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…
Gameloft showed first native iPhone game at GDC 2008?
I’m not sure whether this really counts, but during Gameloft boss Michel Guillemot’s keynote GDC Mobile, Apple’s handset was featured in several of his slides. Now, the image above may just be a work of some Gameloft-hired Photoshop master, but we want to believe it’s the real deal. The user interface seems right (i.e. so…
iPhone SDK going to be late?
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…
Change your Windows Mobile 5 and 6 device’s system font
There’s nothing like a fresh update to Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional to infuse your WM device with a bit of that “new phone” smell. Unfortunately, that freshly updated smartphone of yours won’t be rocking any new font schemes. So, we’ll just have to take matters into our own hands. Merlin_reloaded and g77 over at XDA-developers…
ARM ushers in mobile 3D gaming with new software update
The days of clunky mobile gaming graphics are soon to be a thing of the past. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, chip-designer ARM has announced an update to their graphics acceleration software. The ARM Mali-JSR297 software is said to be the “first product to enable developers of Java applications to take advantage…
HTC: No Imageon video drivers, but we’ll improve video acceleration for our customers
It’s always nice to see corporate big-wigs actually putting the customer ahead of any internal-policy nonsense. HTC has apparently done an about-face regarding the poor video performance on their HTC smartphones that use Qualcomm’s MSM7500 and MSM7200 chipsets. Peter Chou, HTC’s CEO, and Dr. Florian Seiche, Vice President of HTC Europe, have both stated that…
Use CoverFlow to view everything on your iPhone
Apple’s CoverFlow view is slick indeed. Paired with the iPhone’s capacitance multi-touch display, CoverFlow really shines. Well, it shines in the iPhone’s album/music browsing function and nowhere else. It’s just a shame that CoverFlow wasn’t more fully developed to work in other iPhone features – thanks, Apple. And, that’s why we love the third-party iPhone…
Official iPhone SDK application to work with iPhone v1.1.4 firmware
[Update] Yeah, ignore this post – it’s BS. The cat-and-mouse game continues. With every firmware that Apple releases for the iPhone, the iPhone development/hacking community has successfully jailbroken the iPhone filesystem to accept unofficial third-party iPhone applications. And, with every jailbreak, Apple patches the particular exploit with a subsequent iPhone firmware.
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…