Intelliscreen has reached version 2.1, allowing users with jailbroken iPhones to quickly see what’s going on in their “mobile life” right from the standby screen. Many of the known bugs are fixed and the application is now way more stable. In addition, languages were updated for Russian, French, Swedish, Czech and Brazilian/Portuguese. As for the…
DIY homemade iPhone document scanner
The iPhone as a document scanner? No way! It’s nigh impossible to hold an iPhone still enough and at just the right distance from a document to take a clear picture of said document for digital safe-keeping. That is, unless you’re rocking this DIY (do-it-yourself) homemade iPhone document scanner. Digital warrior and University of Cincinnati’s…
Even Steve Wozniak jailbreaks his iPhones
The latest evidence that Apple has to seriously give more thought to its iPhone SDK development guidelines comes to us in the form of Steve Wozniak’s “pwned” iPhone. The picture you see below shows Woz holding an iPhone that bears the telltale boot-logo of a jailbroken, “pwned” to be more precise, Apple handset. With Pwnage…
AT&T sees massive data network outage on East Coast
AT&T has been struggling to keep up with demand on its data network since the launch of the iPhone 3G. Tests and speculation have all but absolved the iPhone 3G of any inherent defect as the root of sluggish data network performance on AT&T’s 3G network. At this point, AT&T’s recently upgraded 3G network is…
O2 unveils iPhone 3G Pay and Go pricing, launch date
We knew O2 has wowed to offer the iPhone 3G sans any contracts as a “Pay and Go” device. However, when we covered the story in June, other than this information we hardly knew anything else. Now we have more details to report. First the pricing – O2 will sell the 8GB and 16GB iPhone…
China Mobile in final stages of talks to bring iPhone to China
According to the AFP, Apple is in the final stages of talks with China Mobile to bring the iPhone to the “world’s fastest growing economy.” Apparently, the two companies are likely to call on a deal in the near future, though China Mobile’s spokesman declined to comment. There’s no doubt Apple could benefit from the…
HTC Touch Diamond theme for the iPhone
I’m not sure many iPhone users will like the idea, but now they can make their shiny handset feel like the HTC Touch Diamond. Even if you’re a hard core Apple fanboy, you gotta admit — HTC Touch Diamond looks good. The TouchFLO 3D rocks and is certainly one of the best (if not the…
MegaFon to carry iPhone 3G in Russia
We’ve already heard this may happen and now it’s official. MegaFon announced that it will carry the iPhone 3G in Russia. As usual with Apple iPhone announcements not much details were provided. All we have is “later this year” and we’re wondering does that means October or December. Commenting on the news, telecoms analyst at…
MailPronto provides iPhone users with more affordable alternative to MobileMe
Touted as the “Apple’s MobileMe more affordable alternative,” MailPronto offers hosted exchange, hosted e-mail and managed e-mail services for the iPhone users. Their idea is to compete with MobileMe by making the product cost less — that’s both in case you need an individual account or you’re purchasing the service for the entire company. MailPronto…
iPhone Life print magazine launches
Following all the hype surrounding the iPhone and iPhone 3G launch, guess we all waited for this to happen. The first (and probably the only) print magazine dedicated to Apple’s handset will hit the newsstands on September 9th. Thaddeus Computing is the publishing company behind the project and for the premier issue they promise 100…