iPhone Update Locks Down 3rd Party Apps, Time for a Linux Phone?
With Apple's recent move to lock down the iPhone and iPod Touch the Linux Phone called OpenMoko is starting to look better all the time. The combination of openness not only of software but also of network (any GSM network anyway) makes the OpenMoko a compelling alternative to what Apple offers, that being a closed software and closed network phone. Read more [...]
Waiting for iPhone Version 2.0
In fact, that alone is a deal breaker for me even if people are able to play old Nintendo and arcade games on their iPhones and even if people are hacking them to add new useful features. So if I do get an iPhone it will be a second generation iPhone (hopefully without crappy AT&T service... Read more [...]
Beta iPhone Rejected
The first iPhone design was a little primitive. It took a little over twenty years, but late in 2006 Apple was ready to show off their new and improved design. Read more [...]
DVD Jon Does it Again, This Time with the iPhone
Apple is expected to sell about a million iPhones by the end of the week, but it didn't even take DVD Jon (named so because he is the one that broke CSS encryption on DVD's way back in the 02's) that long to work his magic again. Read more [...]
iPhone Silliness
There are still others who want to feel like their current smart phone is an iPhone and so people have developed iPhone skins for the Palm OS. The skins have been met with cease and desist orders from Apple (reasonable since they appear to be images taken directly from Apple), so don't go racing to the internet hoping to make those Blackberries hip again. Read more [...]
