The Verizon iPhone 4, which was recently announced today will officially feature a wireless tethering -like feature which will allow it to turn into a mobile hotspot! Dubbed as “Personal Hotspot”, this feature allows up to 5 devices onto the personal network and share the iPhone's cellular data connection. The hotspot itself will come built directly into the OS of the new Verizon iPhone 4, running the new iOS 4.2.5.
An Italian site contacted Comex today to ask him about whether he is going to wait for Verizon iPhone 4 to launch, and the next iOS release, that is iOS 4.3 / 4.2.5 before releasing his untethered jailbreak. Comex swiftly replied that one month is too long a wait to keep the long-awaited untethered jailbreak from releasing.
In an hands-on with the just announced Verizon iPhone 4, Engadget has spotted the “Personal Hotspot” feature in iOS 4.2.5, running on the said handset.
Now this is interesting. We all know that iPhone 4 on Verizon is hitting the stores on February 10th, but what we don’t know is that whether or not it will have the Limera1n exploit patched in the bootrom.
The official PlayStation app for iOS is go ! The app, which is compatible with iPhones and iPod touches running iOS 4.x and above enables you to check out your PlayStation Network trophies, and keeps you up to date with your friends’ games and online statuses.
Losing your valuable iPhone or iPod touch sure isn't very fun. iGotYa is a great alternative solution to Find My iPhone in order to find out exactly who took your iPhone and where they're located.
Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has managed to run MeeGo OS on Google’s Nexus S phone. He has managed to run it via rootfs image on the internal memory, which means that you don’t have to risk flashing your phone to get it running alongside Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This feat also marks MeeGo as the first non-Android based OS to have been ported successfully on the Nexus S.
Steve Ballmer did not announce much about upcoming Windows Phone 7 updates at CES this year, except for demoing cut-copy-paste. However, according to Neowin.net, a key Windows Phone 7 employee has revealed some information to them on where the platform was heading. One of the features that were discussed was that Microsoft was working on a FaceTime competitor for Windows Phone 7.
Instead of releasing a tethered version (like Redsn0w 0.9.6) of GreenPois0n for iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak, members of Chronic Dev have decided to work on their own untethered solution for iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak, confirms Joshua Hill, one of the members of the team.
After releasing PS3 root keys publicly this week, followed by a video showing homebrew running on firmware 3.55, Geohot has now released jailbreak for PlayStation 3 firmware 3.55.