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One Third Of iPhone Users Think They Already Have 4G

8:00AM July 13, 2011 | Mat Honan

Our friends at The Loop found a pretty interesting survey that finds 34 per cent of all iPhone owners think their phones have 4G. Of course, the actual number of people with 4G iPhones is zero. More »


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AT&T Tells Jailbroken iPhone Tetherers To Pay Up

3:07AM March 19, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

You think you’re a real smooth criminal, don’t you, using the Cydia app MyWi to tether your jailbroken iPhone free of charge? Well, it looks like your joy ride might be over. AT&T has apparently been sending MyFi users texts telling them to pay up or fall back: More »


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Unlimited Wireless Data: The End Is Nigh (Again)

1:40PM March 2, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

We’ve known for a long time that the end of unlimited wireless data is all but certain. AT&T killed unlimited data plans for new customers last June, and Sprint’s had to raise the price for unlimited data by $US10/month for every smartphone. More »


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AT&T’s New Wireless Data Plans Are Slightly More Fair Now

7:41AM February 3, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

AT&T’s got new data plans to go with the wireless hotspot feature debuting in its first 4G Android phones – which they’re “working with Apple to bring it to iPhone” – and they’re actually a better deal than before. More »


Software

Ultrasn0w iOS Unlocking Tool Now Works With Version 4.2.1 (3G/3GS Only)

5:30AM November 29, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Ultrasn0w, the iPhone Dev Team’s iOS unlocking tool, was broken recently by Apple’s “aggressive compiler optimization.” Whatever. It works again, sort of, but only for iPhone 3G and 3GS. The iPhone 4 uses a different baseband so that version will have to wait. [iPhone Dev Team via BGR] More »


Keep Holding Your Breath For That Verizon iPhone 4G

10:00AM October 8, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

The Verizon iPhone is coming next year. Verizon’s 4G LTE service is launching next year, covering a third of Americans. Ergo, a 4G iPhone is on the way. Except it’s not. Not for a couple of years. More »


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How Much Data Does A 3G FaceTime Call Use?

5:23AM August 3, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

After figuring out how to use FaceTime over 3G, the obvious question was how much data does it use? According to a brief test by 9to5Mac, about 3MB a minute. More »


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How To Get iPhone 4 FaceTime Working Over 3G

12:59AM August 3, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Apple artificially limits the use of Facetime – their video conferencing software for the iPhone 4 – to Wi-Fi use. Good thing we have independent developers to make it work under 3G too. This is how to do it: More »


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iPhone 4 Jailbreak Now Available: One Click, No Computer Required

7:30AM August 2, 2010 | Jack Loftus

JailbreakMe 2.0, a browser-based jailbreak app for iPhones and iPads, has just gone live and pretty much opens up any iOS device you have handy, all the way back to the iPhone 3G. More »


AT&T Doubles 3G Integrated Devices Since Last Year

10:25PM July 22, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Thanks in part to the record 3.2 million iPhones AT&T activated last quarter and continued iPad success, there are now twice as may “integrated devices” on the company’s beleaguered 3G network as there were just a year ago. More »