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By Gary Ng on June 16th, 2010

Yesterday Apple announced some major news for people in Canada, the UK, and France–the iPhone 4 will be sold unlocked when you buy it outright. What’s so significant about this? Benefits of Purchasing an Unlocked iPhone and Going Contract-Free For starters, when you travel you’ll be able to pop in a SIM card from your…

By RoryPiper on June 6th, 2010

One of the coolest things I like about Tweetie, (now Twitter for iPhone), is the way you pull down the screen to refresh your feed. It is a cool, fun way to load your newest tweets. It is almost instinctive now, as I try to do it in other apps as well, and I almost…

By RoryPiper on June 3rd, 2010

When we are searching the web at home or on the go, we’re always looking for the most accurate search we can get, often trying different search engines until we find what we’re looking for. On the iPhone, the default search engine is Google, but there have also been apps from Bing and Yahoo to…

By RoryPiper on May 30th, 2010

If your iPhone is jailbroken, you’ve probably used OpenSSH, DiskAid, or some other means to access your root folder on your iPhone. If you’re not familiar, you would want to do this to transfer files to and from your iPhone, in a way Apple does not allow. This is used to add games ROMs for…

By Ex on May 25th, 2010

Just to add more to the growing fact that there is a new iPhone coming really soon, Apple confirmed rumors this morning by taking away the option to purchase an iPhone 3G on the Apple Online Store. The iPhone 3G device is still listed at the Online Store however the “select” option, which is used…

By RoryPiper on May 23rd, 2010

Just before the iPad was released, we saw all kinds of themes and tweaks to make your iPhone or iPod Touch have the same look and feel of the iPad. The coolest thing I saw was SBRotator. This tweak gave your iPhone or iPod Touch the “doesn’t matter how you hold it” feel, as it…

By Gary Ng on May 21st, 2010

We saw the video of the Android OS running on the first generation iPhone and the iPhone 3G. As of today you can now download Android OS and make it run on your iPhone 3G should you choose to do so. All of this hard work comes at the hands of iPhone Dev Team member,…

By RoryPiper on May 10th, 2010

Out of all the awesome tweaks you can find in Cydia, for jailbroken devices, it’s the simple ones that I find blow me away the most. Notifier and MakeItMine are a couple of tweaks I have always had on my jailbroken iPhones, and I think I have found another. WiCarrier is a new tweak from…

By RoryPiper on May 9th, 2010

It has been a busy week for the jailbreak community. Last week we saw the release of Spirit, a user land jailbreak, for all Apple touch devices on their current firmwares, including the iPad. With the jailbreak of the iPad, we’ve had some of our core jailbreak apps updated, but in turn, broke some things…

By Gary Ng on May 8th, 2010

iPhone Dev Team member Planetbeing first unveiled an incredible video back in late April–he got Android OS running on the first gen iPhone! The entire world was blown away by this pet project of his. Yesterday he posted an updated video for us to watch, which showed his iPhone 3G running Android. In the demo…