Mobile

Turn Your iPhone 4 Transparent

When you replaced the old iPhone 3G cover with a transparent case, it revealed a fugly side. But with the iPhone 4, the inner workings and hidden guts are surprisingly good lookin’. Here’s how to turn your iPhone 4 transparent.


January 27, 2011
Software

New Tweak Makes Your Jailbroken iPhone’s App Icons Look 3D

Ah, the endless ingenuity of the jailbreak community. Apocolipse’s forthcoming 3DBoard uses the iPhone 4′s sensors to lend the app icons a 3D effect when the phone is tilted. Hey, that’s one dimension cooler than your home screen.


Mobile

Old Lady Tries To Smuggle 44 iPhone 4s Through Airport Security In Her Stockings

Last week, at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport, security officials stopped a 60-year-old woman who had been moving erratically through airport security. She said she was feeling sick. Not true! She actually had 44 iPhone 4s stuffed down her pants.


October 10, 2010
Software

Limera1n iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Tool Released

The just released limera1n promises to jailbreak iOS 4.0-4.1 on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G, and iPad Touch 3G. It’s Windows only for now, with Mac & Linux support coming soon.


Mobile

NY Times: Verizon iPhone Coming In Early 2011

The New York Times is independently confirming what the Wall Street Journal said earlier this week: a Verizon version of the iPhone 4 will be released in early 2011. Other than that, the NY Times doesn’t offer any new details we haven’t heard before. [NY Times]


August 4, 2010

Telstra Has A Huge iPhone 4 6GB Data Plan Loophole

Gizmodo AU

This puts all the other iPhone plans from all the other carriers to shame. Dan Warne over at APC has discovered a loophole in Telstra’s cap plan structure that allows you to get 6GB of data plus a $49 cap plan for the iPhone 4 for just $78.50 over 24 months.


July 30, 2010
Mobile

The iPhone 4 Stories That Slipped Through The Cracks

Gizmodo AU

Over the past few days, we’ve written a lot about the iPhone 4. But for every story we wrote, there was another story we didn’t get to write. Here are those stories, in brief:


Mobile

Pics From Australia’s iPhone 4 Night

Gizmodo AU

There was a great party atmosphere around the country last night (and this morning) as people joined a line somewhere in front of a phone shop in the hopes of buying a shiny new mobile. Here’s the photographic proof:


July 29, 2010
Mobile

Some Stores Selling iPhone 4s Early

Gizmodo AU

We’ve had a couple of reports from tipsters that a few stores are selling iPhones today before the official midnight launch tonight… Oops!


News

Share Your iPhone 4 Launch Party Pics With Gizmodo

Gizmodo AU

We’re going to be out and about on the streets of Sydney tonight covering the launch of the iPhone 4, but it turns out that there will be midnight launch events happening all over the country. So we want your help.