Apple announced Thursday that its annual developers conference will kick-off on Monday June 8th and run through the 12th at the Moscone West convention center in downtown San Francisco.

Tickets for 5-day event will run $1295 through April 24th, at which time Apple plans to increase the price by $300.

Snow Leopard at WWDC

Apple is expected to use this year’s conference to show off a feature-complete version of its Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system, possibly unveiling an updated interface theme if it does not do so in developer builds that arrive in the weeks leading up to the conference.

The primary focus for developers is Snow Leopard’s new 64-bit kernel with enhanced support for multicore and GPU computing. Apple is also drawing developers’ attention to QuickTime X as a streamlined media playback system.

Specific sessions will target how to get the most from Apple’s developer tools in terms of performance and efficiency, how to debug and analyze applications as they run with Dtrace, how to build solid user interfaces, and how to port existing code from other platforms to the Mac.

In depth sessions will focus on how to get the most from Apple’s frameworks, including high performance graphics accelerated in GPU hardware and how to leverage OpenCL and Grand Central to get the most from multicore systems with powerful graphics processors.

WWDC will also present how to use open web standards to take full advantage of new technologies in HTML 5, including client-side storage, audio and video playback, CSS vector animations, transitions, transforms, form control styling, CSS3 downloadable fonts, and other emerging features.

iPhone at WWDC

The iPhone platform will also serve as a major component of WWDC, with sessions and hands-on labs covering the new iPhone 3.0 SDK. Information how to to implement the new 3.0 features, including peer to peer Bluetooth, interaction with hardware accessories, in-app purchases, and the new Apple Push Notification service, will be presented, along with details on best practices for building mobile apps with an engaging user interface that takes full advantage of the iPhone’s rich media and graphics features, and how to localize apps to reach a global audience.

The event may likely also serve as the introduction of new iPhone hardware, as Apple has long been expected to release a significantly new iPhone version in mid June.

IT at WWDC

Apple also maintains an information technologies track at WWDC. This year, attention is being placed on how to use Snow Leopard Server to deploy collaboration features such as the new iPhone-optimized wiki features, enhanced new Podcast Producer capabilities, new standards-based services for exchanging calendar events and meeting request and shared contact records.

There’s also new information on how to use the iPhone in large organizations, both with push notifications and the new Mobile Access Server, as well as tools to integrate the iPhone into existing corporate infrastructure from Exchange Server to 802.1x wireless authentication.

WWDC for students

WWDC will host a Student Career Fair, offering the opportunity to meet hiring managers from around the world. Apple is also offering free passes to WWDC as part of its student scholarship program for ADC Student Members and student Team Members in the iPhone Developer University Program.

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Tuan Anh Do shows off an unlocked iPhone 3G at one of his cell phone repair shops in Hanoi. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CBS Interactive)

Tuan Anh aka TA_Mobile, Vietnamese cell shop owner and iPhone hacker, has maanged to unlock the iPhone 3G via a crazy hardware hack that involved removing the motherboard from the iPhone 3G, removing the BaseBand Chip (SGOLD) and re-flashing it and then re-fitting it to the motherboard.

TA_Mobile if you remember was the first to extract the 5.8 bootloader form the iPhone 3G via a hardware method, and has now once again proven his hardware skills. This unlocking method is really not for the faint of heart and probably no one but the TA_Mobile shops will be preforming this hack for sometime. It will set you back $80 USD, not much for most of us, but a small fortune for those in Vietnam.

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Seems like some unlucky people are being tricked into buying what they think are legally unlocked iPhone 3G’s when in fact they are getting locked iPhone 3G’s that have been opened up and have a Sim Hack like RebelSim etc hardwired into the phone. Upon Opening one of these phones after a restore with iTunes that left the users device unactivated, he found that his phone was opened up before being sold to him and a Sim Hack was stuck in there and wires from the contact are soldered onto the sim card reader in the iPhone 3G.

Buyers Beware

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I don’t think that you get to see someone take apart an iPhone (far less two) everyday, so I decided to record this yesterday as I was fixing an iPhone that was not charging nor being recognized by any computer when plugged in. I had fixed this before by taking out the CommBoard and Battery and fixing a wire that was loose after a hard fall, so I thought I would try again.

Before you watch please note: there probably are better and safer ways to do this, I am no professional/trained iPhone Certified Technician or anything. I learned to take apart phones fixing my own and others for friends. Please do not complain to me if you try anything here an damage your iPhone. I do all my own stunts.

Enjoy!!

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This photo was taken with an iPhone that I just repaired. I put in a camera module that I modified according to this post. I am very impressed that with that one clumsy adjustment I made, how good the camera was able to focus. I’ll make a few more adjustments and post a couple more shots.

I also recorded the entire process of taking apart the iPhone, and also swapping around commboards and batteries with another phone I have, then swapping them back and then putting this one with the modified camera back together. The video is 500MB and over 1/2 hour long so I need to edit it and upload it to YouTube.

I think I need to take this one apart again to replace the camera with his original one as this one is no use really to anyone other than a few who want to take close ups. See photos below stay tuned for more.

As you can see the iPhone’s Camera is focused on my finger, not the Coke or Laptop in the background. The shot of my 2G iPhone shows jsut about the limit where it starts to loose focus, about 4-6 inches LOL. (Update, successfully swapped out the Camera back to the unaltered stock one. It is now happily back to taking blury close ups and acceptable wide angle shots)

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Cape Cod-based Northwest Maritime Institute has come up with some sort of crazy high-tech, vacuum-applied spray coating for electronics that can coat the entire device – inside and out – making it not only water-resistant, but downright submersible! It is called “ Golden Shellback“, and I like to think of it as Magic Shell for iPhones. Check out the video below to see an iPod touch that has been blessed with the spray crank out video from The Little Mermaid while underwater (very fitting choice, as Mermaids have got to be one of the primary target audiences for this).

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I came across a really cool hardware mod over on iClarified.com. Daniel Forsythe modded his iPhone Camera by removing the glue that hold the lens in focus so he could use it to read bar codes that he shoots from magazines and equipment labels.

The mod involves breaking the glue that holds in the camera module and rotating the lens to bring the focus closer to the camera. With this hack, he can snap photos of close-in subjects. Check out his Flickr photo set for samples and discussion.

As soon as I saw this i reached into a drawer I have (referred to as the iPhone Graveyard) and whipped out a camera component from an opened iPhone. I was able to remove the glue easily with a sharp artist knife (exacto blade).

I will be putting it into a phone I am about to try and fix the sound on (stuck in headphones mode after a nasty fall). So I’ll snap some shots with it to test then.. But check out Daniels Flikr Gallery, its quite impressive.

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TA_Mobile is a Vietnamese iPhone hacker and has been hard at work taking apart his new 16Gb white iPhone 3G and has managed extract bootloader 5.8 from the hardware. Although this itself is not a unlock, it does give dev’s like ta_mobile, the Dev Team, GeoHot and others one step closer to unlocking the iPhone 3G baseband.

The bootloader and baseband are critical to both software and hardware unlocks. Ta_Mobile hopes that the new Bootloader 5.8 can be used to create a soft unlock like that mentioned by the Dev Team on their Wiki:

Simple Unlock

“From the S-Gold’s perspective, here are the fundamentals of unlocking basebands. A simple byte sequence search combined with a neutered baseband are all you need. (The s5l8900 CPU imposes other restrictions beyond this discussion.)

• The secpack is at ICE*.fls offset 0×1a4 (0×800 bytes long)
• The baseband is at ICE*.fls offset 0×209a4
• The baseband length is at ICE*.fls offset 0×20 (subtract 0×20000)

Due to gray’s initial RCE of the baseband, and combined with a neutered bootloader, unlocking recent and future basebands has been reduced to a simple byte search. “

For now ta_mobile is only distributing the 5.8 bootloader files to developers looking to create a software unlock. With

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