Bad news for for you new iPhone 4 buyers who have been looking for a jailbreak solution. The iPhone Dev Team has announced that there will be no jailbreak for iOS 4.0.2 running on iPhone or 3.2.2 running on iPad. Over to their blog post.
Now it’s a few weeks later, and Apple has closed the jailbreakme.com hole. They’re shipping devices with FW 4.0.2/3.2.2, impervious to this particular jailbreak. So now, people will begin to ask: will there be a jailbreak for devices that shipped with 4.0.2/3.2.2, out of the box?
No, there won’t be. FW 4.0.2/3.2.2 was *only* released to fix the jailbreakme hole. With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the “cat & mouse” with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes. To quote WOPR, “the only winning move is not to play”.
So if you are running on iOS 4.0.2, you will have to wait for 4.1 which iPhone Dev Team might think of jailbreaking.
Found this game gravity game a few hours back. Very interesting, go for it. FAYJU BALL uses real world gravity in a multi-level 3D physics puzzle game. roll the balls into the correct holes. If the wrong one goes in, don’t worry just turn your phone upside down and they will fall out. Available on App Store for Free, here is the App Store link.
Reviews:
“Like many other games in the App Store, Fayju Ball has you tilting your phone to try to get the ball(s) into the proper spots. This game, however, stands out in its use of puzzle elements as well as the 3D physics involved.” – toucharcade.com
CultofMac has this interesting post that will bring smiles to iPhone 3G owners who are running iOS 4. Here is what they had to say just a while back - In addition to Steve Jobs’ recently publicized email claiming a software update coming soon to fix the problems, the Blogosphere and Twitter are also carrying reports of big performance improvements with recent betas:
Tests with a beta version of Apple’s iOS 4.1 on a well-used 3G suggest that the new OS has increased the phone’s responsiveness. Indeed, apps load much more quickly, text entry is much smoother and the phone no longer slows down beyond the point of usability when more than one browser window is open. [The Next Web]
These have been among the most widely reported problems.
Tests conducted with the new beta version of iOS4.1 reveal that the phone’s responsiveness has actually improved! Apps can be downloaded faster, text can be entered more smoothly and the phone does not slow down when you open multiple browser windows. [Blogote]
Apple’s upcoming Media Event scheduled for early September would be a logical time to release this upgrade; some blogs are even reporting that it may come as soon as this week.
Several posts on Twitter also mention improvements:
jasondelacruz: I heard from a beta tester today that iOS 4.1 brings a huge performance improvement for iPhone 3g. Hang tight.
machelpblog: Beat [sic] testing iOS 4.1 on my iPhone 3G has been a great speed improvement. #iphone Thank you Apple!!!!
Google today added another feature to its iPhone app – Push notification for Gmail and Google Calendar.
Ever missed an appointment or important email because you were away from your desk? Now Google Mobile App can help with push notifications from your Google account to your iPhone — an icon badge shows you’ve got new mail in Gmail, and Google Calendar event reminders appear right on your home screen.
We’ve also added spiffy features to get you information faster — when looking for flight info, weather, stock quotes or currency conversion you’ll see answers before you even hit ‘Search’.
Apple has just started sending out invitations for a special event — it’s annual special music event typically involving iTunes and iPads – on September 1, 2010. Engadget reports that Apple’s upcoming media event (where the company will most likely announce new iPods as well as a refreshed Apple TV and perhaps a TV episode rental feature) will take place bright and early on September 1.
Apple will be holding a “special event” on September 1st out in San Francisco, and we’ll be on the ground reporting live. Think we’ll see that new Apple TV we’ve been hearing about? Some iPods? A ‘one more thing’? Yes, probably. Tune in here at 10AM PT / 1PM ET on the 1st to catch the best liveblog in the business!
PocketNow had shared a video few weeks back where they compared iPhone and Android 2.2. This time PocketNow has set up a browser test between the iPhone, Android 2.2, and a Windows Phone 7. The Windows Phone 7’s browser looks interesting this time with lot more feature. Lets check this video:
This interesting role-playing game on App Store has gone down from $1.99 to Free mode for just a day. Fastar! is the timeless tale of a boy with a big sword and a bowtie journeying across vast lands while being ambushed by malicious geometry. “Wait, what, seriously? I’m not typing that, it doesn’t make any sense. Oh, look what you made me do. I’ll just start over.” Grab it now, here is the App Store link.
Fastar! is an Action RPG for when you just don’t have time for an Action RPG. Dead simple to pick up and play, you’ll be slashing and shopping your way across the grassy plains of [irrelevant flavorful name of fantasy world here] in seconds. You’ll cross the world in mere minutes. But mastery of your true objective — reaching that goal as fast as humanly possible — could take a lifetime*.
Apple has surpassed another milestone – iTunes has a dedicated area within the their Store called iTunes U – a podcast-like catalog for higher education audio and video, has just crossed 300 million downloads:
Over 800 universities throughout the world have active iTunes U sites, and nearly half of these institutions distribute their content publicly on the iTunes Store®. New content has just been added from universities in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico and Singapore, and iTunes users now have access to over 350,000 audio and video files from educational institutions around the globe.
“iTunes U makes it easy for people to discover and learn with content from many of the world’s top institutions,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “With such a wide selection of educational material, we’re providing iTunes users with an incredible way to learn on their computer, iPhone, iPod or iPad.”
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Hi, I have been using this awesome invention called the Apple iPhone from November 2007 and have gone nutzzz over it. Nuts to an extent that I started this blog which talks just about iPhone and nothing else.
This blog of mine has been getting tremendous response and is being followed by all kinds of mobile phone users from all over the globe. Most of the traffic comes from the US and Europe. Thank you all for making this blog a success :)
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