What, you can’t wait a measley couple of months for Apple to put the polishing touches on the iPhone 3.0 OS? Following on the release of QuickPWN 3.0 Beta 2, the most recent iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 release has already been jailbroken through QuickPWN! While not an official jailbreak solution from the iPhone Dev…
Screenshots of UI Framework Changes in Android 1.5
While everyone is no doubt extremely excited to hear about new features and enhancements in Android 1.5, I’m even more eager to actually see some proof, you know, screenshots and the like. That’s why this morning when I stumbled across these screens, I was extremely pleased. As an example, you’ll notice that as a part…
Stanford Students Port Cinder OS to Run on T-Mobile G1
So what does it take to conceptualize and create a brand new mobile OS? Would a campus full of eager and extremely bright students do? Yep, I’d sure think so, and that’s exactly what some students have done over at Stanford. Cinder OS, an OS designed and created by students at Stanford was built to…
Downgrade your iPhone 3G baseband from 2.30 to 2.28!
They did it! No, it wasn’t the venerated iPhone Dev Team that figured it out. The folks at ModMyi have posted an iPhone 3G baseband firmware downgrade utility, developed by “pH,” that should give bricked iPhone 3G owners new hope. Thanks to pH and the “pHasebandowngrader” utility, the iPhone 3G baseband firmware version 2.30 can…
Chapter 3 of WebOS Developer Guide Finished
Developers looking to get on the Palm Pre train now have a little more material to chew on, as chapter 3 of the work-in-progress guide has been released. This chapter will go over widgets, as explained in the intro: “The heart of the Mojo framework is the user interface feature set, delivered in a collection…
Apple rolls out new iPhone OS 3.0 beta 3
Yup. We’re definitely marching closer to the iPhone OS 3.0’s launch in the middle of this year. On the way there, Apple will likely keep releasing beta-updates of the iPhone OS 3.0 to iPhone developers. The latest, the iPhone 3.0 OS Beta 3, is now available to iPhone devs to tinker with. iPhone OS 3.0…
Android OS 1.5 released, offers juicy new features
Android OS fans have been waiting patiently for Google to go live with an updated version of the open smartphone platform. Today that wait ends. Android OS 1.5 has been officially released on an “early-look” basis, bringing with it juicy new features like soft-keyboard support, speech recognition, homescreen widgets and live folders. As any self-respecting…
Microsoft looking to push Device Updates to Windows Mobile!
We already knew Microsoft was working to build the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 anew, from the ground up and all. Now it looks like Microsoft is planning to push frequent software updates out to its Windows Mobile fleet, possibly via over-the-air (OTA) updates. A new job posting from the mighty Microsoft now hints at a…
Android Developers Get a Head Start… 1.5 Early Look SDK for Android Released!
Google has announced an ‘early look’ at the upcoming SDK for Android. Appropriately named the 1.5 Early Look SDK, Google has given developers access to it to provide a head-start on developing applications for 1.5. The new SDK has a new component structure in comparison to earlier SDK’s, so a few key points for devs…
Samsung Omnia i910 GPS unlocked by new ROM!
If you’ve been scouring the interwebs for an easy way to unlock your Samsung i910 Omnia’s GPS hardware to work outside Verizon’s premium VZ Navigator service, you’ve probably found yourself up a certain creek without a certain paddle.Until now. Rejoice, ye Verizon customer! A new “unofficial” Windows Mobile ROM for the Verizon Samsung Omnia promises…