Archive for category Cell Phone
JailbrakeMe.com – The all-iDevice Jailbrake Tool
Posted by Ben in Apple, Cell Phone, Websites on August 4, 2010
Like so many others have done, its quite fun to head down to your local Apple Store and get a few iPhone 4's jailbroken!
No joke here. Thanks to comex and the rest of the dev team for this magnificent release. With jailbraking only recently becoming legal (thanks to some US court systems) you can jailbrake your new iPhone 4 right from the device, no computer needed! It couldn’t be any easier thanks to the work of the Dev Team. Hit up JailBrakeMe.com on your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS (new bootrom), or iPad, then just “slide to jailbrake”. It will download some stuff then get right to jailbraking with a simple progress bar. Done in about one minutes time, Cydia is added to your homescreen! The only downside to this is that the exploit was created from loaded a PDF with the “jailbrake” code on it. In a way, you can understand how other, more malicious forms of code can work your way onto your iDevice. So just for a recommendation, only load up PDFs on your iDevice that you trust! Or you can jailbrake, and download a package from Cydia that will actually help you monitor the loading of your PDFs. Its an interesting decision, but its up to you. And by the way, I jailbroke my iPhone 4 if you were wondering.
Crazy Smart Hacker Gets Android OS on iPhone 3G
Posted by Ben in Apple, Cell Phone, Software on May 17, 2010
The latest from PlanetBeing, an iPhone 3G can be seen here booting up the modified Linux kernel with Android on it!
When “Geohots” was the first one to unlock the iPhone, everyone knew it was a step into the direction forward into a world of iPhone hacking. Three generations later and 4 OS remakes, and Apple still hasn’t been able to beat the hackers. Well in the latest showing of heroic hacking, PlanetBeing has managed to get a (almost) fully functional version of the Android OS running on an iPhone 3G!
Well for those of you that are “in the know”, you surely are aware that this is already possible with the iPhone 2G, but really, who still has one of those? Well with the latest news from PlanetBeing, it looks like its only going to be a matter of days before the first release of this multiboot solution on iPhone comes to the masses. Complete with a guide, PlanetBeing has managed to fix just about all the errors the Android OS has thrown at him, but with the help of a new development team, I am honest excited to see this new OS coming to such a popular device.
OpeniBoot is the bootloader for the iPhone you’re going to load up, and from there you’ll be able to load either Android or the stock iPhone OS. And hopefully later in time, we can get Palm’s webOS running. Its a great leap in a iPhone hacking and I’m waiting the final release! My only question is how much space is this new Linux kernel going to take up on my 8GB iPhone 3G?
How much texting is too much?
Posted by Ben in Cell Phone on March 28, 2010
If your hands, specifically your thumbs, experience daily pains and sores, it might be time to put away the keyboard and pick up the phone.
Texting; the form of communication through words on mobile devices. Why do we text? Its not at all faster than making a phone call, and unless your a teenager, you probably haven’t mastered your phone’s mobile keyboard yet. The CTIA’s latest figures state that American’s with cell phone sent a over 740 billion text messages in just the first half of 2009. Do the math; that 4.1 billion texts daily, about 17 texts per person with a phone.
With more texts, fewer users were actually making phone calls, dropping the average call time from 3.13 minutes in 2007 to 2.03 minutes in 2009. Don’t get us wrong though, more and more minutes are being added to calling plans, and normal phone calls still take place on a daily basis. And with all those extra texting and voice plans, your bill on rose 2% this year to a$49.57 a month… and we don’t think most people have data plans at that price!
So how much is too much? Well if we consider that some don’t text, we can’t make our number too high. And with one 14 year old Florida girl sending over 35,463 text messages in a month (1,182 per day), we can’t make it too high either. Wireless companies usually charge around $10-$15 for about 200 text messages, about 7 texts a day. But for approximately $20-$25, you can get anywhere from 1000 to unlimited from your provider. At 1000 a month, you’d be sending 33 a day, just a little too much for those who would rather call. So what’s the magic number? We’d say 500 texts per month, about 17 per day. Any less and I’d congratulate you for actually using your phone for its intentions, but anymore… and I might not ever give you my number.