In what looks like a backlash than anything else, HTC has responded to Apple’s patent lawsuit by filing a complaint with ITC (International Trade Commission), asking for sales ban on iPhone, iPad and iPod in US due to alleged infringement of five patents. This story in now turning similar to Nokia and Apple one in which both the parties have filed federal lawsuits against each other.
A Vietnamese site named Taoviet has got hold of what looks like another “lost” next-gen iPhone prototype model from Apple. This model looks almost exactly like the one which Gizmodo got hold of earlier last month, except for the screws at the bottom which seems to have been removed. Both iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS had similar screws with the speaker at the bottom. Also, this model has 16GB written on the backside compared to the one which Gizmodo got which had XXGB written on the back. Are we looking at the very final pre-production model of the new iPhone? probably yes!
iFixer is a new utility that will fix iTunes 9.1.x related errors when running Spirit Jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, or blackra1n on Windows. The program basically has two buttons: “Make it Spirit!” and “Make it ra1n!”. Clicking on each of them will solve the respective iTunes 9.1.1 related issue.
Who wouldn’t want Lady Gaga in their ads? According to the Examiner, Apple has signed a deal with Lady Gaga in which she will be starring in the upcoming iPhone 4G / HD promotions and ads. Next iPhone 4G + Lady Gaga is a combo that you wouldn't want to miss!.
Here we go again! The folks at SmartPhone Medic have got their hands on another piece of the next iPhone. The is basically the middle metal plate that will hold everything together. Oh and did I tell you that it looks exactly like the recently “lost” iPhone 4G prototype which was reviewed by Gizmodo? Check out the video after the break.
Previously, we saw Android running on an iPhone 2G and we also posted a complete step by step guide on how you can dual boot your jailbroken iPhone 2G to run Android OS side by side with iPhone OS. After seeing Android run on an iPhone 2G, 3G (iPhone) users got curious on when they will get to try Android on their handset. After weeks of hard work, it’s finally done! iPhone 3G now runs Android.
The initial release of Spirit had this bug, which accidently deleted all photos from the iDevice which you used to jailbreak with it. If you were wise enough to make a backup before jailbreaking your device, you can now recover it using iPhone Backup Extractor.
An Italian blog has got hold of the frame and screen of the upcoming iPhone 4G/HD from reliable sources, and they are calming it to be the real deal. There has been a few leaks in the past related to next iPhone’s screen. But the difference this time is that this one looks identical to the lost iPhone 4, which was recently reviewed and taken apart by Gizmodo.
The newly released iPhone OS 4 Beta 3 reveals ability to capture video at 1280x720 HD resolution instead of the standard 640x480 VGA res. which most phones of this era can capture video on. The following preset values found in some of the new API improvements in OS 4 suggests that the next iPhone might do HD video recording.
We have already covered extensive guides/tutorials on jailbreaking iPad with the all-in-one iDevice tool named Spirit which is available on both Windows and Mac. For those of you who don't know, Spirit can jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2 and iPhone OS 3.1.3 on iPhone 3G/3GS (including new models), iPod touch 2G/3G (including new models) and iPad on OS 3.2 - untethered.
