The iPhone Dev team has released a new version of redsn0w tool that now jailbreaks the new iPhone 3GS phone from Apple. Earlier the exploit for jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS was found, but the jailbreak method was held back due to number of reasons.
Firstly, jailbreak for iPhone 3GS was released last week by 20-year-old George Hotz, who’s not a part of the iPhone Dev Team. Following that, the iPhone-Dev Team has come up with the iPhone 3GS jailbreak with the same redsn0w tool used to jailbreak iPhone OS devices (other than iPhone 3GS) running iPhone OS 3.0 software update. One novel thing about this redsn0w 0.8 tool is that it’s available even for Linux platform.
The iPhone Dev team had earlier held back the iPhone 3GS jailbreak due to certain reasons and now released it stating that ‘all of that became moot when the purplera1n release was made, since it uses the same hole’. So it’s typically catching up with the competition. Also, many have noted about the crashing problem after using Purplera1n method of jailbreaking iPhone 3GS.
The iPhone-Dev Team specifically mentioned the users to be careful about upgrading the respective baseband (Software portion of the phone modem). The baseband version once upgraded cannot be downgraded.…
ARCO, Idaho–For almost a year, I’ve owned an iPhone 3G. I’ve done lots of things with it and loaded a lot of apps on it. But now, Apple has released the iPhone 3GS, and it’s got new features–including a compass, voice commands, video recording, and auto-focus.
This iPhone 3GS has only one new app on it. I want to learn about the best apps that specifically take advantage of 3GS features. If you are the first one to suggest an app I try and keep, you win a prize.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)
Luckily for me, I’m on Road Trip 2009 and am testing a number of gadgets, including an iPhone 3GS that Apple lent me for my journeys through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Colorado.
I’ve already downloaded Brushes, the amazing painting app that was used to draw the cover of a recent issue of The New Yorker. But that’s all I’ve got. What I want are the best apps that specifically leverage the new features available only on the 3GS.
And so I’m asking: do you have a favorite? If so, let me know. Over the next few days, I’ll be trying out a number of apps on this iPhone, and if you’re the first…
It’s here. Today is iPhone 3GS day, and signifies an expansion in that a few other vendors – like Apple reseller Übertec – are now allowed to sell the game-changing pocket phone, as long as it’s sold with a Vodafone contract.
It’ll cost you, though. Vodafone finally released the NZ charges and yeah, they’re not exactly competitive. What, there’s no competition? No. I haven’t heard a thing about Telecom’s purported bid and/or what it may have come to.
But Matthew Powell, editor of MacTheMag in Australia, thinks the NZ plans are pricey by comparison (his initial response to the NZ news was “Ouch!”), but points out that Australia does have more potential customers. He also thinks the salient point is competition – well, New Zealand’s distinct lack thereof.
NZ prices
Anyway, Vodafone NZ expects $699 off you for a 16GB on a $40/month plan. (Two-year contract; 20 minutes call-time; 100 texts per month with a 250MB data cap).
The $60 plan gets you a 3GS for $649 with 60 minutes, 200 texts and the same data cap. The $80 plan puts the iPhone at $599 (120 minutes call time; 600 texts; 250MB cap).
The data cap only rises to 500MB on the $130 plan (250 minutes call time;…
The iPhone 3GS is hot according to AT&T. No, I’m not talking about the overheating issues, but a alleged leaked memo from the iPhone’s exclusive U.S. carrier. In the memo, AT&T reports the iPhone 3GS launch day on June 6 was the best-ever sales day for AT&T retail stores, according to MacDaily News. June 6 was also the second largest traffic day for AT&T stores, and the most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day were performed during the iPhone 3GS launch day. The 3GS debut was so huge, for AT&T retail stores anyway, that sales for the device surpassed launch day sales for the iPhone 3G by noon Central Time.
After the iPhone 3GS initial launch weekend, Apple also reported a successful launch of its latest smart phone reporting that it had sold more than one million iPhone 3GS devices at Apple retail locations. That’s the same number Apple used to describe the iPhone 3G launch weekend last year.
What’s surprising, however, is a growing consensus that the iPhone 3GS debut may have been far bigger than the launch of the iPhone 3G. Last summer, the iPhone 3G debut was lauded as the most successful launch of any tech product in…
The iPhone 3GS combines two sets of advances. The first group is available only to purchasers of the new hardware. The rest of the features are part of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 software upgrade, which is offered free to those with earlier iPhones. (iPod Touch users can get the new software for $10.)
I’ll talk about the hardware-based features first. As promised, Apple has indeed ramped up the speed with which the new phone performs tasks like launching apps, loading web pages, and displaying graphics. Apple claims speed boosts of up to two times of what the 3G delivers, and in some benchmarks cites even better performance. I haven’t done scientific measurements, but you don’t need a stopwatch to notice the new phone is zippier than its predecessor. I appreciated getting box scores faster and videos playing sooner in the MLB.com At Bat application, and it was clear that web pages loaded faster. In the case of a game like Tiger Woods Golf, the boost is significant enough to make me more likely to play when I don’t have much time.
Photos were a weak spot in previous iPhones — they weighed in at a measly 2 megapixels — but the iPhone 3GS…
