Apple iPhone

[brian]

eh activation pa lang yan na-crack nila eh.. i was giving them the 78 days for it to be used in any network..

 

Close. Although not yet on any network but only for any AT&T & Cingular SIM Card. :evil:

 

iPhone Hacked to Accept Any AT&T, Cingular SIM Card

 

iPhone freed from contractual obligations

 

The iPhone is easily the most talked about piece of consumer electronics for 2007. For such a popular and mainstream product, the iPhone is surprisingly inaccessible with the requirement of a two-year activation contract with AT&T totalling more than $1,400. However, it would only be a matter of time before phone hackers would find a way around that.

 

The group iPhone Dev Wiki has discovered a way to partially unlock the device so that it will work with any AT&T or Cingular SIM card without the need for the exclusive new contract, details a post made on Gizmodo.

 

The iPhone hackers have apparently spent days disassembling firmware within the device in hopes of completely opening access. Although the iPhone may now run outside of the exclusive contract, the phone is still dependent on the AT&T network. What the hackers have accomplished is to allow the iPhone to run on any previous contract, including those on corporate accounts.

 

“Using iASign, you'll be able to activate existing AT&T and Cingular Sims without signing a new contract,” wrote the hackers on the Wiki page. The hackers added that they have confirmed the hack to also work with virtual operators such as 7-11 wireless.

 

“As a side note, we'd like to clarify that we are not even close on giving up the full unlocking, as reported on some websites. We're still up and running, but we won't comment on a possible time line. If the unlocking is possible we'll eventually find it, so stay tuned,” the Wiki page update concluded.

 

Detailed on HackTheiPhone.com are 18 steps in hacking the iPhone to accept other SIM cards. The process documented requires iTunes and an Intel-based Mac.

 

Earlier this month, the iPhone was hacked to expose full console access, allowing for file transfer. Other hacks include brute-forcing the iPhone's internal system passwords and the ability to activate parts of the iPhone without going through AT&T.

[boomouse]

are you a cingular subscriber? ayaw ko ng mag nokia ang n95 screen is much smaller. lahat ng mga nakakausap na may iphone dito ang sabi its an awesome phone. sa mga gustong mag ka iphone sa pinas eto na lang bilihin nyo sa china fake iphone watch the video for more details hahaha.Fake Iphonen95 na lang kunin mo kasi wala namang iphone sa pinas unless of course you're talking about the fake iphone from china.

 

 

No thanks. I'll wait the year it will take to release the iPhone in Manila. By that time I am sure it will be a 3G phone, better and nicer than the current chinzy model low tech americans are raving about.

[chinits]

when ba yun available sa manila?

[artvader]

I really don't know what sort of appeal the iPhone has. It's not that spectacular, function-wise. Yet... people buy it even though the cellular network it supports has limited coverage (in the US at least). Weird. Maybe Steve Jobs has some kind of subliminal messages hidden in his ads or something that 'forces' people to buy his products.

[boomouse]

when ba yun available sa manila?

 

Q2/Q3 2008. European market iPhones roll out on Q1/Q2 2008

[alechnov]

ot to hav one baby heheheheh!!!!!

[gilgrissom]

I really don't know what sort of appeal the iPhone has. It's not that spectacular, function-wise. Yet... people buy it even though the cellular network it supports has limited coverage (in the US at least). Weird. Maybe Steve Jobs has some kind of subliminal messages hidden in his ads or something that 'forces' people to buy his products.

 

I would have to disagree that AT&T has limited coverage. It has the widest wireless coverage in the US and they also operate and have established roaming agreements all over the world. It also has the largest wireless subscribers in the US with Verizon Wireless coming in at a very close second (around 1 million difference, I think). It seems a good decision to partner with AT&T. However, I still find it odd as to why they only decided to have an exclusive contract with AT&T.

[prohunter]

coverage ng att is quick bad in US

[boomouse]

The iPhone is more than just a phone. It is a device that helps tie your communications and multimedia needs together so that you can be more productive and at the same time get to have some fun too. Remember, this device was designed by Apple Computer and not by a phone manufacturer so it goes beyond the usual paradigms.

 

People who do not own or who have not used an Apple Product like an iPod or Macintosh computer will have a hard time understanding what I am trying to say, those who have will naturally recognize the cues opf where these products will interact together and how to use them. So your comparisons of N95 vs iPhone is just not valid because the iPhone does things that the n95 cannot do and does all of the things that the N95 does.

 

If you want to know what I am talking about, watch the presentation of Apple Computer's President, Steven Jobs here: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/keynote/. You don't know who Steve Jobs is? Then stick to Nokias.

 

In addition to being a phone, the iPhone is a visual productivity tool. It integrates with iPhoto, the digital photo management software of Apple's iLife software suite and dot.Mac, Apple's online service that provides email, onl;ine photo storage, and web hosting.

 

To make a long story short, you can take pictures on your iPhone, send it to your dot mac account and when you log into your dot mac account with your Mac laptop or desktop computer, it will automatically update its iPhoto database to include the pictures you took and sent with your iPhone. You can also send pictures to your dot mac account and these will also be autmatically accessible on your iPhone.

 

If your computer does not sense an internet connection, it will update as soon as it senses one.

 

iPhone will also integrate with Google Maps and give you directions drawn up on Google Maps from a computer.

 

This functionality increases further in the video side where Apple's iMovie software will now allow you to produce professionally polished videos with music, titles, transitions and the contents of your still and moving digital images on your computer, dot mac, or iphone.

 

But all the words I can put in here will matter little. I suggest that you watch Steve Jobs and see how he explains it all.

[KerbyBryan]

Ive heard sa ngayon hindi pa sya supported ng GLobe at Smart, tama ba?

[boomouse]

Ive heard sa ngayon hindi pa sya supported ng GLobe at Smart, tama ba?

 

Its a GSM phone. If you remove the Cingular SIM lock, you can use a Globe or Smart SIM. So yes, the iPhone si SUPPORTED by Globe and Smart and Sun for that matter.

 

The SIM is not as easy to remove in the current version of the iPhone. But the Euro and Asian versions will necessarily have to allow for easier SIM removal because the liberalized telecoms market of Europe and most Asian countries may find the US design illegal. In the EU, you must be able to freely switch mobile service providers.

 

In the Philippines, both Globe and Smart have been running GPRS/EDGE services for a while. Where do you guys think your MMS messages pass through? But EDGE is bloody slow about 114 kbps gross but actual throughput will be in the 24kbps to 39 kbps range.

 

This is why HSDPA is still the best way to connect to the internet via your mobile phone. This is 3.5G.

 

But as I said in my previous post, the value of the iPhone is not as a standalone phone but as a nice complementary device to your computer especially if you use a Macintosh. I would guess that the very first adopters of the iPhone in the Philippines will probably have a high concentration of Mac users. These are the guys who will be able to immediately see how the iPhone integrates into their lives.

 

Nokia users? Well, watch and learn...

[Chinelas1]

im undecided if i should get the n95 or the iphone

 

n95! Don't get the iPhone it Sucks!!! I had 2 and sold them both. It was just all a hype phaze that I wen't through but got over it real fast!

[Noki]

ok na sana kung may 3G lang sya.

[unprettywoman]

Philippines First iPhone Hacked to work with Globe Telecom

 

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/dubeditions/15082007044.jpg

 

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/dubeditions/16082007052.jpg

 

Custom Ringtones: hehehe with the "A Love Story" soundtrack "Tell Me"

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/dubeditions/15082007051.jpg

 

Rearranged Icons:

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/dubeditions/15082007047.jpg

 

starting the turbo sim project.

Cutting the "Sun" sim:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/dubeditions/IMG_4064.jpg

[Gideon]

ok na sana kung may 3G lang sya.

 

 

Also,

 

Expansion slot

QWERTY keyboard

Built-in Bluetooth

[unprettywoman]

Also,

Built-in Bluetooth

 

FYI, the iPhone has bluetooth. unfortunately, it can only be used to pair with a bluetooth headset but not for file exchange.

 

iPhone specs

 

:hypocritesmiley:

[brian]

Report: iPhone Keyboard Much Slower than QWERTY

 

 

 

Study shows iPhone on-screen keypad is twice as slow for texting as QWERTY keypad phones

 

One of the largest complaints posed by new iPhone users is the efficiency of the onscreen keyboard. According to a new study potential iPhone users can now at least quantify that complaint.

 

 

User Centric, a usability study group, unveiled the results of its iPhone study today conducted with 20 participants aimed at determining if the iPhone’s touch sensitive onscreen keyboard was as effective as traditional QWERTY keyboard or multitap messaging phones.

 

The study participants had never used an iPhone and were considered to be heavy text message senders defined as sending at least 15 text messages per week. Out of the twenty participants, ten owned phones with QWERTY keypads and ten owned phones with numeric keypads that used multitap to get the correct characters.

 

User Centric brought participants in for one-on-one time with a moderator for each of the tests. The test consisted of sending 12 standard text messages created for use in the study with each of the messages being between 104 and 106 characters long. Six of the messages contained instances of proper capitalization, while six had no capitalization and used some abbreviations.

 

Since none of the participants were iPhone owners, they were each given one minute to get familiar with the touch keypad. This study intended to show the decrease in productivity a new iPhone owner would see if they went from their current phone to the iPhone.

 

The study concluded that participants that normally used a phone with a QWERTY keypad took almost twice as long to enter the same text messages with the iPhone as they did with their normal phone. Participants who normally used a numeric multitap phone took nearly the same length of time to enter text messages on the iPhone.

 

“For QWERTY users, texting was fast and accurate. But when they switched to the iPhone, they were frustrated with the touch sensitive keyboard," said Jen Allen, Usability Specialist, User Centric.

 

Also noted in the study is the fact that many participants hit the wrong keys on the iPhone’s onscreen keyboard and the errors were typically corrected by using the backspace key to delete characters one at a time because of difficulty getting the cursor inserted correctly in the middle of text. Only seven study participants figured out how to use the iPhone’s corrective text feature on their own. Improvement with accuracy while using the iPhone after 30 minutes was noted, but the difference in speed between QWERTY phones and the iPhone persisted.

 

I have used the iPhone for about as long as the study participants while fiddling with a friends iPhone and using it at the Apple store. I fully agree with the inaccuracy of the keyboard. My fingers were too large and the keys were to close together for me to hit them accurately at any speed. I wished more than once for a stylus to hit the keys with.

 

"It's important to consider the changes a person has to make when they switch to the iPhone," said Gavin Lew, Managing Director at User Centric. "It should be easy for people to do common tasks, such as text messaging, using the iPhone's less traditional touch interface."

 

-- DailyTech

[Waterbearer]

I will wait till the hype's all over.....by that time the bugs have all come out and perhaps fixed.....but Im definitely getting this one....to complement with my Macbook.

[Gideon]

FYI, the iPhone has bluetooth. unfortunately, it can only be used to pair with a bluetooth headset but not for file exchange.

 

iPhone specs

 

:hypocritesmiley:

 

Thanks for the correction.

 

But, then again Iphones Bluetooth is TOTALLY useless w/o a Headset???

[unprettywoman]

Thanks for the correction.

 

But, then again Iphones Bluetooth is TOTALLY useless w/o a Headset???

 

in a way, yes.

 

iPhone on Smart:

 

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/dubeditions/19082007059.jpg

 

iPhone on Sun:

 

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/dubeditions/19082007060.jpg

[brian]

Apple's iPhone Successfully Unlocked Via Software

 

Engadget confirms software unlock for iPhone

 

In less than two months, Apple's iPhone has been successfully unlocked via software courtesy of iPhoneSimfree.com. The iPhone is currently tied exclusively to AT&T for the foreseeable future, but the new software hack allows users to hop to competing GSM networks such as T-Mobile.

 

According to Engadget, the unlock process to no longer than a few minutes and caused no harm to the iPhone used. The iPhone was able to successfully make and receive calls using the T-Mobile network. For the most part, all other iPhone features are also intact including EDGE support and SMS send/receive. Visual voicemail isn't in the cards as it is an AT&T network-specific feature; however, normal voicemail is accessible using the software hack.

 

Engadget also notes that the software hack is completely upgrade and restore resistant. They verified this while performing a full system restore using the v1.0.2 update.

 

"Again: we can confirm with 100% certainty that iPhoneSIMfree.com's software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users outside of the US," said Engadget's Ryan Block.

 

For those still a bit unsure of the validity of the iPhoneSIMfree.com's claims, Engadget has posted a small video to ease your mind.

 

--- DailyTech

 

Edited August 24, 2007 by brian

[phaulgas]

tagal naman irelease ng iphone dito sa pinas...

[Riot6]

Well, it's been over a month since the iPhone launch and now the bills are showing up.

 

The 300 page cellphone bill from AT&T

 

 

AT&T has now addressed this problem of killing way too many trees for their bills. They will now send out only summarized billing statements and if iPhone users wants to see the detailed charges, they'll have to go online to AT&T's website.... maybe through the use of their iPhone!

 

And then there's a guy who went to Europe and used his iPhone on international roaming, his bill $3000

 

$3000 AT&T iPhone Bill

 

and another.

 

$4000 AT&T iPhone Bill (this is probably a YouTube spoof)

 

 

Yes, it looks nice.... but consider the cost.

 

:headsetsmiley:

Edited August 26, 2007 by Riot6

[unprettywoman]

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/...rticle_id=84791

[artvader]

The iPhone is more than just a phone. It is a device that helps tie your communications and multimedia needs together so that you can be more productive and at the same time get to have some fun too. Remember, this device was designed by Apple Computer and not by a phone manufacturer so it goes beyond the usual paradigms.

 

People who do not own or who have not used an Apple Product like an iPod or Macintosh computer will have a hard time understanding what I am trying to say, those who have will naturally recognize the cues opf where these products will interact together and how to use them. So your comparisons of N95 vs iPhone is just not valid because the iPhone does things that the n95 cannot do and does all of the things that the N95 does.

 

I think I disagree. The iPhone doesn't have a GPS receiver (yet). It's basically just a 3G phone with a fancy touchscreen interface. I've actually used a couple of Macs and an iPod for a couple of years before and found the iPod to be counter-intuitive and the Mac to be artificially hyped-up. The N95's form just plain sucks, but function-wise it's very good. But I doubt both the N95 and the iPhone can beat the E90 in terms of connectivity and functionality.

 

A lot of phones already have a touchscreen interface, though I can safely say it's not as creative in using it as the iPhone. But then, that is where I say it's counter-intuitive. While other phones with touchscreen doesn't innovate much in terms of interface, it does make it easier for first time users to make it perform the phone's functions without having to learn some special gestures.