The carrier wars between Verizon and AT&T continue as AT&T just put out two more commercials that are to air later tonight. Check em out.
Marbles
The one shows Verizon’s Map “Story” falling apart. It just goes over the facts about AT&T and Verizon once again.
Headless:
This one shows AT&T’s and Verizon’s Download Speed against each other. Luke Wilson downloads himself and AT&T downloads faster than Verizon of course.
Snappy is a new application that is now available in the App Store and is available for only $1.99.
Snappy is a application that allows you to take a photo from any application. You hold the status bar down for a couple seconds and the camera screen pops up ready to take a picture! This is great for the priceless moments with your kids or when you wanna snap a quick shot of your girlfriend!
It’s roughly 6x faster than opening up the camera regularly by exiting or sliding to unlock or so. It also works from the lockscreen! It’s available in Cydia now!
In case you’ve been under a rock, below is AT&T’s new commercial response to Verizon. Of course Verizon has been dissing the iPhone with the DROID commercials and AT&T’s 3G network by saying Verizon’s is superior which it isn’t obviously as AT&T responded through it’s website.
The ad stars Luke Wilson, and what he does is compare AT&T and Verizon in 4 different areas. Nations fastest 3G network, AT&T’s ability to allow you to talk and surf at the same time, access too more than 100,000 applications, and the best smartphones to choose from.
Check it out:
Info: Supports WinterBoard themes, advanced customization and multiple activation methods (home button, SpringBoard icon, and pinch)
1. Download the .deb file: Click Here
2. Make sure you have Preference Loader and Mobile Substrate Installed in Cydia
3. SSH the file into your iPhone/iPod into the location of your choice. I use “/debs”
4. Go into Mobile Terminal and type in “su”
5. Then your password, by default, its “alpine” I’d recommend changing it though.
6. Then type “cd /debs” Hit return
7. then type “dpkg -i overboard_1.0_iphoneos.deb”
8. Let it do it’s thing and respring!
9. Go check out my youtube channel! : http://youtube.com/irockishvids
Developers of JQTouch call this “A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.” What they’re basically showing you in the video is what’s possible in the MobileSafari web browser. I think this is amazing to be completely honest. Watch the video and you can see that it looks like a native application, one you’d get from the App Store or Cydia. It’s really in Safari though which is surprising.
Check out the video and let me know what you think.
jQTouch Preview from David Kaneda on Vimeo.
Learn more at JQTouch.com
A new application supposedly still in Alpha mode, is set to be released for the First Gen iPhone (aka EDGE iPhone), as well as the iPhone 3G to give Voice Control, Accessibility, and Video recording.
Of course these features were only available with some apps from the App Store as well as Cydia, but lets admit it, it’s just not the same as having it stock on the phone.
If you’d like to be a Alpha Tester
Geomazo decided to release a limited number of testers a first part of his work, specifically the one dedicated to the camera.In this period he achieved much and therefore needs an increasing number of testers. To obtain this guide you must leave a comment below (click here) and specify any experience in iPhone.
Later we will send you an email with a password-protected PDF file with everything you need to test blackra1nb0w.In return we ask that you send us feedback to the email or simply info@iphonehacks.it on Twitter.
What do you guys think about this?
Stolen iPhones
Over the weekend, 3,000 to 4,000 iPhone’s were stolen, reports Philip Elmer-DeWitt.
Someone cut a hole in a warehouse where the iPhone’s were kept in Willebroek, Belgium. The authorities believe it to be a inside job as the hole was cut directly above where the iPhone’s were kept.
The location was most likely targeted due to the SIM-unlocked iPhones. Meaning that of course any SIM could be used for any carrier.
Anyone, though, looking to buy one off the thief is out of luck. Mobistar, Apple’s Belgian carrier said,”We have the serial numbers of the stolen iPhones block[ed] anyway so they cannot be used,”
In a recent interview, Jay Freeman (saurik), George Hotz (geohot), and even the Dev-Team were in a interview, mainly Hotz. It talked about the jailbreak community for the most part as well as how the jailbreak came to be. It also included details about Hotz’s new jailbreak and unlock for the iPhone.
It also went along to talked about Saurik’s Cydia store which is basically the underground App Store where developers go of course when Apple rejects them from it’s App store, and boy have we seen some rejections that have made no sense.
In the last part of the interview, Hotz talks about Apple’s new job ad looking for a iPhone OS Security Manager. Also Hotz says he has a exploit that will jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 4th generation, which should be available next summer, and Hotz hasn’t even laid his hands on the device yet.
Hotz final comments were as follows: “Personally I love that Apple keeps the iPhone closed,” Hotz said. “This is a personal hobby; it’d be no fun if Apple didn’t have it closed anymore. Get a Jailbreak cop and then I’ll show them what I can really do.”
[via Wired]
Snowlock is a nifty little tool that allows you to change the “Y” origin of your Lockscreen. This can allow you to put your Clock anywhere you want as well as your “slide to unlock” section as well.
You activate it using Winterboard so make sure you have it installed. It is available in Cydia now.
ferociousbird will be the new soft unlock tool for Baseband 5.11.07. So if your one of those people who accidentally upgrade, you should be donating to them. It will even work on new Out of the Box iPhone 3GS!
Presenting: ferociousbird! Today the ferocious bird is out of it’s cage! When Apple released the iPhone 3.1 update on September 9, many iPhone users foolishly updated to firmware 3.1 and were stuck without an unlock. ferociousbird is a new soft unlock for baseband 05.11.07. It will work on all iPhones including iPhone 3GS OTB. Can you hear the bird flapping? This is the ferocious bird, it won’t give up without a fight Apple!
