Nobody keeps a secret like AT&T, and by that I mean nobody keeps a secret quite so poorly. Boy Genius Report and other sites are talking up an internal Death Star memo that asks employees to hold down the fort during the June 15 - July 12 window. Vacations should be moved if possible, says [...]
May 7, 2008
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If you shed a tear every time you have to delete a text message at the bottom of your inbox, or if you can’t bring yourself to part with the latest ROTFLOL SMS sent by your best friend, then TreasureMyText is for you.
TreasureMyText is an online service that will store all of your text messages [...]
April 10, 2008
Categories: Internet, Phone, Web Services, iPhone . Tags: beta . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
Gizmodo posted on an interesting topic that came up during a lunch with AT&T’s Mobility CEO, Ralph de la Vega, regarding the iPhone and 3G support. He said that AT&T expected to have all of the smartphones on their network integrated with 3G. PC Mag’s Sascha Segan asked whether or not this would include iPhones, [...]
April 2, 2008
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Roughly Drafted has a nice, long analysis of the iPhone as a gaming device, and they hit on a lot of great reasons why the iPhone seems destined to be a great gaming platform. Not only will it have the hardware chops to play games (including a few input devices that no other handheld gaming [...]
March 24, 2008
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Financial Times reports that Apple is currently in discussions with music companies to allow customers to have unlimited access to the entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices (presumably for the life of the device).
The plan sounds similar to Universal’s Total Music plan in which the [...]
March 19, 2008
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It hasn’t even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple’s iPhone 2.0 software.
The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone’s bootloader by taking advantage of the way the iPhone authorizes code that can be written to [...]
March 13, 2008
Categories: Apple, OS Updates, iPhone . Tags: Dev Team, Hacks, Jailbreak . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: 1 Comment
Over the last couple of weeks several of the big cell carriers having been rolling out “unlimited” talk packages, including AT&T. Well it appears that they’ve gotten around to adding the iPhone to the mix as the Apple iPhone rates page now features an unlimited plan. For $119.99 a month you get unlimited talk time [...]
March 10, 2008
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The New York Times is running a couple of stories about the future of the iPhone in the business world and Apple’s plan to maintain control of application development. Now that the iPhone SDK has been released and the “App store” has been demonstrated, Steve Jobs is pushing for the adoption of the iPhone as [...]
March 7, 2008
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Exchange support in the iPhone has been rumored almost as long as the iPhone itself was rumored to exist. Much as the iPhone turned out to be real, so has ActiveSync on the iPhone. Microsoft released an interview with Terry Myerson, corporate vice president for Exchange, which includes a very interesting tidbit.
Mr. Myserson says that [...]
March 7, 2008
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So you may have heard, Apple threw a little press event today. And while we won’t get into all of the gritty details (Engadget has already done a pretty good job of that), we did want to highlight a few of the more exciting announcements related to the iPhone SDK:
Apple has licensed Microsoft’s ActiveSync technology [...]
March 6, 2008
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*UPDATE* (2/29/08): If you happen to own an iPhone, and you happen to have updated to the 1.1.4 firmware, you can now easily jailbreak, activate, and unlock your phone with a couple of simple solutions. As you may have heard, iNdependence 1.4 beta 5 is out, which will do all sorts of non-Apple approved things [...]
February 26, 2008
Categories: Apple, Handheld, Hardware, News, iPhone, iPod . Tags: Hacks, Jailbreak . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
If you’re like me, you take one or more of your DVD movies, TV shows, podcasts and other content with you on your iPod or iPhone when traveling. Heck, I even take stuff for long car trips across town, or to watch when I’m sitting in the waiting room at the doc’s office.
Most of the [...]
February 21, 2008
Categories: Apple, How To, Videos, iPhone, iPod . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: 4 Comments
Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday’s sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone “in the coming weeks.”
Why on earth is this important? The much-maligned quarter-billion-dollar iPlayer project [...]
February 20, 2008
Categories: Apple, Videos, iPhone, iPod . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: 1 Comment
As many have you have emailed to tell us, hacker teen wonder George Hotz a.k.a. GeoHot, of the hardware iPhone unlock heard ’round the world, has apparently made something unexpected: a software-only unlocking procedure for the iPhone’s 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 firmware versions. With George’s tools in hand (freely downloadable from his website), iPhone owners in [...]
February 11, 2008
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iLounge is reporting that some people have received incorrect information when contacting AT&T about upgrading their 4GB or 8GB iPhones to the new 16GB iPhone. In a recent thread on the Apple Discussions, an Apple employee “Nathan C.” said that you can just replace the SIM with your current iPhone’s SIM. He later updated his [...]
February 7, 2008
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