, Apple doesn’t give us a document about what they are and how to use them.

Until now I myself haven’t see them all. But I do have some findings, just after playing around for a couple of days with 3.0. And I’d like to put all of them here, FYI.

Here they are, grouped by applications.

1.Phone

1.1 Phone->Recents

Much detailed Call History Info, like call number type, call in or out, calling minutes etc.

1.2Phone->Contacts

>>Delete contact info piece by piece(the red button is placed there by ME, ‘coz for some reason screenshot cannot be done at that status)

Contact Share, Tap Address will launch Google Map to search and My Number.

2.SpringBoard(Home Screen)

Press the Home key will take you to the left one of the current home screen, until you reach the most left Spotlight Search screen. And then press Home will make you switch between the Spotlight Search and the first home screen right after Spotlight.

3.Calculator

Turn the phone into landscape mode will take you to the scientific calculator automatically. Perhaps this it not a new one, i’m not sure here. Correct me if you know it.

4.Settings

Mail: Load Remote Images , Safari : Autofill,Fraud Warning, iPod: Shake to Shuffle.. Well, even though I haven’t figure out how they really works, they are the features that I haven’t seen in the previous firmwares. So just put them here for sharing.

5.Clock

Stopwatch: real time count display for each lap

One more thing, Facebook already starts taking use of the shake API brought by the OS 3.0. Here’s the setting screenshot.

P.S. It works like a charm.

BTW, if you know more undocumented featurs of iPhone OS 3.0, please leave it in the comments. Thanks.

Update(Mar 31,2009): some more findings

1.Safari -> Autofill

very nice, really.

2.Settings ->General ->Home

More choices for the double tap Home button, like to launch Camera, to Search.