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When the Google Nexus One was launched, Andy Rubin said that he “considered adding multitouch” to the handset, but he doesn’t like it. I don’t really know how someone cannot like multitouch, however, let’s move on because the guys at XDA-developers have found a way to add multitouch capabilities to the Nexus One browser. First [...]

Lots of Nexus One users are complaining that their handset cannot hold on to full 3G signal, unlike its HTC counterpart T-Mobile G1. Both Google and T-Mo acknowledged the issues, but they’ve yet to deliver a fix. Kevin C. Tofel, managing-editor at JkOnTheRun, claims that he has found a solution to solve the problem and now his [...]

In an earlier post we mentioned that the Nokia N900 is getting a firmware update and among the list of changes, users can find beta support for portrait mode. This means that it won’t go into portrait mode automatically, but you can force the device to do it. Although there was a way to do [...]

George Hotz is once again the savior for iPhone users who want to unlock their baseband. The iPhone hacker has announced that he will release the unlock for the 05.11.07 baseband on November 4th, of course for free, unlike other website which apparently charge you money to unlock your device. GeoHot’s unlock is called Blacksn0w [...]

Jailbreaking an iPhone is far from being an easy job. It almost leaves scars on your handheld, meaning that some features might not work properly. George Hotz, the iPhone hacker extraordinaire, was the first to release a jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2 after the success of purplera1n of iPhone 3.0. The jailbreak for iPhone 3.1.2 [...]

A few days ago iPhone hacker extraordinaire, GeoHot, released the jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2 which was really good as it was able to jailbreak most of the iPhone OS-based devices. However, the iPhone Dev Team is back and they’ve released the PwnageTool 3.1.4 for Mac OS X in order to allow all iPhone 2G, [...]

George Hotz decided to release another iPhone jailbreak in response to the iPhone OS 3.1.2 that was released earlier this month. The jailbreak is now called blackra1n and it’s available to all iPhone users at blackra1n.com. The great iPhone hacker has released blackra1n for Windows computers, and at the moment I don’t know if a [...]

One of the biggest problems with the iPhone and iPod touch is that these two don’t have a good enough battery indicator. We’ve all seen the iPhone 3GS battery indicator, and it’s looking great. Let’s not forget how useful it is. The iPhone OS 3.0 should have provided that battery indicator for all iPhone and [...]

The iPhone Dev team has officially released Ultrasn0w which will unlock iPhone 3G, but not the iPhone 3G S. You will see that it’s very easy to unlock your iPhone and you won’t risk anything. I repeat: it’s very easy to unlock your smartphone, and according to the iPhone Dev team, Ultrasn0w should unlock even [...]

The iPhone OS 3.0 was released yesterday and millions of users downloaded the software update from Apple. Two of the most expected features of the iPhone 3.0 OS were internet tethering and MMS, however, none of these officially work, but you can make the first work unofficially without the need of jailbreaking your iPhone. Before [...]