Those of you who are waiting eagerly for the Dev Team’s all-singing, all-dancing roll-your-own-firmware has been released — kinda. In its present incarnation, it’s still very much for hardcore hackers only, and doesn’t yet play nice with the one-touch hack crowd. It is advised that if you want the so-easy-a-caveman-can-do-it version, give it [...]

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Wait, what? No, you aren’t hallucinating. Apple has decided to go ahead and release an update version 1.1.5 for the iPod Touch. The new firmware mainly features some bug fixes and security updates, and some users are reporting a slight speed increase and better stability.
For those who are wondering, yes, ZiPhone will [...]

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Where’s copy & paste? Why doesn’t the iPhone have copy & paste? There’s no copy & paste! I can has copy & paste?
iPhone and Touch users the world over have been lamenting the lack of copy & paste functionality in the operating system since the iPhone debuted more than a year ago, and with [...]

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Alright folks. Those of you furiously doing the pee dance for the official release of Firmware 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch can stop now, because it is now officially available.
Those of you who have upgraded to iTunes 7.7 will now [...]

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Those of you on the iPod Touch side of things, you up for a little adventure that may or may not be completely kosher with Apple? Word on the street is that they inadvertently leaked Firmware 2.0 for the iPod Touch this morning, sans $10 fee. Oopsie! While a number of people [...]

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or have just emerged from a six month cryostasis session, then you know what today is, and you know what this is about, so I’m not going to bore you with a rambling monologue and just get straight to the point. Which is convenient, because that’s where [...]

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The US Patent and Trademark Office has recently released an extensive patent application describing in full some new features we are to expect in future iPhones, possibly the second-generation iPhone which is well known as the 3G iPhone.
The patent describes new features to next generation iPhones, as well as the firmware 2.0, which is the [...]

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It is being said by a reliable source that a version of the 3G iPhone’s firmware has been released, and has since then been dissected.
Looking through the firmware’s innards, it is fair to make a few consumptions as to what to expect with the upcoming 3G iPhone, which are:
Quad-band GSM support (as we currently have), [...]

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So you wanna roll your own firmware? No problem! WinPwn’s got your papers, and now that it’s out of beta, anyone can build their own custom IPSW file without worrying about whether or not it’s going to brick your device.
There are those however who think that perhaps this might be a little too [...]

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CUPERTINO, California—May 13, 2008—Apple® today announced that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the [...]

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Within the latest iPhone 2.0 beta, there is a hidden option to dissable and enable 3G internet speeds. Beiing hidden, this option is not visible within the Settings panel on the iPhone. However, a developer (Chornic Productions) claims to have activated it. (see screenshot above).
While the iPhone 2.0 firmware appears to contain 3G supporting [...]

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According to a TUAW reader, .Mac push e-mail is available within the newest firmware beta that was released to developers a couple days ago. There is an option; Fetch New Data, which you can change from “Push” to “Fetch” at will.
Unfortunately enough, contact and calendar syncing is still not available.
(Source: TUAW)

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The latest build of iPhone OS 2.0, 5a274d, includes a preference panel that allows users to control settings for applications with push capabilities. The primary intent of this function is to allow users to conserve battery life by turning push capabilities off for applications like Mail, which supports push for Exchange and Yahoo! Mail servers.
According to [...]

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Apple Inc. on Tuesday released a 5th beta of their iPhone SDK for developers, as well as an updated firmware for developers to work with.
The changes from this new beta release from the last can be here if you have an online SDK account.
According to commentors, the 5th beta of the iPhone SDK comes with a brand [...]

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Zibri officially announces that his upcoming version of the oh-so-popular ZiPhone software is able to unlock and jailbreak firmware 2.0 successfully.
Zibri states:
“Firmware 2.0 will require a new iTunes version and a new “mobiledevice” framework. If it were for me I would not even bother to hack this version but I know many of you are [...]

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