Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
If you’re fortunate enough to have access to a Premier (business, that is) account with AT&T, you’re now able to forgo the charade of meandering down to your local store to buy — or place an order for, more likely — the iPhone 3G. All three varieties of the best cellphone Apple […]
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
And now for the irony: it’ll be no better a buy than what you can find at ye olde Apple or AT&T store. Best Buy officially becomes the first third-party retailer in the US to sell the iPhone in an official capacity — 3G or otherwise — when it launches the iPhone […]
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
While some complaints after any firmware update are to be expected, there seems to be a decided uptick in the number of reports of problems with the iPhone’s GPS (ranging from general wonkiness to all out failure) after the most recent 2.0.1 update. As the responses on the MacRumors forums indicate, however, […]
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Steve Jobs, presumably speaking from a hyperbaric chamber where he’s being nourished with an infusion of liquified developers-souls before his next public appearance, had a few interesting tidbits about the AppStore for the Wall Street Journal this morning. Namely, users have downloaded some 60 million programs for […]
Filed under: Cellphones
Well, judging by the dozens of tips we just got, it’s time to once again get your Pwnage on with version 2.0.2 (which was released to counter the, um, “fixes” in iPhone firmware 2.0.1). As usual, hit up the read link.
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Filed under: Cellphones
It appears we can all breathe a big sigh of relief when it comes to our iPhone apps. According to John Gruber (Daring Fireball), that suspicious looking URL discovered in the firmware 2.x which appeared to be set to deactivate applications may be something slightly more innocuous. According to Gruber — via “an […]
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Apple’s experimented with allowing iTunes to stream over the internet as well as your LAN in the past and quickly removed the feature (probably due to RIAA pressure), so we’re not placing too much stock in this, but AppleInsider’s unearthed a patent that seems to describe a way to […]
Filed under: Cellphones
According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of “unauthorized” apps — a move which suggests that the device […]
Filed under: Cellphones
Steve made a big show of announcing that the iPhone 3G would launch in 70 countries by the end of the year at WWDC, and according to CFO Tim Cook during Apple’s last financial call, 20 more countries will join the list on August 22 for a total of 45. With that date […]
Filed under: Cellphones
Uh-oh, it look like it’s not just the underground unlockers who’re having problems with the iPhone 2.0.1 update’s revisions to the 3G’s baseband — Vodaphone customers who’ve paid to have their handsets unlocked are starting to report failures to connect to iTunes followed by the appearance of an “0xE8000001″ error code. There are […]
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