No doubt Apple took over the portable music player (PMP) industry by storm; but can it do the same and take on the mobile phone industry kings such as Nokia and Motorola with iPhone's release? Chicago Tribune says that Nokia and Motorola will have no problems with market shares... for now. These companies' Research and Development teams should be ready though for a lot of headaches to come.

Nokia, one of the dominant mobile phone manufacturers owns about 36 % market share, with Motorola trailing behind with its 17 % share. Indeed, with the iPhone expecting to grab only 1 % of the cell phone market shares by the end of 2008, they don't have to worry about Apple removing them from the top spots.

Roger Entner, senior vice president of IAG Research's communications sector agrees.

It will not be a financial disrupter, but it will be a psychological disrupter, a research and development disrupter. Mobile phone industry competitors will find themselves getting nagged by people to imitate the iPhone.

The iPhone's audience may be limited in its initial launch. Most of the general market may consider the first generation iPhone as too pricey - the exclusive contract with AT&T may mean shelling out around an extra US$ 150 to pay off contract termination fees for Sprint and Verizon customers - which may deter them from getting one. But consumers will eventually be drawn to the iPhone's concept of simplified design and user interface, in effect asking for the same value and features from other phone manufacturers.

Apple may become a considerable threat to mobile phone manufacturers if the company decides to roll out cheaper versions of the iPhone, like what it did with the iPod. Doing so will mean that Apple will eat up most of the mobile phone market shares, and more people besides Apple supporters, tech enthusiasts, and the rich will find themselves running their thumbs across the iPhone's glass screen.

Motorola isn't batting an eyelash for now, though. "Really, the iPhone benefits the entire industry," said Brian Stech, Motorola phone division's global marketing director. He further explains that the iPhone will direct more consumer interest towards multimedia phones, which Motorola is also specializing on.

This may be Apple's first foray into the mobile phone business, but analysts are already convinced that the iPhone will most certainly change the cellphone industry landscape.

For those not familiar with it, PEnGUIn is a PMP encoder software by La'Fear for the Mac OS X. And this certain application he's just released is actually a nethostfs. It's based on Ahman's source code for the irshell for the PC.

PEnGUIn(Host) is the third part of the PEnGUIn ToolKit and here's his notes on the readme:

1. For the first launching, press set button to select the directory for share.
2. Press Start button to enable wireless sharing.
3. Only support IRShell 2.1 & 2.2.

In the download below, we've also included his Quick Guide to the movie encoder that he's made. Everything is still in development, but we're just thankful that people are putting up these kinds of stuff, especially for the Mac OS X.

Download: [PEnGUIn(host) 0.3a]

Last week we reported a review of 5 BitTorrent clients that supported Mac OSX, with the results pretty inconclusive. There wasn't any super Mac OSX torrent clients that really stood out, and hopefully this latest program called 'BitRocket' should be much better. The feature list is very impressive, with the User Interface along featuring:

• RSS support (Download .torrent's from within the application)
• Integrated (Customizable) Search Engine
• Flexible Filtering
• Torrent Generator
• Live Info View
• UPnP and NAT-PMP Port Forwarding

Some Mac users may not know why they would need a Bittorrent client, but if you think about it, the uses are endless. Whenever you need to send some files to someone else, particularly a large file such as a home movie or family photographs from a recent holiday, you simply generate a torrent file, send them the file (which is very small) via an IM client or email and then let them download from you in real-time.

Not only does this mean that they can usually get much better speeds than downloading an attachment, they can pause, stop and resume the file when they wish. No excuses for 56k users! Beware though, this client has a maximum file transfer size of 2GB, so don't try sharing files over that size.

Download: [BitRocket - Mac OS X BitTorrent Client v0.2 beta]