Forget copy-and-paste. The real seed of innovation planted in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 upgrade is the OS’s ability to interact with special accessories via Bluetooth and the dock connector.
This week, we’ve collected some really amazing tips from Web and our own experiences to present you 25 most wanted tips for iPhone 3G.
An anonymous reader writes “id Software has released a port of the classic Wolfenstein FPS to the iPhone. Some of the coding was done by John Carmack himself, who also used original code combined with new code from Wolf3D Redux. The original code was open sourced years ago, and enthusiasts have been updating it, which made the port considerably easier for id. It’s available in the iTunes App Store, but the source is available for free at id’s website.” Carmack also posted a detailed writeup about the decision to bring Wolf3D to the iPhone, including design notes and a few snippets of code. At the end, he says, “I’m going back to Rage for a while, but I do expect Classic Doom to come fairly soon for the iPhone.” Kotaku got a chance to try the game at GDC: “It’s not just a good reproduction of the original, it seems better.”
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CWmike writes “Although three of the four browsers that were targets in the PWN2OWN hacking contest quickly fell to a pair of researchers, none of the smartphones were successfully exploited. TippingPoint had offered ,000 for each exploit on any of the phones, which included the iPhone and the BlackBerry, as well as phones running the Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android operating systems. ‘With the mobile devices so limited on memory and processing power, a lot of [researchers’] main exploit techniques are not able to work,’ said TippingPoint’s Terri Forslof. ‘Take, for example, [Charlie] Miller’s Safari exploit,’ referring to Miller’s 10-second hack of a MacBook via an unpatched Safari vulnerability that he’d known about for more than a year. ‘People wondered why wouldn’t it work on the iPhone, why didn’t he go for the ,000?’ she said. ‘The vulnerability is absolutely there, but it’s a lot tougher to exploit on the iPhone.'” Chrome was the only browser at the contest that was not successfully exploited. We previously discussed day one of the contest, and a summary of day two is available as well.
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O2, Apple’s mobile phone partner in the UK, is to offer the iPhone 3G for free as part of a new contract deal available from next month.
A overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago
The Pre, Palm’s new mobile phone, stole the show at CES this year. Looks helped, but mainly it was the Pre’s iPhone-like touchscreen tech that wowed the industry crowd. Two weeks later, Apple COO Tim Cook expressed his irritation (without directly naming Palm) to analysts on a conference call: “We will not stand for having our IP ripped off”
I was astounded when the cellular carriers sent Dell’s prototype “iPhone-killer” back to the drawing board. I do get it though … carriers need differentiating products in a crowded market. Still, shouldn’t the handset makers be designing the handsets and not the other way around?
Usually rip-off counterfeits are produced by disreputable, back-room shops nobody’s heard of. Now, it appears, international computing giant Lenovo is getting into the act. The company’s new Android handset is called the oPhone, and the software interface looks a LOT like the iPhone’s.
Vuze, the popular BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus, has received a major update which allows users to automatically convert and play downloaded videos on the iPhone, iPod, Xbox 360 and the PS3. “Now playing, on all your screens” is Vuze’s new tagline.
