Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

With the dramatic price cut in the new iPhone 3G, Apple has decided to cave on a key requirement: Apple will no longer require carriers to offer a prepaid version.
And, the first to suffer from this is American customers. As of iPhone 3G, AT&T has tentatively confirmed to PhoneNews.com that the 3G iPhone will not be available [...]

At Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, the company announced several new (albeit expected) developments.
Updated with iPhone photo, TV ad…

Come a week from today, Sprint will have a dilemma. The Samsung Instinct isn’t out yet, but all of Instinct’s selling points will be equalized. A second-generation Apple iPhone may actually beat Instinct to market, and won’t feature Sprint’s horrid plan limitations.

Oh, and it may be cheaper too. But, I’ll tell Sprint how to [...]

AT&T today re-added supplies of refurbished Apple iPhone units. 
The huge deal that refurbished iPhones represent meant that they were only offered in-store on a strict first come first serve basis with very limited availability and a limit of one per customer to prevent resellers from marking up the devices for pure profit. At $249.99 without [...]

Apple has officially confirmed the simultaneous lack of iPhone availability at its US and UK online stores, and is redirecting those customers in the US and UK to Apple, AT&T, and O2 retail stores respectively as the belief is that those locations may still have the device in stock.
This confirmation comes on the heels of [...]

Many iPhone Beta Firmware users are reporting that the latest update now features a menu that features a virtual switch to toggle between EDGE and 3G access as well as VPN setup and international data roaming.
This is the first definitive piece of evidence that leads to a new version of the iPhone featuring a 3G [...]

Orb Networks today issued Orb update version 2.01.0013. This update makes various improvements, most notably, support for streaming Live TV to Apple’s iPhone. The service is compatible both with EDGE and Wi-Fi connections.

The update enables this by installing the OrbLive application on a jailbroken iPhone. Orb plans to add support for un-modified iPhones with the [...]

Apple has updated the iPhone SDK and related 2.0 Firmware Beta once again.  The biggest addition to the SDK is the inclusion of OpenGL ES graphics libraries, runtimes, and an emulator to debug and test applications built with the graphics platform, along with more fixes to the beta firmware for those lucky enough to receive [...]

Fring announced today that they have launched the first mobile VoIP application for the iPhone by developing it with the Holon Institute of Technology academic research labs in Israel.
The R&D version of the application can be downloaded to a jailbroken iPhone by accessing http://fring.com/iphone.xml. Click here for instructions on how to install.
The feedback from the [...]

PwnageTool has been updated to 1.1. As we previously reported, Apple had blocked PwnageTool from activating and unlocking the latest iPhone betas.
Apple did this by modifying how the iPhone software payload was bundled, making it more difficult for PwangeTool to access the firmware
The latest update works around that added layer of security from Apple, and [...]