Sure, the iPhone 3G S sports a few hardware upgrades compared to the iPhone 3G. But, for the most part, iPhone OS 3.0 enables a lot of new features on the iPhone 3G. From cut-and-paste support to MMS, the iPhone 3.0 OS offers iPhone 3G users a good alternative to shelling out a handful of…
PwnageTool 3.0 Easter Egg – Free ringtone!
Mid-Summer be damned. Easter has come again this year. Thanks to our iPhone-hacking friends on the iPhone Dev Team, the new iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak software, known as PwnageTool 3.0, contains a hidden “Easter egg” (hidden software feature). PwnageTool 3.0 doesn’t just jailbreak your iPhone or iPhone 3G (iPhone 3G S owners, sorry, you’ll have…
UK: £90 is what 16GB of memory costs (in the iPhone 3GS)
Interestingly, looking across both tariff prices or one-off device purchase costs, the difference between iPhone 3GS 16GB and 32GB versions appears to be pretty much fixed at £90 (ish). Now, I was pondering whether there was anything else I was missing, in terms of differences between the two variants of the 3GS, but it appears…
iPhone due in China soon, according to Merrill Lynch Analyst
Reuters is reporting on a Merrill Lynch analyst, who has stated that China Unicom are close to closing a deal for the iPhone – making it the exclusive seller for for two years! The analyst, Cynthia Meng, says that iPhone products, plus a 3G rollout will begin in Q409. Of course there has been a…
iPhone Dev Team releases PwnageTool 3.0 for iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak
I’m just as sick of hearing the Dev Team talk about their little “cat and mouse” game that’s being played out in the iPhone-stage. But, there’s no denying the Dev Team’s ability to keep their mouse from being eaten. For those of you that don’t know what all this hyperbole is referring to, let me…
Apple iPhone 3G S – The obligatory unboxing
It’s been done many times over already, so I figured I might as well jump on the bandwagon. It’s iPhone 3G S unboxing time! Being in California, I was one of the last people on planet Earth to get their hands on the iPhone 3G S, what with time zones being what they are. Why…
iPhone 3GS taken apart by iFixit.com
Stefan reported previously that a hardware website had performed some surgery on the iPhone 3GS, and split it open for all to see. Well now there’s another site that has taken things to same level… iFixit flew over to the UK, and paired up with Macworld to do some hardcore hardware-opening on the 3GS –…
UK: iPhone launch – checking out who sold what…
Much like secret squirrel on his various missions, tomorrow I plan to go and check out my local O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores, to try and get some feedback about what sold, and what didn’t, in respect of the iPhone 3GS. Sure, it will be a single representative sample, but at the same time, there’s nothing…
UK: iPhone launch – as variously reported
Right, so you’ve had my perspective on what 3GS launch day was like in the UK, now howzabout we take a look at what other report(ers) made of it? First up, it’s my buddies over at Electricpig – they were at the Apple’s flagship store in Regent Street, London. And I have to say, the…
UK: iPhone launch – Ben’s perspective
Hey y’all, hopefully you caught us for the live launch of the iPhone 3GS sales effort in the US? Our very own Will and Tom were there in person, recording all sorts of things from nipples to moonwalks – oh, and the occasional bit of Apple footage too! Stefan, Daniel, Simon, and myself joined on…