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iPhone OS 4 beta 4 jailbreak arrives

Sina Hamedian — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:23:55 +0000

The iPhone Dev-Team has released a jailbreak of iPhone OS 4 beta 4 (redsn0w 0.9.5b4) intended solely for developers of jail broken applications. Since this release is only meant for developers, this version of redsn0w only works with Mac OS X and iPhone 3G devices that are registered with Apple’s developer program.

If you meet those requirements, and you’re willing to risk bricking your iPhone, follow how to jailbreak iPhone OS 4 beta 4 after the break.

Steps 1 and 2 are only if you are not using a beta build of iPhone OS 4. Skip them if you have iPhone OS 4 installed on your device already.

Step 1: Activate your UDID with a Apple developer account to install iPhone OS betas. You will be stuck at the Connect to iTunes screen forever if you ignored this step.

Step 2: Install iPhone OS beta 4 (Beta 1 will still work, but isn’t advisable) by Option + left clicking on ‘Restore’ and selecting the beta firmware once prompted.

Step 3: After you’ve finished installing and syncing your iPhone again, open redsn0w (download can be found at the source link below) and click browse on the first screen. Navigate and select your beta firmware that you used to restore your phone. From this point on, it should be very similar to how you jailbreak on iPhone OS 3 using DFU. Follow this guide for more instructions.

Step 4: You should be done! Cydia should be there, but with a white icon and no repositories added. Add the following repository to use the standard sources and get the normal icon back: http://apt.saurik.com/cydia-3.7

Source: iPhone Dev-Team

Firefox Home coming to iPhone

Sina Hamedian — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:24:35 +0000

Firefox Home is a way for you to view your bookmarks, history, open tabs, and the Awesome Bar of your computer’s Firefox browser on your iPhone and iPod touch, albeit that Firefox Home isn’t actually a browser. The app has not been submitted to the App Store, but seems likely to pass (after all, Opera Mini did).

Source: Mozilla Blog

Android passes iPhone in US market share

Sina Hamedian — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:50:29 +0000

After months of companies, like Motorola and HTC, pushing their Android phones in sales and marketing, Android has finally passed Apple’s iPhone in US market share, according to the NPD group. The results were determined by a survey of smartphone owners, which put Android’s 28% share behind RIM’s BlackBerry with a high, but falling, 36% market share. Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD, said, “As in the past, carrier distribution and promotion have played a crucial role in determining smartphone market share. In order to compete with the iPhone, Verizon Wireless has expanded its buy-one-get-one offer beyond RIM devices to now include all of their smartphones.”

Android’s leap forward wasn’t the only thing mentioned in the report. The results showed that AT&T barely beat Verizon, 32% to 30%, for the largest American cellular network and T-Mobile edging out Sprint for the number three spot at 17% and 15% respectively.

Source: NPD

Google: No plans to bring Maps Navigation to iPhone

Sina Hamedian — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:17:32 +0000

After much rumor and speculation that Google would bring its popular (and free) turn-by-turn GPS to the iPhone, Google shot down the rumor today by saying that they have no current plans to bring the application to the iPhone – at least for now. Google, however, did say that they would bring the app to other platforms. Click the jump for the full statement by a Google spokeperson to PCWorld.

We did not say we would bring it to iPhone, we said to date we’ve had it on Android and that in the future it may come to other platforms but did not confirm this will be coming to iPhone at all.

Free GPS navigation is getting very popular among mobile users. Nokia’s own GPS navigation app was downloaded over 10 million times, while Maps Navigation is included on almost all Android phones.

Source: PCWorld

Yes, the original iPhone can run Android

Sina Hamedian — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:13:44 +0000

Original iPhone adopters may have felt left out when Apple confirmed that there will be no more support for their model, including no iPhone OS 4, but those very same users can rejoice knowing that Android in all its goodness has come to the original iPhone. Using OpeniBoot, it allows users choose to load between the standard iPhone OS or Android. It’s not perfect, but kinks will soon get flattened out and there’s also hope that it will soon be implemented in the iPhone 3G and 3GS.

Source: Linux on the iPhone