It almost seemed that the iPhone-hacking community had given up on trying to unlock the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware. With the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware already fully ensconced in the iPhone-wild, unlocking a previous firmware is kind of a moot endeavor. “Kind of” being the operative phrase here. We’re sure there are plenty of unlocked-iPhone users out…
Video recording on jailbroken iPhones – Take that, Apple!
We’ve been whining about a few things on the iPhone for some time now. You would have thought that all the high-pitched grovelling would have prompted Apple to include video recording, iChat, or at least MMS in one of the previously released firmwares (v1.1.3 included). Alas, Apple doesn’t seem to give a lick what we…
Use the iPhone v1.1.3 WebClips feature to create a photo album on your homescreen
Now this is one nifty way to use the iPhone v1.1.3’s WebClips feature. Flickr frequenter, DoctaBu, has figured out a way to fill his homescreen with thumbnail-photos of his friends and family – basically an entire homescreen page that serves as a WebClips photo-album. DoctaBu created a customer webpage (wait, aren’t most webpages custom? whatever…)…
iPhone v1.1.3 firmware restores previously bricked iPhones – iBricks rise from the dead
Were you foolhardy, adventurous, or otherwise unlucky enough to attempt to update an unlocked iPhone, resulting in its untimely demise? Have you been staring at you iBrick with longing regret for a functioning iPhone? Well, today’s your day! It seems that Apple’s new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware is able to breathe new life into your bricked,…
AT&T prepping to bring iPhone to corporate and business customers – Apple iPhone goes enterprise on Jan. 21
The enterprise market is a huge money-maker for carriers and manufacturers alike. Just take a look at the leading smartphone platform in the US. The RIM-made BlackBerry platform is the push-emailing, Outlook server compatible, enterprise-handset of choice among the corporate-set. Sure, the iPhone has already taken the second-highest market share in the smartphone segment, but…
EU wireless regulatory body looks into mobile phone billing – European Commission wants per-second mobile phone billing
The EU has just started enjoying the fruits of the European Commission’s (the EU’s wireless regulatory body) labor to put caps on EU roaming rates, and the European Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding is turning her attention to carrier’s wireless billing practices. It’s well-known that operators like to bill customers on a per-minute basis – which…
NEC D02NE – 7.2Mbps HSDPA PCMCIA card
Does anyone still use PCMCIA card slots anymore? Maybe we’re just techno-snobs, but we haven’t used a “PC-card” slot in ages. It’s all about USB and ExpressCard slots over here. Regardless, there are bound to be older-laptop owners out there that are dying for a wireless broadband solution – especially one that doesn’t require an…
Palm, i-mate, and MWG go back to HTC for ODM handset orders
Ever since our favorite little ODM cut their manufacturing-strings and started hocking their wares under their own global brand, HTC has blossomed into the Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer that we all knew it would be. Now that HTC has their own-branded line of mobile phones, their ODM business accounted for less than 10% of their…
Infra-Red transfers are back – KDDI claims IR transfer of entire CD in less than one second
Remember those days of yore when we’d “beam” data between our mobile gadgets via that little dark-red-plastic covered port known as an IR port? It was super-convenient to be able to transfer some contact information on the fly, but it was also super-annoying to have to make sure the ports were lined up correctly –…
Help 2 Speak language translator for Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard – free and useful
A free and useful application? Now that’s a combo that we love to see. World-travelers constantly finding themselves in a bind for foreign-language phrases will be happy to hear that there’s free download for Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard devices. Help 2 Speak translates English into 5 of the world’s most common languages – with support…