Archive for the ‘Phones’

  • Apple starts Patent war with HTC
    Today Apple sent a press release announcing that they’ve filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing 20 of Apple’s patents related to iPhone interface and the underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed with U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented...
    by Hans at March 2nd, 2010 at 04:03 pm
  • Use your iPhone with Verizon
    It comes to no surprise that many of our readers here don’t like AT&T and would rather prefer to use their iPhone on Verizon. Unfortunately Verizon operates on a CDMA network, so the iPhone needs to have a CDMA chip to work on Verizon. There would need to be a new iPhone, the iPhone 4G for this to happen. While this may not be happening any time soon, you can...
    by Hans at February 22nd, 2010 at 11:02 pm
  • HTC Desire Specs
    Here are the specs for the HTC Desire Superphone that HTC announced during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Operating System:  Android 2.1 with HTC Sense user interface Processor:  1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Screen:  3.7 inch AMOLED capactive touch screen with a 480 x 800 WVGA resolution Battery:  1400 mAh Rechargeable Lithium-ion Camera: 5 megapixel color camera...
    by Hans at February 16th, 2010 at 05:02 pm
  • HTC Desire Superphone
    HTC has just announced their new smartphone named  HTC Desire. HTC calls the HTC Desire a superphone rather than a smartphone, just like Google calls their Nexus One a superphone as well. This phone will run on Android 2.1 and have the beautiful HTC Sense UI just like HTC’s other phones. The HTC Desire has a 3.7 inch AMOLED capacative touch screen with pinch-to-zoom,...
    by Hans at February 16th, 2010 at 02:02 pm
  • iPhone 3.1.3 05.12.01 baseband unlock imminent, Sherif Hashim discovers exploit
    Just a week after Apple released the iPhone 3.1.3 update, Sherif Hashim has discovered an exploit that could allow iPhone users to unlock their iPhone on the iPhone 3.1.3 firmware on baseband 05.12.01 and use it with other carriers like T-Mobile in the US, for example. We get these a lot, but no the iPhone can’t be unlocked to work with Verizon because Verizon operates...
    by Hans at February 10th, 2010 at 09:02 pm
  • iPhone Devs: Android in app description = BANHAMMER
    When it comes to iPhone apps, Apple is infamous for rejecting them for silly reasons. Once a developer’s application gets rejected, it can take a very long time until it’s approved again. Surprisingly, this time Apple acted differently. The developer of the Flash of Genius iPhone application put “Finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge!”...
    by Hans at February 4th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
  • Jailbreak iPod touch 3.1.3 untethered
    The iPhone 3.1.3 update that Apple released today caused people who updated to it to loose their jailbreak. My jailbreak iPod touch 3.1.3 post has instructions on how users can jailbreak their device with older jailbreak software. The jailbreak did not work for any iPod touch device, but you can prepare for it by following the instrutions below. If you want to just jailbreak...
    by Hans at February 2nd, 2010 at 10:02 pm
  • Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 safely
    Apple released an iPhone 3.1.3 update that caused people who updated to it to loose their jailbreak. I made a jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 and a jailbreak iPod touch 3.1.3 post with instructions on how users can jailbreak their device with older jailbreak software. The jailbreak did work for iPhone 2G, but it is not the most user friendly method. but may work for iPhone 3G...
    by Hans at February 2nd, 2010 at 09:02 pm
  • Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3
    The iPhone 3.1.3 update that Apple released today required users of jailbroken iPhones or iPod Touches to wait for a new jailbreak software to be released before updating. This jailbreak is for 3.1.2 but may work for iPhone 3G 3.1.3, iPhone 3GS 3.1.3, or iPhone first generation. If you want to just jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 you can try the old jailbreak and see if it works,...
    by Hans at February 2nd, 2010 at 03:02 pm
  • Jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3.1.3
    Today the iPhone 3.1.3 update was released to iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPod Touch usres. This update includes mainly bug fixes. If you would like to jailbreak or unlock your device, you must read this. If you have an unlocked iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS do not update to this new firmware, updating to the iPhone 3.1.2 firmware will permanently update your baseband....
    by Hans at February 2nd, 2010 at 03:02 pm