Rock (Your Phone) – The Best Cydia/Icy/Installer Alternative

On 10/12/2009, in Jailbreaking & Unlocking, News, by Arjun Komath

Rock Your Phone are positioning themselves as a complete jailbroken package management solution, from paid to free packages. They actually list all packages from all default Cydia sources. Opening up the main screen of Rock shows a “Rock compared to Cydia/Icy” (picture below) screen, which lists some of its big differences with the two other players [...]

 

Blackra1n Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2

On 10/12/2009, in Jailbreaking & Unlocking, New and Notable, News, by Arjun Komath

Just after Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1.2 update for iPhone OS based devices, George Hotz aka Geohot announced Blackra1n jailbreak. Accessible at the website http://blackra1n.com, it can be used with all iPhone OS based devices. However, for new iPod Touch third generation, which is jailbreakable but in tethered mode – one has to jailbreak every time third-gen [...]

 

AppuloHa1l is a Fake! Done to Motivate GeoHot

On 10/11/2009, in Announcements, Jailbreaking & Unlocking, News, by Arjun Komath

The creators of the Appuloha1l, ferociousbird and other jailbreaking projects under that umbrella have all been faked! The creator release a supposed video demonstrating the hack it ends up with the usual rick-roll video. The reason for doing this was apparently to motivate other devs such as GeoHot and the Dev Team to quickly release their [...]

 

Ferociousbird, Soft unlock for iPhone OS 3.1.2 and Baseband 05.11.07

On 10/10/2009, in Announcements, Jailbreaking & Unlocking, News, by Arjun Komath

Ferociousbird, a new soft unlock for baseband 05.11.07 has been released and soon be available for download. appuloha1l team member apple originally discovered the ferociousbird exploit, and xavier helped him build the soft unlock. ferociousbird will be launched on ha1l day, the same day appuloha1l will be released i.e on 11-Oct-2009. According to AppuloHa1l team [...]

 

Jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3.1.2

On 10/09/2009, in How to?, Jailbreaking & Unlocking, by Arjun Komath

Today the iPhone 3.1.2 update was released to iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPod Touch usres. This update includes mainly bug fixes. If you would like to jailbreak or unlock your device, you must read this. If you have an unlocked iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS do not update to this new firmware, updating [...]

 

Apple Releases iPhone Firmware Update 3.1.2, Fixes Network Issues but Breaks Jailbreak

On 10/09/2009, in Announcements, Jailbreaking & Unlocking, New and Notable, News, by Arjun Komath

Apple has just released a new firmware update, version 3.1.2 for the existing iPhone and iPod Touch range, which contains no new features but fixes an important issue with cellular network reception. The new software fixes dropped cell connections until the iPhone is restarted, according to Apple. However, it looks like the update does contain [...]

 

TomTom iPhone car kit in UK Apple store for £100

On 10/08/2009, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

Update: According to TomTom, the information given on the UK Apple store was incorrect. The app will not be made available alongside the car kit and will in fact need to be purchased separately. So rather than paying £100 for the car kit and app you’ll need to pay £160, which we think is very [...]

 

AT&T To Allow VoIP Calls On iPhone Over 3G

On 10/08/2009, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

US network operator AT&T has made significant changes in its policy and confirmed that it would now let Apple iPhone users to make voice over internet protocol (VoIP) calls using various popular services including Skype and Vonage, on its network. Initially, AT&T had prohibited the proposed iPhone internet telephony applications from its networks, claiming that [...]

 

FIFA ’10 Gameplay on iPhone

On 10/06/2009, in News, Reviews, by Arjun Komath

EA’s much anticipated FIFA 10 has been slowly being released internationally throughout the day. The U.S. release should happen in the next few hours, but the game is already available in Europe and Australia. Forum user Feltzam posted a detailed impressions post breaking down various aspects of the game: Overall I’m quite happy with this [...]

 

Flash goes native on iPhone

On 10/06/2009, in News, by Arjun Komath

MAX 09 When it comes to Apple versus Adobe Systems there’s still no Flash in the iPhone browser, but a new compiler does enable Flash applications for App Store Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch, speaking at Adobe’s MAX in Los Angeles, California, explained what we already knew: that there is no technical barrier to [...]