After months of silence, Geohot has finally published a new blog post in which he talks about iPhone 4 jailbreak situation, limera1n, and Pwned4life exploit which he recently talked about at the Nuit Du Hack conference in Paris. According to his latest blog post, he has managed to jailbreak his iPhone 4 the day it got delivered to him by mail. This is what he writes on his blog: Read more…

You wanted a demonstration? You got a demonstration; we’ve put together a video to show how the iPhone 4 antenna issue is not simply a result of Apple’s miscalculation of how many bars are being displayed. Our own Erica Sadun wrote an iPhone app (at the suggestion of Engadget’s Nilay Patel) to display the raw signal strength, the number of bars, and what Apple calls the graded signal strength. Read more…

Apple’s iPhone hasn’t even been released yet but supplies are already constrained, with one UK mobile phone carrier warning this could be the case until August.

In a website note called “O2′s response to iPhone stock shortage”, the carrier warns that iPhone 4 will only be made available to existing O2 customers at launch. Read more…

The person who found and sold the Apple iPhone prototype has been identified as Brian J. Hogan, a 21 year old resident of Redwood City, California, according to Wired.com.

Hogan says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney. Although he was paid by tech site Gizmodo, he believed the payment was for allowing the site exclusive access to review the phone. Read more…

Silicon Valley police have opened an investigation into how Gizmodo came into possession of the iPhone 4G prototype, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.

Apple has spoken to local police about the incident and the investigation is believed to be headed by a computer crime task force led by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office, the source said. Read more…

The Apple iPhone Firmware version 3.1.3 is now out. Please do not upgrade until further notice by the iPhone Dev Team.

This update for iPhone and iPod touch contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• Improves accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS
• Resolves issue where third-party apps would not launch in some instances
• Fixes bug that may cause an app to crash when using the Japanese Kana keyboard

[Via iClarified.com]

When Apple formally introduced its touchscreen tablet as the iPad Wednesday, it was not the first tech product to carry that moniker — Fujitsu released its own mobile, touchscreen ‘iPAD’ in 2002.

Speaking with The New York Times, Masahiro Yamane, director of public relations for Fujitsu, said it is the company’s understanding that they still own the name ‘iPad.’ Fujitsu is currently consulting with its lawyers over the next steps it may take.

It could become a similar situation to 2007, when Apple formally introduced the iPhone, only to be sued days later by Cisco, which owned the rights to the name. The Linksys iPhone was released just three weeks before the Apple iPhone was introduced at the Macworld San Francisco keynote in early January 2007. Read more…

Apple has updated the iPhone developer SDK to allow VoIP over cellular networks, according to a press release from iCall.

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iCall is the first and only VoIP application that functions on the iPhone and iPod Touch over cellular 3G networks.

iCall is a market leader in desktop and mobile-based desktop calling platforms, including its highly popular version for the Apple iPhone. Until today, restrictions imposed on developers prohibited VoIP functionality on any 3G network.

VoIP on the iPhone has been the source of many debates with companies such as Google being denied access to the platform and the FCC inquiring as to the restrictions in the Apple App Store; iCall is one of the few VoIP applications that has been permitted by Apple to operate on the iPhone platform. Read more…

Samsung, has announced a new 64GB memory moviNAND that could be used in next-generation iPhone that may be arriving in the summer like every year.

The new chip measures 1.4 millimeters in height, composed of 16 30nm-class 32Gb MLC NAND chip and a controller. Each presentation of an Apple iPhone has always doubled the size of the maximum capacity. We expect, therefore, that the next generation iphone will have a 64GB model and these could be the chips that could be used.

Toshiba, meanwhile announced the upcoming release of 64GB NAND chip, so Apple will have the opportunity to choose between the two. We’ll see!

[Via ispazio.net] Translated by google

I was just watching CNBC and saw a commercial for a special called “Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution!” The one-hour program looks at how the launch of the Apple iPhone in June of 2007 gave birth to a revolution in mobile technology. The main site lists some highlight from the show, including a piece on Heroes actor Greg Grunberg and his “second job” as an app developer (he’s one of the people behind the Yowza! app). From the press release: Read more…