Rumor on the street is that iPhone SDK is going to be late. According, to Business Week’s Arik Hesseldahl the official release date, initially scheduled for February, could slide by anywhere from one to three weeks. He’s also hearing that the situation is fluid, with lot of last-minute decisions being made about what precisely will…
Flash on the iPhone? Go ask Steve Jobs
Flash on the iPhone. We’ve been pining for just a little bit of Flash-love from Apple ever since we first ventured on the New York Times website. But, to our dismay, Cupertino’s been pretty tight-lipped about any official Flash support for our iPhones. But, it’s not just the public from which Steve Jobs is keeping…
Apple iPhone generates 50 times more Google searches than any other mobile device
In yet another iPhone-validating statistic, Google announced at Mobile World Congress Barcelona that Google search traffic from iPhones was 50 times greater than search traffic from any other mobile device. We already knew that the iPhone sent a lot of traffic to Google, but this is just outrageous. It seems that iPhone users are addicted…
400,000 unlocked iPhones in China
No wonder Apple’s revenue sharing negotiations with China Mobile for the iPhone didn’t go as planned. China Mobile itself is claiming that something like 400,000 unlocked iPhones are already in use on its network. With the iPhone black market doing as well as it is in China, Apple would be hard pressed to guarantee iPhone…
iPhone displays developing bubbles – iPhone display defects leads to bubbling
Chalk another one up on the list of iPhone quality-control problems. Apple’s support forums are lit up with users complaining of “tiny bubbles” forming in their glass displays. The good news is that Apple is recognizing this manufacturing issue and is replacing “bubbling” iPhone on the spot – no questions asked. You gotta love Apple…
Simple iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak and unlock solution
iPhone unlocking and jailbreaking have been ramping up in the days leading up to Apple’s release of the official iPhone SDK. We’ve seen SIM unlock solutions, jailbreaks, downgrade methods, the whole kit-n-kaboodle. But, all those methods involved at least a bit of work (if not a lot of command terminal-fiddling). Well, thanks to iPhone developer…
Apple bringing iPhone to Austria? Google Android handset to follow.
Well, according to T-Mobile Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan, the iPhone is headed to Austria. That’s Austria, as in Europe, not Australia, as in “down unda.” Akhavan stated on Tuesday that, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile would begin selling the iconic Apple iPhone in the first half of this year. That means we could see T-Mobile bringing the…
$100 price-cut on 16GB iPhone on the horizon; 8GB iPhone to be discontinued soon?
In true Apple form, we’re hearing through the grapevine that Apple may be planning to slash prices on its iPhone handset again. This time, the price-cut will be affecting the newly released 16GB iPhone and may coincide with the discontinuation of the 8GB iPhone. If you’ll recall, Apple slashed the price of the 8GB iPhone…
Software unlock solution for OTB iPhone 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 with v4.6 Bootloader
Sure, if you’re running an older iPhone with the Bootloader v3.9 (updated to the jailbroken v1.1.2 or v1.1.3 firmware, of course), then you’ve already got a simple software unlock solution in anySIM 1.3 – this unlock method doesn’t apply to you (just go here and unlock your iPhone with anySIM 1.3). However, if you’ve recently…
Unlock your iPhone v1.1.3 to work with any SIM card
So, with the newly updated anySIM v1.3 software ready to rock your iPhone’s SIM-world, I’m sure some of you wondering just what it takes to unlock your iPhone v1.1.3, so here it is: Make sure your iPhone v1.1.3 has baseband 4.03.13_G firmware (you can check this under Settings>General>About>Modem Firmware . Verify that you are running…