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How to jailbreak and unlock a 2G iPhone (2.0).
The iPhone Dev Team, a group of hackers who have made it their mission to jailbreak and unlock iPhones, announced that version 2.0 of their iPhone-freeing application PwnageTool, would be released on Sunday. Fortunately for us on the west coast of the United States, this meant Saturday night. As soon we discovered the tool’s availability, [...]
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Why Installer.app may not be dead. Yet.
The iPhone 3G has been out for one week now, and with it came the App Store, which allows iPhone users sporting the new 2.0 firmware to download a variety of applications that Apple has deemed worthy. Some of these applications cost money, others are totally free. Many of these applications happen to be duplicates [...]
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iPhone 3G sports a poor GPS.
It’s iPhone 3G release day, and the havoc out there makes it pretty clear that the activation process for new phones was far from smooth. In fact, it was so unsmooth that owners of the “old” iPhone had trouble upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 firmware because the iTunes store took a big hit and fell [...]
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Getting an iPhone 3G sans contract: the costs.
In what should be illegal, AT&T is charging $700 for a 16GB iPhone that’s not contracted to them. Dieter Bohn pointed out at The iPhone Blog that buying a subsidized iPhone 3G at $300, then canceling service, is actually cheaper than dropping $700 outright, with the only disadvantage being a credit check and some time [...]
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Fixing SummerBoard themes on 1.1.3/1.1.4.
When we recently upgraded our unlocked iPhone to firmware version 1.1.4, we found that the third-party application SummerBoard refused to display any of the themes we downloaded. We had this same problem when we upgraded to 1.1.3 months back, but the third-party patch “SMB Themes Fix” did exactly what it was named.
Unfortunately, even after installing [...]
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