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iPhone 1.1.3 Update Confirmed, Breaks Apps and Unlocks

Posted by Zonk on from the peak-into-the-itech-future dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has gathered conclusive evidence which confirms that the iPhone Firmware 1.1.3 update is 100% real. It installs only from iTunes using the obligatory Apple private encryption key, which nobody has. The list of new features, like GPS-like triangulation positioning in Google Maps, has been confirmed too. Apparently it will be coming out next week, but there's bad news as expected: it breaks the unlocks, patches the previous vulnerabilities used by hackers and takes away all your third-party applications."

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  1. Re:Just need to wait until it's jailbreaked... by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 1, Troll

    Personally, I only use previously owned generic unlocked phones the size of a work boot. I buy them at thrift stores.

    Moron.

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  2. Re:Just need to wait until it's jailbreaked... by Columcille · · Score: 1, Troll

    So it's worth noting that Apple is releasing an iPhone SDK sometime in 2008, opening up room for 3rd party apps... And the iPhone OS of 2010 will not be the iPhone OS of 2007. However, if things in the OSS community continue as normal, any OSS phone OS of 2010 will likely be like a phone OS of 2005. Android might possibly be an exception and since that's the one you mentioned, we'll just have to wait and see.

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