iPhone 4 is now officially announced and will be available very soon at an Apple store near you.

iPhone 4 is build on state of art hardware and software technologies, that no other smartphone offers. Apple iPhone is challenged by Android phones in recent days. Biggest advantage of Android is, it allows a huge amount of people and companies to collaborate on this OS. Any company who wants to make a smartphone based on Android can do so without paying a licensing fee. Smartphone companies are also free to modify the OS according to their requirements.

If you are still divided between choosing a right phone for you, folks over TiPB compared iPhone 4  specifications with Android giants Nexus One, HTC Evo 4G and Droid Incredible.

[Credits TiPB]

As you know 3 oct 2008 IPhone sales started in Russia. One guy from RussianiPhone.ru team have talked with shop assistants from 16 points of sale like M-Video, Euroset, Svyaznoy, Alt-telecom about iPhone features, What do they know about iPhone?

Here is the translate from Russian into English

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Hi folks! Many of you are wondering what’s up with Installer 4. No, we haven’t slowed down the work on it, and are currently in the final stages of hooking the GUI to the back-end. We will be contacting the authors of the major repositories in a few days to invite them into the testing process and to prepare for the upcoming repository changes.

Meanwhile, here’s a few actual screenshots so you can check out how the new Installer 4 will look like:

Hope you’ll like the new functionality and interface when it’s out. Please bear with us and let us know if we have missed something you think is essential in Intaller.

LiveJournal.app has been upgraded to version 0.3.1. This upgrade is mostly about fixing previous version’s bugs rather than installing new features, but there are some of those as well.

What’s new:

• you can choose a userpic for each entry and choose your default userpic;
• now you can add new tags in the “edit entry” menu;
• the program now remembers your Location(s), so you’ll be able to choose one of the earlier specified locations when editing your entry (this locations menu will become available as soon as your save at least one location);
• progress bar for image upload now reflects the real upload progress;
• the option of choosing images is now available for versions below 1.1.3 (this hasn’t been tested);
• a menu with options to open the journal or the published entry opens up after successful publication.

What’s old:

• bug fix for ScrapBook authentication, which did not recognize usernames with _ (underscore);
• bug fix for application’s shutdown during posting with no internet connection;
• within the limits of one session the application does not upload the same pictures once more if they were specified for upload twice or if the connection was broken in the process of the posting;
• bug fix for mistakes found in the process of working with the tag selection table;
• bug fix for sometimes incorrect behavior of the Post button;
• several other insignificant bugs were fixed.

Special thanks go out to dorofej, qik, diesel_ks, ruben и padla_cableguy for their help in testing this application. It became much more stable with their help.
Also thanks to q_marik for her help in translating all of this into English.

Please, if you are reposting this text, give a link to the community (http://community.livejournal.com/cosysoftware_en/), or this post, so that the users can receive support or ask us questions. Thank you.

Repository: http://i.cosysoftware.ru

Previous version: http://igrick.livejournal.com/294280.html.

Russian version is also available at cosysoftware.

According to reports originating from Russia, Apple is due to launch a localized iTunes Music Store in Russia on the 21st of April 2008.

Billboard ads that could be seen around Moscow, as well as a banner on the website itunes-store.ru, owned and operated by Apple, all state that Apple is currently in the process of preparing and launching the iTunes Music Store in Russia.

Ha, the best viral marketing i’ve ever seen

iCondom.ru

Great viral marketing from WelcomeToAd in Russia

Today Mac OS X hints offers an easily overlooked internationalization hint. You probably know already that you can hold down a key on the iPhone keyboard to select international versions of a character (eg. Accented characters).

What you might not have know about was the regional domains. In settings, choose General > Keyboards and enable some of those international keyboards.

Next go to Safari and start to enter a new URL. Tap the globe to switch the active keyboard from US English to some other nationality. (Russian is shown here.) Finally, tap and hold the .com button. After a second, a regionalized version of .com appears just to the left of the default.

News from RipDev

A new version of CallData is available in our repository.

• Now installs correctly on firmware 1.1.3 and 1.1.4
• Updated the countries database, fixed some errors in it and improved the access speed.
• Individual country databases from the repository can be installed separately for Russian, Greek and Bulgarian project users.