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The iPhone Dev Team’s latest agenda leaves us with an update to their already super excellent Pwnage tool. Now they give us Pwnage tool v1.1.

While on a determined path to stay one step ahead of Apple, ol’ Steve is out to try to stick it to em’(hackers that is).

The latest updates include:

Changes and fixes:-

EDGE settings fix for iPhone 1.1.4 firmware
iPhone/iPod firmware 2.0 5A240d support
New Features

Added custom package support
Added custom logo support
Added auto delete of BootNeuter.app

Via iPhone-dev.org

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In todays news, it seems that Zibri, the creator of the popular Ziphone has discovered a very interesting piece of information.
With the release of the newest beta software for the iPhone, Zibri found a small piece of information in the packaging that confirms that 3G will be coming to the iPhone.
What was revealed was the implementation of a new chipset in the iPhone. The Infineon S-GOLD3H. What is this you ask? It is Infineon’s baseband processor that will be used in the up coming iPhone.

S-GOLD3H: Infineon’s baseband processor supports HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) data rates of up to 7.2 megabits per second (Mbit/s) for the mid-range multimedia phone segment.

With this new chip, data rates will double. People will awe and drool and the iPhone will again be breaking barriers with its new unleashed power.

Infineon states. . .

“Infineon strives for innovative integration of functionalities into its chips to provide our customers with a wide range of reference platforms designed for all segments of the mobile industry, from ultra-low-cost phones to feature phones, including technology ranging from 2G, or second generation, to 3.5G. Our new HSDPA chip enables more than triple the data rates possible in mass market phones today. This makes broadband multimedia applications, such as video streaming or high-speed audio/ video download, available to the mass market,” said Professor Dr. Hermann Eul, Member of the Board and head of the Communication Solutions business group at Infineon Technologies AG. “The scalability, versatility and completeness of our latest reference design platform enable our customers to meet extremely challenging time-to-market requirements when evolving from 2.75G phones to 3G and 3.5G phones, while being flexible enough to quickly adapt to changing markets.”

So folks, get ready for a roller coaster of events to be rolling out within the next couple of months.
Maybe finally, us folks over here in Japan will be able to bask in the glory of owning a new 3G iPhone soon.

Infineon press release

Thanks to AppleInsider for the tip 

Thanks to Zibri from ZiPhone for the pic

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That’s right folks, you heard me right.  You too can have the chance to win $50 in prizes. 

It is rather simple.  My friend over at installerapps.com is holding this contest for the whole month of April.  

All you have to do is sign in at his site(you have to register to comment) and find your favorite installer app for the iPod touch or iPhone and give a rating.  Simple as that.   You can rate as many apps as you like however, please be fair and rate the apps with honesty.  Installerapps.com will be monitoring the ratings so no cheating.  

I will be picking a ‘rating’ made during the month of April. It doesn’t matter when the post was made(you can go back and rate applications from last month, from January, etc. . .). It just matters that the rating was done in this month.

The winner gets to pick a prize(or multiple) from Amazon.com. . .that totals no more than 50 USD(including shipping).

So, why not? Have you got anything better to do? Earning this prize couldn’t be easier.

Be sure to check it out before May 1st or you’ll lose your chance at this amazing deal.

If you missed that link, here it is again.  Installerapps.com

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UPDATE IN RED

Come one, come all folks.  Now is your chance to become popular with the Touchmods team and chance to win a FREE Touchmods Mic or Touchmods headset. 

 That’s right.  You heard me right.  You too could be one of the lucky winners.  

The Touchmods team is looking for some very special coders.  

They will be giving away a Touchmods Headset and two Touchmods Microphones for the best 3 coders.

There is no catch, it is for free.  The only thing you need to do is to download the source-code of the previous SIP-VoIP app and implement any of their requested features.

 You will need to act fast though.  This offer is only good until the end of april.

Here are some of the featured items that are wanted:

- internal Touch Buzzer Control (Andreas?)
- optimization of a compression algorithm in order to save bandwidth (ASM coders?)
- link to the internal Calendar (we have the API, thnx Metabaron)
- circular buffers for Incoming, Ougoing, Missed calls
- implementing similar trick to the “iClarified Volume Boost” hack
- “Disconnecting” button Label similar to “Connecting”
- R+L channels both active (Samuel?)
- using other Speech Codecs (with lower bandwidth needed)
- running two providers at the same time (one for receiving, and one for initiatin’ calls)
- GUI-based volume control inside the VoIP app
- iPhone internal Mic input

If you have any questions regarding the contest, feel free to contact me using my contact form or leave a comment.  

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Rumor has it that ol’ Steve has put in a 10 million iPhone order.  But that’s not all.  Those 10 million iPhones are rumored to be 3G.

An iPhone research analyst for Gartner, Ken Dulaney reports that his sources tell him that this new revelation iPhone is rumored to have a better display, longer battery life and a more slim design.

If this pans out to be true, us folks over here in Japan may very well be seeing a bright and shiny new iPhone here by the middle of the year. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

[via: The iPod Observer]

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Next time you need to go to an website that uses, .fr, .de, .ad, .ae, .au, .es, .ca, or good old .us, try this tip. Go to Settings>General>International>Keyboards and turn on the region/s that you will be using. Next open up safari and click on the globe next to 123 or ABC. Hold down .com for three seconds and select .it, or whatever you turned on!

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The Touchmods announced the release of their latest software.  SIP-VoIP version 1.2

Some of the added improvements are:

•  Running in the background.  Basically means that it will run all the time so that you can receive calls at anytime.  You will have to manually quit from within the application if you want to shut it down.  
•  Want a ringtone.  Well, add your own.  New support for .mp3 files.  
•   Solved saving problems with new file location
•   More pics in the skins

If you want to to find out more about this, head over to the Touchmods site for the latest or if you have any questions.  

 You can download this over at the Touchmods site or you should be able to add via Installer.

Enjoy 

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