SubscribeElsewhere on GearShrine: BlackBerry | iPod Touch | iPod | Windows Mobile | T-Mobile G1 | Palm Pre | GPS | Palm Treo |
# 13 Blogger
Phones Review
Phones Review (www.phonesreview.co.uk) has great Apple iPhone news, photos, videos and more
Today
Star Wars Meets iPhone in Hard Case Form
So if you are an iPhone toting Star Wars fan and fancy grabbing some official Star Wars art for your iPhone, apparently they are now available in the form of the official Darth Vader and Imperial Stormtrooper hard cases for the iPhone and are available from the Star Wars Shop.
Video: AT&T Hits Back at Verizon over 3G
The video touts such things as AT&T having the fastest 3G network, that the customer can talk and surf at the same time, that AT&T have the most popular smartphones (we presume they mean the iPhone) and access to over 100,000 applications.
Office Depot Black Friday Deal: XtremeMac InCharge Auto Charger for iPhone
The XtremeMac InCharge Auto Charger for iPhone obviously speaks for itself and charges your iconic iPhone and the iPod, has a sleek design that is packed with protective and user friendly features with a self resetting fuse that never need replacing while an LED shows that your iPhone is...
HTC Passion Dragon Snapdragon Google Phone Battle with iPhone, Droid
The Apple iPhone as we all know is a pretty impressive smartphone with the biggest amount of apps to date, the Droid series is pretty impressive too hence the Motorola Droid and HTC Eris Droid. Yes we know that the HTC Passion Dragon has the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processor and this...
Office Depot Black Friday Ad 2009: Ed Hardy iPhone Faceplates
We have a cool Black Friday deal from Office Depot today for the iconic iPhone in the form of Ed Hardy iPhone Faceplates, which are currently being offered by Office Depot for a reasonable $29.99 per iPhone Faceplate, but come Black Friday the price falls. On Black Friday, Office Depot will o...
Poll: Can O2 keep Promise with planned network improvement upgrade?
O2 promises that they will keep customers very happy indeed with the new planned upgrade to its UK network, yes O2 are planning a massive network improvement upgrade which is good news but can they keep to their promise. O2 has a huge £500 million investment that ran over the last two years, O...
Yesterday
iCarte for iPhone turns iPhone into NFC handset
iCate 100 for iPhone is capable of peer to peer communications using ISO 18092 and NFCLIP-1 standards and is compliant with JCOP operating system, and works with both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS carrying OS 3.0 and above, and can also charge the iPhone and sync with iTunes via miniUSB conne...
Friday, Nov 6
Poll: Can Motorola Droid and OS Platform beat other competitors?
When you think about the specifications of the Droid it seems to be a little better on paper, we mentioned not so long ago about the camera side of things and how it compares to the iPhone, and what about the fact of the Droid having Google’s Android 2.0 operating system which is a big deal becau...
Thursday, Oct 29
Verizon Motorola Droid is no competition to the iPhone: Here’s why!
If you look at the specs list the Motorola Droid seems pretty impressive and really should outsell the iPhone, the Verizon Moto Droid has an impressive 3.7-inch 480×854 touchscreen display whereas the iPhone only has a 3.5-inch 480×320 touchscreen display, the iPhone does not have full s...
Sunday, Oct 11
Patch: iPhone 3.1.2 firmware jailbreak blackra1n now available
Apparently iPhone users can now jailbreak the iPhone 3.1.2 firmware with the aid of the blackra1n software which has now gone live reports an article over on daily mobile. To boot it all you need to do is rerun blackra1n and as usual if you jailbreak your iPhone do not update the iPhone firmware...
Saturday, Oct 10
Patch: SDK 3.1.2 now available for Developers iPhone
Apple has sent an email to registered developers to go along with the iPhone OS 3.1.2 and the iPod touch equivalent. The email informs them that SDK 3.1.2 is now available on the iPhone Dev Centre, if you have updated your development devices to iPhone OS 3.1.2 you will now need to download and insta...
Friday, Oct 9
Patch: Download now available iPhone SDK 3.1.2
Following the release of iPhone OS 3.1.2, the iPhone 3.1.2 is now also available to download. The download is free, and can be obtained from Apple’s download section. Great news for developers as instruments can now allow you to profile your application on a device via the Wi-Fi connection. The u...
Thursday, Oct 1
MMS for iPhone and Internet criminals
Apparently the arrival of MMS to the iPhone 3GS from AT&T had pulled out several scareware vendors which are making quite a mockery of searches that uses the terms iPhone and MMS reports an article over on iphonetouch. These internet criminals are dominating search returns when iPho...
Patch: What do you think of AT&T iPhone MMS Service?
We’ve waited for it and now it is here, AT&T’s iPhone now has the capability to send multimedia messages to another phone number. The update has only just gone live, and already we have news of a successfully sent MMS on CNET’s iPhone 3G. And also we’ve had confirmation that photo’s have b...
Will there be a Verizon iPhone Release Date? Possibly January 2010
Another rumor was posted recently on a leading Apple blog that the iPhone, currently available in the United States only through AT&T Wireless, could well be coming very soon to Verizon. It has been suggested that this it might have been January 2009 according to the source below but t...
Friday, Aug 28
iPhone Jailbreak New Release: 3G, 3GS 3.0, 3.0.1, and 3.1 firmware versions
If you are one for unlocking your Apple iPhone, you may like to know that Unlock Solutions has now released what they say is a faster way to unlock your iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, which run firmware versions 3.0, 3.01, and 3.1. Regardless of what iPhone type you have they say their newest iPhone unloc...
Saturday, Aug 1
Patch: iPhone OS 3.0.1 Jailbreak solution already works?
Apple pushed out iPhone OS 3.0.1 update to solve the problem of the SMS bug, and once Apple pushed out a new iPhone OS update those who wish to jailbreak need to wait for a solution from the iPhone Dev Team. However according to an article on Cnet, the iPhone Dev Team has put out a [...]
Patch: iPhone OS 3.0.1 released to fix SMS bug threat
Didn’t you just know Apple was going to move fast on this one? Intomobile reports that Apple has released the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update which patches the iPhone SMS message bug which we reported on earlier and can be located (here) The iPhone OS 3.0.1 update with bug fix is available via iTunes so al...
Friday, Jul 17
Patch: iPhone Ultrasn0W Vs. Purplesn0w: How do they compare?
The iPhone Dev Team’s ultrasn0w.09 features, works with both iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, does not patch any mach-o binary at all, no popups about “missing SIM”, no network issues and no race conditions, and is almost 7000 times smaller that its nearest rival.
Tuesday, Jul 7
iPhone OS 3.0: iPhone Battery Drainage Issues?
The word is that numerous reports speak of the new iPhone OS 3.0 firmware is apparently a huge drain on the iPhone battery, and it appears that iPhone’s batteries are now not even lasting a day reports product-reviews. They say this battery life issue must lie with iPhone OS 3.0, but with Apple...
Monday, Jul 6
Video: How To Jailbreak IPhone 3GS with Purplera1n
Now here’s an interesting video for our iPhone 3GS toting readers, a video showing you how to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS on Windows, and is only for the new iPhone 3GS with iPhone OS 3.0 firmware. The Jailbreaker says he will have a Mac version tutorial video soon so we’ll keep our eyes open for th...
Sunday, Jul 5
Apple iPhone 3GS: Prototype found on eBay
A Prototype iPhone 3GS has ended up on eBay for sale in the shadiest of manners, just as the original iPhone prototype (ancient OS included) was. The original prototype iPhone was found on eBay a few months ago. According to Engadget, eBay now have the world’s first iPhone 3GS on there as well....
Wednesday, Jul 1
iPhone 3.0 update has ten cool hidden features
The guys over on MacRumors forum have now compiled an extensive list of the 100 plus features within the iPhone OS 3.0 update. We have here ten of those cool hidden features and to view all 100 plus features just hit up the link. So without further ado here is the list…
Patch: Apple iPhone OS 3.1 beta firmware for developers available
Although iPhone OS 3.0 hasn’t been out all that long, Apple has now released iPhone OS 3.1 beta to developers. Although we are not that sure what iPhone OS 3.1 will include we can speculate that it will probably include some bug fixes and maybe a couple of extra treats to spice up the update. Engadg...
Tuesday, Jun 30
Minor iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone 3GS issues and fixes
There have been several reports about additional problems after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 or even the iPhone 3GS and Cnet has come up with a few procedures which will hopefully solve a few of the problems. Reset your iPhone by holding down the Sleep and Home buttons until the Apple logo appea...
Friday, Jun 19
iPhone 3.0 software download patches: Fixes 46 Security Flaws
Apart from the awaited security updates, the iPhone 3.0 includes lots of new features. The iPhone review explains how the 3.0 update will totally transform your iPhone with a new cut-and-paste function, MMS, Autofill login a fantastic clear widescreen keyboard. And in the near future deve...
Wednesday, Jun 17
Patch: iPhone OS 3.0 Poll: Have you downloaded new software update?
We would also love to know if you like or dislike and of course is it what you expected, we will bring you many updates about this new software. There are many new features within the software and we would love to know what you think, be honest please.
Tuesday, Jun 16
How To: iPhone Tethering Achieved as of now
So you can’t tether the iPhone? Not what 9to5mac says as they have now posted a How To Tether an iPhone for free, and without any AT&T blessing as well. What you do require though is iPhone OS 3.0 Gold Master firmware carrying the “7a341” label and no doubt a quick search will show where that...
Wednesday, Jun 10
New Apple iPhone 4G 2009 Thin Concept
French language website fakeorreality have posted a concept for the next generation Apple iPhone, the new Apple iPhone 4G thin concept, although there is no confirmation as to whether it is real or not. Even so, the ultra-slim concept does kind of look appealing and would definitely be li...
Friday, Jun 5
New iphone 2009: 3.0 firmware, software update release, WWDC
Apple mentioned in March that OS 3.0 would appear this Summer and that the firmware and software will hit the market sometime early July, we can see this being true because it was July 2008 when we got the iPhone 3G model, seem like Apple loves July.
Tuesday, Jun 2
Patch: New Apple iTunes 8.2 has iPhone OS 3.0 Support
Apple has now rolled out its newest version of iTunes, iTunes 8.2., and this new update brings with it support for iPhone OS 3.0 for Apple iPhone handsets reports an article on techtree. The main change in iTunes 8.2 is to bring support for iPhone 3.0 firmware and there is also a few bug fixes along [......
Patch: Apple iTunes 8.2 for Windows and Mac prepped for new iPhone OS 3.0
Apple has now updates iTunes to iTunes 8.2 as it prepares for the new iPhone firmware, iPhone OS 3.0, reports Cnet. The new iTunes 8.2 for Windows and Mac is now prepared for the Apple iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade and had pushed out the changes made to the pre-release editions of iTunes which have been ava...
Thursday, May 7
Patch: New iPhone OS 3.0 beta update available
The word is Apple has now released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 following only after a week since the last release according to an article on engadget mobile. Furthermore, the word is that the magic which allowed tethering to be allowed in iTunes 8.2 has now received a patch.
Wednesday, Apr 22
Patch: Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Beta Jailbroken: New QuickPWN for Windows
Sources who have tried the new jailbreak are reporting no trouble with the new hack, however, the iPhone Dev Team say that using the new jailbreak will kill yelowsn0w forever, and of course downloading and using QuickPWN is at the iPhoners own risk.
Thursday, Apr 2
Patch: Apple iPhone OS 3.0 beta jailbroken by QuickPwn 3.0
Apple comes out with a new iPhone OS, the iPhone OS 3.0 beta, and you just know there are going to be developers lined up to jailbreak it, and the jailbreakers have a reputation for breaking things quickly. It appears that their reputation for speed is still spot on as a report over at quickpwn,...
Friday, Jan 2
Apple iPhone in the Pink on eBay?
If you are an iPhoner who has been looking for a different colour Apple iPhone maybe you’d like to nip over to eBay as they apparently have a pink…yes that’s pink, Apple iPhone up for grabs. The seller believes that this is the only pink Apple iPhone on the market, and judging by the text on [...]
Wednesday, Nov 26
BlackBerry Storm, Make sure its the BlackBerry for you
Then of you course you have the BlackBerry Storm, RIM’s first ever touchscreen and the Apple iPhone’s main competition, but sadly we don’t think the storm is all it’s cracked up to be, the first thing missing is the sturdy BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard, what you do get is a slow frustrating cl...
Thursday, Sep 18
Google HTC phone unveiled in London
It’s been said that HTC are the manufacturers behind the Google handset, but a full announcement is believed to be made in New York next week by T-Mobile and Google. The Dream phone is set to be sent out globally this year and shipment of around 600,000 to 700,000 is expected. The Google phone i...
Thursday, Sep 11
iFuntastic 6 available now for iPhone firmware 2.0.2
Available now for iPhone firmware v2.0.2 is the popular program for modding your iPhone iFuntastic. Taking a closer look at some of the new features iFuntastic 6 offers we can tell you that it will have WinterBoard Support allowing you to create your own WinterBoard themes, it will allow you...
Tuesday, Aug 5
SIM unlock for Apple iPhone 3G coming August?
So, listen up, an announcement from USB Fever states they will be shipping the first viable hardware based SIM unlock solution for the Apple iPhone 3G on ... Apple releases iPhone 2.01 firmware Pocket Gamer Apple iPhone software 2.01 arrives TechRadar.com
Wednesday, May 7
Austria confirmed for T-Mobile 3G Apple iPhone
Austrian newspaper Der Standard is stating T-Mobile has confirmed the 3G Apple iPhone is coming to the Austrian market. At a press conference in Vienna, apparently T-Mobile announced that Austria will be one of the foremost test markets ...
