"country of purchase"

Anar here...

Finally it has just happened. If you bought an iOS devise (iPhone for example) in one EU country, you can use your warranty rights in another EU country!!!
Brussels, 25 September 2010, Antitrust: Statement on Apple's iPhone policy changes (Reference:  IP/10/1175    Date:  25/09/2010):

...One focused on the "country of purchase" rule, whereby repairs service is only available in the country where the iPhone was bought, which made the exercise of warranty rights difficult for consumers who had purchased an iPhone in another EU/EEA country than their home country. The Commission had concerns that this rule could amount to territorial restrictions aimed at dissuading European consumers from buying iPhones outside their country of residence and so leading to a partitioning of the market...

Previously, if people buy an unlocked iPhone in Italy while being residents of Germany, for example, they will be refused to get it fixed by warranty in Germany. They were forced to send devices to Apple Service in Italy (by providing home addresses in Italy) :(

Now it seems to be over and the cross-border warranty repair is now allowed. Let's see...

Robot Touchscreen Analysis

A bit of cross-posting...

Guys from the MOTO made a re-test of Touchscreen Analysis and this time using a robot ;)

Guess who won the latest tests?

But of course.... iPhone wins again.

1password Pro app is for free

The extremely useful program 1password in Pro version for iPhone can be downloaded for free now, instead of 5 Euro pro copy. This is due to a celebration of a new release 1password 3 for Mac.

This gift will be there until December 1st. So, guys, I suggest to take off immediately!

Here you get the iTunes link.

iPhone 3Gs synchronization crashed iTunes

Today after a long trip to Geneva I finally arrived to a hotel and decided to sync and charge my iPhone (3Gs with OS v.3.0.1). What was a surprise when iTunes ( v.8.2.1(6) ) simply crashed as soon as a sync process has been started.

Well, bugs happen and unfortunately Apple isn't an exception here :(

BTW, this happened while syncing with an unibody MacBook Pro and Mac OS X 10.5.8.

• I tried to restart iPhone/laptop.
• I tried to reinstall iTunes - was a stupid idea I guess, but I was seeking for any help...
• I tried to remove all podcasts - I read somewhere that it could be a problem for sync (google for that). Since today in the train I was watching/deleting some of my podcasts, I thought this could somehow make it happen, I mean the crash of iTunes :D
• I also tried different USB ports and so on and so on... I tried many times and always result was the same...

At the end what actually did help is the following.

1. I disconnected iPhone from the laptop,
2. opened iTunes and in its settings I checked "Devices"->"Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods",
3. after that I connected the iPhone,
4. and in the settings of sync I switched of a sync of podcasts (just in case),
5. than it could successfully process the synchronization. After that I checked both changed settings to a previous states and it works now! In the automatic mode as well.

What the hell was that?

I don't know, but at least everything works now as expected!

Hope it helps some one...

Have fun!

Swipe Delete From UITableView

You probably like to use swipe to delete elements from UITableView. Here you have a short example how to implement so in your iPhone applications.

On Swipe you receive the following message, you don't need to do anything in it:

-(void)tableView:(UITableView*)tableView willBeginEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
}

When a user hits DELETE you can process it:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
     // If row is deleted, remove it from the list.
     if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete)
     {
 // delete your data item here
  // Animate the deletion from the table.
              [self.tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
     }
}