Jailbreaking is straightforward when you know which software is best to use...

With the release of the new iPhone’s OS 3.0, some apple users have already taken the initiative and upgraded to the new device. For some, this is an easy process and for others it is one of those you have to follow step by step instructions to get a grasp of it. Here, we plan to equip you with essential guidance to successfully jailbreaking your iPhone.

Redsn0w, PwnageTool and Ultrasn0w

These tools may seem completely alien to you but don’t worry, if you just want to jailbreak your iPhone and get off your computer and straight onto your iPhone, Redsn0w is the tool for you! In this tutorial, I will go in easy numerical steps so it not hard to follow.

Step 1 : Back up your iPhone

To back up your iPhone follow these steps:

Step 2: Download Redsn0w

To download the file, you can see the places where you can get the file from the dev team’s blog. Here, you can decide which file suits your PC/laptop which could depend on whether its Windows or a Mac. After you have downloaded the file extract it to a folder, which you could make beforehand.

Step 3: Launch the Redsn0w.exe file

Now you can launch the .exe file as soon as iTunes has finished updating.

Step 4 : Browse for your “IPSW” file

As seen below on the first start up screen, select browse and find your IPSW file which is an Apple firmware file. *HINT* The correct one is always the one that has been saved recently.

If you’re using the conventional Windows XP, your IPSW file will be located here:

C:\Documents and Settings\<login name>\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates

OR

for Windows Vista/7 users it will be located,

C:\Users\<login name>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates

Note: login name should be replaced by your actual login name so for example it could be “admin.”

When this screen pops up, find your IPSW which can simply be found by searching the contents of the folder you made previously.

Step 5: Select Next when Redsn0w is verified successfully

So, as soon as your IPSW is found, you can then select “next” continuing onto the closing stages of jailbreaking, as seen below.

Press "Next" once firmware is verified correctly

Step 6: Make sure you select “Install Cydia” option

This is probably the most important step as the “Cydia” app allows you to download apps that have been jailbroken. It will appear just as a small box at the bottom, so don’t ignore it!

Step 7: Plug iPhone into Computer only when device is off.

You may now plug in your iPhone but read the instructions telling you to hold the button down on top of the phone and wait til the “slide to power off” option appears, as it shows below.

Plugin your iPhone but wait until it is definitely turned off before selecting "next."

Step 8 : Follow the instructions on screen promptly

RedSn0w will now give you instructions to follow, but let me break them down more easily for you.

• Firstly, you have to hold down the power button, which is at the top of your iPhone, for an alloted time slot. Don’t worry because the software will tell how long left before you can let go!
• Next, while still holding the power button down, you’ll press the “Home” button (the round button at the bottom) for the alloted time.
• Now, while holding the “Home” button down still, release the power button for the allotted time.

Almost there…. your iPhone will have a few crashes through the process but don’t worry, it’s normal!

Step 9 : Automatic iPhone Restart and RAM disk upload

Wait for the iPhone to reboot and after, when it is loaded, the software will upload a new RAM disk. So just leave it alone!

Step 10: Finished! Wait for iPhone to restart and then it will be jailbroken, with the help of Cydia!

Now after the restart, you will now have a fresh new app on your springboard concerning Cydia, where you can discover millions of jailbroken apps you can use and play with!

There are also other jailbreaking software files which you can use such as PwnageTool and UltraSn0w. PwnageTool tends to only be used on Macs as it is the only platform which it works properly in. UltraSn0w can be used after you have jailbroken your iPod for effectively connecting to other networks.

Have you had any strange troubles with jailbreaking your iPhone? Or have you had great success in doing it? Feel free to comment below.

New York resident, Luis Palacios quoted, "I got on line at 2 a.m. It was really early, but it was worth it for the video!"

It’s here at last! The third consecutive summer that an iPhone platorm has been released, exciting the public and especially US residents!

Apple are hoping that the iPhone 3G S will boost their profits and put them ahead in the technically advanced smartphone market.

Figures already show that the release of the iPhone 3G last year, shares went from 7% to just over 30%!

The highly anticipated smartphone has been so far released in eight countries, most notably the US.

Analysts have predicted that Apple will sell around 500,000 iPhones even though the queues have been shorter than those of the release of the Palm pre which only sold 50,000 in two days. However, the queues were still long enough for the services of metal barriers to be introduced at Apple and AT&T stores throughout the selected countries.

An Apple employee said that it would take over three hours just to sell iPhones to customers who had pre-ordered, before the shop officially was open.

San Francisco- Though the Apple store looks quiet from here, but this morning people, the place so swarming that some people couldn't even see the start of the queue!

iPhone 3G S – what’s so good?

Well, here are many of the features that makes the iPhone 3G S so much better than other phones and series:

• 3MP camera which was a huge problem before as well as video capturing and editing abilities.
• Built-in digital compass.
• Better battery life with 12 hrs talktime and 30 hours audio. A huge issue for previous iPhone platforms was the poor battery life.
• “Fingerprint resistant oleophobic coating” allowing the screen as glossy as it was when you took it out the pack!
• Gentler, lighter display.
• 7.2Mbps data speeds for uploading pics + videos and downloading apps.
• Functioning voice control option.

So, as you can see the new iPhone has a lot of new features to look forward to! As Chad Evans, an app designer for mlb.com stated,

“The new iPhone is redefining what people can do on a phone. We’re now able to live stream complete games on a handheld device.”

Pricing

Pricing will vary as usual depending on how much memory you are looking to have on your new iPhone but the general guidelines are:

1. 32GB iPhone 3G S – $299 (£181)
2. 16GB iPhone 3G S - $199 (£120)
3. (8GB iPhone 3GS – $99 (£60)) << Possibly.

For more info on the new iPhone 3.0 OS take a look at our review.

iPhone addicts feelings and thoughts

The Sherry brothers were at the unveiling and publically revealed that this was her first iPhone and that she was looking forward “pretty much everything about it. It’s also going to be better than my brother’s, so I’m happy about that,”

Scott Struber had different ideas about the iPhone, as his reservation was rejected when he got to the queue after a long wait,

“It’s a little glitch. I went online yesterday afternoon, made a reservation for the phone, it went through and completed it and sent me the e-mail saying that I was confirmed, but oddly never had me pick a store and showed Clarendon as the store I’d be working with. Apparently, their tool went down that let you pick a store, but that wasn’t apparent to the users. I was probably sixth in line but I’ll probably be 50th or 60th. But I’ll still get it.”

All in all, I feel it will be a success purely because of the amount of new and improved features Apple have introduced sensibly. What do you think of the iPhone 3GS? Will it become bigger than any previous handheld device? Please feel free to comment below!

New video integration will support Wi-Fi and 3G giving more reason to become an iPhone or iTouch user.

Online streaming video service which offers a wide range of shows and movies, Hulu, are in the course of producing a new exciting app for the iPhone,  and will be with us in just a couple of months.

This is possibly the best time to release the app as it is near when the iPhone will update its software to 3.0 meaning a lot of changes, including this one, will be on its way. The one problem Hulu face is sloting in some advertising, which frankly, is a chance they must take in order to advance in the technologic world.

Why on earth would Apple abide by this?

What many people will be thinking when reading this is, why would Itunes ever approve of it? From where I stand, there are two views that can be undertaken, one of which is this is extremely bad for Apple Itunes where users purchase lots of videos + music for anytime use, if this goes forward Itunes video store could go bust, potentially as well as all the advertising Hulu can put in giving them even more benefit, using a lot of Itunes bandwidth.

The other way to look at it, on Itunes side, is that if this news is spreading fast, it will mean people will be increasingly obliged to go out to the shops or online, and go on buy an iTouch or iPhone purely because the Hulu video app is simply a too good of a chance to let by.

To be really honest, watching videos on the iPhone through an app has not taken a big hollywood hit just yet. However, there are a couple of services out there like CBS’s TV.com though a lot of people have said this buffers most of the time, making the experience miserable. When Hulu comes along in a few months, it will be a fresh new exciting app that everyone will like straight, similar to what Facebook was. This is partly because Hulu are one of the best streaming services out there now giving free services and a great online quality. Others are trying to copy what they have done, but we all know, there is nothing better than the original!

According to ComScore, only 3% watch video on their phones showing everyone there is space on the market for this particular idea, that will take off with a boom.

Personally, I cannot wait til this app is among us, it is just what the tech market needs, a fresh new idea which it has been lacking for some time now but hopefully with the best streaming service in my eyes coming to the iPhone, the Iphone will be the best phone and the phone to have!

For many of the public, their iPhone contracts will be running out relatively soon, in fact in the Summer. This makes us at TechCombo feel like there is something waiting in the wings. In this article, I will highlight some key reasons as to why this iPhone will be better than any other…

1. Fresh Screenshots

Our friends at BoyGenius, recently found some screenshots whilst looking around in the iPhone 3.0 firmwire using the Camera integrated in the iPhone. However, as the source could be a bit risky to trust, it could of been a user’s skill in photoshop editing that makes us all excited.

2. Confirmation of LG’s OLED agreement.

“It’s also believed that a new iPhone and iPod Touch due later this year will include an OLED screen made by LG who last year scored a multibillion dollar deal to manufacture display screens for Apple.” Smarthouse revealed.

Making this deal with LG will make Apple’s new iPhone be the best new piece of tech out by a long shot which could contain, clearer colours, higher contrast ratios making videos look High-Definition and perhaps less battery usage.

3. News on better camera

Right now, the iPhone has a disappointing 2MP camera which is nothing if you think about it. Even phones that cost around £60 have a camera that has at least a 3.2MP camera.

iPhone mad analysts have been looking into different sources and have found possible new iPhones, in the junior iPhone which supposedly have a 3.2 but happily, the new iPhone handset could have a 5MP camera.

4. Bulk buy of NAND chips.

Replicating what the iPhone did last year which was buy a whole load of NAND flash chips to make the iPhone, 3G. In the summer, they look to do the same again but this time buying one hundred million Samsung 8GB flash chips so the internal memory can become around thirty-two GB SSD.

5. Next Generation Wi-Fi?

There are rumours of the iTouch going to be using better Wi-Fi, but nothing going towards the iPhone. However, the manufacturers will probably do the same for the new iPhone. At the moment, the iPhone uses the 802.11g chip but rumours show there will be a new lower powered 802.11n chip. However, with all these new features being introduced, surely the power source will not be the same.

iPhone set to shock public?