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iPhone Hack has posted the surprising new way to activate your MMS feature for your iPhone 2G. Another interesting post is a way to reactivate your tethering feature for those who had had their tethering loop hole closed by the 3.1.2 updated.
You can call it Apple’s answer to the piracy chart that was posted earlier or you can call it the continuation of the cat-and-mouse chase between Apple and the Dev-Team, but this move has – for the time being – closed the gates for jailbreaking your phone. Apple has inserted a new bootrom in their latest shipment of 3GS phones. From the flood gates of exploits, the Apple team has now narrowed their exploit gap down to a trickle. We’ll see how long it will take the Dev-Team to counter this move.
Another news is that Apple will adopt the WiFi direct technology into their new 4th Gen iPhone and the 4th Gen iPod Touch in the 2010. That’s great news for us geeks who would be able to get peer to peer access of our iTunes or Apple TV without the presence of a shared router. It is stated that it will include WPA2 security and management features for the enterprise environment.
Geohot’s blackra1n has finally arrived. It will jailbreak all iPhones and iPod Touches on all versions, BUT it won’t save your baseband. Make sure that you read the Dev Team’s blog on how to preserve your baseband when you decide to break out of ‘Appletraz’. Pinch media released an interesting study about iPhone App piracy. The report shows a breakdown of the worst offender (Hint: 中国) and the jailbroken iPhone percentile involved in the app piracy. So besides Gucci bags, China continues to crank out their reputation as the best location for everything-but-the-real-stuff country. As they say, it’s safe to drink pesticides in China because it’s actually fake. Google has again filed a divorced with their spouse map providers (First victim was Navteq and the latest victim – Tele Atlas). Google has finally decided to create their own map data instead of licensing it from a third party provider. This action is seen as their answer to Apple’s purchase of map data provider Placebase. With augmented reality apps and technology on the rise, we can see that the market for rich local geo-inteligent map just got more competitive when these two titans decide to go at it. Consumers win!
Apple release the iPhone 3.1.2 OS update. This ‘update’ is over 300 MB and it’s suppose to:
- Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
- Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
- Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming
I’m sure there are other ‘behind’ the scene issues because it’s a huge update file. Will update when we learn more about it. As for those who have unlocked or jailbroken their phones – Dev Team immediately posted a warning telling you guys NOT TO UPDATE. Although there are posts from some of their team member stating that the update is not difficult to ‘PWN’, jailbreakers and unlockers will have to wait for their green light. Or, you all can keep your fingers crossed for Geohot’s ‘silver bullet’ tool that claims to ‘jailbreak all once and for all’ due out ‘sometime’ in October.
Another ‘tired’ rumor on the Mac Tablet front is that Foxconn claims that it will produce 300,000 – 400,000 of these tablets for Q1 (of 2010?). yawn… wake me up when this – super 10.6″ screen, with user friendly UI, excellent battery life, ultimate e-book device, and super bathroom web-browsing device is out.
Talk about getting slammed by the pressure from the FCC. AT&T has announced that they will release their hold and finally allow their iPhone customers use VoIP features. That means customers will be able to access to Skype, Google Voice, and Slingbox. If AT&T was concerned about the MMS bandwidth hog – this will unleash CHAOS on their fragile infrastructure. Verizon – anyone?
AdMob reported the iPhone OS is the highest ad request platform compared to the other smartphone platforms.
iPhone – 40%
Symbian – 34%
RIM – 8%
Android – 7%
webOS – 4%
Windows – 4%
Palm OS – 1%
As for the top ad traffic for smartphone, the iPhone also ranks the top.
1. Apple iPhone
2. HTC Dream
3. Nokia N70
4. Palm Pre
5. RIM BlackBerry 8300
6. Nokia N95
7. Nokia N80
8. Nokia N73
9. Nokia 6120c
10. RIM BlackBerry 8100
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Apple has filed for a patent that will allow them to deploy ‘provision’ files through their serviced carriers. What this does is that it will allow Apple to disable features on your iPhone during the activation service. Meaning – if China’s carrier wants to disable the WiFi feature on the iPhone – it can be done. If True wants to disable their MMS setting features so no one else can use it on their iPhone – it can be done. This gives Apple the luxury of creating ‘customize’ functions per each carrier’s policy without creating unique firmwares. BAD News for us the consumers!
Mercedes has just launched their iPhone app. App is used for clients/buyers to pay for their monthly car payments. Talk about catering to your customers. Flash has announced their SDK for the iPhone that will convert Flash web based games into an iPhone/iPod Touch App. With an existing 80,000 apps in the Apps Store – we can surely see a spike in that count when developers convert their Flash games. Lastly, Rogers – sole iPhone carrier in Canada, will no longer be the lone ranger reaping the iPhone profit. Like Vodafone and Orange in the UK, BCE Inc and Telus Corp has announce that they too will jump into the iPhone bandwagon. AIS – anyone?
For those of you having trouble getting MMS to work on your AIS carrier. Here’s a screen capture that shows you how to set it. Go to Setting ->General-> Cellular Data Network.
