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Interestingly enough approximately 30% of all iPhones are unlocked. And to prove this there is some simple math to be done.
Firstly, Apple revealed that they have sold 3.7 million iPhones last year. Now AT&T, in their recent press conference said that 2 million iPhones were subscribed to their network. Germany, UK and France have around 200k-400k (no official figures were released) which makes around 1 million iPhones. Moreover, total European and American number accumulates to 3 million.
So here you have it. Around 1/3 or 1/4th of the iPhones are unlocked. Even Apple commented that they believe unlocked iPhone numbers are significant.
Thanks: Gizmodo
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Written by David on January 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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The latest (v1.1.3) iPhone firmware allows you to bookmark your favorite websites on iPhone’s home screen; however since it’s still a relatively new feature not all website owners know how to create those nice icons to be displayed on the screen. But there is a simple solution of how you can do this yourself:
Apple’s iPhone Dev Center posted step-by-step instructions on how to do this. Those familiar with favicons should have no problem creating an iPhone web clip, since the process is very similar.
So if you are a site owner, or just want to change icon to something you like more, here is how you do this:
* Open your image editing program, such as Photoshop, and create an image that’s 57 x 57 pixels. Larger images will be cropped by Safari.
* Save the icon in your computer as an 8-bit PNG file, and name it “apple-touch-icon.png.”
* Upload the image to your site’s root directory, just like you would save a favicon image.
* Now open up your site on your iPhone/iPod Touch, tap the plus sign at the bottom of the screen, and select ‘Add to Home Screen.’ Rename site if necessary.
* Hit the home button, and admire your new shiny icon.
And of course as a user you can reorganize and delete icons on your home screen by:
* Clicking and holding one of the icons until they start to wiggle
* To move icons, hold and drag them to the desired position
* To delete an icon, simply tap the “X” next to each icon
* Click the home button when you’re satisfied
Of course we’ve also made a nice web icon for iPhone World. Give it a try!
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Written by David on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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iPhone Dev Team and iPhone Elite Team have put their minds together and finally managed to release an iPhone firmware v1.1.3 jailbreak to the public, in the form of a new version of iBrickr.
To use this iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak hack you will first need to have 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 jailbroked phone. Once your iPhone is ready for the above requirement, you will need the iBrickr image creator (It’s only available on Windows for now, sorry Mac users) which you can download directly here!
Then do the following:
- Plug in your phone via USB to your computer and run iBrickr.
- iBrickr will determine what firmware you are running on your phone and make sure you can run the update.
- iBrickr will then guide you through the process of obtaining and modifying the 1.1.3 firmware (make sure to read everything thoroughly).
- iBrickr will upload the new firmware image to your phone. Note that this only puts the file on your phone and does not modify it at all, yet.
- When iBrickr finishes (should take about 10 minutes), it will tell you to go to Installer and install the “1.1.3 soft upgrade” package. Do that.
- When the installer finishes (this should take another 10-15 minutes), your phone should reboot with a fresh activated 1.1.3 firmware.
There is also a way to get Google Maps Locations working with jailbroken 1.1.3:
*You must have a legal simcard (at&t, orange, o2,t-mobile)
*jailbreak it (see above).
*Then just replace /usr/libexec/lockdownd with original one, from 1.1.3
*Your phone will have Google Maps Locations working.
Now you may be wondering how this jailbreak works. Here is a breakdown:
- iBrickr grabs the 1.1.3 iPhone firmware image and extracts, decrypts, and decompresses the disk image.
- Then it applies a patch, jailbreaking the disk image and activating it, and installing Installer.app.
- It uploads this new modified image to the phone, as 113_upgrade_image.bin.
- The “1.1.3 soft upgrade” app flashes the phone with the image and reboots.
- You have a perfect, jailbroken, upgraded 1.1.3 phone, with all your settings and music intact!
Thanks: netkas
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Written by David on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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If you plan to use iPhone for your corporate needs, firstly you should be able to access your mail with the device. But to be able to check emails, mail server should be configured for IMAP to allow access from iPhone. You can’t do it yourself hence you should ask your IT department to do the following:
Step 1
*Open port 993 to allow email to be received through the firewall.
*The proxy server must be set to IMAP over SSL only. SSL ensures that mail is securely encrypted during wireless transmission.
Step 2
*As a best practice and for additional security protection, install a digital certificate on the server from a trusted certificate authority such as Verisign.
*Installing a certificate from a certificate authority (CA) is an important step in ensuring that your proxy server is a trusted entity within your corporate infrastructure.
Step 3
*Either port 587, 465, or 25 must be opened to allow email to be sent from iPhone.
*When sending a message, iPhone automatically checks first for port 587, then 465, and then 25. Apple recommends opening 587 as the most reliable, secure port because it requires user authentication. Port 25 is considered to be the least secure because it’s been around the longest and is subject to more attacks by hackers. It’s also the port that some ISPs block by default to prevent unsolicited spam.
So now your corporation is one step closer to full integration with the iPhone.
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Written by David on January 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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First Direct, a telephone and internet based commercial bank in the UK, confirmed today that its online banking services now fully support Safari browser. And not only you can access the bank website from Mac, but according to bank representative, it is offering a “seamless online experience for all its customers using an iPhone or an iPod Touch,”. Customers will benefit from the device’s touchscreen and fully-functional web browser.
This is a great move which acknowledges iPhone as a strong platform and popularizes the device even more.
However, according to Banks FAQ there are some issues still left for resolving. You still can’t print bank statements. But the bank is working hard to resolve this, and soon you should enjoy fully functional portal.
Thanks: MacWorld
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