A new beta version of Pwnage for Windows (WinPwn) has been released. There are several bugfixes in it, but it is still no major release. The version number now says: 0.99.2.19. Though there are no limitations in this version, we would not recommend to use it just now.
The german News service Heise.de reports, that only 8,000 iPhone are registered in Austria. Not even all of these have been sold by T-Mobile, but have been imported from other countries and unlocked (eds note: well, we all know this is the fun part of the iPhone, don’t we?).
The main reason for the reserved treatment of the iPhone seems to be the bad coverage of EDGE in Austria, while 3G/UMTS is covered in 75% of the whole austrian territory.
The german News service Heise.de today reports, that Vodafone will offer the Apple iPhone in 10 countries: Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), South Africa, India, Egyt, Greece, Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal and Turkey. Exact time tables are unknown, but carrier contracts will be offered in these countries in the course of this year 2008. Neither Apple nor Vodafone mentioned, if this is an exclusive offer or if there will be other carriers to sell the iPhone in these countries aswell. There is no information if Vodafone is to offer the rumored 3G/UMTS iPhone.
Rumors and more rumors about the new version of our beloved iPhone. But now something really seems to be fishy. Golem.de reports that german news magazin Wirtschaftswoche talked to some Infineon insiders. They said, Apple does not order any old chips from them, but is clearing its own stocks. The new 3G model will be presented in June or July. Sale will begin in autumn 2008. Moreover a GPS module will be included in the 3G/UMTS iPhone.
The british Times reports: European carriers seem not to be able to sell all of the ordered amounts of iPhones. They originally expected to sell 500,000 -600,000 devices. But T-Mobile (Germany), O2 (UK) and Orange (France) only managed to sell about 330,000 devices. Like T-Mobile, who recuced the price for the iPhone to 99€, O2 reduced the entry prices for the iPhone last week (from £270 to £170 [from about $535 to $337 / or from about €337 to €212]).
Orange is expected to cut the prices during the next days. The price cuts look like clearance sales and match the fact, that sales have slowed significantly. Rumors say, the sales slowed down, because Apple is about to begin to produce the 3G series of the iPhone in may.
There are also rumors, that Apple will stop just marketing the iPhone with one carrier only per country in early 2009.
» Times Online: iPhone sellers braced for hit on unsold handsets
» Incomplete-News: T-Mobile offers iPhone in Germany for 99€
Die britisch Times berichtet, dass Europäische Provider Schwierigkeiten haben, die geordeten Lagerbestände an iPhones zu verkaufen. Ursprüngliche Schätzungen gingen von einem Verkauf von 500.000 – 600.000 Geräten aus, aber T-Mobile (D), O2 (UK) und Orange (Frankreich) konnten insgesamt nur rund 330.000 Geräte loswerden. Ähnlich wie T-Mobile, die den iPhone Preis bereits auf 99€ reduziert haben, hat nun O2 in der vergangenen Woche nachgezogen und den Preis reduziert (von £270 auf £170 [von etwa €337 auf €212]). Es wird erwartet, das Orange die Preise ebenfalls in den nächsten Tagen senken wird.
Die Preissenkungen machen den Eindruck, als seien es Räumungsverkäufe. Dies wiederum passt zu dem Umstand, dass die iPhone Verkäufe insgesamt deutlich zurückgegangen sind. Gerüchten zufolge liegt dies daran, dass Apple schon im Mai beginnen wird, die UMTS/3G Variante des iPhone zu produzieren.
Weiteren Gerüchten zufolge, hat Apple Pläne die Provider-Bindung für den iPhone Verkauf ab Anfang 2009 aufzugeben.
» Times Online: iPhone sellers braced for hit on unsold handsets
» Incomplete-News: T-Mobile offers iPhone in Germany for 99€
Anyway this is a beta version – it is recommended to be used at most for jailbreak and installing the installer.app only. We we recommend to not use it at all just now. Rumors tell that WinPwn beta 2 will be released tonight.
(pictures taken from the Fring Website!)
Fring enables the iPhone to:
Currently this is a special release only, which is still being developed. But beta-testing is not restricted to a chosen community. We only need to have installer.app installed on our jailbreaked iPhone.
How to install:
installer.appadd sources, add this address http://fring.com/iphone.xmlfringfringThis package comes from an untrusted source, it may be unsafe to install!” by just clicking the red “Install” buttonFring ermöglicht es, mit dem iPhone:
Derzeit handelt es sich noch eine Beta-Version, jedoch ist deren Benutzung nicht beschränkt auf einen bestimmten Teilnehmerkreis. Wir benötigen lediglich die installer.app auf unserem ge-jailbreakten iPhone.
Wie man Frings installiert:
installer.app öffnen
add sources, diese Adresse hinzufügen http://fring.com/iphone.xmlfring erscheinen
fringThis package comes from an untrusted source, it may be unsafe to install!” beantwortet man mit einem Klick auf den roten “Install” ButtonAs announced the iPhone Dev Team just released some minutes ago parts of the Pwnage source code belonging to the firmware customizer under the GNU GPL.
» iPhone Dev Team…
» Firmware customizer source code…
Wie bereits angekündigt hat das iPhone Dev Team soeben Quellcode Teile des Pwnage Tools, die sich mit der manuellen Firmware Anpassung beschäftigen, unter der GNU GPL veröffentlicht.
Prof. Srdjan Capkun and his team from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland just released a report, how the Wifi geolocation tracking of the iPhone can be fooled. By changing the MAC address of Wifi stations surrounding the iPhone they demonstrated how to make an iPhone report its location to New York City instead of Zurich…
» Prof. Srdjan Capkun…
» iPhone and iPod Location Spoofing Attacks…
Prof. Srdjan Capkun und sein team von der ETH Zürich (Schweiz ;-) haben gerade einen englischen Bericht vorgelegt, wie man das Geo-Locationing des iPhones in die Irre führen kann. Indem das Team die MAC Adresse der umliegenden Wifi Basis-Statitionen wechselten, zeigten sie wie das iPhone statt des wirklichen Standorts in Zürich New York City anzeigt…
» Prof. Srdjan Capkun…
» iPhone and iPod Location Spoofing Attacks…
The delivery bottleneck is over here in Germany. The 16GB version of the iPhone is available again, but can just be bought online. It is not deliverable in T-Mobile shops. No matter which subscription plan you prefer, the price is €499 (~ $790). Isn’t this a real bargain?
» iPhone subscription plans in Germany (T-Mobile)…
» subscribe an iPhone plan online…
Das 16GB Modell des iPhones ist seit gestern in Deutschland wieder lieferbar, erklärte T-Mobile. Obgleich die 16GB Variante noch immer nicht in den T-Com Shops käuflich zu erwerben ist, kann es mittlerweile online bestellt werden. Vormals ging die Bestellung nur telefonisch. Der Preis beträgt – egal welchen Vertrag man wählt – €499. Also ein echtes Schnäppchen!
» iPhone Vertragsarten von T-Mobile in Deutschland…
» iPhone Vertrag online abschließen…