Apple has changed the terms of its iPhone 4.0 software developer kit license thus leaving no place for Flash products at the iPhone and iPad devices.

Yesterday the curtain has been pulled back on iPhone 4, and the list of new features is impressive. 7 major ones, over 100 user features have been added and iphone developers will have access to more than 1500 new APIs.

For the past months the Internet has been buzzing about the release of a new version of the Apple OS – this time 4.0. Almost everyone from numerous “trusty Apple connects” to dubious “unconfirmed reports” predicted the long awaited release every month.

Every month AdMob's Mobile Metrics Report, familiar to all fanboys of mobile market and those who have to search any slightest changes there as part of their working responsibilities, publishes the results of the mobile OS market share review. And everytime the report arouses lot’s of conjectures and suppositions. This month it was no difference.

Opera has created its new browser for iPhone, Opera-Mini, which awaits its approval in the sacred halls of the Apple App Store. The offered application supports multiple tabs options and «speed dial» access to frequently-visited sites which seems to be a great advantage in comparison to the existing Apple browser. Besides, it reduces wireless network congestion by compressing pages at Opera-maintained servers before they're passed on to the user.

The inaugural version of App Planet turned out to be a great success. Though nobody doubted it would. An entire exhibition hall was reserved for applications developers, content providers, operators and device manufacturers, their meeting conferences and their products. All that was accompanied with cold drinks, small talks, severe discussions and awards giving out.

The mobile industry survives the outburst of innovations and  creativity that’s why the Mobile World Congress 2010 that is to take place next week tends to be one of the greatest events of the coming year. Traditionally  it is considered the best way to make some  striking statements  or slip out promissing comments that will be discussed  in the Net for weeks if not for months. It is rumoured that  the biggest news to come out of the annual Congress  might not even be on the hardware front, but rather software (quite unlike the previous years).

The rumors about introduction by Apple the first Internet tablet iSlate by the end of the month were confirmed. On the 18th of January Apple sent invitations to the presentation to be held on January, 27 at 10 am local time in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (San Francisco).

The following post will concentrate on the impressions of an iPhone user without promoting or humiliating Apple's product.

iPhone appeared when the level of mobile devices development showed necessity to combine a phone, book-reader, pdf reader, digital voice recorder and mail client in one device. Hp hx4700 was the only device of such kind previously, but its operating system was far from being perfect. Finally the decision was made to embody all these functions in Apple.

British mobile operator Vodafone will become the third to start retail sales of the Apple iPhone.

«Vodafone and Apple have confirmed that they had reached agreement to start selling the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in the United Kingdom and Ireland at the beginning of 2010,» — official press release says.