Stories by Gary Ng

For those who travel or live overseas with their iPhones, having an unlocked iPhone is extremely valuable. You can freely pop in any SIM card from any worldwide GSM carrier and avoid roaming charges with Rogers. Currently, our iPhones in Canada are locked to either Rogers or Fido. If you're not smart about it, your...

Apple yesterday released some official numbers on the status of the App Store, and they are as predicted, "mind-blasting" (NSFW--language) in the word of Russell Peters. The App Store has continued to play a major role in the selling of iPhone hardware. The status of the App Store after celebrating its one year anniversary: -...

Do you own an iPhone 3GS? Been curious about all this "jailbreaking" hoopla you've been hearing about lately? Well, you're in luck because about a week ago the iPhone Dev Team (and other young hackers) released an updated version of redsn0w. We have lots of updated jailbreaking guides here. Anyways, here's a quick video I...

One year ago today, Apple introduced the App Store to the world. The App Store started out with 500 applications for people to download. Today, it is now at a staggering 50,000 apps and counting, with over 1,000,000,000 downloads. It's pretty incredible when you think about it. The scary thing is it doesn't seem like...

Ever since I laid my hands on the original first gen iPhone, I had to use various tools to activate/jailbreak/unlock my phone. It definitely requires some skills to reverse engineer and figure out ways to bypass Apple's lockdown on the iPhone. However this isn't that difficult if you're part of an elite team of "iPhone...

Are you using iPhone OS 3.0? If you are, then you must be loving push notifications! Instant messaging definitely benefits from this as you read from my IM+ review. Anyways, IM+ was nice enough to donate five promo codes to iPhoneinCanada.ca readers! Congrats to the following winners: Billy Darryn Szoze Adobe Kevin For the people...

You might have noticed that the blog has just undergone a major revision! I thought it would be timely to keep the blog looking fresh and new, since iPhone OS 3.0 and the iPhone 3GS was released too. Also, what a fitting day to reveal the new them on July 4th from the largest Canadian...

iPhone owners were waiting long for Push Notifications to come our way. After an initial delay, iPhone OS 3.0 finally saw Push Notifications arrive! One of the best things about Push Notifications is that it can save your battery instead of having background apps running. This is especially important when it comes to instant messaging...

The iPhone Dev Team late last night revealed something we didn't expect so soon--a video of the iPhone 3GS being unlocked via ultrasn0w! Here's what they had to say: Our ultrasn0w program uses the at+xlog crash as an injection vector of our unlocking payload — and it does so on the 3GS in exactly the...

Hey everyone, just got word of another big sale on skins to protect your new iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, first gen iPhone, or any other cellphone! The sale is happening at PhantomSkinz, a major supplier of "skin" protection for your cellphone. We've reviewed their PhantomSkinz application for the iPhone 3G in the past, click here...

Apple issued a support article outlining methods to keep your iPhone 3G and/or iPhone 3GS operating within acceptable operating temperatures. This document seemed to surface soon after a number of reports about the iPhone 3GS overheating and displaying the dreaded "Temperature!" warning. For more info hit the link.

Since the iPhone 3GS jailbreaking tools aren't out yet (they will be once firmware 3.1 is released), your iPhone 3GS looks pretty much like any other iPhone out there. Jailbreaking allows us to download themes and apply them with Winterboard. This makes our phones look pretty neat and unique. Well, here's something I first heard...