It’s a bit of joy and disappointment for iPhone 4 users seeking jailbreak. Good news is that Geohot has managed to jailbreak the device, which you can see in the photographic evidence above but the bad news is that he probably won’t release it.
“As far as a release goes, it probably won’t happen from me…again, please don’t ask for release dates. Every person that does makes me want to release a little bit less.”
It can be argued that no consumer electronics company has captured the public’s fascination the way Apple has. Over the years it has morphed into more than just a company or corporation, but for many it has become a representation of a lifestyle or culture, and a status symbol complete with a larger fan base than most pop stars.
It has just been confirmed that one iPhone 4 user has taken his handset into an AT&T store, after his phone caught fire after connecting the device to a computer using Apple’s USB cable.
According to this report from BGR, the incident burned the user’s hands in the process, with the user explaining the situation to AT&T in order to get a new device since this one was unrepairable.
Apple has banned dozens of applications from its iTunes digital store after bogus purchases from hundreds of compromised customer accounts drove the apps to the top of the popularity charts for paid electronic books.
Apple said it banned a Vietnamese developer using the name Thuat Nguyen for violations including “fraudulent purchase patterns” and removed his apps from the store. But other apps also enjoyed a sudden rush to bestseller status, suggesting that hackers were using the same techniques more broadly.
The iPhone Dev Team is known for their remarkable history of developing several tools that enabled the use of many unauthorized applications on various Apple products, such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Musclenerd is another popular member of this development team and has recently announced that it is going to launch another new application. This new application will allow your iPhone 4, iPhone 3G and 3Gs to be jailbroken.
Apple Inc. said it is putting new security measures in its iTunes store after hundreds of consumers' accounts were breached by an app developer, the latest sign that the popular online service is attracting unscrupulous activity.
Other customers, in interviews, have complained about fraudulent activity on iTunes. Some say hackers have hijacked their accounts and gone on digital spending sprees—and claim Apple has done little to stop them.
The iPhone 4 "grip of death" signal-strength problem stems from a bug that has been with Apple's bestselling smart phone all the way back to the original iPhone, Apple announced Friday, saying it had found a "simple and surprising" cause for the widely reported reception issues.
But Apple's "explanation" raised more questions than it answered.
Apple claims that an email exchange between CEO Steve Jobs and a customer over the iPhone 4’s reception issues is a fake, according to the company.
The conversation had originally been printed on 1 July on the blog Boy Genius Report, and features Jobs trying to placate an irate, self-described “Mac fan”.
An Apple spokesperson “emphatically” denied to Fortune magazine that the exchange between Jobs and the customer had ever occurred.
Apple on Friday denied that the iPhone 4 had a faulty antenna, claiming that the problem was the software that determines how many signal bars to display.
Apple said that's the reason behind widespread complaints from users that the iPhone 4 can show a sudden plunge in signal strength when they hold it in a way that covers a small black strip on one edge of the phone. That drop seems exaggerated because the phone can wrongly display four or five bars of signal strength when it shouldn't, Apple said.
A couple of days ago Apple sent an open letter to iPhone 4 owners. The letter was in response to earlier reports of iPhone users having reception issues when holding the iPhone 4 the wrong way.
If you’re not familiar with the reception issues, Sam Diaz does a great job recapping the whole timeline. The crazy part about the latest round, though, is that instead of Apple admitting to a hardware flaw, the company is now saying that it has been misreporting signal strength since the original iPhone.
