Back in July, T-Mobile Germany was putting the legal screws to VoIP provider sipgate for requiring its users to jailbreak their iPhones in order to enjoy cheap calling over Wi-Fi networks (which is really just a roundabout way of fighting back at competition which is undercutting them). Well, T-Mo, the contested King of Magenta, won…
Wikipedia On Your iPhone With iWik and Kiwi
Are you a fan of Wikipedia? If you use it a lot, you may want to check out a new iPhone app that optimizes your Wikipedia experience on the iPhone. It’s called iWik, and it works really well. Basically the app optimizes your Wikipedia experience by displaying it in perfect format for your iPhone. The…
Pay-As-You-Go iPhone Rumors
Reports are bounding around that the iPhone 3G is compatible and operable on AT&T’s Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) plans. Erica Sadun of TUAW reportedly tried putting a PAYG SIM into a 3G (with data package) and the thing worked fine. The iPhone in question was activated on AT&T, but it wasn’t unlocked, jailbroken or anything else. Interesting…
Pwnage Tool 2.1 jailbreaks iPhone 2.1 OS – iPhone and iPhone 3G jailbreak continues…
As if you even had to ask. The iPhone Dev Team was apparently hard at work over the past few days hammering out a new version of their popular iPhone and iPhone 3G jailbreak solution – Pwnage Tool and QuickPwn. The iPhone 2.1 OS firmware was recently released to the iPhone community. Touting security enhancements,…
iPhone Firmware 2.1 Includes Multiple Security Fixes
With the iPhone Firmware 2.1 that was posted on Friday, Apple has now provided us with the nitty gritty details on what has changed. Most of the changes are to do with security issues found in 2.0 through 2.0.2 firmware releases. Among the notable fixes in 2.1: an update to the Application Sandbox to enforce…
Q2 sales report puts BlackBerry ahead of WinMo, iPhone passing Palm
Gartner’s pitching their ballpark numbers for the second quarter of 2008, and RIM is coming up roses. BlackBerry constituted 17.4% of the global smartphone market last quarter, up nearly double from last year’s 8.9%, while Symbian continues to dominate 57.7% worldwide. RIM’s spurt outpaced Windows Mobile sales, which sat at 3,873,622, up 20% from last…
iPhone 2.1 Firmware Update Available
As expected, Apple has released iPhone Firmware version 2.1 via iTunes for download. It became available this morning. 2.1 contains some cool updates, including: Improved battery life management Reduced backup times to iTunes Improved email reliability (especially for getting mail from POP and Exchange accounts) Faster app installations Fewer call setup failures and call drops…
Lightsaber Unleashed for iPhone Coming Soon!
Anyone out there recall the PhoneSaber app that was pulled from the App store because of copyright issues? It was reported that the removal was actually amicable, and that George Lucas and the developer (Mac Box) were working together on a new and improved version. Well, it looks like that new and improved version is…
Report shows the busiest browsing handsets
AdMob‘s monthly report for August has been released, giving us plenty of juicy data from across 5,000 mobile sites to reveal which devices are gobbling up the most ad impressions as well as giving us some general usage stats. Nokia still rocks the roost, taking 13 of the top 20 spots (N70, N95 and N73…
Apple ‘Let’s Rock’ Event Unveils iPhone Firmware 2.1
The much anticipated ‘Let’s Rock’ event went down yesterday, and if you are a big fan of the iPod line, you should be mighty happy. New Shuffle colors, new iPod Classics, new Nanos and even a new iPod Touch was announced. Most of them with new form factors, a new OS, and new colors. I…