October 27, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Any lingering hopes of new last-minute holiday hardware from Apple have been cast in doubt, as the Mac maker has reportedly confirmed that its holiday 2009 lineup is “set.”

In a recent conversation with Gizmodo, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, reportedly said that Apple will not introduce any more new products this year. The report was issued to quash recent rumors of even more hardware updates portrayed as potentially imminent.

After the story initially ran, Apple’s public relations contacted to clarify with an official statement: “The holiday lineup is set.” No further explanation was given. Read more…

October 27, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple is reportedly in discussions with Australian media companies over including their content on the rumored tablet device.

The Sydney Morning Herald says the tablet is tipped to be a larger version of the iPhone. It is small enough to carry in a handbag but too big to fit in a pocket. It will have a touch screen and be targeted at users who mainly want to surf the web, read books and newspapers or watch movies.

Supposedly Apple sent tablet specifications to the media companies in an effort to figure out if they would be interested in delivering their content on such a platform. None would speak about the device on the record.

Apple reportedly did the same to US companies such as the New York Times last month.

Via iclarified.com

October 27, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Geohot has started looking for an iPhone unlock for the 05.11.07 baseband. He estimates it should take approximately one day to find.

Jody Sanders, a person notorious for selling the Dev-Team’s unlock, has offered Geohot $10,000 for releasing a new one. Sanders maintains that he is not selling the unlock but rather selling the support that comes with it.

If Geohot does find an unlock it will be released free to the entire community regardless of whether Sanders actually pays out. “it’s not really the 10k, i wanted to do it anyway”

The search has already begun and we will keep you up to date on Geohot’s progress.

so, i have a stack overwrite exploit…but the charset is *very* limited, sadly too limited i think, back to the drawing board

running low on places to look..at+xemn is exploitable, it’s a heap overflow, but sort of don’t feel like dealing w that

via iclarified.com

October 27, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Its been a while since I had a giveaway.. Its that time again everyone, even though things are slow I know some people have it worse than me so since I feel like giving here is your chance to win. All you have to do is retweet this post. Your tweet has to say something like itunes give card giveaway @theiphonespot, every username I see that has tweeted this post will be entered into a random drawing which I will draw and choose the winner tomorrow night..

The Winner Is: Nana Kwame

Claim your prize by emailing [email protected] or send me a direct message on twitter so we can talk and get your itunes code to you

October 26, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Verizon and AT&T have both reported their latest quarterly earnings, and the strength of the iPhone has continued to help AT&T close the gap on the market leader.

In its earnings reported Monday morning, Verizon said it now has an estimated total of 89 million subscribers, after adding 1.2 million customers during the September quarter. Last week, AT&T announced it added 2 million wireless subscribers during the same period, bringing its total base of customers to 81.6 million.

AT&T’s 2 million customer increase was the highest third-quarter gain in company history. Officials said nearly 40 percent of the 3.2 million new iPhone activations were customers new to AT&T. That means of the 2 million new customers, roughly 1.28 million were iPhone users. Read more…

October 26, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

You have to hand it to Reko and Bobby for their stick-to-it-iveness; they were behind a similar set of iPhone costumes in 2007, but those didn’t have the fully-functional power of these new outfits. Yes, those are LCD TVs on the front (not touchable, sadly) showing content from the (almost certainly) jailbroken iPhones mounted on top; yes, each getup weighs 85 pounds because it includes a car battery to power the display. I can see how the illusion would be broken by a 500-foot charging cable trailing behind them as they trick-or-treat their way around the subdivision.

Via tuaw.com

October 26, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Geohot has released RC2 of his Blackra1n jailbreak for the iPhone and iPod touch. This version provides a tethering jailbreak for the new iPhone 3GS with the updated Bootrom.

What’s New:
- Fixed 3G issues
- Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes
- Fixed Icy issues
- Both Windows and Mac
- If you used RC1 with success, no need to rerun

Via iclarified.com

October 25, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

SpringSorter monitors how much you run the different applications installed on SpringBoard and allows you to reorganize the icon layout, making the things you use the most on top. This package was designed with many usage scenarios in mind and thus has lots of configuration options:

• Rearrange your SpringBoard icons according to how much you use them.
• Allows you to sort icons per page, or globally across all pages.
• Protect pages you don’t want to auto rearrange.
• Set a minimum amount of application usage before starting to move it.
• Create a backup of your SpringBoard icon layout and restore it.
• Manual or on-the-fly operating modes.

After installing SpringSorter it will automatically start to monitor your application usage behind the scenes. You can then start sorting and configurating the program via the settings program on your device.

Via TheBigBoss.org

October 25, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

GeoHot tweeted earlier that he is going to be releasing an update to his wonderful 30 sec jailbreak. Blackra1n RC2 is going to contain some small fixes that people are having problems with when using RC1.

October 24, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News