iOS Devices

Earlier we reported the JailbreakMe’s jailbreak system breaks the FaceTime and MMS features on many user’s devices. Since then, the Dev-Team has worked closely with the creator of Cydia, Jay Freeman aka Saurik, to issue a fix. New JailbreakMe users should simply proceed normally and a new version of the jailbreak will be installed that will not remove FaceTime or MMS from the iPhone.

Users who already installed JailbreakMe get an easy fix as well. They should simply navigate to Cydia and upgrade to the latest software. Additionally, PlanetBeing announced on his Twitter profile that a compatible unlock will be available in 48 hours. They are reportedly amidst internal testing of the unlock software. 

Here’s the video of JailBreakMe on an iPhone 3G:

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Here’s the video of JailBreakMe on an iPhone 4 (faster!)

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Feel free to ask some questions in the comments. And yes, FaceTime still works. 

Update: We’ve been told by Chronic Dev-Team that FaceTime and MMS may not work properly on some devices. To fix, do a fresh restore and re-jailbreak — that may do the trick. Let us know. 

Update 2x: We’ve installed the jailbreak on 4 iPhone 4s and both FaceTime and MMS still work flawlessly on all devices. 

Update 3x: One of our devices lost FaceTime and MMS after restarting. 

Update 4x: An official fix for the FaceTime and MMS issues is now available, and a compatible carrier unlock will reportedly become available in 48 hours.  

The iPhone Dev Team (Comex) has just unleashed a new jailbreak tool for all iOS devices and it’s done through Mobile Safari! Head to www.jailbreakme.com from Safari on your iDevice and get going! This is the “JailBreakMe 2.0 star” jailbreak for this into all the codewords. 

The servers are definitely stumped right now so try www.jailbreakme.modmyi.com — that worked for us. 

We can verify that this jailbreak is meant to run on all iOS devices including iPad and iPhone 4 with iOS 4.0 and 4.01. It will not work on iOS devices running iOS 4.1 beta. 

Update: We’ve got video on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G!

Some good news from the folks at NetApplications for Apple.  It turns out that the iPhone gained significant market share in July.

• iPhone posted its largest single-month usage gain ever in July. “What antenna problems?!”
• Global usage share jumped from .59% to June to .7% in July. (In comparison, the May to June share was essentially flat)  
• The iPhone grew usage share at over twice the pace of Android. 

Yeah… not really much to say, except that Apple’s videos about their competitors antenna performance have seemed to pull a Criss Angel, and disappear from the company’s website. It probably has to do with their unhappy rivals or maybe they want to pull Antennagate back into the spotlight for another round of press.

You can still try to find a glimpse of the videos at their official YouTube channel here. 

via Tech Crunch

Got to love this and do hope the UK design company sell a boatload of these to the millions of iPad buyers out there — introducing the FridgePad from Woodford Design.

In their own words, “The FridgePad magnetically mounts your iPad to your kitchen fridge so it’s at the heart of your home and in a perfect location for all the family to use.

“The FridgePad can be used in landscape or portrait mode, allows the iPad to be simply clipped in and out for fast access and provides a great safe and secure place to store your iPad.

“The FridgePad is an accessory to make the iPad work better for you. This really is one of those products that once you have tried it you’ll love it.”

We also like that the company appears committed to good quality product design, where it writes, “Woodford Design wanted to take iPad accessories to the next level of quality, so the FridgePad is more than just a fridge magnet. It has been cast and machined out of a solid chunk of high quality aluminium and will be offered in a luxurious silver finish./”

It costs

Great news for you Fortune readers: The Time Inc. magazine is now available for the iPad. 

Little known fact: The inaugural issue’s cover story, “Google: The Search Party is over” has my fingerprints all over it.

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This morning, the iPhone 4 is landing in a whole slew of additional countries. Here’s a video from the Hong Kong launch. (for the sansFlash) via MicGadget

We mentioned just last week the new generation of “defense” related iOS apps, now we get news that “UK soldiers use iPad app to train for Afghan operations”.

That’s right, UK troops are using an iPad and an app to learn how to handle a fire mission, the BBC explains.

It helps boost learning of technical jargon and procedures, apparently and is being described as part of an attempt to harness “smartphone and tablet technology … to speed up training across the army.”

Major Rich Gill is an army training officer involved in rolling out the app.

He said: “If we can use this sort of technology, we can probably shorten the amount of training and that is pretty key nowadays when people are so committed to operations in Afghanistan.
Army iPad app Soldiers at the Wiltshire base say the iPad app has made training fun

“There’s so much they need to do before they go there and when they come back.

“If we can use this to reduce the amount of training it’ll be fantastic.”

More here.

Apple is prepared to invest every ounce of company muscle, intellect, invention and clout in order to ensure that ally-now-rival, Google, can never again claim bragging rights to innovating ahead of industry trends. And Cupertino is already planning radical user interface innovation in OS X 10.7.

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iPhone headaches continue, this time French carrier, SFR, is warning iPhone 3G users that iOS 4 significantly slows down their device, while Apple promises to fix the speed flaw and potential fixes emerges from out of the chatter.

SFR Info: updating of the iPhone 3G to software slows significantly iOS 4 navigation menus. Any update is irreversible.
This information concerns only the iPhone 3G and not the iPhone 3G.

In brief: story is that 3G and 3GS iPhone owners have seen their device speed slow considerably on upgrading to iOS 4. Apple is preparing a patch for this...

Various tip sites say to clean out the Spotlight options, but according to our commentors, that doesn’t work so well.  Others have had luck with Hard Resets every few days.

This one might hurt El Jobso more than Antennagate!  According to the AP, 

When Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist.

With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry stands to make big money on this new way to reach out and touch someone