Hey, great news!  It’s now possible to transfer ringtones to the iPhone!  Hey, poor news!  It’s a twenty-three step process that involves using Terminal and replacing system files that, whether you get it wrong, could easily brick your phone.  Seriously, that isn’t drag’n’drop, society.  Still, kudos to the guys by at #iphone-dev who have figured out [...]

On July 4th, the United States’ Independence Day, hackers announced they had achieved iPhone independence from AT&T and Apple – at least for the purpose of activating the phone. Owners who had purchased the iPhone but refused to initiate a service contract with AT&T were able to download a tool provided by the iPhone Dev [...]

The gang on the #iphone-dev IRC channel have not wasted any date getting at the good stuff. With reported access to the iPhone’s filesystem, they now can create custom ringtones. Original post by admin

Hackers love a big challenge, and there’s nothing bigger (right now) than cracking the iPhone. Full access to the file system is now possible using iPhoneInterface. that means that we can expect custom ringtones and plethora of 3rd party apps (maybe?). The image above depicts where the hackers were able to move the Safari application [...]

You’ve heard it said “never engage in a land war in Asia”? While none of these developments are the kind of thing that your average user (or heck, even potential user) is likely to use, it’s only a matter of duration before it’s simplified for the rest of us. Okay, well not your iPhone per [...]

If you had unfettered access to the iPhone’s wallpapers, icons, ringtones and the rest – both preloaded and to add your own – what would you do first?  Well, IRC channel #iPhone members are claiming to have gained just such access, and they’ve changed… the position of the Safari icon.  Seriously, though, that is a [...]

Filed under: Cellphones Well, that didn’t take enlarged — the hacker crew of IRC channel #iPhone has managed to enable shell access to the iPhone just a week after its release. The resulting shell is pretty basic, but features a TFTP client — meaning that we should see a flood of attempts to open the [...]

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video Hot on the heels of the activation hack, iPhone enthusiasts from the irc.osx86.hu channels #iphone-talk and #iphone-mac have deepened the cracks in the Apple device’s armor by creating an application called iPhoneInterface, a Windows and Mac tool which allows you to manipulate the phone’s state, fiddle with launch [...]

Hearkening back to rotary phones, the invention would let a user pick numbers to dial by rotating the go wheel to choose numbers from an on-screen circular list. A second patent, “Touch pad with symbols based on mode,” would change the controls of the go wheel itself so that users could tap parts of the [...]