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Filed under: Handsets, Software, GSM, EDGE, Apple, OS X

Hey, hackers! at this time that we’ve got the attention of millions upon millions of incredibly talented individuals, in this place’s your next challenge. India’s Airtel — which is offering Apple’s iPhone 3G at a near-stratospheric price — has claimed that “even the most deadly hackers on the planet won’t be able to crack the codes that support the iPhone’s Airtel applications with rival company SIMs.” Just so you know, it appears that Airtel worked with Apple to develop “operator-specific iPhone applications,” which is an engaging attention tidbit in and of itself. But let’s focus on the task at hand in this place, and that’s proving that making ridiculous claims about impenetrability continuously comes back to bite ya.

[Image courtesy of Zedomax, thanks Akshay]

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Palm, Windows Mobile

We thought it was funny in a nerdy, chortle-quietly-to-ourselves sort of way when we realized that HTC would essentially be competing with itself this fall in the very upper echelon of the Windows Mobile market by releasing the Touch Pro and making the X1 for Sony Ericsson. at this time it seems that they’re adding at least one more player into the mix — just for sport, we suppose — if DigiTimes’ claim that the contract for Palm’s Treo Pro has gone to HTC is correct. Recently, Palm has favored Inventec over HTC for many of its models — though the on-again, off-again relationship with Peter Chou’s company stretches all the way back to the Treo’s early days, so there’s definitely some precedent. That, and the fact that HTC seems to really know what it’s Makelately.

[Thanks, Marios S.]

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Palm, Windows Mobile

We thought it was funny in a nerdy, chortle-quietly-to-ourselves sort of way when we realized that HTC would essentially be competing with itself this fall in the very upper echelon of the Windows Mobile market by releasing the Touch Pro and making the X1 for Sony Ericsson. at this time it seems that they’re adding at least one more player into the mix — just for sport, we suppose — if DigiTimes’ claim that the contract for Palm’s Treo Pro has gone to HTC is correct. Recently, Palm has favored Inventec over HTC for many of its models — though the on-again, off-again relationship with Peter Chou’s company stretches all the way back to the Treo’s early days, so there’s definitely some precedent. That, and the fact that HTC seems to really know what it’s Makelately.

[Thanks, Marios S.]

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