[Update 4] ZiPhone 2.0 is now ready to make put all your jailbreaking woes to rest. ZiPhone 2.0 is available for Windows and Mac machines and is basically a GUI (graphical user interface) that uses the iPhone Dev Teams’ jailbreak solution to automate the iPhone v1.1.4 jailbreak process to point-and-click simplicity. Download ZiPhone 2.4 here.…
ZiPhone 2.4 makes iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak and unlock easier – iPhone v1.1.4 jailbreak on the way
There’s nothing like a little GUI love to automate the jailbreak process to point-and-click simplicity. Previous iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak solutions have required at least a little involvement on the part of the iPhone user, but the ZiPhone 2.0 solution from zibri does away with all that preparation nonsense. ZiPhone 2.0 only requires that you update…
iPhone v1.1.4 firmware shows code for O2 Ireland and T-Mobile Austria
The new iPhone v1.1.4 firmware update has been dissected by Italian Mac website Macitynet, and it seems that the iPhone v1.1.4 is ready to rock on T-Mobile Austria and O2 Ireland. Apple hasn’t yet confirmed that the iPhone is coming to either Austria or Ireland, but having the network compatibility codes stored within the latest…
Apple sued again – this time for iPhone’s incoming call contact display
In a world where anything can be patented and then subsequently leveraged in a lawsuit, it should come as no surprise that the lawsuit-magnet that is the iPhone has come under legal attack once again. This time, Romek Figa of Abraham & Son has filed suit in Massachusetts against Apple, claiming that “certain Apple telephones”…
The baddest iPhone mod can now be yours – Plasma deposited TiAlN coating for your iPhone
It’s sleek. It’s sexy. It’s the baddest cosmetic modification for the iPhone, nay, for any gadget, to ever hit the market. And you can now “stealthify” your very own iPhone. The beautiful plasma deposited TiAlN/TiN coating that we showed you not too long ago is now available to the end-user. Just send your iPhone, along…
Make your iPhone vibrate before it starts ringing
File this one under “it’s-so-simple-I-should-have-though-of-it-myself.” You can choose a variety of ringtones (and even custom ringtones) and sounds for your iPhone, or you can choose to have your iPhone vibrate, or you can choose to have your iPhone vibrate and ring at the same time. Unfortunately, the iPhone doesn’t have an option to vibrate first…
Apple releases iPhone v1.1.4 firmware update – no iPhone SDK yet
Yea, great. So it looks like the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware isn’t going to be “the” firmware that will play nice with Apple’s forthcoming iPhoneSDK -based third-party applications. With no mention of the iPhone SDK, Apple has gone and released an update to the iPhone’s firmware lineup. It seems like just yesterday that Apple dropped the…
LoJack for your iPhone – stolen iPhones phone home
The iPhone just became a smarter smartphone. With location-based services integrated into the iPhone’s Google Maps My Location feature, the iPhone can theoretically keep tabs on its location at all times. So, Erica Sadun over at TUAW has come up with a veritable LoJack solution for your iPhone. Starting with a jailbroken iPhone, adding a…
Want a free iPhone? Go to Abilene Christian University
Why in the world would the Abilene Christian University need to resort to cheap gadget-giveaway gimmicks to attract a larger freshman student-base? Are they having trouble appealing to the MTV and Hollywood-influenced high school seniors out there for some reason? Well, whatever the reason, ACU is offering new freshman a free iPhone or iPod Touch.…
iPhone Haptic Feedback Keyboard Prototype
The title says it all. In response to all those people that complained about the iPhone’s on-screen virtual keyboard lacking any tactile feedback, Malcolm Hall and Eve Hoggan from the University of Glasgow have come up with a haptic-feedback solution for the iPhone. It’s strictly a prototype and is more a proof of concept than…