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…
Antix Labs to make PC game libraries available to mobile game developers
I’m not sure I fully understand how this works, but Antix has managed to make use of the existing PC game libraries and made them available — or that’s port them — to/for mobile game developers. Apparently, Antix’ solution will allow games to run on both high-end and low-end devices, with users of the former…
A La Mobile brings fully functional Android OS stack to HTC Blue Angel
Hey, a la Mobile, 2004 called and they want their smartphone back. In a move to show the world that the Android OS is compatible with all sorts of older, ARM-based devices, a California-based Linux/Open-Source handset software development firm, a la Mobile, has announced that they have installed their own Android OS stack on the…
iPhone as webcam – iPhoneCam turns your iPhone into a wireless Mac webcam
If you’re already a Mac-user, chances are you already have a built-in iSight camera to do all the web-cam legwork for you. But, if the “cool factor” of having a built-in webcam on your MacBook Pro’s display bezel has started to wear, there’s good news. Mac/iPhone developer Ecamm has released a sneak-peak of their new…
Make iPhone applications on your Windows machine – Windows Binary Toolchain Installer
Third-party, native iPhone applications are all the rage recently. And, with Apple’s forthcoming iPhone SDK on the horizon, we’d imagine that a lot of Windows-users are going to be gunning for a head-start on developing for the iPhone’s Mac OS. Unfortunately, an out-of-the-box iPhone development toolchain has been limited to Mac users – until now.…
Android in the wild: hacked and running on ARM-based devices, Sharp handhelds
While official Google Android devices are still a good year from hitting the market (at least according to Google), the free availability of the Android SDK and the emulator has brought all those talented hackers out of the woodwork. Aside from that Freescale reference-board that we spotted running Android OS a coupe months ago, there…
Android SDK full of bugs, lacks support – developers frustrated
Google is the last company we would have expected to botch a platform launch. But, in hindsight, they may have rushed things a bit more than would have been prudent. After all, there’s a fair amount of heat coming from Cupertino, and we’re sure Google didn’t want to get burned by holding off on Android…
Apple recruits native iPhone application hacker for iPhone SDK team
It looks like all that pioneering in the world of native iPhone applications hasn’t gone unnoticed by the higher-ups at Cupertino. Delicious Monster’s Lucas Newman, developer of the first-ever native iPhone application Lights Off, has been tapped by Apple to join their iPhone SDK development team. The iPhone SDK, as you should well know by…
Quanta licenses Intrinsync Soleus to build WindowsCE device for…someone
The who’s, where’s, and how’s of this equation are still a bit murky. But, we can tell you that Quanta has bought up some Intrinsync Soleus platform-licenses with the intention of building a WindowsCE-based device for, well, someone. The WinCE device will purportedly sport HSDPA functionality and should hit the market (whatever market that turns…