Appletell | Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPod | News, Rumors, Reviews, How-Tos

Subscribe to our content for free: (?)
Get our Daily Email
Articles about jailbreak iphone

Apple says jailbreaking could crash cell towers

by Josh Holat on Jul 31, 2009 at 06:02 AM

Apple is again trying to stop the jailbreaking of the iPhone despite launching their own App Store to compete with the abilities that jailbroken phones offer. While they at first said it was simply illegal, they are now attempting to show that it could bring down the cellular network. In… Continue Reading »

iPhone Dev-Team launches yellowsn0w unlock

by Indraneel Purohit on Jan 1, 2009 at 11:59 AM

Ringing in the new year is the iPhone Dev Team, who have just made available their iPhone 3G unlock software, entitled “yellowsn0w.” Contradicting their previous blog posts, however, is the fact that this only runs on the 2.2 firmware, whereas the Dev Team had stated the unlock would not work… Continue Reading »

Vietnamese phone shop unlocks iPhone 3G

by Bill Stiteler on Nov 28, 2008 at 04:34 PM

Dong Ngo is an editor for Cnet who’s visiting his homeland of Vietnam. While there, he came across a phone shop that’s doing a booming business by unlocking 3G iPhones. But Tuan Anh Do isn’t doing it by replacing the SIM card (which can cause compatibility problems with iTunes) or… Continue Reading »

iPhone and iPod touch DFU mode DOA in new unibody MacBooks?

by Indraneel Purohit on Nov 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM

For the sake of jailbreakers and certain Dev Teams, we should all hope this is false, but rumor has it that the new unibody aluminum MacBooks cannot recognize the DFU mode required to jailbreak current iPhones and iPod touches. Some users in iPhone and iPod touch forums are reporting that… Continue Reading »

Germany bans iPhone VOIP

by Bill Stiteler on Sep 17, 2008 at 11:59 AM

A German court has issued an injunction banning that country’s iPhone users from downloading a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) called Sipgate onto their iPhones. The program allows users to make phone calls using a wireless internet connection, rather than using a cell phone connection (and paying carrier T-mobile in… Continue Reading »

App Store or Installer.app? The choice is yours.

by Josh Holat on Jul 6, 2008 at 08:58 PM

The App Store comes out in about a week and promises to awe iPhone users with a library of awesome, Apple supported applications. Whether Apple’s idea to include this came from enraged consumers or the rush they were seeing towards jailbreaking is not known. However, in the end, Apple is… Continue Reading »

Special Features