Who says you gotta pony up the big bucks to stay on top of the latest trends? In the mobile world it’s “hot” to be thin and chic (not all that different from Los Angeles). It looks like Motorola and Nokia are bringing “stylish” handsets to the lower-end masses with their newest offerings for Verizon…
HOT: iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak released! Update your iPhones to v1.1.3 [updated]
That’s right! The title says it all. We expected the software-based iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak no earlier than tonight, and the iPhone Dev Team has taken us by (pleasant) surprise!The iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak is now live and ready to bring third-party applications, via Installer.app, to your newly updated (or brand-new) iPhone. We’ll get straight to the…
Apple cuts down on iPhone orders for Q2
Apple’s done quite well for itself with the iPhone. They’ve moved millions upon millions of the heralded handset, and they’re rolling in revenue-dough. Now there’s a report, from the Chinese-language Economic Daily News, that Apple has reduced its Q2 iPhone orders from 2 million to 1.0-1.2 million – about half the expected amount of Q1…
iPhone gives AT&T huge subscriber boost, Q4 earnings increase 61%
With the end of the fiscal year, companies are making public just how much they made or lost over the past year. One of the year’s clear winners is AT&T. They just released their yearly statements, outlining a 61.8% increase in Q4 2007 earnings to $3.14 billion, compared to Q4 2006. Sales were up 91%…
International TeleNav – T-Mobile UK launches TeleNav
British GPS-mongers can now sleep well. TeleNav has launched on T-Mobile UK! Right, if you feel like paying monthly/yearly for a GPS navigation application on your mobile phone, T-Mobile UK has started to offer the TeleNav Navigator application for just £49.99. But, you do get what you pay for. TeleNav Navigator in the UK will…
Sprint layoffs: executives on the chopping block
Talk about some drastic changes. Dan Hesse has barely taken control of the reigns at Sprint and he’s already firing 4,000 employees and closing 125 retails stores. It looks like Dan Hesse isn’t taking that 639,000 subscriber-lose in Q4 2007 lightly. According to the Wall Street Journal, the swinging-ax, destined to lop-off 4,000 heads, has…
Google and NTT DoCoMo confirmed partners, possibly bringing Android handset to Japan
It looks like the deal between Google and NTT DoCoMo to bring added Google-functionality to the carrier’s i-mode internet service has been confirmed by NTT DoCoMo. The partnership would bring pre-installed Google applications to NTT DoCoMo handsets and make it easier for the carrier’s 48 million i-mode customers to make use of apps like Google…
iPhone v1.1.3 software-based jailbreak on the verge of public release – the best of both worlds!
Right. Remember when we speculated that the iPhone dev community was holding off on releasing their software-based jailbreak method so as to not give Apple a chance to patch the exploit with the release of their official iPhone SDK? Well, it looks like we were wrong – and we can’t say we’ve ever been happier…
iPhone v1.1.3 firmware ready to run official third-party applications
Could this firmware be the one that Steve Jobs has been holding over our heads for the past few months? Most likely. It seems that the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware has been primped and prepped to play nice with officially, Apple-sanctioned third-party application. Here’s a rundown of what’s different in the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware: Applications actually…
SIM cards can survive fires, possibly even terrorist bombings
If you thought that little piece of plastic that lets your GSM phone get jiggy with your carrier’s network was fragile, think again. Apparently, you can cook your SIM card (GSM-only, for reasons that should be obvious) to incredible temperatures and still retrieve your stored contact info. Two electronic engineers, Benjamin Jones and Tony Kenyon,…