Tag Archives : iPhone

Image by rustybrick via Flickr The iPhone dev-team have reportedly hacked the iPhone 3GS, but they’re yet to release it – claiming worries that Apple may fix their exploit before enough people have had a chance to purchase an iPhone 3GS. But not to worry, George Hots (aka Geohot), the boy who first unlocked the original iPhone in return for 3 iPhones and a Nissan 35OZ has gone and [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve been hunting deals high and low, trying to get our hands on the iPhone 3GS at the cheapest possible price. Some of us may have been on the fence, but let’s face it, it’s not a question of “will I get the 3GS”, more “when will I get the 3GS”. So we’ve found that if you order your iPhone 3GS through Mobiles.co.uk [...]

During iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 we wrote an article about how to enable tethering on your iPhone. With the release of OS 3.0 we feel the need to refresh this content. While Tethering is an official feature of OS 3.0, it is not enabled by default. Here in the UK, o2 require users to purchase a ‘Bolt-on’ package of either £15 or £30 per month, for 3gb and 10gb of data usage, respectively. Frankly, [...]

We’ve been waiting for what seams like an age, but WWDC is finally here and boy was it worth it. Unfortunately we couldn’t make it to California, so we had to take advantage of multi-monitor setups, and just stream our hearts away; Text from MacRumours, Images from gdgt, Video from TWiT. The anticiptation around the keynote was amazing as per usual. There were a few MacBook announcements, [...]

It’s been rumoured that iPhone 3.0 will have TV and Film Direct Downloads straight to the iPhone, similar to the iTunes desktop service. This news comes from Open Salon, where you can see screenshots of the iTunes iPhone app going through the motions of trying to download a movie. We at Sporkings are very interested in iPhone app development and as such have iPhone 3.0 already running, we noticed [...]

It looks like the rumours will indeed be confirmed true. According to the Guardian, o2 will be releasing the new Palm Pre by the end of the year. This means o2 outdid both Orange and Vodafone with this all-important exclusivity deal, which is surprising as Vodafone has a history with Palm, having been loyal to the Palm Treo Pro for the last few years. The American system of mobile phone network exclusivity [...]

[UPDATE] You can view an updated version of this thread here. So iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 is out … but before you go and upgrade, you may want to read on. MMS and Tethering are built into the current betas of OS 3.0, and we have discovered how to access them. Download the appropriate ipcc file for your operator; UK – o2 USA – AT&T USA – T-Mobile CA – Fido Open iTunes, [...]

Inspired by my article on überBusy, entitled 6 Reasons TwitterFon Is Better than Twitterrific which attracted the attention of Ged at the Iconfactory, who claims they are to be preparing for a major release, I started to think about what I would like to see in the next iPhone App, outside of the functionality that is already present in TwitterFon. Difficult question no doubt and technically [...]