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Yes finally got my hands on the iPhone 3G. It has been a really long wait. Even though i am under an unhappy situation(my grandma passed away the afternoon before the iPhone launch day), i was determined to get my hands on it asap. And so i did, on 22 August about 3:20am after queuing up for 3 plus hours at Singtel Comcentre.

It has been a really great desire of mine to venture into mobile application development. Before the iPhone, we only heard of apps done with Windows Mobile, J2Me and symbian. J2Me coding really sucked since Java did not have a trait of having nice user interface. Windows Mobile or symbian were the other potential platform however you have to pay quite a sum(IDE, etc) to develop on them.

Time to learn some objective-c and fiddle around with the iPhone SDK!

Steve jobs has just announced the scheduled February ‘08 arrival of third party SDK on the iPhone/iPod Touch. This is gonna be exciting with the revolutionary user interface of iPhone/Touch.

… With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

Steve

I like the idea that Apple is attempting to reach out to the third party developer community. Now i can only wait for February to come. Time to save up for an iPhone/Touch. I might consider getting the Touch.