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Latest iPhone Firmware 2.0 Has 3G On/Off Option

Peter — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:05:27 +0000

Today is just a massive day of news.

This ‘Enable 3G’ option can be found in the latest iPhone 2.0 Beta 5 that has been distributed to developers. This option is normally hidden but one developer has claimed to have activated it.

After seeing this image i decided to decrypt the beta5 rootfs dmg and check out the network.plist and what do you know..i found it

{
items = (
{
cell = PSGroupCell;
id = “ENABLE_3G_GROUP”;
},
{
cell = PSSwitchCell;
default = YES;
get = “is3GEnabled:”;
label = “ENABLE_3G”;
set = “set3GIsEnabled:specifier:”;
},
{
cell = PSGroupCell;
id = “3G_TEXT_GROUP”;
isStaticText = YES;
},
{
cell = PSTitleValueCell;
label = “3G_TEXT”;
},
{

if you dont know what all this code is about, this section (part of a mass code in network.plist) means the 3G option is present meaning the image is legitimate.

Although the iPhone 2.0 firmware includes the 3G code, current iPhone owners will not be able to take adavantage of it without buying a new iPhone. It is also noted that Apple is giving users the option to switch to EDGE speeds in order to increase battery life due to the fact that 3G has higher power consumption.

Be sure to check back soon as news about the 3G iPhone seems to being coming in left, right and center as the Worldwide Developers Conference draws near and is expected to be the moment when Apple reveals the second generation iPhone.

Image Source: macrumors.com

Online Apple Store Out Of iPhones

Peter — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:43:02 +0000

Both the U.K. and U.S. online Apple stores are currently out of both 8gb and 16gb iPhones.

People who are wanting to order either iPhone will find both models are ‘currently unavailable.’

Obviously this must mean something as you would not expect Apple to just ‘run out’ of iPhones and would try to keep a constant flow unless something was up.

Many people believe (including myself) that Apple has stopped (or lowered) production of iPhone to get ready for the release of the second generation sometime next month. This latest news supports this suggestion even more.

Keep checking back to iPhoneAE for all the latest news on everything iPhone

Are These The Next Generation iPhones?

Peter — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:57:07 +0000

Lately there has been a lot of speculation about what the 2nd generation iPhone will look like. Will it be the same size? same colour? same shape? Of course none of this will be known until Apple finally reveals it or an extremely reliable source leaks information.

Below are just a few shots that have been released by sources from around the world.

Above & Below are the most widely speculated look of the new iPhone

Colour change? Many people believe that the next gen iPhone will come in different colours

An extra…something? Camera or another sensor?

The next generation iPhone is expected to be announced and released sometime in June

Australia’s Turning Red for the iPhone (and maybe Yellow and Blue too)

Jack — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:59:16 +0000

It’s coming. For the first time, we have solid information that the one and only iPhone is coming down under. In what could be considered a surprising annoucment, Vodafone has isseud a release that confirms it will be carrying the iPhone not only in Down Under, but in many other countries, including our neighbours (must not make sheep joke) New Zealand. A while ago some keen eyed law-types noted of a rule that potentially stops a phone having one carrier, and this news has resurfaced once again. The announcment was cleverly worder and didn’t mention any deal exclusivity, so mine (and therefore iPhoneAE’s) money is on several carriers having the iPhone, as well as Apple selling an unlocked version. This is truly excellent news for us Aussies, but still no date of arrival, but a June release sounds good with the WWDC and the new Sydney flagship store opening. Keep yours eyes peeled because I don’t doubt the’ll be more news coming our way soon. (Oh yeah, the yellow is for Optus, Blue for Telstra)

Rumors amass with Aussie resellers

Jack — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:44:37 +0000

Several websites (mainly the all knowing forums that are mactalk) are reporting Apple has announced info to its resellers in Australia. This info includes:

Last week of June release
More than 1 carrier
No contract lock in
Current resellers can resell

Sound to good to be true, at the moment, we have to think so. Check out the link for a more indepth look.

Pwnage is here. Blow your iPhone wide open!

Jack — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:24:36 +0000

The iPhone Dev Team have been working solidly for many months to bring us the most powerful iPhone tool yet, Pwnage. It modifies your bootloader to allow unsigned code (non-apple-authorized firmware or IPSW) to be loaded onto your iPhone, through iTunes. Also included in the pack is a IPSW creator that allows you to edit the default Apple firmware to be jailbroken, unlocked and activated. That’s right, no more lengthy (yes, 45 seconds is a long time!) unlock procedures, you can now have your iPhone hacked right through iTunes, easy! Currently, only the mac version is available, but within a few days the windows version will also be out.

On behalf of everyone at iPhoneAE, well done Dev Team!

iPhoneAE on your iPhone, better than ever!

Jack — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:54:18 +0000

iPhoneAE now looks better than ever on your iPhone or iPod Touch. First off we have added an amazing new homescreen icon for all you iPhoneAE fanatics to add to your device’s home screen, it is designed to look great next to all your other icons. And there’s more. We have also installed a great plugin/theme that allows you to view iPhoneAE on your iPod Touch/iPhone easily and much more seamlessly, without having to select anything, and us PC/MAC users aren’t affected at all, enjoy!

Tesltra posts job application reffering to iPhone, means, well, not much!

Jack — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:37:12 +0000

The keen eyed folks over at 9to5mac.com have spotted a job application which says iPhone in, and somewhat radically claimed that a second generation iPhone was coming to Australia. Although we here at iPhone Australia (would it be rich to call us the iPhone in Aus experts?) have to disagree, it is none the less interesting, and does confirm that the iPhone will be coming to Australia (which we knew it would at some point anyway) and more than likely with Telstra, and perhaps most interesting is that the contract is for 2-3 months, which could mean that the timeframe for an Australian launch is just that, 2-3 months, I certainly hope so (not least because we said it first!). Full Job Posting below. 9to5mac.com

Design BA for iPhone search application
Contract Role

Description:

Are you a business analyst with experience gathering and documenting requirements for interactive web or mobile products? We’re looking for a BA with a technical front-end UI background to help us design cutting-edge search applications for the iPhone. This isn’t boring old specification-heavy BA work. This is exciting and agile BA work to help us envision mobile search applications that work great and look beautiful. Let us know if you think you’ve got the right combination of creative flair, geekiness, and detail orientation to get the job done.

Details:

2-3 month contract

Melbourne CBD

Send a resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to brian.curtis@sensis.com.au

3G iPhone Expecting!

Murty — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:41:03 +0000

After a meeting with Taiwanese Electronics companies, there has been confirmation that a 3G iPhone is due out in Q2 (april - june) of this year.

The original hold back on producing a 3G iPhone was the wireless chip consumed to much power. But after recent advances in this technology, there have been reports that this issue has been addressed.
AT&T also announced in early Feb that they will be deploying 3G technology to 80 cities around America in 2008.

So all this news tied together really starts to confirm that the 3G iPhone really isn’t all that far away for America. Question is, what, or even better, when will Sir Jobs enter the Australian mobile industry?
Also will be interesting what will be announced on March 6th at the iPhone software developers conference.

iNdependence is good, ZiPhone 2.5 is better!

Peter — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:11:24 +0000

Okay, so i know i said iNdependence was the best way to jailbreak, activitate and unlock a 1.1.4 iPhone…but that was before.

ZiPhone 2.5 is the new method on the block and it is fantastic!

In literally 2 clicks, one to open ZiPhone and one to click the ‘Do It All!’ button and you will end up with an iPhone that is running 1.1.4, on the 04.04.05_G baseband which allows to to use the google maps location feature and has installer.app already installed within just 5 minutes.

It also downgrades the bootloader from 4.6 to 3.9. Many have said this is risky but in my personal experience (around 37 phones within the last week) i havent had a single problem.

Great work everyone in the ZiPhone team and looking forward to future releases.

Due to this being an extremely easy method avaliable to both mac and pc I will write up a guide with the simple instructions and what things are good to install after its done (e.g. BSD Subsystem, OpenSSH etc.)

Get ZiPhone 2.5 Windows or Mac and enjoy the freedom

Have Fun!