July 31, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Reports of regulatory approval of a new model of the iPhone in China seem to confirm that Apple’s hardware will appear on the China Unicom network, and also suggest that a new model was created for the country of over 1 billion.

The new iPhone is reportedly a GSM/WCDMA model that operates on the 900MHz, 1700MHz and 1900MHz bands. It also includes Bluetooth, but no Wi-Fi. It was approved on May 7, according to a China’s State Radio Regulatory Commission filing discovered by Engadget. The phone has been approved for use in China for the next five years.

This week, reports surfaced that suggested a deal had been reached between Apple and China Unicom, but officials close to the matter quickly intervened to say the deal was not final.

News on the phone from China, as translated by iPhoneinChina.com, suggests the new model could fall under the Unicom WCDMA standard.

China Unicom runs a GSM/UMTS 3G mobile network using the same signaling technology at AT&T in the U.S. and most other carriers worldwide. Existing iPhone models are already compatible with China Unicom’s network, though WCDMA is a third-generation GSM technology.

Pictures of the new Chinese iPhone show a 16GB model that operates on the 3G spectrum. The Hong Kong model includes English text on the back, and says the model is WCDMA .

Details of the China Unicom deal leaked this week reportedly set a minimum threshold of CNY 5 billion ($731 million) in iPhone sales, guaranteeing orders of one to two million devices per year. The source said China Unicom could begin selling the iPhone as early as late September. China Unicom is also Read more…

July 31, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Warning that its profits may decline, Wii and DS manufacturer Nintendo played the “current economic conditions” card but also laid a new one on the gaming table — increased competition thanks to Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.

The newly launched Nintendo DSi is seen as a partial response to Apple’s new gaming model, according to Electronista, which includes an on-device digital App Store, rather than the cartridge based physical media traditional gaming companies have thus far preferred.

Still, if the next edition of Mario has an Apple or Steve Jobs looking boss level, we’ll know Nintendo is taking it seriously…

Via theiphoneblog.com

July 31, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

(update 12:15 p.m. PST: porn is a very subjective term. one’s artistic and tasteful nude is another’s filth. while Apple is not 100% clear on their nudity policy, they are adamant about a porn free App Store. we added an additional image at the end of this article from theXchange app which should clearly convey pornography … while the image is censored, the blackout area contains male genitalia … couple that with the image’s “Hot Wanted” statement … it’s clear, Apple is certainly not achieving their goal.)

As a preface to this article, we would like to remind you of Apple spokesman Tom Neumayer’s, profound statement in response to nude photos found in the Hottest Girls app:

“Apple will not distribute applications that contain
inappropriate content, such as pornography”

Fair enough Tom … thank you for making that perfectly clear. So what happens just a few days later … BeautyMeter and its infamous 15-year-old topless girl makes headlines. Hmmm, so much for Tom’s clarity.

Now flash forward to today … July 30 … Tom – there you go again, shittin’ us with your Apple Read more…

July 31, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Truly amazing images from those reported iPhoneClub.nl on an iPhone 3G that has led to a small fire inside a car in Holland, completely ruining the passenger seat. Read more…

July 30, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The Cydia Store launched its first product on March 07, 2009. Cyntact sold sells for a buck, and was the first paid package through the Cydia Store. It allows you to see profile pictures in contact lists. While not the only 3rd party application store for the iPhone (Rock Your Phone also exists), it is definitely the most popular one, largely due to Cydia’s immense popularity as the source for jailbreak packages (items you can only get when jailbroken – like themes and apps such as GV Mobile, recently kicked out of the AppStore).

Now, 4 1/2 months later, “the Cydia Store has had ~53,000 purchases for a grand total of ~$210,000 spent,” said Jay Freeman, creator of Cydia, known as saurik to most in the jailbreak crowd. And for a good while, packages weren’t even being accepted into the store other than a few beta packages, which he used to live test the service after the initial offline testing. (Packages are now being added more and more as the service matures – use our Cydia submission form if you’ve got an application you’d like ModMyi to host (we’re not your only option), and we’ll be in touch).

Until March, the AppStore was the only sustainable way for a developer to sell their app. There were a few ambitious apps which were freely available in lite versions from Cydia, and had their own built-in payment systems (PdaNet comes to mind, although that whole move to paid was a bit controversial and actually made me completely revise our update approval process for the MMi repo). ZodTTD created an “invite-only” repository where only donaters could access, with unique URL’s for the repo depending on your device, email, etc. Both these methods were hacks (however elegant) to get around the glaring issue – no way existed for jailbreak developers to make any income from their work, forcing scores of developers to either give up on the jailbreak community, never get involved to begin with, or save their best for AppStore, while releasing lesser quality (and lesser time-consuming) packages on Cydia. Read more…

July 30, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - Cracks

Download the cracked deb HERE

• Copy the downloaded deb file to var/mobile/
• Follow instructions below:

open mobile terminal

type in su (press return)

type in alpine (press return)

type in dpkg -i nameof.deb (press return)

respring and press the little world buttong on your keyboard when using it, itype should pop up.

Thanks to schnedi over at xsellize for the deb and iBlaze[C4iD] and COREPDA for the patched files

July 30, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - Cracks

Instructions:
- Install Intelliscreen from Cydia
- Replace the intelliScreenMail file in /Library/Intelliborn/ folder
- Replace the intelliScreenSB file in /Library/Intelliborn/ folder
- Replace the IntelliScreenConfig file in /Applications/IntelliScreen.app/ folder

Download:
Rapidshare
Mediafire

Intellishared 2.94.1 crack

Instructions:
- Install Intellishared from Cydia (This should automatically get installed as a dependency of Intelliscreen) Read more…

July 30, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple is making preposterous claims in its effort to prevent jailbreaking from becoming a legally acceptable practice.

Security researcher Christopher Soghoian reports that in a recent filing with the copyright office, “Apple has argued that consumers who wish to jailbreak their mobile phones and change the device’s unique serial number must be drug dealers or other criminals.”

[E]ach iPhone contains a unique Exclusive Chip Identification (ECID) number that identifies the phone to the cell tower. With access to the BBP via jailbreaking, hackers may be able to change the ECID, which in turn can enable phone calls to be made anonymously (this would be desirable to drug dealers, for example) or charges for the calls to be avoided.

Wired.com has also found some more ridiculous accusations in which Apple suggests jailbroken iPhones would be used to cause catastrophic damage to cellular networks.

“a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data,”

“Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result.”

“The technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them.”

Fred von Lohmann, is an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group founded to protect the rights of individuals. He notes that there are over a million jailbroken iPhones and this has never happened.

Apple’s argument would make open source platforms such as Android a menace to society as well. Saying that a jailbroken iPhone should be illegal because its possible to do something illegal with it sounds like a very weak defense.

You can read more about the EFF’s case against Apple here

via iClarified.com

July 30, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

EA Mobile has announced that Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer, and many more titles are headed to the iPhone and iPod touch.

MacWorld is reporting that the following titles were announced at the Game Developers Conference.

- Tiger Woods PGA Tour (Spring 2010)
- Wolfenstein RPG
- FIFA Soccer
- Madden NFL
- NBA Live
- Spore Creatures
- Mystery Mania
- American Idol
- Command & Conquer
- SSX (a snowboarding game)
- Need for Speed
- The Sims 3.

EA Mobile will also release the following board games for the iPhone:
- Connect 4
- Battleship
- Risk
- Monopoly “classic”
- Trivial Pursuit (April 2010)
- Clue.

No word on any dates other then those marked.

Via iclarified.com

July 29, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The iPhone 3.1 beta 3 firmware build 7C116a and iPhone 3.1 beta 3 SDK build 9M2808 has been released to iPhone developers. The file size is 307 MB.  If you’re a developer, you can head on over to the Apple Developer Central and download it. The beta 2 firmware expires July 28 at 12:00 AM, so now is the time to update! If you’re not a developer don’t download this update, wait until Apple releases the final iPhone 3.1 update.

New features in iPhone 3.1 beta 3:

• Copy and paste videos – You can now copy and paste videos in your e-mails.  There is a 15 MB limit for copying/pasting videos or images. This limit is most likely there to save bandwidth usage.

• Read more…