This security bug is uncovered by a 12-year old kid of Karl Karft. It’s related to emergency call again. You can read all the details here.
Officially unlocked iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong
This week, Apple have updated their online store for Hong Kong with iPhone 3G which isn’t availble before from Apple Store directly. 8GB iPhone at HK$5400 and 16GB iPhone at HK$6200.
What’s the best thing about this is the iPhone 3G is unlocked!!! It doesn’t bind you to any mobile operator!! Woohooooo!!!! Yes, it’s about time!!!
Update: HK$5400 and HK$6200 translate to US$675 and US$775 respectively. So iPhone doesn’t start at US$199 at all. Plus the 3G data plan will only satisfy you and make you happy unless you choose the most expensive “unlimited” access plan.
Such plan will cost roughly HK$500 per month from all mobile operators in Hong Kong. That’s US$62.5 per month and also requires at least 1 year of service committment if not 2 years.
All in all, the total cost of ownership for a entry “happy” iPhone 3G user will be
HK$5400 + HK$500 * 12 = HK$11400
And for the so-called “unlimited” access may not be truely unlimited as in common sense of any broadband users. There are terms like the mobile operator can cut you account or something like if your data transfer amount is huge. That’s such a lie for so much so “unlimited” access.
iPhone 2.1 firmware may not be friendly to some apps
Although Apple has released the promised 2.1 firmware update to iPhone to address issues like dropping calls, there are a bunch of applications may not work properly after applying the update. Here’s the complied list of possible conflicting applications. Hope the list won’t get too long or Apple has to come out to comfort the public again.
PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 Firmware released
The iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 devices including iPhone & iPod Touch. You can now jailbreak your iPhone as well as iPod Touch to release the power of the device under the hood.
Your privacy is illusory on iPhone & iPod Touch
According to this Wired article “iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do“, iPhone & iPod Touch will take a screen shot whenever you press the “Home” button and these images can be recovered later on
iPhone Document Scanner!!!
This is not a machine but rather it’s an accessory, or a paper model if you prefer. Here’s the iPhone Document Scanner. This is an interesting design no matter what
You can register with Ponoko to download the EPS.
iPhone 3G as bad or as good as Nokia or Sony Ericsson’s 3G phone
There are review / comments about how bad the 3G reception of iPhone 3G is all over the net. This iPhone 3G antenna test pointed out someting different though. iPhone 3G is simply as good (or bad) as Nokia N73 or Sony Ericsson P1.
The entire iPod line refresh soon?!
Could this be ture that the entire iPod line gets refresh in the next 2-3 weeks at all? It’s not yet the holiday seasons but we all know that this is clearance period before school begins again in September.
Kevin Ross has posted a photo & video of the next iPod. A much taller form than the current one.
Latest rumors:
– Revamp of entire iPod line.
– Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see pic below).
– iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the $199 iPhone.
– iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.
– iTunes 8.0 (“it’s a big update w/new features”).
– All of this coming in the next 2-3 weeks.
Pwnage 2.0 released
Yes, iPhone Dev Team has just released Pwnage 2.0. One thing it doesn’t do for your iPhone is to unlock the 3G network. It works for all iPhone, iPod Touch, iPhone 3G with 2.0 firmware.
iPhone 3G ad
This ad is not from Apple though. Hilarious!!!
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