November 27th, 2008
iPhone Video Out from Ars Technica on Vimeo.
iPods have had TV-out for years but the iPhone has always been left out. Now, however, the, firmware 2.2 has TV-out capabilities and it can send video selectively from certain applications.
Erica Sadun shows us the ropes.
The MPTVOutWindow class allows your iPhone to send its video to a [...]
November 22nd, 2008
If you were betting on the iPhone 2.2 firmware gettin’ the jailbreak treatment within a day, it’s time to go collect. If you were betting against it, you obviously need to spend more time reading MobileCrunch. Yep - the iPhone dev team has done it again.
This jailbreak carries a few more precautions than normal, however [...]
November 21st, 2008
I took some shots of 2.2 in action. The walking directions would have been great for the past two weeks - I’ve had so much trouble using car-based GPS in walking/biking cities. Streetview is also great for cities like New York but it’s very limited right now - there was no information for Paris, for [...]
November 21st, 2008
The calendar now reads November 21st and, just as expected, iPhone firmware 2.2 has been released to the masses. Seeing as a pretty good number of developers have had their hands on test versions of 2.2 for sometime now, and as NDAs generally turn to pudding after a few hundred people are in on the [...]
November 19th, 2008
When I first saw this I thought “Where have you been all my life?” Then I realized the answer: In 1.x iPhone and iTouch firmware. iMobileCinema is a homebrew app for 1.1.1-1.1.5 firmware and must be installed on jailbroken phones. This tool is all but useless to early adopters who are already into the 2.x [...]
November 11th, 2008
After not one, but two rounds of distribution to developers, it looks like v2.2 of the iPhone firmware might be ready for release.
According to information obtained by iPhoneHellas, we’ll have our hands on this oft-discussed and much leaked software update come November 21st - just 10 days from now. The leak didn’t indicate anything new [...]
October 30th, 2008
When the developer world first got glimpse of the iPhone 2.2 firmware back in late September, many were surprised to find out that nothing had been done to try and block users from jailbreaking (hacking the handset to allow third party applications and modifications not approved by Apple). Nearly a month later, a second beta [...]
October 28th, 2008
Those of you with Sonos equipment already filling your abode with the sweet tunes of your music library and an iPhone or iPod Touch should promptly hit up Apple’s App Store and download their free app now. It may or may not be available right this second, but it should make its way to the [...]
October 9th, 2008
There’s a flaw in the way the iPhone (with the latest firmware, mind you) handles supposedly secure text messages. Here, a secure text message is one that says something along the lines of, “You have a new text message” when it initially flashes across the screen. Insecure text messages are, “Hey, dude, are we still [...]
October 6th, 2008
Just a few days ago, iPhone developers started receiving a test version of the iPhone 2.2 software. Oddly, the only item Apple chose to list in the patch notes was “compatibility testing” - no mention of new features, specific bug fixes, or, well, anything. Tired of staring at this list of lies, the craftier amongst [...]
