Tag: IPhone
Posted by
Kenshi 2 years 3 months ago
Representing one of the most significant milestones in the race to completely unlock the iPhone, a user has been able to successfully register the device with and make calls on Australia's Telstra network. He's posted a YouTube video demonstration of the semi-unlocked phone in action (sorry, the video is no longer available). The hack was accomplished by modifying the iPhone's default SIM card to be recognized as an AT&T SIM, while actually containing data that allows it to be accepted by Telstra.
The hack is made possible through the use...
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David Carey estimates that the cost of the materials used in the iPhone add up to about $200 for the 4-gigabyte version, which sells for $499 and about $220 for the 8-gigabyte version, which sells for $599.
The most expensive component on the phone, Carey says, is the touch screen, for which Apple tapped a little-known German concern called Balda. Another big winner is Samsung, which supplied the main microprocessor chip. It was stamped with an Apple logo, but with a serial number that matches closely a chip that Samsung sells. Samsung also...
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Posted by
Motu 2 years 5 months ago
Did Apple actually reduce the size of the device since January or are they just trying to make it seem smaller? Maybe people were complaining about the size?
Today Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, a combination cellphone, iPod, and Blackberry device all in one. In many ways it is the ultimate digital device. It plays music, widescreen movies, surfs the net, checks your email, is a phone, does text messaging, and has an amazingly intuitive user interface that is without equal in either the MP3 player, Video Player, or Cellphone market. It uses multi-touchscreen sensing technology to accommodate all of those functionalities in a familiar and easy-to-use way. Everyone is talking and will continue to...
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