Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
iPhone Diamond Studded Leather Case costs $15K

Noreve is the design firm behind this Diamond Studded iPhone leather case. This case is embedded with 272 diamonds on a high quality leather.


Noreve is the design firm behind this Diamond Studded iPhone leather case. This case is embedded with 272 diamonds on a high quality leather.


According to John Gruber (Daring Fireball), an “informed source” at Apple had revealed that iPhone was not calling home. the “clbl” in the aforementioned URL stands for “Core Location Blacklist” and is actually used to stipulate that specific pieces of software don’t have access to Core Location. So to tell the truth, it’s actually protecting your privacy from all those nasty applications.

iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski says that Apple has a blacklisting mechanism that allows them to remotely disable unauthorized applications on your phone.

IPhones can be tethered wirelessly says Engadget. The $10 Netshare app sneaked into the Apps store without being censored. The app is just a SOCKS proxy that links an ad-hoc WiFi network to the iPhone’s 3G or EDGE connection. I guess the guys at Engadget managed to download it (it’s offline now though). Video after [...]

That’s right people! iTunes 7.7.1 is available for download. Though is no clear information on what this update will do except for a few vague words as “fixes to improve stability and performance“.
Also remember this update is available in few days after the iPhone app DRM was cracked. So if you are playing with the black arts, wait or someone to report whether this affects anything. The software is available through the Apple’s software update.

Just in a week time, more and more people are reporting about white iPhone cracks. From Crunch Gear to MacRumors, everyone is talking about the cracks in the white iPhone.
For almost 1year none reported about cracks in the black iphones. Are black iPhone stronger than black or it’s just the black iPhones good in hiding the cracks?!

iLounge has an interesting news that, upcoming iPod nanos will have a bigger screen with aspect ratio of 1.5:1 same as iPhone and iPod touch.
In order to give room for the bigger screen, the iPod nano will be pulled back to the old-school third generation dimensions. There is also a rumor that iPod will have paint jobs.
Finally iPhone Dev team has released the Pwnage Tool 2.0. Now jailbreaking can be done for 3G iPhones. SIM Unlocking can’t be done yet. Users have came out with mixed results at Engadget but none has reported for bricked iPhone so far. If you got the guts, try it for yourself.
Download iPhone Pwnage Tool [...]