18/08/2010 |
More and more is being revealed regarding a story we brought you last week concerning Apple’s new purchase of Liquidmetal Technologies. Ars Technica reports that the futuristic sounding material isn’t so bizarre after all. Remember those hand SIMejector tools that came with the iPhone 3G? You guessed it, those were composed of the very morphing material that they recently acquired. We should have known that Apple wouldn’t have spent a bunch of cash on an item they hadn’t...
Apple has once again updated their iOS firmware, and with it came the usual questions. Can the new firmware be jailbroken? Yes, there are multiple ways to jailbreak your iDevice as long as it is compatible with iOS 4.3.3 or 4.2.8 for Verizon models.Can my iPhone be unlocked if I update? Sort of. ...
Dual-SIM adapters have been available for the iPhone for a while. It’s even speculated that we could see dual-SIM technology show up in the iPhone 5.If none of the current offerings for dual-SIM adapters appeal to you, you might want to see whatRebel Simcard has cooked up.The Rebel 2Phone c...
When Apple launched the first iPad a little over a year ago, it introduced a fairly new SIM format called Micro SIM. A few months later, those Micro SIMs were also implemented in the iPhone 4. Smaller in size compared to the standard Mini SIMs, Micro SIMs do the exact same job while using less sp...
In a recent interview, the CEO of French Telecom/Orange,Stephane Richard, dropped some hits towards a “smaller and thinner” iPhone 5 with a different SIM card design. Instead of the traditional method, Apple has apparently agreed with wireless carriers to support a smaller and more li...
The Gevey SIM allows you to unlock your iPhone without the need of a jailbreak. The SIM card force activates the iPhone’s baseband by exploiting the emergency dialer function.Apple released iOS 5 Beta 2 last night, and it appears that the Gevey SIM is now blocked from working in this second...
With WWDC right around the corner, the last, pre-summer iPhone rumors are coming in fast and strong. The latest one seems a little far fetched, but it does make some interesting claims about hardware announcements we’ll see from Apple this year.Instead of an iPhone release this fall,Macotak...
We recently told you about the Gevey SIM interposer, a TurboSIM-like piggy back sim card that allows you to unlock any iPhone 4. When we first wrote about it, we raised concerns about the legality of this method, and warned you that your carrier might not like you using this.Today, MuscleNerd con...
Last week we told you about the Gevey SIM which basically unlocks any iPhone 4. Today, a video confirms that the Gevey SIM can unlock any iPhone 4 on any iOS and any baseband. This means that if you have an iPhone 4 4.3 with baseband 04.10.01, the Gevey SIM will work for you too.While this Gevey ...
Last month we got words that Apple was looking into dumping iPhone carriers by creating a unique SIM card that would be integrated inside the phone and that would allow people to buy the iPhone directly from Apple and choose a carrier via the App Store.At the time I wrote about this, my concern...