January 05, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

AT&T has completed the software upgrade that prepares the 3G Network for 7.2 speeds. Once additional backhaul is deployed throughout 2010 and 2011, users should notice a speed increase. The backhaul addition has already begun in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami. Remember, only the iPhone 3GS supports 7.2 speeds, the iPhone 3G does not.

Software Upgrade Sets Stage for Faster 3G Speeds, Enhanced Mobile Data Performance to Come with Capacity Upgrades Planned for 2010-2011

AT&T* today announced completion of a software upgrade at 3G cell sites nationwide that prepares the nation’s fastest 3G network for even faster speeds.
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January 05, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple on Tuesday revealed that more than 3 billion applications have been downloaded worldwide from its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch.

“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months — this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
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January 05, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

As Apple and Verizon are rumored to be in negotiations for a summer 2010 CDMA iPhone launch, the nation’s largest wireless carrier and the handset maker are believed to be at odds over pricing.

In a new note to investors Tuesday morning, Maynard J. Um of UBS Investment Research said that a new iPhone is expected to launch in mid-2010. Whether that phone would be available for Verizon’s CDMA network remains to be seen.

“We believe a CDMA-iPhone is also in the works,” Um wrote, “though believe Verizon Wireless and Apple may currently be apart on pricing.”
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January 04, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Greetings to everyone in the cracked apps scene! My name is TDDebug, and it’s my pleasure to come forward today with some optimism and signs of progress. Today is a landmark.

What’s with Appulous?

Appulous is the largest iPhone and iPod Touch application database in the entire world (except for iTunes, of course ) and has been the scene’s number one source for over a year now. It was created by Kyek, who knew that the scene needed a large application database to ensure quality and organization.

However, due to Kyek’s personal life becoming more and more hectic, he is unable to manage, optimize, develop, or scale Appulous to meet the demands of millions of users. The website has suffered from his inactivity, and has gotten extremely slow and periodically unavailable. This isn’t just pissing off normal users, this is bothersome to crackers who find it difficult to make submissions to Appulous due to its slow speed.

What’s the solution, then?

We can’t just wait another half a year for things to get better like last time. After the introduction of the troll bridge, Appulous quality and speed has gotten so poor that we have been begged to solve this problem.

The solution: I have created a new website called apptrackr which will completely replace Appulous, which is shutting down soon. Apptrackr will inherit the Appulous database and be managed by not only myself but several designers and programmers from all-around!
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January 04, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

All Things D claims that Apple’s rumored media event will actually take place on Wednesday, January 27th rather than the 26th as originally rumored.

Sources in a position to know tell me Apple (AAPL) is indeed planning a media event later this month at which it will announce a major new product. The gathering is to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, a space Apple often uses for media events like these. According to other sources, it will occur on Wednesday Jan. 27, not Tuesday Jan. 26, as had been rumored.

Apple is, of course, rumored to be launching a new Tablet that may be called the iSlate.

Via macrumors.com

January 04, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Remember the information a few weeks ago about the big event scheduled for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 26th? Of course, all of the Apple bloggers and pundits jumped all over this date as being the date for the announcement of something big like the tablet.

After thousands of posts have touted that date as the day that Steve Jobs will come down from the mountain carrying the 7″ tablet under one arm and the 10.1″ tablet under the other, the Wall Street Journal’s Digital Daily is reporting that the event is going to be held on Wednesday, January 27th.
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January 04, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

In a brief report [Google translation], French site Mac4Ever claims that Apple’s special media event now reportedly scheduled for January 27th will see both the introduction of the company’s much-rumored tablet device and the launch of beta versions of iPhone OS 4.0 and the associated Software Development Kit for developers.

According to the report, the SDK will include a “simulator” to assist developers in adapting their existing App Store applications to support the tablet’s screen resolution. The deployment of tools for supporting multiple screen resolutions could also pave the way for a higher-resolution iPhone in the future. Read more…

January 04, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Matthias Ringwald, developer of the BTstack Keyboard utility, has posted a video demonstrating the use of both a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard with the iPhone.

You can find our instructions on how to use BTstack to connect a Bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone here.

Take a look at the video below to see the Bluetooth mouse in action. No word yet on how or when mouse capabilities will be released.

Via iclarified.com

January 03, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

If your like me and are starting to like the palm pre style mods coming out for the iphone then this is a must. WindowPlaner is a mobilesubstrate extension that rounds the corners throughout the iphone OS. The great thing about this is that its free so go try it now and see how good it looks with proswitcher and prebrowser. One thing I have to say is that the screenshots look horrible but when you have it on your iphone it looks great and you can’t see the black corners.

January 01, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Medevil has tweeted that he has finished the transfer manager ui and the transfer ui of his very popular cydia app iBluetooth. He has been working on iBluetooth 3.0 for quite some time and after he’s finished you will be able to transfer files to other phones using bluetooth like any normal phone can do.