Mobile Phone News

As promised, Vodafone has busted down any last remaining shreds of O2’s iPhone exclusivity today with the official launch of Apple’s wares on its airwaves. Both the 3G and 3GS are available, and yes — it’s possible to get even a 32GB 3GS for free as long as you’re willing to step up to a big-boy plan of £75 (about $123) per month or greater. For its efforts in securing a deal, the carrier believes that it will have moved about 50,000 iPhones by the time it counts all the receipts from the first day’s sales, beating Orange’s numbers from late last year by a solid 20,000. It’s not Orange they’re necessarily going after, though: Voda’s quick to take a pot shot at original seller O2’s network issues by proudly boasting “Outstanding phone, Outstanding network” on the iPhone’s landing page. Honestly, we wouldn’t get too cocky, guys — the iPhone has a tendency to do unfortunate things to those that offer it.

Vodafone kicks off iPhone sales, expects 50K sold today originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

At just 3fps and 213 x 160 resolution, we hesitate to call iVideoCamera a “video recording app” — it’s really more of an extremely low-res continuous-shooting still camera — but at least owners of iPhone 3Gs and original iPhones at this time have some sort of option for capturing their most treasured moments as one o’ them newfangled moving pictures. Jailbroken solutions are nothing new, but this marks the first time a video recording app for older iPhones made it all the way through to the App Store, and at just 99 cents, it may not really matter that the output sucks. At any rate, the real news in this place might be the fact that iVideoCamera is believed to be using unpublished APIs, so this might signal the opening of the floodgates — not to say the App Store necessarily needs any more floodgates opened.Apple greenlights ridiculously crappy video recording app for older iPhones originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands — a hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The “ikee” worm, as it’s being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of “alpine,” and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network. Sophos says it hasn’t confirmed any infections outside of Oz, and to be clear, this worm can’t get to stock iPhones or jailbreak owners who haven’t installed SSH — but if you’re running a hacked phone we’d say you should change that root password just to be safe right away. Get to it, kids.