Super geeky marriage proposals are becoming increasingly popular everyday. We recently covered Charlie proposing to his girlfriend with an iPhone and a group of Asians custom-programming smartphones to make them say “I <3 U” and now this.
Research firm Canalys today reports that iPhone is the most popular smartphone in America whereas Android is the most popular smartphone OS (in Q3 2010).
In a recent feud with iH8Sn0w over Sn0wbreeze, Both MuscleNerd of iPhone Dev Team and iH8Sn0w confirmed that a well known and respected developer and hacker in jailbreak community, chpwn is working on a PwnageTool port for Windows, and that the release is imminent!
The iPhone Dev Team has just released an updated version 0.9.6b2 of Redsn0w which is based on Geohot’s limera1n exploit and it can jailbreak iOS 4.1 on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPad (on iOS 3.2.2) and iPod touch 4G / 3G / 2G (Non MC Model only). Besides, this new version also offers custom boot land recovery logos for the older devices like iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) iPod touch 2G (Non MC), and iPhone 3G, along with the ability to let Windows users restore to a custom IPSW files that are cooked using PwnageTool for Mac.
Yes you read that right! As the title suggests, you can now enable HD video recording on your jailbroken iPhone 3GS, running iOS 4.x. ARM Cortex processor on iPhone 3GS is apparently capable of handling 720p video encoding, it is just that Apple has imposed some limitation in the software which Mike has successfully managed to bypass to allow video recording at 1080×800 @ 30fps at up to 20Mbps. The default settings for video recording on iPhone 3GS are: 640×480 @ 3Mbps.
AnyRing is a new app available on Cydia which enables you to set just about any song as your phone ringtone, or SMS alert on a jailbroken iPhone. You can even record your own sound and set it as your default ringtone alert. All you have to do is to simply drag and drop any song in iTunes, sync it with your iPhone, and then fire up AnyRing app to set it as your default Ringtone.
For those of you who fancy charging your iPhone 4 without needing to plug-in using those white cables, PowerMat is for you! PowerMat has released a whole new range of wireless charging products which can charge cell phones and MP3 players wireless using a technology called “magnetic induction”.
In a reply to one of his many followers on Twitter, MuscleNerd of iPhone Dev Team has confirmed that ultrasn0w unlock for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G on iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2, with 05.14.02 baseband will be released in a day or two at most, once iOS 4.2 is released to public.
Yes, dear readers. The Verizon Wireless iPhone has been confirmed yet again. This time from the folks at Fortune. And it’s coming, once again, in “early 2011”.
Bet you never knew that! Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, after interviewing a dozen potential CEOs back in the earlier days, had thought of having Steve Jobs as their first CEO.
