The iDongle has been in the making since early January, an electronic engineer graduate named Renaud got frustrated when his iphone 3GS went dead while he was out and his iPhone got stuck on the apple restore screen. Renaud being frustrated with his tethered jailbreak and always having to worry about his iPhone going dead, thought of the iDongle. The iDongle is a hardware gadget running off of your traditional 9v battery that is able to boot your tethered jailbroken iphone/ipod if it were to go dead while you are on the run. Did I mention it also has the ability to jailbreak your un-jailbroken iPhone/iPod that is on firmware 3.1.2 or lower. This is a must have if you have an iPhone or iPod and have to deal with the tethered jailbreak we all dread. Read more…
Today the world witnessed that the production of touchscreen technology is not only sensitive and important to our way of life, it is often a particularly dangerous endeavor at the factories that produce them.
Chinese news outlets are reporting at this hour that a worker at Wintek (a Chinese-based production facility of touchscreens) has died resulting from complications related to n-hexane exposure or poisoning. As of this moment, it’s markedly difficult to cull any definitive facts from the Chinese news services reporting the death. Read more…
An analyst at AVI Securities says the Apple tablet is “in full production”.
The information comes from “a maker of components going into the Apple tablet,” according to analyst Matt Thornton. “It’s been in the supply chain for a while and entered full production this month. A couple of suppliers actually had weaker Decembers than they would have expected because production was pushed back a little bit,” he said in an interview.
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Suppliers for the Apple Tablet have begun shipping touchscreen panels and will start delivering aluminum casings next month, according to Reuters sources, implying a second-quarter product launch.
AVY Precision Technology Inc, a Taiwanese manufacturer of covers for electronic products, will begin production of the cases in February, two sources familiar with the situation said on Friday.
TPK Solutions, an unlisted touch screen panel maker also based in Taiwan will also supply panels for the product, a third source said, on top of those already being manufactured by another Taiwan company, Wintek Corp.
“Production of the cases will begin in February, so everything points to a second-quarter launch right now,” said one of the sources. “It doesn’t take that long for the company to assemble the PC together, but a second-quarter shipment date is what we’re looking at now.”
Via iclarified.com