iPhone 4 Has Twice the RAM of iPhone 3GS and iPad

Sébastien Page ∙ June 18, 2010

Historically Apple never revealed the amount of RAM you can find in the iPhone. It's not really clear why they keep this a secret but one can think Apple wants you to focus more on the general user experience than on the technical specifications of the iPhone.

Some people do like to know about the technical aspects of their gadgets though. The iPhone 2G and 3G had 128MB, while the iPhone 3GS and iPad have 256MB. This partly explains why Apple doesn't offer all of the features of iOS 4 to the iPhone 2G and 3G: they simply can't take it!

During one of the WWDC sessions last week, Apple confirmed that the iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM. That is twice the amount of RAM of the iPhone 3GS and the iPad.

As MacRumors notes, the added RAM should help overall performance and multi-tasking on the new iPhone 4. It could also explain why the iMovie App that Apple introduced at WWDC will only run on the iPhone 4. Apple has said iMovie will only run on the iPhone 4 and not the 3GS or even the iPad.

[via MacRumors & Mac Stories]

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uTorrent Web Lets You Manage Your Torrents Downloads From Your iPhone

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated July 6, 2017

Torrent managers will probably never make it to the App Store. We've already seen a few applications like Torrentula that lets download torrents directly to your iPhone, but to be honnest, that was not very useful.

After all, why would you want to download torrents to your iPhone? Downloading torrents on my PC from my iPhone seems much more interesting to me. That's exactly what uTorrent Web offers with its new mobile interface.

After installing the desktop app and reading the few instructions, you will then be able to manage your torrent downloads directly from your iPhone by pointing Safari to http://web.utorrent.com.

Functionality is limited, but the essentials are there. You can paste in a torrent URI from another app on your iPhone to initiate a transfer remotely and pause active torrents. Concerned about your privacy? Have a read through BitTorrent's post about architecting for user privacy.

No, this won't allow you to download torrents directly onto your non-jailbroken iPhone -- but it will at least allow you to start new transfers on your home machine (which probably has a boatload more free drive space anyway) from wherever in the world you currently happen to be.

[Via Download Squad]

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RedSn0w 0.9.5 iPhone Jailbreak Now Available for Windows

Sébastien Page ∙ June 17, 2010

The Dev Team just released RedSn0w 0.9.5 for iOS 4GM for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G (non-MC version). This RedSn0w jailbreak now brings support for Windows.

According to the Dev Team:

Just like our other betas, this one intentionally doesn't “hactivate” the iPhone. Please wait for Apple's public release of 4.0 for that part of it.

YOU SHOULD STAY CLEAR OF THIS BETA SOFTWARE IF YOU RELY ON A CARRIER UNLOCK. That's because the beta redsn0w works only if your device has already been upgraded to the stock 4.0beta1/beta4/GM IPSW from Apple, which contains a baseband update. If you installed that IPSW, you've already lost the carrier unlock until the next planned release of ultrasn0w and blacksn0w.

More information can be found here.

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iPhone Jailbreak About to Be Legalized?

Sébastien Page ∙ June 17, 2010

When you buy an  iPhone, you could expect being able to do whatever you want with it. You may want to jailbreak it to install applications that are not allowed in the App Store. You may also want to unlock it so it is not restricted to only one carrier.

Well, legally you can't do all this because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is a law intended to protect digital locks. This law was intended to protect copyrighted music, DVDs, and DRM entertainment products.

When congress passed this law, they were not thinking that it would also legally allow hardware manufacturers like Apple to have a total control over what you can and cannot do with your iPhone. The DMCA clearly wasn't created to prevent you from jailbreaking your iPhone, but it "accidentally" did when Apple started to flag jailbreaking as a violation of this law.

A little over a year ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit digital rights advocacy organization, asked regulators to add jailbreaking to a list of explicit exemptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. The US Copyright Office is now supposed to rule any day on whether jailbreaking should be exempted from the DMCA or not.

This is big news because if the exemption was to be approved, Apple would probably lose the huge grip it has on the App Store and what's allowed or not in the Store.

Apple has always argued that it wanted a clean, safe, porn-free App Store. Bottom line is they want to control every aspect of the Store and that is just not right. It should be the users' decision, not Apple's. Only me can decide what's best for me. Only me can decide if I want to take the risk of installing malicious software on my iPhone.

Apple has never sued jailbreakers or even the Dev Team because they know it would be at the very edge of legality. If the US Copyright Office decides to exempt jailbreaking from the DMCA, it will be a big victory for iPhone (and other smartphones) users and digital rights in general.

Let's cross our fingers! In the meantime, you can watch this video to learn more about the DMCA exemption for jailbreaking iPhones.

What do you think about that? Do you think jailbreaking should be made legal?

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iTunes 9.2 is Out. Jailbreakers Beware!

Sébastien Page ∙ June 17, 2010

Apple just released iTunes 9.2, which comes with a few new features necessary before next week's release of iOS 4 to ensure compatibility between this firmware and the devices.

iTunes 9.2 features and improvements include:

Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1 Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your library

Jailbreakers and people who plan to jailbreak their iPhones or iPads should stay away from iTunes 9.2 for the time being.

According to the Dev Team, Don't install today's iTunes 9.2 if you plan on using Spirit for fresh JB (but it's fine for PwnageTool & redsn0w users).

If your iPad has already been jailbroken with Spirit, then everything will work fine. If however you plan on jailbreaking your iPad with Spirit, it will be caught in a boot loop.

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UltraSn0w Updated to Unlock Baseband 04.26.08 on iOS 4 for iPhone 3GS

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated March 9, 2016

The Dev Team updated the now famous UltraSn0w that allows to unlock baseband 04.26.08.

If you updated to iOS 4 while preserving your baseband, you can now download UltraSn0w from Cydia to unlock your iPhone so it works with any carrier.

In order to have UltraSn0w work for you, you need to:

have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS be on baseband 04.26.08

More info on the iPhwn Wikee. [via French iPhone]

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Poll: Were You Able to Pre-Order Your iPhone 4?

Sébastien Page ∙ June 16, 2010

We all know yesterday's iPhone 4 pre-orders were a real fiasco that led to the first iPhonecalypse. After hours spent on Apple's website I finally successfully pre-ordered an iPhone 4 to be delivered on June 24th.

Something tells me that not everyone was lucky as I was and I'd like to get a better idea of how things went for all of you.

Were You Able to Pre-Order Your iPhone 4?online surveys

Please take a few seconds to answer this poll. If you feel like it, also leave a comment to give us more information about your experience.

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600,000 iPhones Were Pre-Ordered Yesterday

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated October 10, 2018

AT&T just issued a statement about yesterday's iPhone 4 pre-orders. According to AT&T, "iPhone 4 pre-order sales yesterday were 10-times higher than the first day of pre-ordering for the iPhone 3G S last year. Consumers are clearly excited about iPhone 4, AT&T's more affordable data plans and our early upgrade pricing."

In the same time, AT&T's website got more than 13 million visits, which is 3 times higher than their previous record. Not surprising their system crashed!

AT&T didn't deem it necessary to update us on their latest security breach though.

The company stopped receiving pre-orders as they are running out of inventory. They are waiting for Apple to allocate them more units to resume pre-orders.

And here is Apple's statement:

Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple's new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions. Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration. We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock.

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My Experience Pre-Ordering a $742.69 iPhone 4

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated January 23, 2016

Like me, you probably spent a good part of yesterday refreshing Apple's pre-order page, filling in the information required and getting various frustrating error messages.

Besides trying to pre-order the iPhone 4, I spent most of my day at the hospital with my fiancee who was meeting with a couple specialists (nothing major). I frenetically checked my iPhone every 2 minutes or so and tried countless times to go through the pre-order process.

At some point I heard rumors that AT&T was running out of iPhones and I thought it wouldn't be too long until Apple does too. In the meanwhile I had received several tips from people on Twitter telling me the Apple Store application that Apple had released was working great for pre-ordering.

So I decided to use this app to reserve my iPhone for pickup, instead of pre-ordering it for delivery as this option wasn't available. In less than a minute I had reserved an iPhone 4 which I was supposed to pick up on June 24th.

I was really relieved I did have my name on one of those iPhones but I still wasn't completely satisfied. I didn't want to drive 45 minutes and wait in line to pick up an iPhone that I wasn't even sure would be there for me. Yes, when you pre-order an iPhone for pick up, there is absolutely no guarantee that you will get this iPhone. It's all on a first-come, first-served basis!

So I kept trying the Apple Store website in the hope that it would go through at some point. And it did! While we were stuck in traffic on our way back from the hospital, I was able to add an iPhone 4 to my cart. I then started praying for 3G not to die on me. It didn't.

After a few minutes of filling out information, I had successfully pre-ordered my iPhone 4 for delivery on June 24th. That made my day!

Since I was not eligible for any kind of upgrade I had to pay full price for my iPhone. Total amount came to $742.69 ($699 + $43.69 in taxes). That ain't a cheap iPhone! For that price, I could probably get an unlocked iPhone in Canada...

I still have the other iPhone 4 reserved at my local Apple Store and I will leave this reservation opened, just in case something goes wrong with my delivery.

That was a painful experience which ate up most of my day, but of course it was worth it. What wouldn't we do for an iPhone?

How was your experience pre-ordering your iPhone 4? Let us know by leaving a comment.

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