The undaunted hacker community has once again foiled Apple’s attempts to lock down its platform. Conceited Software (charming name) has released yet another Jailbreak script to free iPhone’s latest and rather hidden firmware update; 1.1.2…which can best be described as a DDS upgrade, or Doesn’t Do Shit. If you installed this firmware update, which I rarely advise these days, Apple being what it is…then reclaim your unauthorized apps.
Or Apple could simply stop breaking community software, right? Hello?
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Unless you’ve been pinned under a bus for the past 24 hours, you’ve no doubt witnessed the unfolding drama from yesterday’s announcement by Google about its upcoming open mobile platform, dubbed Android. Opinions range from Android’s arrival heralding the end of the wireless world as we know it, to “Oh my God…targeted ads on a mobile phone!” This story isn’t particularly relevant to iPhone enthusiasts, but its impact will affect the handset industry as a whole. And being the smarty pants, know-it-all, Smartphone expert, tech talkin guy that I am, I couldn’t let this topic pass by without weighing in.
Let’s start off by cutting through marketing speak and deciphering what Android is and isn’t. What it is, according to Google, is a software stack and not the packaged operating system we came to expect from rumors preceding the announcement. What does that mean? In plain English it means Google’s OS is a bag of parts, unassembled and customizable for any application, like a pile of Lego building blocks. More on that later. As part of this venture, Google has lined up an impressive group of A-list industry partners to back its platform… all part of a larger open source initiative called the Open Handset Alliance. The group includes companies ranging from handset makers, software developers, and carriers alike. Each one lends a hand in developing Android’s software stack, and each has own interests and agenda…each using the other to get what it wants. Here is where Android begins falling apart like a house of cards on a wobbly table.
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Dave Merten from MacOSG informs me that he has created a new web app for iPhone that provides instant access to support guides right from your iPhone. It’s called Mac611 (shouldn’t that be 911?). Check it out for yourself, or better still… break your Mac and try to fix it using this service. I’m going to the tool shed now to get my sledgehammer.
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If you’re looking for fresh software for your iPhone then Sean Heber might just be your new best friend: he’s set his one-man software enterprise the challenge of producing a fresh piece of application pleasantness every day this month, and is releasing them - free, naturally - over at his site, iApp-a-Day.
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It’s already been available — and hacked — for a a few days now, but iPhone firmware 1.1.2 has finally reached iTunes, the natural home of all things iPhone. We honestly haven’t noticed much more new since we started poking around — the .m4r ringtone hack seems to be back, and custom ringtones are now broken out in their own list — but we know you can’t resist the siren call of the latest version number. Go on, you’ll be fine — and it’s not like getting back to 1.1.1 is any great feat.
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Despite less than impressive pre-launch queues and payment problems, official UK iPhone carrier O2 is hailing the launch of the cellphone as a huge success. Analysts and pundits alike, expecting perhaps the same flurry of activity and even handset shortages as during the US launch, were beginning to view the first weekend of official UK availability as something of disappointment, a fact O2 CEO Peter Erskine has been quick to counter:
“It has been the fastest-selling device we have ever seen [and has sold] in the tens of thousands” Peter Erskine, CEO, O2
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As far as I’m aware, our boy Vincent has never been described as psychic but with his trials of a 64GB Samsung SSD NAND drive in a MacBook Pro over at SlashGear it could be that he’s pre-empted Apple’s latest laptop move. AppleInsider quote analyst Gene Munster who has highlighted the solid-state drive as a likely candidate for inclusion in a new addition to the MacBook range, possibly in the form of the subnotebook many have long suspected Cupertino of working on.
“We believe NAND Flash drive sizes have now reached capacities that Apple would consider large enough to include in a new MacBook model. As a result, a new, smaller version of Apple’s MacBook, and possibly an entirely new product, is more likely to be launched at MacWorld in early January” Gene Munster, Analyst
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Is the iPhone the 10-percent of features other, less Jesus-like handsets are used for, distilled into one Ives-designed body? That’s what Apple appear to think, with a spokesperson dismissing criticism that the cellphone is missing some of the more mundane functionality users take for granted will be present in rival mobiles.
“We didn’t want to include something for something’s sake … For the average mobile phone most people only use around 10%, Apple didn’t want that to happen with the iPhone” Apple spokesperson
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One of the biggest launches in music hardware of recent years has been that of JazzMutant’s Lemur touchscreen controller, a first for the industry by virtue of its multi-touch screen that could have multiple sliders, buttons and pots all controlled simultaneously. Sadly it was well out of the budget of most musicians, and even the lower-cost Dexter follow-up was pricey at around $3,600, so you can see why the prospect of the iPhone - complete with its multi-touch display and portable processing power - is being eyed up as the next-big-thing in classic instrument emulation. Hence this MPC500 software, based on Akai’s iconic sampler workstation, which aims to put “a studio in your pocket”.
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Apple launched a nice directory of the iPhone Web Apps, very useful for all the iPhone users.
