Sébastien Page

Sebastien is the Founder and Editor in Chief of iDB. Once a BlackBerry user, Sebastien instantly fell in love with the iPhone when it was first announced in 2007. Shortly after, he decided to start sharing his knowledge of the iPhone and its nascent ecosystem, which led to the creation of this blog. Sebastien currently owns 14 iPhones, 4 iPads, a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, a MacBook Air, 2 Apple Watches, 3 Apple TVs, countless HomePods and AirTags as well as a few pairs of AirPods.

How to Add an Animated BootLogo to Your iPhone

Sébastien Page ∙ February 9, 2011

The latest release of the GreenPois0n jailbreak for iPhone 4.2.1 comes with a nice little surprise: you can now add animated boot logos to your iPhone. We already showed you how to do this manually, today we're going to show you how to do this directly from Cydia.

In order to do that, you'll obviously need a jailbroken iPhone on iOS 4.2.1, either using GreenPois0n (see our tutorial), or the tethered version of RedSn0w. You will not be able to install animated boot logos unless you are on 4.2.1 jailbroken iPhone with GreenPois0n or RedSn0w tethered...

New Verizon iPhone Has Antenna Issues Too

Sébastien Page ∙ February 8, 2011

Just when you thought we were done with the antennagate, a new video from iLounge surfaced, showing that the Verizon iPhone is also affected by an antenna issue. When held in the prior "death grip" position, the Verizon iPhone loses substantial cellular signal, just like we previously saw with GSM iPhone 4.

Additionally, the CDMA iPhone 4 seems to be affected by a loss of wifi signal when held snugly in landscape mode. Both issues seem to be taken care of with the use of a case...

Apple to Announce iPhone 5 on June 5?

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated May 16, 2016

Will Apple announce the iPhone 5 - or whatever its name will be - on June 5? That's what this screenshot taken from the Moscone Center website reveals with the usual "Corporate Meeting" placeholder. Historically, Apple has always held its iPhone announcement in early June, so there is no reason for that to change.

The only oddity is that the event supposedly would start on a Sunday, whereas iPhone announcements happened on Mondays in the past...

Jailbreak iPhone iOS 4.2.1

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated February 15, 2011

iOS 4.2.1 has been released for a while now, and up until this weekend, there wasn't a good and practical jailbreak for it. Sure RedSn0w did the trick but since it was a tethered jailbreak, it wasn't very convenient.

Then came RedSn0w untethered jailbreak, which was better than its predecessor, but still wasn't satisfying to most of us. Finally the Chronic Dev Team updated GreenPois0n, which brings a safe and reliable untethered jailbreak for iPhone iOS 4.2.1...

Verizon iPhone Chipset Supports Both GSM and CDMA

Sébastien Page ∙ February 7, 2011

The guys over at iFixit already got their hands on a Verizon iPhone and took it apart to compare its guts to those of the "original" iPhone 4. Most of what they found wasn't very surprising, but they did make one interesting discovery.

The Verizon iPhone sports a Qualcomm MDM6600 baseband chipset similar to the Droid Pro World Phone's, which brings support for both CDMA and GSM...

GreenPois0n Updated to Jailbreak Verizon iPhone

Sébastien Page ∙ February 7, 2011

According to reports, a few lucky people have already started receiving their pre-ordered Verizon iPhones, which should officially be available to the rest of the US this coming Friday.

Ahead of the official Verizon launch date, the Chronic Dev Team has updated GreenPois0n to jailbreak iOS 4.2.6. We now have a proof that the jailbreak was successful as this picture was released earlier today...

PhotoMail Makes Attaching Photos to Emails on Your iPhone Easy

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated January 9, 2012

Until now, there was no practical and logical way to attach a picture to an email on your iPhone. You either copy/paste the image, or you can select it in your camera roll, and select it to be shared via email. But what happens if you want to insert a picture in an email you are currently working on?

That's where PhotoMail comes in. With this new jailbreak app, you'll be able to send any photo directly via the Mail.app. Just access to the copy/paste menu, and you'll see a (+) button, from which you'll be able to attach multiple images...

iPhone Theming Made Easy with Masks

Sébastien Page ∙ February 7, 2011

Here is a jailbreak app that will sure make iPhone themers happy. Masks, a new application that lets you quickly and easily customize the look of your wallpaper and icons.

Up until now, the best way to customize your springboard was by using WinterBoard. While a great application, WinterBoard can be a bit cumbersome: you have to search for a theme, download it, activate it in WinterBoard, and respring. Masks takes all that away by bringing to the table a new way to tweak your iPhone springboard...

Spoken Notifications Come to the iPhone

Sébastien Page ∙ February 7, 2011

If VoiceActivator is going to change the way you talk to your iPhone, Voice Notifications is going to change the way your iPhone talks to you!

The Voice Notifications app allows you to have your iPhone say just about anything you want when you receive a Text Message or Phone Call, replacing the ringtone by the voice of a woman alerting you you received a new text message or call from someone...

How to Charge 20 iPhones at Once

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Ever wondered how you could possibly sync 20 iPhones at the same time? No, me neither, but at least now I know how to.

PARASYNC is a new accessory that lets you plug 20 iPhones (or any iDevice) in a giant docking station to easily sync them with iTunes. With 20 devices plugged at the same time, data transfer will obviously be slower. The company's website states it takes about 20 minutes to sync 1GB of data, and 35 minutes for 2GB.

I guess the question on everybody's lips is "who the heck needs to sync 20 iPhones at once?"

Best Buy Makes Space for the White iPhone 4

Sébastien Page ∙ February 6, 2011

Engadget has the picture of a shelf tag for a 16GB white iPhone 4, supposedly spotted at a Best Buy location in Houston. At $599, we can only imagine this is a contract-free iPhone.

There has been more and more rumors lately about the availability of a white iPhone 4, which might lead us to think Apple's own unicorn might indeed hit the shelves sooner than later. Heck, even Woz confirmed it...

Top 10 iPhone News You Might Have Missed This Week

Sébastien Page ∙ February 6, 2011

This is a summary of the most popular articles published on iDB this past week. Please make sure to spread our iPhone wisdom by sharing our posts on Twitter and Facebook.

Geohot's RubyRa1n jailbreak to come after February 10th? Missing privacy settings in Facebook app Make your iPhone look like Windows Phone 7 The king of iPhone 3G jailbreak tweaks How to pay with your iPhone at Starbucks AT&T sued for overcharging iPhone owners GreenPois0n iOS 4.2.1 is out Guide: jailbreak your iPhone 4.2.1 with GreenPois0n How to update iPhone 4 to 4.2.1 and preserve 01.59.00 baseband Cydia missing after jailbreaking with GreenPois0n? Fix here