Beginning tomorrow, Rogers will begin offering the Nokia N95 8gb smartphone to Canadians. This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First of all, it’s the first time in North America that this model phone is offered – previously only available unlocked directly from Nokia. As I mentioned previously in my post about…
Even though the iPhone SDK has been out for awhile now, there are still lots of people cranking out some cool apps for jailbroken iPhones. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in June when things get a lot more official from Apple with the availability of the SDK-developed apps. But until then, here are…
It’s about time. Unfortunately no details other than it’s coming ‘before the end of the year’. The big questions to me are: How much for the phone itself in Canada? what does the data and voice plans look like? They better resemble the US pricing How long do we have to lock in? Rogers seems…
Today Apple released the latest firmware for the iPhone taking it up to 1.1.4. Unfortunately, as usual, their details on what was updated is beyond sparse with ‘bug fixes’ being the only description at this time. Hopefully this also means the SDK is imminent. It didn’t take long before people upgraded and tried the ZiPhone…
During the Northern Voice Opening Party, Chris Heur asked if he could do a quick interview with me. Chris was doing this to capture the event by talking to as many people as possible and asking them a couple of questions. He simply used his cellphone and a service called Utterz to record the interview…
Just upgraded successfully from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 using this tutorial. Modified steps I used: sync to backup your stuff download and restore to 1.1.3 using the Option Restore method in the tutorial after about 10 minutes or so, you are at iTunes saying your SIM isn’t valid. Tutorial says to start the command line steps,…
It’s not for the faint of heart, but there is now a method to take a new, 1.1.3 out of the box iPhone (including the new 16gb models) and unlock it via software. Technically you have to jailbreak, downgrade, unlock, upgrade, and jailbreak but it appears to now be possible. The credit goes to George…
UPDATE: This post is now obsolete – see this one for the simple, easy method. I haven’t tried it yet but the iPhone forums seem to be abuzz with people successfully upgrading their iPhones to the latest firmware (1.1.3) and software unlocks still working. Thanks to Nate True, there is a software jailbreak method now…
In a shocking move that is both good and bad at the same time, Rogers has apparently changed their data plans. Bad because it’s still woefully overpriced compared to the rest of the planet but good because now instead of raping you in overages if you go beyond your data allotment, they now just bump…
The internets are all abuzz with news (and video proof) that the latest firmware for the iPhone (and Touch as seen in the video) has been jailbroken…but the method hasn’t been released yet. Nor will it until after the forthcoming software developers kit (SDK for those in the know) is released in late February from…