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iPhone 3GS jailbreak available; Geohot releases “purplera1n”

George Hotz, who is perhaps a little better known as Geohot has offered his response to the Dev Team’s decision to wait until iPhone OS 3.1 is available before releasing a jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS and it has come in the form of his own jailbreaking tool. “Normally I don’t make tools for the [...]

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Apple releases new iPhone 3GS commercials

Just recently a few new television commercials for the iPhone 3GS have begun airing on television and as you would expect they are highlighting a few of the new features. The first offers a glimpse of Voice Control, the second shows off Cut, Copy and Paste while the final video demonstrates the ability to record [...]

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Apple offers iPhone OS 3.1 beta, iPhone SDK 3.1 beta to developers [UPDATED]

It has not been all that long since the iPhone OS 3.0 was released, and now it looks like we are going to be moving directly to OS 3.1 as opposed to seeing a smaller point release of OS 3.0.1. Just recently Apple released both the iPhone OS 3.1 beta along with the SDK 3.1 beta [...]

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Woman tortured over stolen iPod

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to in order to protect their property. Three Maryland women have been charged with “attempted murder, assault, conspiracy and other offenses and are being held without bail,” all over a stolen iPod. “Thursday night and an argument began. Authorities say 23-year-old Derak Seward of Barclay [...]

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iPhone 3GS availability dwindling

Remember earlier this week when I posted an article [link] reporting that Apple had posted an online 3GS “availabilty database”? Back then, only 5 Apple retail stores were sold out of all four iPhone models. Fast forward to today, and only about 40-45% of all Apple retail stores have all four iPhones in stock and 15% [...]

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Confirmed: Steve Jobs returns to work

Apple has given Bloomberg confirmation that Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has indeed returned to Apple. “Steve Jobs is back at work at Apple Inc., returning to his job as chief executive officer as planned after taking medical leave in January. “Steve is back to work,” Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, said today. Jobs is at Apple a [...]

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iPhone 3GS: Video editing and a friendly warning

One of the great new features that comes along with the iPhone 3GS is video recording as well as the ability to edit and easily share it while on the go. Well, in this case, I am using the term edit with a little sarcasm because it seems to be more like trimming instead of [...]

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iPhone 3GS jailbreak discovered but delayed

I have an iPhone 3GS, and at this point I am really missing the Pineapple boot logo and all the goodies that come along with it. For those that are familiar, you will realize the Pineapple boot logo is something that we get when we jailbreak, which unfortunately looks like it not yet going to [...]

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iPhone 3GS dropped into pool, doesn’t miss a beat

It was bound to happen sooner or later. The owner of the iPhone in question was daring enough to hold his new iPhone 3GS over the edge of the pool and use its video record feature, I’m sure you can guess what happened next. The caption of the video reads, “Was trying video on my new iPhone [...]

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iPhone 3GS Brulée

French blog, “Nowhere Else,” recently posted a story in which a brand new iPhone 3GS overheated and left brown streaks on the white 3GS case. “I bought an iPhone Friday morning 3GS, I normally used and a few days ago, I did the test several apps warning radars in the car when I was a passenger, the apps using the [...]

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