New iPhone Pictures Leaked

by Sebastien on Jun 3, 2009

These pictures were supposedly taken by an Apple employee. If that’s the case, I guess they are pictures of the dev website which will go live once the new iPhone is announced next week at the WWDC. The pictures were posted on iSpazio, where it says you can see a front camera and the speaker moved upward. I personally don’t see anything! (click on each picture for a wider image)

What bugs me with these pictures is that there is no carrier logo on the iPhone. Apple has always shown the carrier logo on it’s ads or website…

What do you think? Info or intox?

 

First Apple WWDC Banner Shows Up

by Sebastien on Jun 3, 2009

This banner was spotted in Moscone West, 5 days before the start of Apple’s WWDC. As you can see, the focus of the event seems to be the App Store with this banner reading “One year later. Light-years ahead”.

That makes me wonder what Apple might announce about the App Store, besides the in-app purchase already announced a few months ago.

You can see more of these pictures on Adam Jackson’s Flickr stream.

 

Exclusive: The Name of the New iPhone Will Be…

by Sebastien on Jun 3, 2009

We’re just days away of finally finding out about the new iPhone. Will all these rumors be confirmed at the WWDC? We’ll figure it out soon enough. Something that no one has speculated on is the name of this new iPhone.

A little before the iPhone 3G was revealed last year, we all called it the “3G iPhone”. I guess we were close enough. Given everything we know about this new iPhone coming up, medias have started calling it the “iPhone 3G 2009″ or the “iPhone HD”.

Let’s try to be creative for a minute and come up with a few possible names:

  • iPhone III – I kinda like that one but I think it could be easily confused with iPhone 3G
  • iPhone 3.0 – could be, but how will they call it when firmware 3.1 comes out in a few months?
  • iPhone 3G Pro – no, too long, and too elitist. To me, “pro” means business
  • iPhone 3G 2009 – if you want my opinion, that’s gay (no offense)! No way Apple would pick such an unoriginal name
  • iPhone 3G 2nd Generation – blahhh, this long name just made me puke in my mouth
  • iPhone 4G – no, it would require a 4G network, which we don’t have yet
  • iPhone HD – nahhh. HD what?
  • iPhone Video – could be, but video is just one feature among many others. Why not call it “iPhone Copy/Paste” while you’re at it?
  • iPhone Pre – no comment!

Alright, if I had to take one wild bet, I think the new iPhone is actually going to be called the “iPhone that finally has a decent camera, copy/paste, video recording, and MMS 3G” ;)

More seriously, I think Apple will simply call it “iPhone” to avoid alienating users who have the previous models.

What do you think the new iPhone will be called?

 

How To Install An iNav Theme On Your iPhone

by Sebastien on Jun 2, 2009

If you’re iPhone is jailbroken and that you look at Cydia apps and mods from time to time, you most likely came across the iNav themes. iNav themes are a little more complex than your usual theme and simply activating the theme in WinterBoard won’t be enough. You will need to prep your iPhone and that’s exactly what I’m going to show you today.

Installing an iNav theme is not hard at all but it will take a few minutes of your time. Read More

 

All The New iPhone Rumors In One Image

by Sebastien on Jun 2, 2009

With the announcement of a new third generation iPhone next week at the WWDC, rumors are flying around like crazy. The Green Room put together this graphical representation of all the rumors that are circulating around (click the image for a larger view).

More details and sources of the rumours can be found over at The Green Room.

 

iTunes 8.2 Is Out – Jailbreakers Do Not Update

by Sebastien on Jun 2, 2009

iTunes 8.2 is available since yesterday. According to the update notes, “iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.”

As always when an update comes out, I highly suggest jailbreakers and unlockers do not update iTunes yet. According to the Dev Team:

This update is one of those that incidentally breaks QuickPwn and PwnageTool.  It doesn’t seem like an anti-jailbreak.  But nonetheless, it will break your ability to re-run QuickPwn or PwnageTool’s dfu-entry.

Because this update isn’t a deliberate anti-jailbreak measure, it’s easily fixed in our tools.  But we really don’t want to update our tools until 3.0 is out, so please don’t update to 8.2 if you think you’ll need to rejailbreak your device. :)

iPhone Download Blog reader VistaUser also warned me that iPhoneBrowser doesn’t work anymore after updating iTunes to 8.2.

 

Apple Greediness Shows Again

by Sebastien on Jun 1, 2009

Once again, Apple proves to be pretty greedy as it wants to charge you twice for applications you’ve already purchased. This pop up window was spotted on a few iPhone over the weekend and it suggests that Apple will charge you again if you decide to download over the air an app you already paid for in the past. As an alternative, you can download the app for free if you do so from your computer.

Is Apple greedy? Or is AT&T asking Apple to do that in order to reduce the load on the network? I know for sure Apple is greedy but charging for “re-downloads” doesn’t really make sense. With the WWDC coming up next week, I guess we’ll find an answer to these questions sooner rather than later.

 

The 15 Most Read iPhone Download Blog Articles Ever

by Sebastien on Jun 1, 2009

This blog is now slightly over a year old so I decided to look at the stats and see what the most visited posts were. Among the top read articles, there were a few of them that don’t apply anymore (ie. unlock iPhone 1.1.4) so I didn’t take these into account. Note that the posts are not ranked in a specific order.

As you can see, the most visited posts are all about hacks, which makes me wonder if that’s what I should focus on more. I mean, I sometimes write reviews and news articles but it seems you guys don’t care about that. All you seem to care about is how to hack the hell out of this iPhone.

What do you think?

 
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