The free app connects to a Viper SmartStart hardware module installed in your car, and controls five basic functions: It’ll start your car, turn on the heat, unlock your doors or trunk, and manage the car alarm. The range is effectively infinite too, since all communication is carried out over cell networks—no line of sight contact necessary, not that the iPhone has the IR hardware for anything like that anyway.
iFixit interview – iphone 3G S Teardown
Posted by Cocoa_Head under Interviews, Tricks, Videos on Sunday Jun 21, 2009iPhone 3G S tear-down filmed with another iPhone 3G S
Posted by Cocoa_Head under Tricks, Videos on Saturday Jun 20, 2009The guys from iFixit, tear down the new iPhone 3G S and filmed with another iPhone 3G S the quality of the video is very good and the frame rate runs smoothly. Externally, the new iPhone is differentiated only by its new model number — A1303 — and the lettering on the back cover, which is now shiny like the Apple logo. Similarly, the internal physical design is also virtually identical to the iPhone 3G, with iFixit reportedly “struggling to differentiate the two.”
Architecturally, nearly all of the handset’s components have reportedly been relocated to the front side of the main logic board, including the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Flash memory chips. The battery is identified as a 4.51 Watt-hours, or 1219 mAh, which is about 6% larger than the iPhone 3G’s battery. Also discovered was an additional antenna connection near the dock connector, though its function remains unclear.
iPhone 3G on Firmware 3.0 Unlock
Posted by Cocoa_Head under Tricks, Videos, iPhone on Wednesday Jun 17, 2009The iPhone 3.0 Firmware will be released today 17 of July, for those who like to jailbreak their phone will be happy to know that the Dev Team have already a solution for Jailbreak and Unlock the software 3.0 – Ultrasnow will unlock iPhone 3G running firmware 3.0. This is a video demo of ultrasnow, a software unlock for the iPhone 3G running firmware 3.0. Unlocking your iPhone lets you use the iPhone with other carriers like T-Mobile in the US. (This does not work for Verizon) The plan for release is this Friday through Cydia.