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iPhone OS 2.0 Expected To Leak Shortly

The latest iPhone OS 1.2 (dubbed 2.0) is currently only available to accepted members of the official  iPhone development program, installation of the beta 1.2 OS is only possible via a a special signature from Apple.

However, it is rumoured that an undergroup group have discovered a method of bypassing this special digital signal and installing a modified edition of OS 1.2 through the use of a tool named “Pwnage”which is used to leverage an exploit found in the lower levels of the iPhone/iPod Touch bootloader.

The bootloader exploit will allow those devices to run unsigned code, allowing Pwnage to modify the iPhone OS 1.2 IPSW (installation file), pre-activating and pre-jailbreaking it.

[via iPhone Atlas]

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Apple To Use OLED Displays In 3G iPhone’s?

Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney claimed in a recent interview with iPod Observer that rumours in Asia suggest Apple are planning to include Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays in their upcoming 3G iPhone’s.

Dulaney suggests that Apple have recently ordered another 10 million iPhone’s but this time opting for models capable of operating on the 3G data network. In addition to 3G support, the new devices will also include OLED displays which provide significantly more power efficiency than the current backlit LCD displays used in all of Apple’s current products, as well as being much thinner.

[via iPod Observer]

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Microsoft Contemplating Developing iPhone Applications

In a recent interview with Fortune, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Specialized Devices and Applications Group, Tom Gibbons, revealed that they are indeed considering the possibilities of developing applications for the iPhone:

“It’s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone. To the extent that customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we’re actually in the process of trying to understand that now.”

Microsoft are currently still getting comfortable with the newly release iPhone Software Development Kit, with the article suggesting that Microsoft may be interested in developing an application through the voice recognition unit ‘TellMe’ which the software giant acquired back in 2007.

“If the SDK supports these things,” said general manager Mike McCue, “we’re absolutely going to get a version out there as soon as we can, get TellMe out there on the iPhone.”

[Read the full article at Fortune]

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Google’s API Now Supports iPhone SDK

Google have recently released an update GData Objective-C Client Library giving the iPhone SDK support for it’s Google Contacts Data and YouTube API’s.

This means that iPhone applications written in Objective-C will be able to make use of the features like uploading video to YouTube accounts or allowing direct access to editing their Google account contacts.

It seems that the new GData Objective-C Library is actually fully compatible with the iPhone SDK:

“Perhaps you want your iPhone software to send photos to a Picasa Web Albums account, or keep a journal of phone calls automatically in Blogger. Maybe your iPhone application accesses a database of information from a Google Spreadsheet or from Google Base. With the Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library, creating software for these tasks is straightforward.”

“If you are writing iPhone software, just drag the “GData Sources” group folder from the GData project file into your iPhone project, and use the GData APIs as you would when writing a Mac application. ”

[via Google Code]

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Apple iPhone Developer Acceptances Confirmed

There hasn’t been many reports of acceptance into the iPhone developer program since it’s announcement, with apple rejecting many of the applicants.

It seems that the first batch of acceptances has now gone through and in doing so has opened up some more details about the developer program.

• The program is firewalled, so you’ll have to be authorized to get access to Apple’s documentation and support site.
• Software can be put on a maximum of five iPhones using the authorised SDK, so there won’t be any way to distribute legit software other than through Apple.
• Allegedly, the pre-release of the upcoming iPhone OS kills the device’s phone functionality, although this has yet to be confirmed for sure.

In terms of who gets accepted into the program there appears to have been a randomn cutoff point of entry, in which randomn users were then selected into the dev program.

[via TUAW]

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Apple Announce WWDC 2008

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be held between June 9-13 at Moscone West in San Francisco. This yearly event is often used to showoff new Apple technology and offer hands-on sessions for developers.

This year’s event will feature three ‘tracks’, iPhone, Mac and IT. It’s worthy to note that Apple have singled out the iPhone as a primary development focus.

Apple also sent out the following intriguing image with the WWDC announcement, be sure to let us know what you think it’s all about in the comments!

[via Apple WWDC]

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Austria iPhone Release Tomorrow

From tomorrow T-Mobile will be bringing the iPhone to Austria. Priced at €399 for the 8GB and €499 for the 16GB as usual the iPhone service will be contract based through T-Mobile.

In addition there will also be a 2 year contract of up to €60 per month. Confirmation of the iPhone release has not yet been confirmed from T-Mobile themselves but instead leaked by popular Austrian newspaper Standar.

As previously reported the iPhone Ireland release is also set for tomorrow.

[via TotalTelecom]

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iPhone Firmware 2.0 Jailbreak

Many current iPhone users have been a little concerned about June’s iPhone 2.0 formware release and whether they’ll be able to use their jailbroken iPhones anyway.

Well the clever guys at iPhone Dev Team have successfuly jailbroken the 2.0 firmware. After getting their hands on the 1.2 firmware bundled with the SDK (1.2 will be released as 2.0 to the public in June), they managed to decrypt the disk image and jailbreak the firmware.

It is possible that Apple may tweak the 2.0 firmware before it’s June release but given this recent news we’re sure the hackers will be on top of things.

[via Engadget Mobile]

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Copy and Paste For iPhone, Well Kinda

A copy and paste function for the iPhone has to be one of the most requested additions to the device since it’s release. Well thanks to a little tool called iCopy that request has been partially filled.

Created by Preston Monroe, iCopy is a simple bookmarklet workaround, which allows you  to copy from a web page into a cookie which can then be pasted into another web page or even into a new email.

iCopy isn’t perfect, but it’s a good start. Obviously this only works in Safari and its integrated Mail app.

[via iCopy]

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Lego Builder Application For iPhone

PlayNYC have announced what has got to be the coolest iPhone application yet, a LEGO builder application - oh yes.

LEGO Touch will allow you to build, email or sms your creations and even challenge friends to a ‘build off’.

LEGO Touch is beyond the building basics. View, post, build or edit other LEGO maniacs projects. Create your own LEGO characters in pals, post your LEGO self to represent in Share. Play and download different LEGO games or challenge anyone to a build-off! Personalize your bricks with color slider and more!

You can demo the app on the PlayNYC website here

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