All Articles in iphone 3gs

Friday Fun Video: ZGrip iPhone Stability System

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Cali Lewis tweets:

This iPhone 3GS Rig is on my wish list as soon as an iPhone or Touch does 720p

We [...]

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iPhone 3.1 Beta 2: Triple Click Home for Voice Over, White on Black, or Ask Menu

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Speaking of iPhone 3GS accessibility features, it looks like Apple is improving them in iPhone 3.1 Beta 2 by adding a new “triple click” option to the home button to toggle VoiceOver, Toggle White on Black, and Ask (which then will pop up a menu offering Turn VoiceOver On, Turn Zoom On, Turn White on [...]

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iPhone 3GS with VoiceOver Easiest Smartphone for Blind People?

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According to David Pogue in the New York Times, the accessibility features like VoiceOver introduced with the iPhone 3GS make it one of the easiest smartphones for the blind and visually impaired:

First, you tap something to hear it. You can tap icons, words, even the tiny status icons at the top of the [...]

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New iPhone 3GS Unlock – Purplesn0w

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George Hotz has taken it upon himself to create a new iPhone 3GS unlocking solution which he calls purplesn0w. It seems the original iPhone hacker and creator of the jailbreak software purplera1n, was once again not happy with the Dev Teams software, this time it was their unlocking tool, ultrasn0w.

First off, what is purplesn0w? [...]

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iPhone 3GS Doesn’t Support HSUPA for High Speed 3G Upload

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Macworld is reporting that while the iPhone 3GS chipset does indeed support the new (for North America!) HSPDA download speed of 7.2 Mbps, Apple didn’t see fit to equip it with the matching HSUPA upload speed of 1.4/1.9 Mbps. Indeed, they claim the iPhone 3GS will top out its uploads (sending videos to YouTube, emailing [...]

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iPhone 3GS — Twice the RAM… 10x the Impact?

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tap tap tap points out something that perhaps should have been obvious from the start regarding the iPhone 3GS‘ 256MB of RAM — that doubling the memory, once the OS loads and programs start eating away at it, often leaves more than double the free space.

The older iPhone models have been often considered [...]

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Ultrasn0w, Redsn0w, and Winterboard Get iPhone 3GS Compatible

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Three of the most popular tools on the scene have been updated to be fully compatible with the iPhone 3GS: The Dev Teams software unlock – ultrasn0w, their jailbreak software – redsn0w (via torrent for Windows, Mac, Linux), and saurik’s popular iPhone theming tool, Winterboard (via Cydia).

Two hours ago saurik twittered the following:

The [...]

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iPhone 3GS Video Recording Technical Breakdown

Automatic Filmmaker — you may remember the from the Technologic Overkill music video filmed entirely with an iPhone 3GS — have put together a technical breakdown of what they think so far as well a comparison with the Flip MinoHD.

If you’ve been putting the iPhone 3GS video camera through similar paces, let us know your [...]

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Purplera1n for Mac OS X Released

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We’ve just gotten word from TiPb forums that George Hotz has released his much anticipated Mac OS X version of purplea1n.

So you say you have an iPhone 3GS along with that jailbreak itch? Hit the link and get your download on. As always proceed at your own risk. TiPb and all of it’s staff [...]

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iPhone 3GS Oleophobic Coating Wearing?

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Engadget Mobile has posted a link to a forum in which an individual claims to have issues with the oleophobic coating on his iPhone 3GS wearing off.

Is it possible? Sure, anything is possible. Is it likely this will happen to you? Highly unlikely. There could be a few explanations here: could be a simple [...]

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