October 18, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Verizon has revealed more details about its marketing campaign against the iPhone. A new site presents the user with the following phrases…

iDon’t have a real keyboard

iDon’t run simultaneous apps

iDon’t take night shots

iDon’t allow open development

iDon’t customize

iDon’t run widgets

iDon’t have interchangeable batteries

Everything iDon’t

DROID DOES

Users are then asked to input their email address to be notified when “compromise has been deactivated”

A countdown timer apparently is set to countdown til October 30th when the Motorola Sholes may be launched.

Via iclarified.com

October 18, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The bootrom for new 8GB iPod Touch shows that it’s still got 24K overflow…it *may* simply need some address tweaks

Update #1 10/17/2009

We can now confirm that the new 8GB iPod touch is not vulnerable to 24Kpwn. It took just 6 bytes for Apple to fix this:
load_module+16 43 68 LDR R3, [R0,#bdevImg.totalSize]
load_module+18 9A 42 CMP bufsize, R3
load_module+1A 13 D3 BCC FAIL find_named_image(illb): 000100d8 00024100 696c6c62 696d6733
dataSize totalSize illb img3 Given how small the fix is, it seems likely that it was also applied to that updated bootrom of very recent iPhone 3GS devices. We’ll be able to confirm this once we have an actual one of those in hand.

Update #2 10/17/2009

Confirmation that the new 8GB iPod touch is at least a tethered jailbreak. This device doesn’t require personalized img3 files in the way that the iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 3G do. For this reason, it will “always” be jailbreakable (no need to rush and get your ECID signed hashes like you do for the 3GS and ipt3G). But for the foreseeable future, it will be a tethered jailbreak only.

via xsellize.com

October 18, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Verizon is planning another attack on Apple and the iPhone with an ad campaign that is set to launch tonight, reports Engadget.

Keep your eyes peeled this weekend for anew in-your-face advertising campaign that’s a teaser of big things to come in November.

The new campaign features a very different look and a whole new attitude, highlighting many of the things that iDevice doesn’t do. Although there’s very little Verizon Wireless branding, customers are directed to a website where they can sign up for more details as they become available. Read more…

October 17, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

It was just yesterday that Apple announced they would allow free apps to enable in-app purchases, and developers are already jumping on the “get the app for free, buy the content later” business model as quickly as they can. ngmoco came out swinging, as Touch Arcade reports, with both a free intro version of Rolando 2 out for purchase, with later chapters of the game as add-ons. They’ve also been working on a shooter called Eliminate, and we’re now told that title will be free as well, with extra content to buy later.

The creators of Urban Rivals, an app that is based on a virtual trading card game, have let us know that they too plan to go the free-with-microtransactions model as soon as their app is released, and Read more…

October 17, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Download:

Thanks to skygoat76 over at xsellize for the upload.

To install deb packages you can either use the autoinstall method or do the following

• Rename the downloaded deb to orbit.deb
• Copy the file to var/mobile on your iphone
• Open up mobile terminal and type in the following
• Type in su (press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)
• Type in dpkg -i orbit.deb (press return)
• Respring or Reboot and enjoy

October 17, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Orbit, otherwise known as Expose for iPhone, has been submitted to the Cydia Store and should be available soon.

The application created by Steven Troughton-Smith was inspired by an Ocean Observations concept video. Using the app you can quickly jump to Springboard pages in an Expose type fashion.

Orbit will cost $1.99 to purchase (just enough to make sure he can afford to make a version 2.0) and will be available soon.

Via iclarified.com

October 16, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

October 16, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Ngmoco has announced that their much anticipated first person shooter Eliminate will be free in light of Apple’s announcement that free apps can now offer in-app purchases.

More details are said to be following, but Ngmoco has long announced that Eliminate would carry in-app purchases for energy that allows players to earn additional credits. Every player gets a certain auto-renewable source of energy, but once depleted, to earn more credits the player must either 1) wait a certain amount Read more…

October 16, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple has investigated a method to make imperfections in compressed video files less visible to the human eye, a new patent application revealed this week shows.

The described technology would not do away with compression, which is necessary given bandwidth restrictions. Instead, it details a new technology that would mask artifacting that often appears when video files are compressed to reduce their file size.

“Disadvantageously, most video compression standards use lossy data compression techniques in which data determined by a particular compression algorithm to be of lesser importance to the overall content, but which is nonetheless discernible and objectionable to Read more…

October 16, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

Apple has reportedly begun shipping iPhone 3GS units with a new bootrom, which might help combat hacks enabling installation of unauthorized software. However, iPhone hackers say Apple’s new firmware only causes a temporary inconvenience for jailbroken devices, and the handset is still hackable.

“It’s not going to be impossible to jailbreak even if the exploit we used is gone,” said Eric McDonald, a member of the iPhone Dev-Team, which publishes tools to jailbreak the iPhone, in a phone interview with Wired.com.

McDonald explained that Read more…