February 09, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple is now the world’s third largest smartphone producer, coming in behind Nokia and Research in Motion. IDC’s latest report from its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker cites continued interest in the iPhone and Apple starting to offer the device in China as major driving forces behind the growing dominance in the smartphone world.

Apple shipped 25.1 million iPhone units in 2009, 8.7 million of those in the fourth quarter. By comparison, Nokia shipped 67.7 million device units throughout the year with 20.8 million in the fourth quarter alone. Manufacturers Motorola and HTC round out the top five smartphone makers. Read more…

February 09, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Last week I downloaded (but did not install) the iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware for my 3GS. I wanted to have a copy of the firmware on hand, but didn’t want to upgrade right away. I checked “Do not ask me again” and clicked Download Only. I thought that was the end of the matter.

Unfortunately, this Sunday, I plugged in my iPhone and left the room to grab some tea. When I returned, the iPhone was 50% of the way through the 3.1.3 firmware upgrade procedure. It did something I had no idea that it would do: it upgraded me without asking. Read more…

February 09, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Last night MeDevil sent us the latest beta version of its program, iBlueNova. Now it is ready to be released and have to wait only a few days that we can talk Saurik for publication in Cydia Store. Read more…

February 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Game Developer Research has published its 2009/10 survey of video game developers, and the results are pretty impressive for the still relatively fledgling iPhone platform: The number of developers who are working on mobile games increased by 12 percent, and there are actually twice as many developers working on iPhone games as are working on the Nintendo DS and Sony’s PSP handheld consoles. Read more…

February 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Released last Tuesday, iPhone OS 3.1.3 was a minor update, bringing a battery reporting fix, fixing an issue where third-party applications would not launch, and patching a number of security holes. In its first six days of release, an estimated 14 percent of users opted to upgrade, mobile ad group Medialets reported Monday.

As of Feb. 6, most iPhone users — 72.3 percent — were still running iPhone OS 3.1.2, while 3.1.1 has 0.8 percent of users, and 3.1.0 has 4.6 percent. About 13 percent of total users are running a version prior to 3.1.2. Read more…

February 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Download:

Description: Androidlock is a tweak for your jailbroken iphone that lets you have a lock passcode similar to that of an android. For those that haven’t seen an android lock screen it is where you have to connect the dots on the screen before your iphone unlocks by sliding your finger in the correct order. Read more for a video demo.

Thanks to Evilsquirrel for the upload and iPhonix91 for the images over at xsellize.

• After downloading rename the deb to alock.deb
• Copy it to var/mobile on your iphone and install using ifile or do the following
• Open Mobile terminal
• Type in su (press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)
• Type in dpkg -i alock.deb (press return)
• Reboot or Respring and enjoy

Read more…

February 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The accessory, goes along with the free app ZoomIt [iTunes Link]:

• Copy or move files from the SD card to a Local File Manager;
• Delete or rename a file in File Manager or SD card;
• View a file in a format thats SDK3.0 compatible;
• Interfacing with the photo album to move / copy pictures to / from SD card to iphone or iphone to sd card.
• Interface with the iPhone camera to take a picture and store to SD card
• Interfacing with Mail to share a file or a picture

Zoomit DS is expected to ship in April for $ 60, but until you can pre-order from the official site.

[Via ispazio.net] Translated by google

February 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple plans to be “nimble” on pricing of the iPad and could lower prices if demand for the tablet lags.

This information comes via a note from Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope who met recently with Apple executives.

Apple wants the iPad to be the best device for a few key use cases. For instance, the company believes it could eventually be seen as superior to both handheld and notebook devices for browsing the Internet, using the App Store, and consuming mobile media (video, photos, and e-books). Read more…

February 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

iPhone repair site iResQ claims to have obtained parts for the fourth generation iPhone. Its unclear if these are authentic parts; however, you can find the pictures and their observations below.

1) The LCD appears to be factory glued to the digitizer which is more similar to the first generation iPhones than the iPhone 3G and 3GS. The digitizer can be separated from the LCD on the 3G and 3GS models, which should be interesting to all, but for the repair folks like us–this means that the 4G screen repair price will be higher since both parts will have to be replaced at once.

2) The iPhone 4G front panel seems to be about 1/4″ longer than its predecessors. Read more…

February 07, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The iPhone Dev-Team has released PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X which lets some iPhones upgrade safely to the 3.1.3 firmware.

Using PwnageTool to upgrade will preserve your jailbreak and ultrasn0w unlock. If you are using the blacksn0w unlock at baseband 05.11.07 you will need to stay at 3.1.2.

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iPhone 3GS users (regardless of unlock) should stay away from this and all 3.1.3 jailbreak tools unless you know you have your “SHSH hashes” backed up via Cydia. That’s because if you make a mistake you may find yourself stuck at official 3.1.3 with no way to jailbreak or come back down to 3.1.2 to jailbreak. Read more…