Apple WWDC 2009 | June 8-12
By SRASC at 26 March, 2009, 10:54 pm
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 [...]
iPhone 3G Hardware Unlocked by TA_Mobile
By Aaron Besson at 1 December, 2008, 9:36 am
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 [...]
Unlocked iPhone 3G Scam in India
By Aaron Besson at 21 October, 2008, 6:46 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>iPhone Hardware Repairs - iPhone Not Charging - Dissassembly Video
By Aaron Besson at 3 September, 2008, 10:42 am
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.
Read More >>iPhone Camera Mod Tested - It Works
By Aaron Besson at 2 September, 2008, 8:54 pm
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 with one clumsy adjustment how good the camera was able to focus. I’ll make a few more adjustments and post a couple more shots.
Read More >>Video: Waterproof spray-on coating for your iPhone
By Aaron Besson at 29 August, 2008, 11:42 am
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.
Read More >>iPhone Camera Mod - Macro Focus
By Aaron Besson at 27 August, 2008, 3:26 pm
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 [...]
TA_Mobile extracts bootloader 5.8 from iPhone 3G - Unlock Soon?
By Aaron Besson at 22 July, 2008, 11:21 am
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 [...]
