It's finally here! The team behind Celeste, CocoaNuts, has officially released Celeste, the long awaited Bluetooth file transfer app for iOS4.
As a refresher, Celeste is a jailbreak app that allows your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 4.2 or later to receive files from any mobile phone and any computer (Mac or PC) that supports OBEX Bluetooth file transfers.
I've talked about Xpandr before, the jailbreak app that allows you to create shortcuts, a la TextExpander. When iOS 4 came up, it seems that Xpandr didn't support it right away, which led me to remove it from my iPhone, or rather not install it when a jailbreak for iOS 4 came out. Up until now, I was using TextExpander which is great but is supported by very few apps in iOS.
Yesterday, while I was calling for a dev to create a jailbreak tweak to integrate TextExpander to any iOS application, I was quickly reminded by several of you of the existence of Xpandr, so I installed it again, and to my great surprise, I realized it was working with iOS 4. The love story started all over again...
I know this is not directly related to anything iPhone but I thought the news was important enough to report here on iDB. According to The Escapist, Geohot fled the country and is currently in South America.
In case you didn't know, Geohot is currently being sued by Sony for jailbreaking the PlayStation 3, and even though he pretends to be confident about the situation, he is clearly feeling the heat coming from the Japanese electronics giant...
Last week we told you about the Gevey SIM which basically unlocks any iPhone 4. Today, a video confirms that the Gevey SIM can unlock any iPhone 4 on any iOS and any baseband. This means that if you have an iPhone 4 4.3 with baseband 04.10.01, the Gevey SIM will work for you too.
While this Gevey SIM card sounds like a miracle, it does come with a few drawbacks which might frighten some of you...
Ron Walker is a Jump Master in the US Army. Basically, his job is to make sure army parachutist are ok to jump. During one of his missions, his iPhone 4 sneaked out of his pocket, and fell 1,000 feet down. At that time, he was resigned to buy a new iPhone later.
When he landed, some of his coworkers advised him to try to track his iPhone with Find My iPhone. Seconds later, his iPhone was localized, a couple miles away from where he was...
As we reported last week, iOS 4.3 comes with serious battery drains for some users. While I haven't updated my iPhone 4 to 4.3 yet (I need my unlock), I can tell that the battery on my iPad 2 4.3 isn't that great at all.
The guys over at BGR got their hands on a 4.3.1 build and were didn't see anything new in there, besides the fact that battery life seems a bit better. They didn't conduct any kind of scientific test on it so it's hard to verify if battery is indeed better...
The folks at the French site NowhereElse have published a beautiful infographic that lists all of the popular rumors surrounding the iPhone 5. Besides listing the rumors, the infographic also gauges the probability of each rumor.
Better camera, no home button, bigger screen, better resolution, new design- This infographic lists them all, and more. A big thanks to the NowhereElse team for putting together such a comprehensive list.
Stay tuned for the graphic after the break...
9to5 Mac has gotten their hands on what they claim to be legitimate parts for the iPhone 5. Among other things, these internal parts confirm former speculation that Apple's next iPhone would share a very similar design with the current iPhone 4.
Even though the overall design will remain the same, these leaked parts do reveal some interesting things about the iPhone 5...
Five days and over 145,000 signatures later, Apple finally pulled the Exodus International app from the App Store. As harmless as it looked on the surface, the app dubbed as "Gay Cure" was terribly offensive, especially to the gay community.
A representative for Exodus International says "Our mission is to reach those with unwanted same-sex attractions and help them to reconcile their sexuality with their faith"...
Did you know that the iPad 2 has a hidden feature? It's called Hologram Settings and allows you to create a hologram of anything showing on your iPad display. Of course it's fake, but it's done so well it looks real.
Sprint, the nation's third largest wireless provider, is not happy about AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile. Once AT&T and T-Mobile are officially merged, the only major players in the U.S. wireless space will be AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.
The problem is, Sprint isn't that much of a "big player" anymore. The network has been falling behind the success of AT&T and Verizon (both of which sell the iPhone), and there isn't much traction left for Sprint to make a dent in AT&T and Verizon's market share.
Unless you live under a rock, you probably know by now that AT&T is in the process of buying out T-Mobile for $39 billion. According to T-Mobile execs themselves, the US branch of Deutsche Telekom was not doing very well financially speaking, and this is all the iPhone's fault.
According to the NY Times, things started going downhill for T-Mobile US in 2007, when customers would leave T-Mobile by the boatload to get on AT&T who was the only one selling the iPhone at the time. I was actually one of those people who left T-Mobile for the iPhone...