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Unlocked iPhone 4 Officially Available For Purchase In The U.S.

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June 18, 2011
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Apple this past week started selling factory unlocked iPhone 4′s in the U.S. Though Apple has sold contract-free iPhones in the U.S before, they were still locked to AT&T. This is the first time Apple is selling factory unlocked iPhones, which will allow users to use a SIM card for any GSM carrier. Below is the product description from Apple’s website:

If you don’t want a multiyear service contract or if you prefer to use a local carrier when traveling abroad, the unlocked iPhone 4 is the best choice. It arrives without a micro-SIM card, so you’ll need an active micro-SIM card from any More >

Untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak On 3GS With Sn0wbreeze Beta 2

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June 18, 2011
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Popular iPhone hacker iH8Sn0w recently released another update to Sn0wbreeze 2.8 that allows the users with the iPhone 3GS (with an old bootrom) to jailbreak untethered on iOS 5b1. It was found in a recent tweet he made which said the following:

sn0wbreeze 2.8 (for iOS 5.0b1) updated — http://t.co/oGV8Rvm // Now adds untethered iPhone 3GS old bootrom support.

Just a few days ago, iH8Sn0w released an update for Sn0wbreeze (version 2.8b1) that allowed users to jailbreak on iOS 5b1 with Windows. This was the first client to do so since the release of iOS 5 beta 1. MuscleNerd along with the More >

An Apple Carrier Partner In UAE Confirms 4G-LTE Capable iPhone 5

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June 14, 2011
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With WWDC 2011 behind us, enthusiasts are starting to look at what’s to come for the next-generation iPhone, which is rumored to be announced in the next few months. A spokesman at Etisalat, a United Arab Emirates-based carrier that currently carries the iPhone 4, mentioned a 4G-based “iPhone 5.”

Chief Corporate Communication Officer at the carrier, Ali Al Ahmad, went as far as saying that there would be an iPhone 5 with LTE capabilities by the end of this year as Etisalat rolls out G in more areas:

Yes, we are in talks with most smartphone manufacturers including Apple on the rollout of More >

Google Rumored To Unveil BlackBerry Messenger Alternative For Android

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June 10, 2011
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Apple’s isn’t the only one creating a BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) type service for its platform as it appears that Google is attempting to do the same. Details are pretty scarce at the moment but it would make perfect sense for Google to jump on board, like other competitors have. The exclusive instant messenger trend began last year, when Research In Motion announced BlackBerry Messenger, an exclusive service that allowed BlackBerry users to communicate through texts and pictures with other BlackBerry users. On Monday June 6, Apple announced iMessage, a similar service that will be a part of More >

Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 Released; Offers Tethered Jailbreak For iOS 5.0b1

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June 10, 2011
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iPhone Dev Team has released RedSn0w 0.9.8b1 which is now available for download. Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 can jailbreak iOS 5 beta which was released to developers at WWDC. You can download Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 jailbreak from below.

Supported devices:
  • iPod touch 3G
  • iPod touch 4G
  • iPad 1
  • iPhone3GS
  • iPhone4 (GSM)
  • iPhone4 (CDMA)

UNLOCKERS AND THOSE PRESERVING THEIR UNLOCKABLE BASEBANDS SHOULD STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS! You will very likely lose your unlockable baseband if you try to install iOS 5.

THIS JAILBREAK IS INTENDED ONLY FOR DEVELOPERS OF JAILBROKEN APPS! There are just too many broken components More >

iOS 5 Jailbreak For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch Completed With Limera1n

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June 9, 2011
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Several people are asking about the iOS 5 jailbreak and well there is good news as we reported before; MuscleNerd has jailbroken the OS with iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, 3rd and 4th gen iPod Touch compatibility. It’s already jailbroken using the Limera1n exploit and you have to remember that it is a tethered jailbreak. For the untethered iOS 5 jailbreak, we’ll have to wait but patience is something we should be good at having at this point.

For those of you didn’t already know, the famous iPhone Dev Team member, MuscleNerd had previously posted an image of the jailbroken iPod Touch 4G on More >

Apple Working On Improving iPhone Calendar Alerts

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June 2, 2011
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Apple is reportedly working on new advancements that could dramatically increase the sophistication of functionalities provided by the iPhone’s calendar alerts and other notifications if implemented into future iOS upgrades. Based on this patent application discovered by the folks over at Apple Insider, there’s a good reason to get excited about “dynamic, GPS-enabled calendar alerts” in the near future. The patent application in question is dubbed “Dynamic Alerts for Calendar Events.” Based on the filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the patent describes a system capable of More >

Google To Stay In Business With Apple According to Eric Schmidt

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June 1, 2011
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The former CEO of Google and the current company executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, recently revealed in an interview with AllThingsD’s D9, that the internet search giant has effectively “mapped” out a renewed partnership with none other than Apple. This means that Google will continue to provide Google Maps for Apple’s iOS, including an updated version for the upcoming iOS 5. “We just renewed our Map and Search agreements with Apple, and we hope those continue for a long time,” Schmidt said, not really surprising anyone except for the part where he used the word “just.” I mean, were More >

Nokia Plans To Release Windows Phone Devices Frequently

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May 28, 2011
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Nokia’s Windows Phones will soon be coming out at a relatively rapid clip after the first one appears later this year according to Nokia’s executive vice president of smart devices, Jo Harlow. “We should be launching new devices in a rhythm that might be every couple of months, every three months, something like that,” she said.

The first Windows Phones came out in October and we personally haven’t seen many devices since then. According to a recent sales figure from Gartner, the phones haven’t sold very well at all (which isn’t a surprise) although many surveys show that, out of the More >

Google Wallet May Force Apple To Implement NFC Technology

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May 27, 2011
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For the last few months, we have been hearing that Apple will be implementing NFC (Near Field Communications) technology in the next generation iPhone. At this point in time, it is all speculation with no hard evidence of whether the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 will actually feature NFC technology. This may soon have to change if Apple is paying close attention to what its competitor, Google announced today.

Just recently, Google announced that it’s jumping head-first into the business of mobile payments with the new “Google Offers” and “Google Wallet” programs, which is rooted in NFC. Google More >

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