We already knew the iPhone 3G ran up a $175 bill of materials (BOM) on Apple’s tab, according to iSuppli. So, there’s nothing new on that front. But, the newest press release from iSuppli gives us a component-by-component breakdown of costs associated with the iPhone 3G. While we can’t know how much it costs Apple…
sipgate VoIP solution for iPhone gets T-Mobile riled up
Granted, VoIP solutions for the iPhone aren’t exactly a new idea. But, that hasn’t stopped T-Mobile Germany from taking up arms over sipgate‘s flagship VoIP solution for the iPhone. The issue at hand is the fact that sipgate’s VoIP client requires a jailbroken iPhone in order to do its thing over a WiFi connection. T-Mobile’s…
iPhone 3G SIM unlock gets real – DesbloqueioBr SIM unlock solution
While the world waits on the iPhone Dev Team to release their iPhone 2.0 OS firmware jailbreak solution in order to unlock updated iPhones and new iPhone 3G’s, DesbloqueioBr has unveiled their own SIM unlock solution. The hardware unlock solution from DesbloqueioBr is similar to the TurboSIM unlock solution that we saw released last year.…
Pinch Media’s AppStore RSS feeds are more than useful for iPhone/iPod Touch owners
I’m sure our readers who at the same time own either an iPhone or iPod Touch would like to have a better way of keeping up with the new apps. Why on Earth Apple hasn’t prepared RSS feeds is beyond me. Ok, RSS is still not the mainstream technology, but people are catching up. Luckily,…
Joy Of Tech’s another iPhone comic goes against RIM
The Joy of Tech‘s Nitrozac and Snaggy have a new target for their iPhone 3G comic series. It’s Canada-based RIM, which they seem to think will be hit hard by the latest Apple’s mobile services. First they’ve concluded Apple’s servers are overloaded. Then they commented on the Mobile Me mess. However, when they came to…
Apple testing iPhone 2.0.1 OS – New iPhone firmware in the works
As with the original iPhone, updates to the Apple handset’s Mac OS operating system are plentiful. The latest iPhone 2.0 OS hasn’t even been official for a week and we’re hearing reports that Apple is already testing the next revision of the firmware. iPhone 2.0.1 OS has been spotted in BGR‘s server logs, with packet-requests…
Apple gives MobileMe users an extra 30 days of service
Following on Apple’s not-so-smooth MobileMe launch alongside the iPhone 3G last week, Apple is offering all current MobileMe subscribers an extra month of free service. “The transition from .Mac to MobileMe was a lot rockier than we had hoped,” said Apple. “We will be extending subscriptions by 30 days to customers free of charge to…
Apple’s Greg Joswiak says iPhone 3G getting turn-by-turn GPS navigation
That’s right. Turn-by-turn GPS navigation is coming to the iPhone. While David Pogue seems to believe that the iPhone 3G’s GPS hardware is incapable of doing turn-by-turn navigation, Apple’s own iPod and iPhone marketing director, Greg Joswiak, says that the iPhone 3G should be getting true-blue GPS navigation software in the near-term. Apple’s iPhone team…
World’s first jailbroken iPhone 3G – PwnageTool 2.0 pwns iPhone 3G
We already knew the intrepid iPhone hackers on the iPhone Dev Team had a working jailbreak solution for the iPhone 2.0 OS firmware, but there’s nothing like a nice video to really hammer home the fact that the iPhone 3G is only days away from a public jailbreak release. The iPhone 3G jailbreak is nigh!…
Interesting stats from immediately before iPhone3G launch
Immediately prior to the launch of the iPhone3G last Friday, comScore served up some tasty stats on what effect both the iPhone and 3G (independently) had had on content consumption – I guess the idea being that this data is the ‘before’, and after a couple of months, we’ll get the ‘after’… So the stats…