Our friends at Boing Boing Gadgets showed us an interesting piece about master Vietnamese phone-unlockers. The author reports that the iPhone virtuosos of desoldering manage to painstakingly unlock iPhones so that they can be used on any network. Not for the faint of heart though…
Wal-Mart has jumped on the iPhone band wagon in a big way. They introduced an iPhone ready version of their popular shopping website. Getting there is easy, just go to http://www.wal-mart.com on your iPhone and you will automatically be redirected to the iPhone version of the site.
We reported it, then un-reported it then reported it again then re-un-reported it… You get the picture. After months of speculation, insider interviews, spy photos and reports of tests AT&T has finally released their WiFi plan for their iPhone users.
iPhone users from accross the U.S. report recieving the following text message:
I reported this as a rumor months ago but now can report that the popular do nothing game Line Rider is officially coming to the iPhone. For those who don’t know, Line Rider has enjoyed a healthy cult following since its introduction to the web several years ago. In its original form the instructions are simple, just draw a line vertically from top left to bottom right, hit the play button and watch a little guy try to ride a sled down your line and fall off the end.
Ben Reitzes of Lehman Brothers says that all US Apple retail stores had 16GB iPhones in either color ready to sell for the following morning. Something that Apple hasn’t been able to do since the July 11th launch. It doesn’t seem that the demand is falling, Apple just appears to be finally making more of these devices. Also be on the look out for much lower Ipod touch and general Ipod prices. Apple insiders report that their prices will get cut so they don’t canablize the new iPhone 3G. This lines up nicely with the rumor about getting refreshed Ipods in September.
The talented guys at RipDev never seem to be hindered by the fact that to this point you really are not allowed to have an iPhone on the Russian networks but that all may change soon. It looks like Russian iPhone cravers may not have much longer to wait for their piece of the iPhone pie. Russian communications company VimpelCom has announced that they are working to bring the iPhone to Russia which will make them the first company to do so. They have not released any details yet, but VimpelCom representatives said they hope to be selling the iPhone “…later this year.”
RoughlyDrafted is reporting that a “source close to AT&T” says that the reason for these connectivity problems is a result of iPhones demanding that cell towers devote more power than necessary to their connections. Whaa? 2.0 and 2.0.1 firmware don’t help much, most users are reporting that the effects and data loss are still there. Supposedly 2.0.2 firmware addresses the issue with mix results. There is a hope however of a rumored firmware update to be released in September will fix the issue. Don’t get your hopes up to much, there is no way to confirm this as of yet and we don’t know if this is real or hype from the marketing machine that is Apple.
Gizmodo reported an iPhone passcode flaw which was also reported by MacRumors. This flaw is schedlued to be fixed in the next iPhone update, however in the meantime there is a simple fix to remedy the problem. Users should set their “Home Button” double-click preference to “Home” or “iPod” rather than the default “iPhone Favorites”. While getting a fix in the new update is great, we are more interested in fixing those iPhone 3G reception issues.
Once again the Dev Team has pulled through with some very important updates to both the Pwnage Tool and QuickPwn. Their latest comes in the form of PwnageTool 2.0.3.1. You can download it here.
Also, QuickPwn Release Candidate 3 has been released. Supposed to be fixed in this release is the issue for 64-bit Windows users and the new version is supposed to work for all Windows versions. Download QuickPwn RC3 here.
If you’ve been having a problem with jailbreaking, these releases should address your issues and as always, as much as we love the dev team we cannot guarantee that they will work properly. Please understand that you will use these programs at your own risk.
Well well well… It looks like Verizon has decided to fight back against the full on assault they have been taking from the iPhone 3G. They have given their employees a briefing about the new iPhone’s failings so that they can better answer questions about why Verizon does not carry the phone. The propeganda that they handed employees revolved around what they called the four big “myths” about the iPhone.
When the iPhone 3G and the App Store were released it was not long before some people began questioning whether it was still necessary to jailbreak the phone. The new firmware and App Store now allows users access to Apple’s huge library of applications but the question we ask is why would you not want to jailbreak your iPhone?
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ifonenation members are reporting that they received a text message from AT&T about their 3G iPhones. The message, they report, reminds users to upgrade to iPhone software 2.0.2.
A reported email from Steve Jobs pointed to an acknowledged an ongoing issue that has been reported by many iPhone users that result in 3rd App store applications repeatedly crashing:
Many report the iPhone 2.0 firmware suddenly failing to load non-default apps regardless of their nature, briefly loading them before abruptly jumping back to the home screen.
Not glued to the iPhone dev team’s blog? Oh, you are? Oh well, for the rest of you about an hour ago they announced that a GUI version of their latest Windows release, QuickPwn, is ready for you to download. We’ll have some instructions on this very quickly. In the meantime the following is the post from the dev team:
NOTE to jailbreakers: It is not clear at this time what effect this update will have on your jailbreak but it is assumed that it will return your iPhone to it’s previous, unjailbroken, state. Proceed with caution or even better, wait until the DevTeam makes an announcement as to whether their PwnageTool software is compatable with the new update.
We reported earlier that it was in beta testing but today Apple has released the 2.0.2 firmware for the iPhone. As usual, Apple gives us the cryptic explanation of the contents of the update as “Bug Fixes”. While many pray that the update will fix the much blogged about 3G connectivity issues, no confirmation on a fix has been made yet. Steve Jobs is said to have become personally involved with the connectivity problems promising that a software patch will be available “soon” to address the issue.
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