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The iPhone Dev Team has sold out to the highest bidder - well, not exactly, they were “pressured.” The PWNED tool for hacking the iPhone was scheduled for distribution yesterday but due to unnamed criticisms over its “validity” the team had to pull it out and take an undetermined offer from an unknown party. The Team also hasn’t given any leads as to the identity of the private purchaser. So, alas and good-bye iPhone Dev Team.

Update: Engadget is saying it could be an April’s Fools practical joke.

More Update after the break.

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After the announcement of the 16GB Samsung P2, th Bluewave 3 firmware update is the most anticipated by P2 fans. Bluewave 3 is not only for P2 but for the T10 as well.

Here’s what you can expect from Blue Wave 3 for P2 owners:

• Four new themes for the GUI
• Full-screen mode supported
• Calculator and dictionary added
• Brightness and speed controls for video playback

For the T10:

• Ten new GUI themes
• Three additional games
• Video bookmarking
• Horizontal viewing and AAC support
• File deletion capability from the device itself

[via gmp3]

Besides their recent iPhone 1.2.0 hack, the iPhone Dev Team will soon be releasing their PWNED, another breakthrough in iPhone hacking. PWNED patches bootloader and lets user load any firmware image, even those that aren’t signed by Apple. Jailbreak has never been easier. Patches can now be downloaded via iTunes. This new development is almost surely a precursor to the actual 2.0 patch. For more information about the theiphoneproject, click the link below. Excerpt:

Full independence from Apple’s vision on what the iPhone (and iPod Touch) can and cannot do. Currently it will allow you to restore to a jailbroken and unlocked state, and if you can figure it out - some extra cool stuff like Installer, Cydia, and other applications. You will eventually be able to backup your entire phone and restore to a state exactly the way you like it, restore straight to jailbroken state with installer, or even potentially install other OSes like linux (see iphonelinux.org) to your phone.

[theiphoneproject via engadget] 

The Apple iPhone may e dropping across the border come June. By then it will be one year after it launched in the U.S. Telcel, which services 72% of Mexican mobile users, is the most likely distributor. The question is, will it be the 3G version of the iPhone. Telcel clients number 49 million GSM subscribers. Rival Telefonica will be left struggling without iPhone and will most likely be holding its breath after the Telecel iPhone launching hoping Telecel won’t it up the rest of that small fraction of the Mexican market it does not yet have.

[via crunchgear]

There are simply too many iPhone knock-offs to make us excited about another one. But, then, when a manufacturer makes it a point that potential buyers do not mistake their product as Apple made, we take notice and give it its due appreciation. The Iphone CT599 is a dual band GSM phone with a 3.2-inch touch screen. and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It has stereo Bluetooth, MMS, SMS group sending, voice recording and games support. It is priced at just under $200. I urge you to have a look at the complete specs (provided after the break) before you decide to buy it online, because with the free shipping you might just be tempted.

[product via gmp3]

This news comes from controversial Chinese site CNMO.com, the same site that brought us the news/ fan art of the Meizu M8 user interface. As Microsoft makes more profit on Office than it does on its current Vista OS, they’d want to make the software widely available in man different platform. Like the last Meizu Mini One news, this makes sense too, but I’d rather hear it from Apple and Microsoft directly. Again, it makes a lot of sense. MacBooks run Microsoft Office and Apple does  not really have a product that can compete with Office and may never be able to develop one.

[via cnmo]

One of Apple’s recent patents seems to be a new Nike+iPod system, using the iPhone as a “lifestyle companion.” The idea is to make the iPhone even more ubiquitous than the iPod. With the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer and smartphone functionality, not to mention, memory capacity Apple making it an all-around gadget doesn’t seem such a crazy idea. Extending the idea even further, Apple plans to use the iPhone’s camera as a calorie counter of sorts to scan the bar codes on food products, so if Apple adds a camera on the iPod Touch it’s only reasonable to expect that it can be a lifestyle companion too. It’s definitely a good idea to me and hopefully a new and more portable hardware will come with the implementation.

[via engadget]

A disgruntled supplier, who was not picked by Apple to supply the parts of the new iPod revealed that Apple is going to release new iPod PMPs in Q3 of this year. Wolfson, which is based in Edinburgh, suffered a 30 per cent plunge in their stock after being rejected by Apple. The new iPods were a new version of the Nano and the Touch. Could this new Apple Patent for a “clamshell iPhone” we posted sometime ago be the new iPod Touch or Nano? With a flippable transparent touch-sensitive panel, Apple could put multi-touch functionality on an undersized iPod Nano.

[via reuters]

Terrific news for Eee PC fans. Spotted at the FCC site is not only a 9-inch Eee PC or a touch screen Eee PC, but a 9-inch multi-touch screen Eee PC.

The original Eee PC has a touchpad made for elf fingers. Most likely, with two-finger scrolling support the touch pad would be much larger, though it doesn’t look it on the image. I wonder how much this contraption will cost on retail, but I bet Eee PC wouldn’t be synonymous anymore with cheap laptop.

[via mobilemag]

The iPhone hype machine has begun rumbling anew and this time it’s finally about 3G connectivity. Now, we’re quite sure iPhone will have 3G this year, but some people just couldn’t wait. With 3G one can surf the Web at near broadband speeds away from a WiFi hotspot. No more snail-paced EDGE. With 3G, Apple will also get to enjoy higher user fees from AT&T. Apple gets a cut every time AT&T charges an iPhone user a fee and 3G connectivity means higher fees from user. Make no mistake, Apple is just as excited about putting 3G on their phone as we are, but it’s taking them this long to resolve the battery drain issues that come with 3G. One possible solution is using an OLED screen instead of LCD. OLED is not only thinner, it’s also more energy efficient. OLED screens have been popular now for some time especially with Chinese manufacturers, so we’re not talking about cutting edge here. So, hopefully, in the Summer we will have the longest lasting cellphone battery on a 3G phone.

[via techdigest, newlaunches]