George Hotz (geohot) is a true genius isn't he? He has finally managed to successfully unlock iPhone firmware 3.1.2 on 05.11.07 baseband (modem firmware) using his tool dubbed as blacksn0w. blacksn0w will be an integral part of the upcoming version of blackra1n which will be released on 4th November 2009 and it will work on both the iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS with 05.11.07 baseband.
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Good news for those of you who accidently upgraded to iPhone 3.1.x firmware from iTunes! George Hotz (aka geohot) has confirmed in his blog post today that he is working on a tool dubbed blacksn0w, which will ultimately unlock 05.11.07 baseband (modem firmware) on iPhone 3G/3GS running iPhone 3.1.x firmware.
Motorola yesterday unveiled their much hyped Droid phone which will be the first phone to be powered by Android 2.0 platform and is set to release on November 6th on Verizon Wireless. The timing of Droid phone release is interesting as it collides with the first multitouch-capable Windows phone (HD2) by HTC which is also set to release next month and will be powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC Sense running on top it. The following comparison may help you decide which phone to get between these two, come this fall.
Battery Percentage meter option is officially available on iPhone 3GS only running firmware 3.0 and above; however, there is a small tweak available in Cydia which can enable this functionality natively on the original iPhone and iPhone 3G running firmware 3.0 and above. You will need to have a jailbroken iPhone for this to work.
The search engine giant Google has officially unveiled their new Android 2.0 platform today which brings in lots of new enhancements to the open source operating system. Developers can now go ahead and download the new SDK to start developing and testing their apps against the new platform.
Last week we posted a complete step by step guide on how to enable Internet Tethering option on your iPhone 3G/3GS running iPhone firmware 3.1.2 which was based on the hack, originally found by the Dev-Team. While the hack worked flawlessly for some, many specially AT&T users were forced to choose between enabling either Tethering option or visual voicemail (VVM). Follow the steps below to enable both Tethering and VVM on your iPhone running 3.1.2 firmware.
blackra1n RC2 is Live! George Hotz (aka geohot) has released an update to his already popular jailbraking tool named blackra1n which can jailbreak all iPhone’s (2G/3G/3GS) and iPod touches (1G/2G/3G) running iPhone firmware 3.1.2. Follow our step by step guide's posted below to jailbreak your iPhone and iPod touch running iPhone 3.1.2 firmware with blackra1n RC2.
A proper app for fixing the missing carrier logo problem in jailbroken and unlocked iPhone 3G/3GS running 3.1.2+ firmware has been released in BigBoss & Planet-iPhones repository on Cydia. Follow the steps below to download and install this app from Cydia inorder to fix this issue.
I am giving away my fully licensed Windows 7 Ultimate NFR copy which I got today from Windows 7 launch event for free with absolutely no strings attached! To qualify, all you have to do is to join our facebook fanpage (if you haven't already) and then leave a comment here on this post you are reading with a legitimate email address for contact. I will pick a winner randomly and ship it out to the winner at no cost.
The wait is over! Windows 7 will be officially unveiled in a few hours from now on Thursday, 22nd October 2009 at 8 AM PDT in the heart of New York City. This consumer launch event will be hosted by Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation and he will be accompanied by the man behind Windows 7, Steven Sinofsky - President of Windows Division along with usual hardware partners and Microsoft employees.
