Tag Archives: Firmware

If you hadn’t already heard the news, the much anticipated iOS 4.2 software for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch is now available to download. To get your hands on the software, simply plug in your device and click on the ‘Check for Update’ button within iTunes. The latest iOS …

All iPhones and iPods can upgrade to the current firmware, but some features are disabled on older devices. The iPhone 2G from two years ago can’t handle stereo audio streaming over Bluetooth, despite the fact that it’s just as fast (or slow) as the iPhone 3G. Then there’s the lack …

After digging around in the device strings (whatever that means) of the new iPhone 3.0 beta software, some people far smarter than me have stumbled upon listings of at least four new iPhone/iPod touch models. The first iPhone showed it’s listing as iPhone 1,1, while the iPhone 3G is listed …

Mark your calendars on March 17th, Apple is going to announce the version 3.0 of the iPhone firmware, the event will take place at 10am PST in San Francisco city. This will be an advance preview of what the OS will be, reports Engadget, so probably the full update will …

Many of you probably already know about this one – as it’s been all over the web today and I’ve been slacking (only excuse is I’m getting over a sore throat / cold at the moment). Anyway, for those who may not yet have heard – the Dev Team have …

Apple released a series of firmware updates for all “Late 2008″ portable computers today. Each line of computers require two separate firmware updates. First up are the EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) updates. These control the interface between the computer’s firmware and operating system. All of the EFI updates improve system wide stability.  The …

The wonderful world of all things Mac has been fairly quiet this weekend — there hasn’t been much news to post on. So in my spare time, rather than search for funny videos on YouTube or keep changing the wallpaper on my Mac, I decided to jailbreak my iPhone so …

The incredibly talented iPhone-Dev Team have successfully got Linux running on the iPhone. They have used reverse engineering on the iPhone drivers to provide the option of two operating systems when booting the device — using “OpeniBoot” gives users the option of booting to Mac or Linux when they start …

Following the release of the new 2.2 iPhone/iPod Touch firmware earlier today, Apple have now released an updated Software Developmemt Kit — build 9M2621. The new SDK download is larger than the previous release at 1.56GB. It is said that the new SDK offers overall system stability and performance improvement, …

Today the long-awaited iPhone/iPod Touch 2.2 firmware became available through iTunes, just as previous rumors had suggested. The new update includes everything we expected plus a little more. Street View is now a feature of the Maps application and this is something I was looking forward to. I had chance …

We recently reported on the possibility of AT&T to allow tethering of the iPhone. This is where you can connect your iPhone to your computer and use the device as a modem to access the internet. Since then, rumors have emerged that provide possible details on the plan AT&T will …