Nuff said.

Share This

Many APS listeners have contacted me to report that their YouTube/iPhone experience has been less than happy lately. It seems that some new conversion software at YouTube combined with other changes related to things like their anti-piracy effort have led to some performance issues on iPhones.

We’ll continue to follow this situation closely and report more information here as it becomes available.

Share This

Once in a while, some brave idiot hiding behind an anonymous screen name, will mock me for not using the word iPhone in the title of this blog or on our podcast.

In case you were wondering, we made this conscious choice some time ago, expecting that there would be trademark issues.
Apple legal is starting to go after sites that have the word iPhone in them.

Granted, this site probably didn’t help itself by talking about mods, but we knew this day was coming in any event.

Share This

Welcome to the second Apple Phone Show video tip. In this episode, Liana unboxes a Ped3 iPhone stand.

Direct download here.

Share This

T-Mobile has announced the contract and costs associated with the iPhone in Germany.

Here are some details according to APS reader/listener Thorsten Biegner…

1. Minutes and SMS are not being carried over to the next month
2. EDGE is being limited to 64 kbits down and 16kbits up when you
reach a specific limit on the different contracts, which are
respectively 200 MB, 1GB and 5 GB
3. Once you have used up all your minutes, follow minutes cast 39
cents, and 29 cents for the largest contract.

Share This

Apple has launched an officially - approved Apple Developer Connection site for people who are interested in developing applications for the iPhone. The site is called the iPhone Dev Center and is free to ADC members. ADC membership is free for the asking.

The site offers information on designing, coding, and optimizing performance of applications that run in the iPhone’s Safari Web browser.

Share This

by Vincent M. Ferrari
Apple Phone Show Producer

What I’m about to tell you may change your view of the iPhone. It may also permanently break your iPhone. In other words, if you try it and break something, we’re not responsible. PERIOD.

Last night, before I went to bed, the internet lit up with stories of a new (albeit unofficial) installer for the iPhone that would allow you to install third-party applications by jailbreaking the phone all by simply visiting a website. After clicking a link, the phone reboots, and you now have Installer.app. It really is that easy.

This morning, with a few minutes to spare, I went to jailbreakme.com (DO NOT GO THERE UNLESS YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY DO THIS). I read through the instructions, and then followed them and sure enough, I now have installer.app living on my home screen on software version 1.1.1.

The first thing I did was add the other repositories in, which in turn gave me access to a ton of applications that aren’t there with the installer.app default install. I clicked a few and easily installed them without issue. If it were any easier, it would be criminal.

I can’t report on any side-effects because I haven’t seen any, but as of right now, I have third party apps running on the newest firmware. Be aware that this doesn’t unlock your phone for use on another carrier, and as I said earlier but can’t say enough, if you brick your phone playing with this stuff, that’s your problem. That being said, this is simply the most elegant, foolproof, and fast way to get access to community-developed apps that exists to this point.

If you try it out, let us know how it goes in the comments.

Thanks to Erica Sadun from TUAW for pointing this out last night.

Share This