We’ve just upload a brand new set of iPhone Wallpapers to our Servers.  They are all available free of charge, and can be found within the iPhone Wallpaper pages on the blog, or on our forum.  The theme for this set of wallpapers is “3D”.  Be sure to give the a look, and enjoy!

-Jameson

If you ever wanted a diamond encrusted iPhone, here is your chance to live in decadence. It will cost $10,000 to the first 10 customers, with the next 40 being priced afterwards. There are 50 in total, and they are going to rich people with too much money whom would rather buy diamond decorated electronics than donate it to a good cause- like charity.

Here’s the lowdown on the diamonds:

• 475 Diamonds
• Brilliant Cut
• Color: F
• Clarity: VVS
• Carat 3.75ct

-Jameson

[Source: The iPhone Blog]

Over in England, they have deemed a certain advertisement which depicts the iPhone 3G as misleading.  Thus, it has been pulled from the airwaves until Apple makes the correct changes to it.  So what is the problem with this advetisement?  According to the Advertising Standards Authority, the advertisement is innacurate due to that it claims that:

“…all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone.”

I don’t know how anyone would expect ALL of the internet to be on the iPhone, but I suppose there are a few dimwits who would be tempted to buy it as a result of this obviously metaphorical statement.  And well, we know that isn’t exactly true. We still don’t have Flash or Java support on our iPhone and Flash and Java are a pretty big part of the internet. Apple claims that the advertisement implied the availability of webpages, rather than their specific appearance. Which honestly sounds like a cop out to us. But still, pulling the advertisement seems a bit excessive.

-Jameson

These new mockups of the new Apple iPod nano hit the internet recently. It appears that Apple is going back to the long skinny style of previous nano’s. Many are upset about this but personally I kind of like it.

-Ray

[Source: gizmodo]

The French mobile phone carrier Orange admitted to putting limits on their 3G broadband network, they finally confessed after many iPhone 3G users complained. It was discovered that their download capacity was limited to 400Kbps while T-Mobile in Germany was able to download at 1.8Mbps. Some customers were able to have their 3G speeds raised but a majority still is on the artificially slow network. Petitions to raise 3G speeds have started online with users claiming that the speed cap is a violation of Orange’s own service agreements. Orange says they did this to keep their network stable, I see this as another reason the French suck.

-Ray

[Source: electronista]

Formally JiveTalk the popular instant message program for the BlackBerry will be available soon for the iPhone under the name BeeJive. This new app is suppose to bring more functionality to the iPhone and will support every IM service available. It’s said to be very stable and can even receive messages if you’re not connected or the app is closed and will save them for you next time you log in. No pricing or official release date has been set yet.

-Ray

[Source: topiphonenews]

After the 2.02.2 update was released it’s been revealed that your private information on your iPhone may be at great risk. Supposedly anyone can break into your phone and steal info such as contacts, mail and SMS content even if they’re password protected. The following info is that the problem looks like and tells you how to avoid it. Hopefully Apple fixes this soon!

First, password protect your phone and lock it. Then slide to unlock and do this:

1. Tap emergency call.
2. Double tap the home button.

Done. You are now in your favorites. This seems like a feature, because you may want to have emergency number in your favorites for quick dial. The security problem here is double. The first: anyone picking up your phone can make a call to anyone in your favorites. On top of that, this also opens access to your full Address Book, the dial keypad, and your voice mail.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the second one is even worse: if you tap on the blue arrows next to the names, it will give you full access to the private information in a favorite entry. And it goes downhill from there:

• If you click in a mail address, it will give you full access to the Mail application. All your mail will be exposed.
• If there’s a URL in your contact (or in a mail message) you can click on it and have full access to Safari.
• If you click on send text message in a contact, it will give you full access to all your SMS.

Hopefully, this major security break that fully exposes your most private information will be solved as soon as possible. Until then, you can avoid any potential breach doing the following:

1. In the iPhone home, go to Settings.
2. Click on General.
3. Click on Home Button.
4. Click on either “Home” or “iPod”.

This way, the double-click on the home button will take the user back to the unlock screen (if you use “Home”) or the iPod screen. I recommend using Home. You will lose the ability to quickly access your favorites for a quick call—which is one of my favorite features—but that’s better than having all your private mails, contacts, and SMS database compromised.

-Ray

[Source: topiphonenews]

Looking back it may be that Apple got it right the first time with the iPhone 1.0 software in terms of overall stability. The iPhone 2.0 update is a great one over 1.0 by far, but there is still dirt on the underside of such a bright and shiny update. Continue reading »

Apple recently released a beta preview to developers of the newest version of Apple’s webkit based browser- Safari 4.  This new version according Apple Insider will contain among other things:

Safari 4.0’s implementation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) includes support for masks, gradients, reflections, and specifying a named canvas. Also being carried over from the latest WebKit builds is rudimentary support for the WAI-ARIA (Rich Internet Application) and cross-site XMLHttpRequest specifications. Among the technologies supported from HTML 5 are the ability to send messages between documents, storage of data either locally or just for the user’s session, the option of running web applications outside of a browser or when disconnected from the network, and canvas pixel manipulation.

My greatest hope however, is that this will transfer over to MobileSafari with the released of iPhone Firmware 2.1.  I for sure want to see some Firefox-esque features come to Safari.

-Jameson

Yesterday the iPhone Dev Team Released the 2.0.3 Update of their Pwnage Tool iPhone Jailbreaking program.  This new version is much like the last, except in now includes support to Jailbreak phones with the iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 installed.  The Pwnage Tool is only for Macs, so Windows users will have to use the QuickPwn for now.

-Jameson

[Source: The iPhone Blog]