With AT&T rumored to be bringing the iPhone to its corporate and business customers, we speculated that AT&T and Apple would roll-out some enterprise-class email support. Namely, we had looked for the iPhone duo to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Exchange Server, which would open up a world of Outlook Server-tethered businesspeople. Well, we haven’t…
Brief: iPhone v1.1.3 brings native support for Gmail IMAP – new Gmail accounts automatically set to IMAP
So, there’s yet another lesser-known feature of the new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware that we overlooked previously. We have already switched our Gmail account to IMAP, and configured our iPhone’s Gmail account accordingly, so we didn’t really notice any difference. But, to any iPhone v1.1.3 users that haven’t made the switch to Gmail’s IMAP service, you…
Christopher Breen and Ben Long hold iPhone Tips/Tricks Supersession at Macworld
Any lecture series entitled “iPhone Supersession” demands the attention of the iPhone-world Christopher Breen and Ben Long’s “iPhone Supersession” presentation is sure to be a good read even for the veteran iPhone-user. The “Supersession” is broken down into the following categories: Text and typing Sync or swim Smarter about playlists The portable information manager Email…
iPhone v1.1.2 finally gets hardware unlocked – yea, great
It almost seemed that the iPhone-hacking community had given up on trying to unlock the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware. With the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware already fully ensconced in the iPhone-wild, unlocking a previous firmware is kind of a moot endeavor. “Kind of” being the operative phrase here. We’re sure there are plenty of unlocked-iPhone users out…
Video recording on jailbroken iPhones – Take that, Apple!
We’ve been whining about a few things on the iPhone for some time now. You would have thought that all the high-pitched grovelling would have prompted Apple to include video recording, iChat, or at least MMS in one of the previously released firmwares (v1.1.3 included). Alas, Apple doesn’t seem to give a lick what we…
Use the iPhone v1.1.3 WebClips feature to create a photo album on your homescreen
Now this is one nifty way to use the iPhone v1.1.3’s WebClips feature. Flickr frequenter, DoctaBu, has figured out a way to fill his homescreen with thumbnail-photos of his friends and family – basically an entire homescreen page that serves as a WebClips photo-album. DoctaBu created a customer webpage (wait, aren’t most webpages custom? whatever…)…
iPhone v1.1.3 firmware restores previously bricked iPhones – iBricks rise from the dead
Were you foolhardy, adventurous, or otherwise unlucky enough to attempt to update an unlocked iPhone, resulting in its untimely demise? Have you been staring at you iBrick with longing regret for a functioning iPhone? Well, today’s your day! It seems that Apple’s new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware is able to breathe new life into your bricked,…
AT&T prepping to bring iPhone to corporate and business customers – Apple iPhone goes enterprise on Jan. 21
The enterprise market is a huge money-maker for carriers and manufacturers alike. Just take a look at the leading smartphone platform in the US. The RIM-made BlackBerry platform is the push-emailing, Outlook server compatible, enterprise-handset of choice among the corporate-set. Sure, the iPhone has already taken the second-highest market share in the smartphone segment, but…
Bluetooth headset pairing problems with iPhone v1.1.3 firmware update? Try this…
While this isn’t exactly a quick-fix solution, any iPhone users experiencing Bluetooth device-pairing problems after updating to the new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware will probably be glad to have any solution. Reports seem to indicate that iPhones armed with the v1.1.3 firmware are having trouble pairing with some Garmin navigation devices (at least those devices with…
FlexTune iPhone/iPod Touch dock improves video watching experience
Here’s something for true Apple product fans – the docking station for the iPhone/iPod Touch that improves video watching experience. The so called FlexTune supports both vertical and horizontal device docking, allowing users to watch both short low-res video clips as well as full featured movies — that’s in case you’ll be watching the former…