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Ever been curious what your iPhone contains under that glass surface? Well, people from Greenpeace were, and they have found some startling findings.
International — Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple’s iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.
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The dev team has been working hard and now successfully jailbreak the iPhone firmware 1.1.1.
To also add onto the good news, third party applications have also been added to 1.1.1.
Though this is still a developing story, it is still recommended not to update to 1.1.1 yet.
So it seems that you can now downgrade your iPhone firmware from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2, but you still can’t re-locked it. Meaning that you can still use the 3rd party applications out there but won’t be able to make phone calls. The iPhone Dev Team is currently working on way to re-unlocked the iPhone for those who updated.
It’s here folks. It’s been reported that people are getting “Incorrect SIM” errors when attempting this update. You’ll need to restore your iPhone and start from square one if you want to get this update. I’ll take the risk and update and let you all know how it goes.
New features include:
Truphone will today give the first public demonstration of a VoIP over Wi-Fi phone call on the Apple iPhone. Chief executive officer James Tagg will make the VoIP call in front of an audience of 350 delegates to DEMOfall 07 in San Diego, CA.
The iPhone Dev Team has recently made a statement addressing Apple’s warning about the probability of the next update to wreck unlocked iPhones.
Based on download numbers, the iPhone Dev Team believes that, worldwide, several hundred thousand people have unlocked their iPhones. That number continues growing every day. The removal of the lock, a bug, was a major step forward in the iPhone development. It made the iPhone free and useful to anyone, not only to those in certain countries.
To spoil the ending, I didn’t actually used the sledge hammer. But it was coming to that. All because I was locked out of my iPhone. And I don’t mean software locked, I mean by the password screen you can enable.
I recently had an issue where I simply couldn’t get into my iPhone. Nor could I even hold down the power button to turn it off, or even make an emergency call. It was purely mind boggling. All I simply did prior to this was simply soft locking it, as you would normally do.
Apple said Monday that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed.
Apple strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs on their iPhones. Users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty.
With the recent release of Apollo IM 1.0, I had to give application a spin. It’s pretty impressive and has potential to grow.
For those unfortunate enough to walk into a Canadian Rogers Wireless booth and expect to be able to get their iPhone under a plan might find themselves with a bit of a surprised. Rogers has told it’s dealers to stop activating iPhones.
The iPhone is currently not available for purchase here in Canada. While there’s no stopping individuals from importing them from our the U.S, Rogers wants to control the number of iPhones floating around in Canada until they are able to provide their dealers the mobile device with their plans and terms.
Will this make Canadians hold off on their iPhone purchases? Not really. Even if dealers are told by Rogers to stop activating the iPhones, there are some that will turn a blind eye to this issue. You don’t necessarily need to even show them the iPhone. You can just simply purchase a cheap phone and use the SIM card from there.
So in reality, there’s too many holes to cover for Rogers. They can try, but it won’t do them much good. People in Canada are too determined to get their iPhones working one way or another.
