Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from Macworld UK.

Germany’s T-Mobile generated a wave of media attention with its decision to subsidize the purchase price of the iPhone in a new €99 (US$155) deal, announced last week, but Apple’s U.K. partner, O2, has no immediate plan to emulate the discount.

T-Mobile’s plan has been seen as predicated by one of two reasons: to stimulate flagging sales of the device in Germany, or to clear stock from the network’s channel, pending the coming release of a 3G-supporting model of the device.

Apple’s German iPhone network partner has been selling the 8GB model of iPhone for €399, but reduced the cost of that model to €99 late last week.

O2 has not chosen to emulate T-Mobile’s move, at least, not yet. An O2 spokesperson told Macworld UK:

“We regularly examine all of our offerings to ensure they remain competitive and meet customer demands. We currently have no updates regarding iPhone pricing.”

While this response leaves the door open to future price cuts on the part of Apple’s UK network partner, it does mean there’s no immediate price discount plan to be announced.

The first one was good, but take a look at this! The new version of iLiberty+ (OS X), version 1.5, has been updated with to include many new features and payloads, from assorted app packs, to a brand new, built in help file. Also, v1.5 comes with a new addition to the menu bar, “Advanced,” which brings options like ‘Enter Recovery Mode,’ and ‘Enable Re-Jailbreak’ right to your fingertips. Available here

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Caterpillar is an unique package of little tools for your iPhone that can be installed separately from each other. Each module provides its own set of features aimed to make your use of iPhone more productive and fun. Customization, business tools, quick contacts search, system font replacement and many more — constantly growing as we add new tools and functionality.

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Our favorite Apple iPhone jailbreak / unlock solution ZiPhone was updated with several bug fixes and more complete support for iPod Touch jailbreaking and recovery.

ZiPhone allows you to activate, jailbreak, and unlock any iPhone or iPod Touch firmware version from v1.0.0 to v1.1.4 via very easy graphical interface.

ZiPhone v2.6b provides an NVRAM fix option meant to solve some of people’s problems with the iPod Touch.

Direct Download:
- ZiPhone v2.6b for Windows (12MB)
- ZiPhone v2.6b for Mac (12MB)

The screen shots below might be a rare sneak peak of the new App Store. As to whether they’re fake or real, only time will tell and it’s up to you to decide. From what I caner from the images, the look of the supposed App Store appears to be very similar to installer.app with notable features include the ability to browse Featured, Genres, Top 50, Search and Updates.

[Thanks for the tip Mike, Monsterandfriends]

Many Tricks has released yFlicks 3.3, updated version of its movie manager and viewer for Mac.

With yFlicks, users can download, tag, organize and view their movies. This update adds coverflow for browsing your movies both in window and fullscreen mode, lets you access your iTunes movies from yFlicks, improves downloading from video communities such as YouTube, and features many other small improvements.

The update also adds stand alone application TubiTunes, which lets you add an online web video (YouTube, CollegeHumor, DailyMotion, Metacafe) to your iTunes library with just one click. Most importantly you can convert movies to iPhone-readable format.

It costs €16.95. However if you have an older version of yFlicks, update will be free. But if it’s a bit too much you can also purchase TubiTunes alone for €4.95. As usual, there is a trial version available for download.

While working on a Caterpillar update, we’ve discovered an interesting fact – to take screenshots, you don’t need any additional apps! SpringBoard itself can do it, once the hidden feature is activated.Here’s how:

• Add http://repository.ripdev.com/ to Installer.app if you haven’t already
• Install Apple Screenshot Enabler from the RiP Dev category
• Take your screenshots :)))

To take a screenshot, hold down Home (Menu) button on the phone and toggle the Mute button. The screen will flash and the screenshot will be saved to the Camera Roll. Simple as that!

Enjoy. Works under 1.1.3 and newer.

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.

Epocrates®, Inc., developer of mobile applications used by more than 500,000 healthcare professionals, is excited to announce that it has begun development of its clinical software products for the iPhone operating system. Epocrates was one of only five companies, including Salesforce.com, AOL, EA and Sega, to be highlighted by Steve Jobs during the iPhone Software Roadmap media briefing.“By putting so much computing power into such an elegant mobile device, Apple has opened up tremendous opportunities for application developers”, said Kirk Loevner, Chairman and CEO of Epocrates, Inc. “The technology and software in the iPhone OS will allow us to create new and innovative applications that help improve patient safety and provide healthcare professionals with an unsurpassed user experience.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Vincent NguyenOk, I’m confused. Back when AT&T announced the $99.00 unlimited option, it was my understanding that existing and new iPhone owners have the option to pick the $99.99 unlimited voice in addition, pay $20 for 200 SMS text messaging and unlimited web/email. Then if they want unlimited text, tact an additional $20 to the plan. The grand total comes out to $140.

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