November 21, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

In conjunction with its newly updated App Store software, TomTom announced it will release a car kit that will bring GPS functionality specifically to the iPod touch.

The new TomTom car kit for iPod touch is compatible with both the first- and second-generation iPod touch, and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later. The hardware will be “available shortly,” the company announced this week.
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November 18, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apparently the special is limited to the United States and Canada only.

Here is the list of discounted apps:
- DanceDanceRevolution S+
- DanceDanceRevolution S
- Field Prowlers Police Rush
- Frogger
- Krazy Kart Racing
- Metal Gear Solid Touch
- Power Pros Touch
- Silent Hill: The Escape
- Silent Scope

Via pocketgamer.com

November 07, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

John Carmack, creator of the classic PC game Doom, described working with Apple as a “rollercoaster ride,” and suggested that company executives are not happy about the popularity of gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch.

In an interview with gaming website Kotaku, John Carmack revealed that top executives at Apple do not look fondly on the growing popularity of games on the iPod Touch and iPhone.
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November 05, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

There’s an exciting announcement at All Tech Related this week that has us saying, “We can’t wait!”

ZodTDD, the developer behind GpSPhone (a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch), announced the development of an N64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch. Zodttd believes that the current generation iPhone and iPod touch have the graphic CPU horsepower necessary to run those games. “…I can’t promise it will run games Read more…

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 08, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

http://blackra1n.com/

George Hotz has been hard at work using a new exploit that will “jailbreak them all” as he says. This goes for every version of the iphone and ipod touch. He has tweeted many messages stating trial and error to show everyone that he is working diligently, follow his twitter here. The release of BlackRa1n as he calls his program may come tonight Read more…

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

Our equal and opposite, Phil Nickinson over at WMExperts, has just provided the equal and opposite to our just-posted iPod touch G3 hardware review — a hands-on with the Microsoft Zune HD.

t’s my first foray into the Zune ecosystem, so I have a bit of a learning curve, and bear with me. But without giving away the farm, I’ll say this: If this is the direction in which Windows Mobile is moving, we all have much to look forward to.

Part 1 covers the desktop software, Quickplay (think genius), the apps, Zune marketplace, what’s in the box, the hardware, the screen, and teases Part 2 (of course).

Check out the battle HERE, then remember to join us for iPhone Live! tonight, as Phil will be our special guest, and we’ll take the Zune HD one on one with the great one — the iPod touch.

Via theiphoneblog.com

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

At Apple’s “It’s Only Rock and Roll” media event last week, the company introduced new iPod touch models with 32 GB and 64 GB capacities, advertising the devices as offering “up to 50 percent faster performance”. Macworld has performed speed tests comparing the new iPod touch to the previous-generation model, and found that on a number of tasks the new model does meet or exceed Apple’s performance claims.

The speed tests conducted were similar to ones run in June on the iPhone 3GS, and while the new iPhone running Apple’s just-released iPhone OS 3.1 was not included in the latest comparison, the new iPod touch appears to even be slightly faster at some tasks than the iPhone 3GS.

But it’s not just in benchmarks such as these where the new iPod wins out. Just as the iPhone 3GS was faster than the iPhone 3G at everything, the new iPod touch feels much faster at any task you throw at it: applications launch (and quit) faster, Web pages load more quickly, processor-intensive games and programs perform better — you name it.

We’ll be testing the latest iPod touch’s performance — compared to both the previous touch and the iPhone 3GS — for our official review, but it’s clear that Apple has beefed up its newest touchscreen device.

Via macrumors.com

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

September 15, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Everyone, including Steve Jobs, has very reasonable sounding theories as to why the third gen iPod touch camera was removed. Rather than rehash it again, however, we thought we’d let our minds wonder into parody, and consider what might have happened in a world only slightly more cartoonish than ours…

Steve Jobs, fresh from his recent leave of absence, comes crashing back into Apple’s Cupertino campus, and after fixing the typography on the iPhone 3G S 3GS, tweaking some pixels on the Snow Leopard UI, and spending time meditating deep in the iTablet vault, he heads over to the scorched closet that used to be reserved for iPhone A2DP testing…

“64GB a go?” he demands. “Good”

“Is it thinner?” grumble. “Next year…”

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