Apple reported their fiscal fourth quarter results today, and we will not dive into their financial situation, but it’s quite interesting to just take a brief look at their sales figures the last quarter: Sold Macintosh computers: 2 164 000 Sold iPods: 10 200 000 Sold iPhones: 1 119 000 Very impressive numbers, and especially [...]
Sony Ericsson just announced that they will launch their K850 in a few weeks and Nokia have had their N95 out for a couple of months – and now it’s time for Samsung to finally get their G800 out on the market. They are all 5 megapixel autofocus camera and it will be interesting to [...]
Apple has once again listened to the community and decided to open up the iPod touch and the iPhone for third party applications. That’s the only way to go to avoid hacks and different jailbreak applications. Too bad we have to wait until February before we get the Software Development Kit. Great move anyway. You [...]
Wired Magazine published a quite interesting article yesterday with a brief timeline of all major events in the iPhone hacking history. It will be interesting to see what Apple will do with all of this in the future – they must at least allow 3rd party applications. A Brief History of iPhone Hacking [appleinsider.com]
Today Nokia announced that they will a Nokia N95 package that comes pre-loaded with the latest Spiderman 3 movie. The package is only available in Europe and selected countries in Middle East and Africa region. The package will cost €560 ($800). Full press release inside.
Yesterday I wrote about the first iPhone v1.1.1 jailbreak (and iPod touch hack) and today the first software to get your iPhone v1.1.1 running on any SIM card was released. It also looks like it works great installing applications on the hacked iPod touch. iPhoneSIMFree releases first 1.1.1 SIM Unlock[Gizmodo] via [digg]
It didn’t take many days for the iPhone hackers to gain root access even to the new 1.1.1 firmware – and they also managed to hack the new iPod touch too. You really need to know what you’re doing if you try to use the exploit at this point as the documentation is very sparse [...]
The Unofficial Apple Weblog published a short story letting us know that the hackers working with unleashing the v1.1.1 to the world have made quite some progress. They still have some work to do but some of the bigger problems have been solved. The big question is when Apple is planning to unveil their next [...]
These posters where photographed in New York this weekend by a member of the forum of MacRumors. It looks like the PR people at Nokia are really afraid of the iPhone since it isn’t the first time they are aiming a direct campaign at Apple fan boys. The big question is whether the campaign works [...]
The iPhone hackers are on the ball again, and now they have released instructions of how to downgrade your phone from version 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 – you still can’t activate the phone, but at least you can run 3rd party applications. Video after the jump.
