Apple iPhone is regarded as the must have gadget by many gadget freaks. With the features of iPod and phone one would get the world into their hands! Apple iphone users are normally restricted to use only the networks prescribed by the iphones. One needn’t worry anymore as there is a way to bring your favorite network on your phone! Jail breaking is the technique, where the iphone is modified to be used with any other network. This would ensure that you can use any desired network of your choice. In this method, a code is run and this would overcome the distribution rights of the apple company. Although jail break is not legal, it is considered a good option by many fans as it would allow you to download applications from unauthorized dealers like Cydia, Icy etc. Cydia is the most popular brand and one could find lots of paid apps in Rock App. There are also applications that are not officially supported by the developers. One would be able to download applications from apple in a jail broken website also.

People who like iphone applications would have more reasons to like the jail broken version! There are many interesting applications available with the apple iphone. One would be able to bookmark all their favorite applications. This would ensure that they navigate through their phone easily. Bookmarking is another favorite application from Infinidock and one could easily load this application in their jail broken application. It is in fact very difficult to get good applications in the original apple iphone. One would be able to get lots of varieties of applications in their jail broken version. There is also other interesting application that could be added in your phone without cluttering the interface! The applications that are chosen are arranged horizontally on the screen. Users may choose the applications that must be visible in the first screen. The rest of the applications can simply be accessed by scrolling the screen. In a jail broken iphone, an entire customization is possible which would ensure that your iphone experience is increased a lot! You would be able to add so many applications as you wish and the dock size would simply increase based on the number of applications you add. One would also be able to get their bugs corrected. It is possible to send error via email. These applications are very cheap and one could get it even at $0.99!

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Protect your iPhone 3G from Scratches - Get the invisibleSHIELD.

Protect your phone from damage with the virtually indestructible and exceptionally clear Apple iPhone 3G InvisibleSHIELD Full Body Protector. This full body protective film is designed to prevent scratches on your Apple iPhone 3G and keep it as new as the when it first came out of the box. Made to completely cover your Apple iPhone 3G, the Apple iPhone 3G InvisibleSHIELD Full Body Protector features nano-memory technology, which gives it it’s slight “orange peel” surface texture. This revolutionary technology gives the film damage resistance and self-healing properties that will ensure lasting protection no matter how many times your keys rub against it. The optically clear, transparent film is constructed of the same material used to protect helicopters blades from damage by the military.

Keep your Apple iPhone 3G protected at all times with the tough Apple iPhone 3G InvisibleSHIELD Full Body Protector. The film is optically transparent, allowing the beauty of your Apple iPhone 3G to shine through, while it keeps it fully protected from scratches, dents, abrasions, and nicks. Every inch of your phone is protected by the Apple iPhone 3G InvisibleSHIELD Full Body Protector due to its precision-cut design that covers the entire surface of your phone. The thin, yet extremely tough film allows you to use other accessories with your Apple 3G iPhone including a dock or a snap-on case for additional protection.

The skin is designed to remain on your Apple iPhone 3G for as long as you want protection. But, if you need to remove it, it peels off easily without leaving a sticky residue. The Apple iPhone 3G kit comes with 1 complete set of Apple iPhone 3G InvisibleSHIELD Full Body Protector, a professional rubber squeegee, application solution, instructions and *Lifetime Warranty against damage.

Apple iPhone 3G InvisibleSHIELD Full Body Protector Features:

• Made of the same super durable, scratch-resistant polyurethane film as used on helicopter blades
• Designed to cover the entire surface of your Apple 3G iPhone
• Slim, transparent film, measuring 0.2 millimeters in thickness, allows use of other cases or docks and makes it the slimmest protective solution for your Apple iPhone 3G
• Comes with: 1 Apple iPhone 3G InvisibleSHIELD Full Body Protector (including screen protectors), 1 rubber squeegee, 1 application solution, and instructions
• Lifetime Warranty against invisibleSHIELD products that are damage while protecting your device*

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invisible shield

Wholesaler China Ontrade.com has posted parts from the next-generation iPhone 3G 2009: The LCD screen and the middle internal bezel.

They even have pictures comparing the new parts to the old ones, and it looks pretty legit.

The wholesaler says the following in their site:

“This is great honor for China Ontrade (HK) chinaontrade.com to be the 1st started to supply iphone 3gen 2009 parts directly from factory.”

It looks like the web site and the new parts are the real deal, but who knows. They also sell every single spare iPhone 3G part you can imagine—as well as original factory parts for Blackberry, Nokia, LG, HTC, MacBooks, and even Nintendo. They claim the new iPhone 3G 2009 parts will ship “within 5 to 12 working days.”

As expected, there is no OLED screen seen here. Unless they have another product using the OLED, which isn’t likely at this stage. The omission of an OLED screen is liable to cause much angst among technophiles, who were clamoring for an OLED screen to be included in this version of the iPhone.

Anyone who’s played classic Sega and Nintendo games are very familiar with the wacky hedgehog, Sonic.

It’s been a console game institution for years now, and its headed to your iPhone.

Sonic The Hedgehog for iPhone was released today on the App Store, and you can download Sonic for the iPhone for $5.99 and start racing through various levels to free captured animals from the insidious Dr. Eggman.

Sonic for iPhone was announced by Sega’s Director of Production, Paxton Lazar, during the “Mobile Gaming Experience” panel at the Consumer Electronics Show, on January 7, 2009 and finally released today.

According to Sega, Sonic has been faithfully recreated to take advantage of the iPhone’s powerful capabilities, enabling users to enjoy the classic style and breakneck speed of the game with responsive touchpad controls and sharp, clear graphics that will take players back to the old console stomping grounds.

You can choose between fullscreen or “Arcade” view, and supposedly the animation and scrolling is very smooth.

Blog Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a dedicated Hulu application is indeed on its way. An iPhone app should be here in just a few months.

Hulu has been busy denying the rumors that an iPhone version of Hulu was coming. SAI says the application will work over Wi-Fi and AT&T’s 3G network, meaning that users will be able to view programming anywhere with a fast data connection. The upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 software update, which lets developers bake streaming media into their applications.

For Hulu, this means that the advertising could be stuck into the mobile stream and that users would be able to watch videos without leaving the application.

Users of Hulu can watch ad-supported, full-length television shows and movies on their personal computers for free, instead of paying Apple to download a copy for offline viewing. If such an app were available on the iPhone, it would also offer portable TV and movie watching, something not yet offered in Apple’s own mobile iTunes app, which is limited to video podcasts.

A new rumor, complete with screenshots, maintains that Apple is on the verge of allowing movie and TV show downloads directly from an iPhone or iPod touch.

According to the blogger reporting the purported find, a friend who downloaded the latest version of the iPhone app TwitterFon claims to have discovered three mobile ads from Apple that pointed to “iTunes Movies,” “iTunes Movie Rentals” and “iTunes TV.”

Rather than take the visitor to a website, however, tapping one of the ads is said to switch to the mobile iTunes client and shows what appears to be a work-in-progress video section of Apple’s mobile store. Viewers can browse genres and see featured items, but tapping the actual videos themselves produces a notice that the content is “not available.”

Promos for episodes and movies are missing.

The section was reportedly in a rough enough state when viewed that a navigation bar used to filter by music videos, movies and TV shows wasn’t there at one point in the day and appeared the next. It’s possible that Apple was building the portal in a live environment, the report suggests.

A video store would signal a loosening of the restrictions surrounding video downloads on the iPhone. Since adding the podcast section to the iTunes Store, Apple has allowed downloading video podcasts whenever one of its handheld devices is connected through Wi-Fi but has never permitted paid video downloads, in part because of the lengthy wait to download hundreds of megabytes of content.

It appears that wait may be over.

Here’s an oddity: Arabic and Hebrew characters don’t render in the iPhone’s web browser. BBC News, for example, offers news in a variety of different languages, including Arabic. However, when you try to view those pages on the iPhone, the Arabic text renders as gibberish. A quick test of other sites in both Arabic and Hebrew showed that the iPhone’s version of Safari doesn’t render either language correctly. Safari on OS X (and, presumably, on Windows) handles Arabic and Hebrew just fine, and in fact languages with other alphabets do seem to display correctly on the iPhone’s version of Safari: Chinese and Russian, for example. The problem likely lies in the character encodings supported by the iPhone’s browser: indeed, visiting one site which tests Unicode support for browsers showed that Safari on the iPhone does not recognize any characters from Hebrew or Arabic, though it does recognize most characters from other encodings such as Cyrillic and Japanese. I presume support for other alphabets will materialize in a future software update, and I’d imagine it’d be necessary before the iPhone can be offered for sale in the Middle East, anyway.

Have you just bought a new iPhone and are having a hard time getting the voice mail set up? You may have spent hours on the phone with customer service and gotten nowhere. Here, you will find the help you need to get your voice mail set up easily.

The first thing is not to put the SIM card from your old phone into your iPhone. Everything else will work but you voice mail and visual mail will likely not work. If you go to an AT&T store, you can get a new SIM put in your phone and help with getting everything from your old SIM card transferred to it.

Now you are ready for the next step. Call customer service at AT&T (the exclusive iPhone service provider in the US) and tell the representative that you need to setup voice mail. Be sure to tell him or her to check to make sure the forwarding feature to forward calls to your voice mail is turned on. This is something that is often overlooked by customer service representatives. Once this is done, you are ready to actually setup voice mail.

Before you begin, it is a good idea to know what password you want to use. Might write down what you want to record as your outgoing message, too. Doing this will save time and make the process to setup voice mail go smoother.

Your password should be between 6 and 15 characters. Make sure it is something you can remember but others will find impossible to guess. Now you tap the voice mail icon on your iPhone. You will be asked to create a password at this point. Enter the password you have created and then you will be asked to record a greeting. You will have the option of using a default iPhone voice mail greeting that will include your phone number or you can record your own. You can change your greeting at any time by tapping voice mail, greeting, custom and then record. Do not forget to save your greeting once you are satisfied with it.

Students at Penn state who subscribe to Penn iPhone can log in to My iPhone and setup voice mail for their iPhones. PennKey authentication will be required. Once on the home page, look for Features and Voice Mail and go to that page. Here, you will put in the password you have created. You can change this password at any time by logging in on My iPhone or through the voice mail icon on your phone. After you have entered your password, re-enter it is the field, Confirm Password. After up press the submit button, your account will be updated to include it.

To record your greeting, press the ‘messages’ button, it will be to the right of the keypad. Press ‘0′ to bring up the mailbox options. From there, you will be prompted to choose the type of greeting you want, such as busy, unavailable and name. Then you will get a prompt from the system to record your greeting. When you are finished, choose accept, listen and, if you desire, re-record. When you are satisfied with your greeting, press * or # to go back to the menu or exit.

Most of the mobile phones use litium-ion battery. The Apple made iPhone also uses a same standard and frequently rechargeable lithium-ion dry battery. In Apple ipod battery is not removable or replaceable. Therefore it is essential that a great care be taken to preserve battery condition in the best possible available way. Because battery cannot be replace by an ordinary technician so an expert can only replace the iPhone battery. Replacement of iPhone battery is an expensive affair; it normally cost $80 to 200 to get it replaced. A great care is needed to extend the life of iPhone battery to enjoy utility of it.

There are few basic guidelines, which help us to keep our battery safe. First and foremost rule to protect a battery is to keep it away from moistures environment. Do not drop it and lend in different people hands. Never keep the battery for overcharging and on exhaustive discharging condition. If there are any symptoms of malfunctioning of the iPhone, consult an expert without a self-fiddling. These batteries and sets are very sensitive and fragile, it is advised to handle the iPhone with a single hand.

An iPhone battery can be made durable by taking these precautions. A lithium ion battery is a standard and high quality battery, which can easily be made to be used for a few years if a proper care and precautions is taken. There is no such battery, which can last forever; it just means that a care makes battery to last longer. Heat is a plague for a lithium battery so it should be avoided in all conditions. Intense ionization takes place in the lithium battery and heat destroys its ability of ionization. Instructions are given in the iPhone booklet to avoid the continuous exposure of iPhone to the sunlight. The battery will be sufficiently hot to get destroyed in few hours.

There are the examples that in the after noon sun light has severely damaged iPhone battery. Leaving battery in the car exposed to sunlight can also damage the battery. Always make sure that standard charger supplied with the set charges iPhone battery. It will not only ensure you iPhone’s warranty, but also keep the iPhone safe from damage. Lithium-ion batteries need to be charged with an accurate charging rate and smooth voltage without any interruptions. Local chargers won’t provide the regulated voltage, which can slowly degrade the quality of the iPhone battery. Avoid charging iPhone battery in vehicle. These chargers are not accurate and charge the battery quickly, and it adversely affects the battery. Although Apple has developed few vehicle chargers, but these chargers are not as good as a charger provided with original equipment manufacturer. It’s true; a little care makes an accident rare.