iPhone Passion

The guys from HermitWorks have posted this Friday an amazingly impressive video of a networked Quake 3 game running on two iPod Touch. I know, there are already a couple of 3d shooters running on the iPhone platform, but this one beats the crap out of them - controlling the movement by tilting your iPhone, this is an amazing new level of interactivity for a Quake 3 shooter.

Words are worth less than the video. Watch and be impressed!

Via Touchpodium

I guess u already heard the news - some people counted the number of iPhones sold by Apple and the one registered to various official service providers. There seems to be a 1 million iPhones unaccountable, and the only explanation for it is that they were unlocked and being used in other networks.
Duh… even in Romania, where the iPhone is still to be launched there’s a thriving market for unlocked iPhones - I saw at least 5 people in the street using them.

The guys from iPhone Atlas have a sad piece news for most of you iPhone owners out there: as the title says, the jailbreak software for 1.1.3 firmware is likely to break a vital component of the new 1.1.3 firmware - namely, the “Nikita” library that deals with installing signed software.

It looks like Nate’s update causes Nikita to break (Nikita is the component on the iPhone/iTouch responsible for installing signed software, such as the iPod App Pack and likely SDK apps in the future),” adding “We believe this is because the soft-update method that was released doesn’t update the kernel cache, so users are likely still booting into the 111 or 112 kernel, which is lacking the necessary DRM components to verify/decrypt packages with Nikita.

Our piece of advice for you? Hold on a bit longer, salvation might be around the corner, I bet my lunch money that sometime next week we’ll see an update to the jailbreak software, that will fix this issue.

All you iPhone owners jump for joy!

The amazing team over at cre.ations.net did it at last!

As of today, there’s a complete iPhone jailbreak for firmware 1.1.3 available over at http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/iphone-113-jailbreak-released.
Just for your info, the application the amazing guys at cre.ations.net have created is called iBrickr and has an official website: iBrickr

Now you may be wondering how this jailbreak works. Here’s a breakdown:
- iBrickr grabs the 1.1.3 iPhone firmware image and extracts, decrypts, and decompresses the disk image.
- Then it applies a patch, jailbreaking the disk image and activating it, and also installing Installer.app.
- It uploads this new modified image to the phone, as 113_upgrade_image.bin.
- The “1.1.3 soft upgrade” app flashes the phone with the image and reboots.
- You have a perfect, jailbroken, upgraded 1.1.3 phone, with all your settings and music intact!

All in all, this app is not officially supported by Apple, so be aware that you’ll use it on your own risk.

(via TUAW)

Accidentally upgraded to 1.1.3 and lost your iPhone functionality? HackThatPhone has the complete illustrated walkthrough for what to do to jailbreak your iPhone by bringing it first to firmware version 1.1.1. Take a look and try it on your own risk.

via TUAW

The iLounge and PCMag tell us about an impressive little software demonstrated at CES by Delphi: the Wireless Vehicle Access software running on an iPhone is a system utilizing a Bluetooth link between the iPhone (or other device) and a new smart key fob to allow users to check their car’s vitals from up to a mile away.
The functions it provides include: the ability to turn on the engine, turn on the climate control, roll down the windows, check door unlock/lock status, monitor tire pressure, check how much gas is in the car, and even tell the condition of the oil and brake fluid.

Unfortunately for all of us, we don’t know if this concept system will ever find its way into production vehicles.

TUAW told us today about a new iPhone 3-rd party software that turns your iPhone into a lean, mean song-recognizing machine.
This amazing app, developed by Erica Sadun, is called Listen and makes it dead easy to learn what song the radio is playing: Just whip out your iPhone, put it near the car speakers, and watch the screen. Poof! There’s the song, artist, and album.
Go ahead, try it and tell us what u think!

The guys from IntoMobile will be covering the iPhone launch live from the store in Santa Monica. Here’s the intro video.

ArsTehnica points us to a Forbes article that tries to dismantle Steve Jobs’ promise that they’d sell ten million iPhones in 2008. The main reasons given by the author are based on Apple’s lock-in strategy, the expensive prise and the exclusive deal Apple has made with Cingular.

What will it be? Only time will tell. In the meantime, we’re looking forward to being among the first ten million iPhone users

The giant German producer already has iPod integration in his automobiles. According to some sources, BMW considers introducing iPhone integration in all new BMW models.
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