Topic: Phone - on October 12, 2007 at 10:06:00 AM CEST
CA Supreme Court Gives Go Ahead For T-Mobile Phone Unlocking Lawsuit
Just a few days after a class action lawsuit was filed in California against Apple for locking down the iPhone, the California Supreme Court ruled on a different case that may have an impact on the Apple case. It's given the go ahead on a separate lawsuit against T-Mobile for locking its phones and requiring an early termination fee.
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Topic: Phone - on October 12, 2007 at 10:05:00 AM CEST
APPLE AND AT&T SUED FOR $1.2 BILLION OVER iPHONE
On Friday, October 5, 2007, the law offices of Folkenflik & McGerity and Hoffman & Lazear filed a $1.2 billion class action on behalf of owners of the iPhone against Apple, Inc. and AT&T Mobility, LLC (the AT&T cellular telephone carrier) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Jose, Paul Holman and Lucy Rivello v. Apple, Inc., AT&T Mobility, LLC. The case asserts claims under the Federal antitrust laws, California antitrust laws and California unfair trade practices laws, based on Apple and AT&T’s agreements to restrict iPhone users to using only the AT&T cellular network for voice and data, and to restrict iPhone users to only using applications from Apple.
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Topic: Phone - on October 10, 2007 at 10:32:00 AM CEST
Apple sued over i-Bricks
Apple's breaking of iPhones that had been hacked is now the subject of a lawsuit, which claims the controversial tactic violates California laws governing antitrust and fair business practices.
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Topic: Phone - on October 4, 2007 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Hackers hit back at iPhone update
The war between Apple and the hackers is heating up, after a 'fix' for the recent iPhone update was posted online. Apple's recent update for the iPhone's firmware rendered unlocked iPhones - those that had been modified either through software or other means to work outside of AT&T's network - unusable, and the firm has so far refused to back down from its hardline stance.
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Topic: Phone - on October 2, 2007 at 10:13:00 AM CEST
Skype founder quits
Skype co-founder and chief executive Niklas Zennstrom has quit his job running the eBay-owned IP telephony outfit day-to-day.
In an SEC filing, also today, eBay said it would take a $1.43bn hit in charges relating to Skype in Q3.
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Topic: Phone - on September 30, 2007 at 11:19:00 AM CEST
Hacked iPhones Confirmed As Bricking With Latest Update
Field experience has confirmed that if you have a hacked iPhone, it will become an iBrick if you use Software Update to install the latest update on your iPhone.
slashdot.org sinteur.com Master Your iPhoneUnlocked iPhones (Temporarily?) iBricked
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Topic: Phone - on September 21, 2007 at 1:45:00 PM CEST
Hands-on with Texas Instruments' cellphone projector
Now that we have email, internet, TV, GPS, cameras, and satellite radio on our cellphones, our next wish is for bigger, higher resolution screens -- which seems paradoxical, because larger displays almost always mean bulkier devices. Well Texas Instruments thinks it'll soon be able to nullify this trade-off with an in-handset projector that we've heard about several times before, but last night's Pepcom event in New York was the first time we've been able to peep the technology up close.
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Topic: Phone - on September 9, 2007 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
HOW TO: Hack the iPhone to work anywhere in the world -- 10 step guide with pics
With the price of the 8GB iPhone dropping to $US399 ($AU483) overnight , how can anyone resist the temptation of buying one and hacking it to work in Australia?
Here's the step-by-step on how to get it working on any 2G mobile network in the world -- including Optus, Telstra, Vodafone or Virgin Mobile in Australia. (The iPhone cannot be made to work on Three because it is a purely 3G network and the iPhone is 2G only.)
This tutorial uses the TurboSIM method and assumes you are on a Mac.
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Topic: Phone - on September 9, 2007 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
Hewlett Harbor man racks up $4,800 iPhone bill
Jay Levy and his family took their iPhones on a Mediterranean cruise. Now the Hewlett Harbor entrepreneur feels as if he got taken for a ride, receiving a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T Wireless.
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Topic: Phone - on September 9, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
3G, 16GB iPhone for Europe in November?
Apple may launch its iPhone campaign in Europe with a 3G-capable iPhone with enhanced storage, according to what appears to be a leaked ad from T-Mobile Germany. The ad promises a version of the handset with support for 3G-level cellular Internet access using both the US-friendly HSDPA format and typically Europe-only UMTS, with theoretical download speeds reaching the format's full 3.6Mbps. It also suggests that the device will carry 16GB of memory, representing the first storage upgrade to the device since its launch in June. Visual Voicemail and the 2-megapixel camera would remain the same as for the US version.
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Topic: Phone - on September 8, 2007 at 12:43:00 PM CEST
WeBot Brings Media Streaming to the iPhone
WeBot is aiming to make sharing digital files from your home computer that much easier .
Currently still in beta, the service consists of a desktop application that turns your home computer in to a server. Install it on all your computers and you can then access all of your JPEGs and MP3s over the Internet. The desktop application will currently work with Windows XP & Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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Topic: Phone - on September 8, 2007 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
iPhone Hacking Kit, the next generation
In mid-August, I posted a detailed guide to hacking your iPhone here at iPhone Central. In those free-wheeling bygone days of iPhone hacking you customized and manipulated your phone using a combination of a simple “jailbreak” application and a lot of command-line work in the Mac terminal. To hack your phone then, you had to have access to a lot of different files, you had to transfer these files using arcane commands, and you had to make sure not to screw up, or miss any steps, lest you be forced to start over. If things went well, the entire process took 30-45 minutes.
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