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Unlike other iPhone mods, this one actually looks quite decent, and gives the phone a fresh retro-stye look without going overboard. Click here for more pictures.

Well, Mark over at Geek Technique has given his iPhone a rather striking retro black paint job, topped off with the old technicolor Apple logo. We think the Newton/iPhone love child looks rather dashing; don’t believe us?

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You know what they say…if it seems too good to be true, it probably is! And that seems to be the case with the “leaked” Rogers ad we ran showing the iPhone making its way up north to Rogers on December, 7th. Rogers spokesperson Odette Coleman has issued the following statement: “The ad in Boy Genius, Mashable, Engadget blogs was not produced by Rogers. Nothing further to announce on iPhone.” Our favorite part of the article though, is this…

“So it looks like the ad was either made by a fanboy trying to milk the iPhone news here in Canada, or it was made by an advertising agency for Rogers.” “Roger’s execs promised a “device” announcement in November, a December date could jive with those promises. The leaked ad sure looks real. It promises a pre-order for the phone on Roger.com on November 20, so you can buy one before Christmas and get it in January.”

Oh well, there you have it! It started here, and ends here — no iPhone confirmation on Rogers, yet.

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If you’re hankering to learn a bit more about Apple’s wunderkind and the ins and outs of developing useless web apps for it, Apple has opened a site with a a huge pile of useless info for ya. Though, to be fair, there is some pretty helpful information to be had about video coding standards, some sample code, and that type of stuff, so if you’ve not had a peek, we recommend you take a trip over. Of course, what we’re all really waiting for is, the SDK Apple promised for February, but until then this will just have to do.

 

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Joining a growing crowd of people to complain about the general lack of openness in the iPhone is none other than Steve Wozniak, co-founder of the company. Woz has a reputation for being critical of the company he helped create, although no-one would argue that his views are unreasonable: in an interview he calls into question Apple’s treatment of the iPhone as an appliance, and not as a computer platform designed to allow users to install their own apps at will (”I’m really for the unlockers, the rebels trying to make it free.”) He also took a dig at Leopard, saying that OSes aren’t what sell computers these days, and that OS updates today are nothing more than slow improvements, rather than a procession towards a UI that works “for someone who knows nothing about the computer.” Personally, we think these are fair viewpoints: as much as we may hate to say it, a lot of new technology these days requires a compromise. Isn’t it about time compromise took a back seat?

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Jailbreaking the iPod touch/iPhone is now an utterly simple, one-click affair—which means if you’ve been waiting to jailbreak your iPod touch or iPhone (since the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade), the time is now. Just point your Safari browser to http://jailbreakme.com/ and click the Install AppSnapp link. It may sound scary, but the web site takes advantage of a mobile Safari exploit to install Installer.app (the gateway application for installing more applications) to your device. If you give it a try, here’s what you can expect.

After clicking the Install AppSnapp link, Safari will close (or at least it did for me) and your phone will eventually return to the “Slide to Unlock” screen (it could take up to 5 minutes, depending on your connection speed—the whole process literally took less than a minute on my phone). The AppSnapp instructions state that once you slide, you’ll see the Installer.app icon, meaning you’re ready to go. When I tried unlocking my phone with the slider, it froze up, so at this point, I just restarted my iPhone. When it finished booting up, there was Installer.app in all its glory, ready to install all sorts of goodies on my iPhone. “What kind of goodies?” you ask. Applications like these, for example:

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The iPhone/iPod touch applications available have actually improved and broadened a lot since just last month when I made that iPhone app gallery, so there are still a whole lot of great apps available that aren’t included in the gallery. As you may remember, we showed you how to jailbreak your iPhone using a couple of different methods several weeks back, but this one-click Safari hack requires absolutely no hacking skills—or even advanced computer skills. As always, proceed at your own risk. This method does exploit your phone and could potentially give access to your info if malicious forces were at work. However, one of the particularly interesting things about this installation method is that not only does it install Installer.app, but it also fixes the exploit that allows this to happen.

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Steve Jobs believes that the iPhone is “the best mobile platform ever for developers”, but users are still waiting for Apple to open up the phone for third parties almost four months after launch. But according Jobs, the SDK is coming – as soon as concerns about malware threats have been reduced.

 

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So hot on the heels of that Greenpeace report (and Apple response) claiming the iPhone contains toxic chemicals, California’s Center for Environmental Health filed legal notice of a potential lawsuit against Apple alleging under California’s Proposition 65 law that the iPhone’s “phthalate” content requires the company to either put warning labels on the device, or, better yet, re-engineer it so it doesn’t contain the compounds at all. The notice gives Apple 60 days to respond before CEH can file a lawsuit. We spoke to Charles Margulis, communications director at CEH, and learned a few things about the suit:

• CEH hasn’t actually tested an iPhone for the presence of these compounds themselves — they’re working off what they, like everyone else, read in the Greenpeace report. However, they have started testing and expect to be complete before the 60 days are up. Charles wouldn’t say what they would do if their tests didn’t jive with Greenpeace’s results.
• The reason they filed suit so quickly is a function of how the law works. Even though they don’t have independent verification of the iPhone’s alleged toxic content, CEH will be in a weaker position to sue Apple if another organization or individual files first. According to Charles, CEH would rather have Apple revise the iPhone to be cleaner than get massive damages, and CEH doesn’t want other, greedier parties to get in the way.
• The ultimate goal is not necessarily monetary damages — although Charles called those “a tool we can use” — but to get Apple to reformulate the iPhone and perhaps send a warning letter to existing customers.

So while we’re still going to be skeptical until we see additional verification of that Greenpeace report, it certainly doesn’t seem like CEH is simply angling for cash here. In the meantime, it might be wise to avoid blending your baby.

News Source : www.engadgetmobile.com

Yesterday’s battle between Greenpeace and Apple had the former publicly chastising the latter for its continued use of hazardous chemicals in its iPhone. While they conceded that Apple is compliant with Europe’s RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) standard, they lambasted Cupertino for its continued use of PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) which, according to Greenpeace, “suggests that Apple is not making early progress towards its 2008 commitment to phase-out all uses of these materials.” This morning, an Apple spokesperson told Macworld that, “Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS, the world’s toughest restrictions on toxic substances in electronics. As we have said, Apple will voluntarily eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008.” Sure, you can fault Apple for not being as environmentally friendly as PVC-free Nokia, or Motorola and Sony Ericsson who offer some devices with BFR-free components. However, Greenpeace shouldn’t feign surprise at what they found.

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While we’ve seen a variety of surveys pitting the iPhone against its most notable rivals, a recent study conducted by the NPD Group breaks down the numbers behind who left what phone (and what carrier) to acquire an iPhone. Not surprisingly, iPhone early adopters were “ten times more likely than other new phone buyers to have previously owned a Treo and three times more likely to have owned a T-Mobile branded phone, such as the popular Sidekick model.” When it came to carriers, Alltel and T-Mobile were said to have lost the most customers to AT&T, as consumers who “switched carriers to buy an iPhone were three times more likely to switch from Alltel or T-Mobile than from other carriers.” Notably, the lack of “corporate email support” was pinpointed as the main reason that many BlackBerry users didn’t make the leap, but it did praise the iPhone for helping to “bridge the gap between consumer-focused feature phones and productivity-focused smartphones.”

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Apple’s no stranger to being slammed by Greenpeace, and while Steve certainly spoke of a “Greener Apple,” it seems that the iPhone wasn’t included. According to tests arranged by the entity, it was found that the iPhone contained “toxic brominated compounds (indicating the presence of brominated flame retardants) and hazardous PVC,” which are said to be disallowed across the pond due to RoHS requirements. More specifically, the independent testing found “brominated compounds in half the samples, including in the phone’s antenna, in which they made up 10-percent of the total weight of the flexible circuit board.” As expected, Greenpeace wasted no time pointing to rival firms that have received pats on the back for their green efforts, and subsequently shook a finger at Apple while murmuring “tsk tsk” — but we’ll leave the actual politicking to you all in comments, cool?

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