iPhone, iPhone, iPhone

I think I'm just going to do one iPhone post a day, if not I think I would have to rename this blog.

• iPhone hacked allowing for tethering
• 3rd Party Battery for iPhone half the price of Apple
• AppleCare for iPhone now available
• iPhone toolkit available with "Apache, python, shell -- and a pile of associated binaries like ls, rm, echo, csh, and tsh" already developed

I would link directly to the source wiki, but it says no. So, google search away

AT&T Loophole Provides a Free Phone

Pay for your iPhone using a loophole when signing up for new service.

Usually when you buy a subsidized handset, there is a penalty when you upgrade early, but as the iPhone is not subsidized, adding one to an existing plan incurs no such fee.

To use an example from PhoneNews.com, if you buy a Nokia N75 from Amazon on a two year contract, it'll cost $20 (minus a $25 mail-in rebate). Go grab an iPhone, activate it and add it to the AT&T plan. That's it.

Link (via Wired Gadget Lab)

iPhone Vulnerable to Web Hacking

Its about time. Security researchers at Baltimore based ISE have announced that the iPhone could be turned into a mobile spammer if the user visits a specially crafted web page. Details will not be released until the Blackhat Conference on August 2nd in Las Vegas.

"You could have a million iPhones dialing the company's main line and overwhelm it that way," Miller said.

In addition, hijacked iPhones could be used to send spam by cell-phone text message, which computers generally can't. Any personal data on the phones, such as private phone numbers and text messages, would be accessible as well.

The flaw applies not only to the iPhone, which was launched just three weeks ago, but also to Apple computers running Mac OS and the company's Safari Web browser, a version of which comes with the iPhone. It does not affect Safari running on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows systems.

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iPhone Ringtone maker

Stop paying ridiculous prices for ringtones for your iPhone when you already have the music file

iPhoneRingToneMaker lets you create your own ringtones for the iPhone from your .mp3 files. It features simple one click ringtone transfer to your iPhone so you can select your own custom ringer. It's out now for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

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AT&T Profits Rise Despite iPhone Disappointment

With all the hype of the iPhone, activations fell short of the expected 250,000+ depending on analyst. We'll see as all of the eBay activations start to come in and what happens in the ensuing months.

AT&T Inc. on Tuesday posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on strong wireless subscriber growth, but failed to excite investors as the first two days of iPhone sales fell short of forecasts.

AT&T, the sole U.S. service provider for Apple's first phone, said it activated 146,000 iPhone subscribers in the first two days after launch on June 29.

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