Tomorrow we start the New Year, and for those of you who aren’t still in line to buy a Nintendo Wii, it is looking to be a good one. I’m having my doubts about Apple though, as it would seem success is going to their head as they put Think Secret out of business, and I and a lot of others were tricked into believing they personally threaten the guy who writes the Fake Steve Jobs parody — recall I recommended his Options book for anyone who is fascinated with Apple.
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Not to say it’s actually easy to get your hands on the rumored 1.1.3 firmware at this point, but in the event that you do, proceed with caution. Nate True, the guy that brought us a video walkthrough of the supposedly leaked goods, is reporting that he can’t seem to downgrade to 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 after performing the install. Locked phones show an “Incorrect SIM” error — a problem unlockers of yore are all too familiar with — while previously unlocked phones can’t be upgraded to 1.1.3 at all. Let’s be honest, though: if you somehow managed to score a copy of 1.1.3, is that really going to stop you from going for it?
[Thanks, cingular#1]
Update: We’re hearing that the phenomenon observed by Mr. True has existed since the very first firmware release; it’s a state the phone enters whenever it finds a baseband version different than the one it’s expecting to find, and it’s apparently been bypassable via a modified “lockdownd” binary for some time. Thanks, Alex!
Update 2: To those asking why the network says “Nate,” Nate True told us that “The network name comes in through the com.apple.springboard preferences plist. That file is copied back to the phone after a restore (and is thus not affected by an update).” In other words, even after an update that file pushed through and apparently showed the network name. So there you have it.
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theodp writes “Ready for one-automobile-per-child (OAPC)? India’s giant Tata Group is on the verge of launching the world’s cheapest car. The People’s Car, slated to be unveiled January 10th at a New Delhi auto show, will carry a sticker price of 100,000 rupees ($2,500), which some analysts say could revolutionize automobile costs worldwide. The Tata is a pet project of Cornell-trained architect Ratan Tata, which he helped design. The vehicle is aimed at improving driving safety by getting India’s masses off their motorbikes and into cars.”
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The iPhone kid — young George Hotz of Glen Rock, N.J. — came back from Rochester Institute of Technology this week with his head full of new ideas. Not surprisingly, the tinkering teen’s also been up to a bit of mischief on the upstate New York campus. Next month, the Bergen Academies grad is headed for Sweden to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar and talk about his 3-D imaging invention — called “Project Holodeck” — that netted him a $20,000 Intel prize earlier this year.
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Just yesterday we saw some pics of what was being touted as an iPhone running the as-yet-unannounced 1.1.3 firmware version, and now we’ve got word of some video proof from a pretty reliable source. Nate True, all-around modder and creator of the Walluminate light-up wallet, has a short vid up on his cre.ations.net site that claims to depict that handy home page icon rearrangement feature — you know, the one that suggests an SDK to make use of all the new slots. Go on, check out the short clip after the break.
[Thanks, Marcus S.]
Continue reading iPhone firmware 1.1.3 icon rearrangement on video?
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