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iPhone v1.1.3 screenshots leaked?

Fire up that chunk of your brain known as the Macworld Rumourbuster, readers! With just a little over two weeks before Macworld kicks off, let's officially call the crowd to order, and let the rumour-mongering, blurry 'leaked' pictures, and Photoshop-ing begin.

Gearlive kicks off the "fortnight of faux" with a gallery of screen shots appearing to be from iPhone firmware v1.1.3. Among the highlights: rearranging icons on the home screen, and pseudo-GPS (based on cell tower proximity) for Google Maps. Are they authentic? Macrumors points out that Gearlive is new to the Apple rumor game, and "Eagle-Eye" Scott McNulty suggests that the iTunes icon on the pictures is in the wrong spot (although that could be part of the app-moving magic).

Whilst all the features shown in the gallery are certainly welcome, we can't help but feel that if this is the only feature-update to the iPhone at Macworld (barring the SDK in February), folks will be a little underwhelmed.

Update: Whilst MacRumors may say that Gearlive is the new kind on the block, that isn't necessarily true - they brought us news of the iPod nano a few years back. On the topic of Photoshop-ing - and undoubtedly we'll see plenty of that in the coming weeks - talking with the folks at Gearlive, this does indeed appear to genuine 1.1.3 goodness. Thanks, Andru!

Thanks to all those who sent this in! The Gear Live servers seem to be having difficulty so you might have to be patient to feast your eyes on the shots.

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Colin

Hey, if you look closely using a photoshop magnifying glass or other zooming devices on the "iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware: New Bookmarks Menu," you can make out writing on the GearLive site that the iPhone is looking at. Zoom on the Binocular advertisement at the far right. It reads, and try this for yourself if you don't believe me: "Your one neighborhood spot to hilarious rumors," and "All in good laughs, Filip De Man." Now who is Filip De Man, I'm not quite sure. But this does prove that someone edited that advertisement.
Fools!

December 30 2007 at 11:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rich

the video is a fake. there are 3 pages of apps after the calculator has been moved leaving me to give this conclusion the third page has got installer and any other apps on the iphone on it

December 30 2007 at 10:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
slevytam

You can see a copy of the video here: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=512. I also noticed the carrier logo as did bugmat. It might survive an update through iTunes though.

December 29 2007 at 11:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
guitarist

"Whilst" ?

December 29 2007 at 10:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tired-of-apple-fanboys

Seems the word is the firmware doesn't change alterations like the customize icon switch...interesting. Might be a route into a new jailbreak *leaves it for the hackers*

December 29 2007 at 9:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tired-of-apple-fanboys

Seen this, seen the video, heard about the "interview" from natetrue over at giz...still not fully convinced - too many holes or we are not being told the full story. nate says it has broken all jailbreak methods, yet the vid has his name by teh signal bar?! I realise Apple may be allowing icon swap but I doubt they'd allow you to remove the AT&T logo! So if it wasn't jailbroken (because 1.1.3 prevents that) how is that explained?! Not to mention that calling it 1.1.3 rather than 1.2 seems silly based on the minimalistic changes before.

The truth might be that it is a leak from a sympathetic Apple insider who wants to help the hacker community, but that may backfire when Apple realises what's happening. Someone may get fired and they might hold it back until they can do damage control or frankly alter it. I hope that the hackers can at least figure it out and get the features into installer.app somehow w/o needing the official firmware!

December 29 2007 at 9:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ishcabittle

Just to add a final note to the jailbroken vs. unjailbroken argument, I think some clarification will do wonders.

There are things that you can do to keep a jailbroken system running smoothly and will little to no downtime (or the same relative downtime as an unjailbroken phone).

1. Stay away from Customize and Summerboard, and to an even greater extent UICtl. Every single time I've had a system crash (hard reset required) or an unrecoverable error (no apps on the springboard, SSH disabled) it has been dealing with these three apps. They all get into the muck and guts of the system itself, and can cause odd things to happen. Summerboard themes are a good example bad system tweaking - you're basically trusting that some random dude will know his shit. Customize will wipe your springboard if you "recover from backup" with no backup, and I could go on. These examples lead me to point two:

2. Don't keep playing with an app that crashes your phone. Leave it installed in case they update it, give it another shot if they do, if it fails again leave it be.

3. Check your disk space. Now that Installer.app doesn't show you your free disk space, we have to be carefull about how much we install. Install Term-V100 and run the following command:

df -h

This will show you your two partition's free space, with the system partition being first. Just like regular OS X, it's a good idea to leave a healthy portion free, at least three or four megs. Ramming your system (or media partition, for that matter) to the brim slows down your system.

4. Game emulators - these apps take the most processor cycles, and keep taking them even when suspended. NES.app is fun as all get out, sure, but it will hit like a good 75% chunk of the total, and running that in the background while your try to stream media from home on top of composing an email will obviously take your system down hard (hits the battery hard to).

How good your phone runs all comes down to how well you take care of it and how much you respect the fact that you are running as root. You are the superuser, that speech they give you the first time you run sudo in a session is for real. Keep that in mind and you can have whatever you want on your phone and it will remain happy and healthy.

An unjailbroken phone is basically a phone running with Apple as the superuser... they decide what you get. If you want to jailbreak, go for it, just don't forget the responsibility. And even after all of that is said, you can always restore your phone. Even if you botch everything and your attempt at responsibility is met with total disaster, you can always restore. I think that was the point the pro jailbreaking poster was making.

December 29 2007 at 9:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
larry Friedman

As far as email, what we need is a common inbox and folder organization just as we have in OSX. Oh and that from field that Jack mentioned.

December 29 2007 at 7:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jack Welde

The feature that is most sorely missing, to me -- and I hope makes it into v1.1.3 -- is the ability to specify a "from" email address from which to send new email messages. Currently, if you create a new email message, it uses whatever account you are currently in, without giving you an option to change the address. This is a huge inconvenience for people with multiple email addresses -- which is pretty much everyone these days. Not only is it unprofessional to send an email intended for work colleagues or clients from your personal email, but those intended recipients might not get your email because they don't recognize your personal email address -- or vice versa. This seems like a huge oversight on the part of Apple, and an incredibly simple fix (just add a dropdown menu with your email addresses to the compose screen). Hoping it makes it into v1.1.3. (And yes, I'm aware that all I have to do is back out of one account, and go into another account, but that's time consuming and awkward -- especially after you have already composed an email, only to realize you're in the wrong account.)

December 29 2007 at 3:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James Donevan

Andru don't be too concerned. Regulars know that TUAW is not a news site per se, but a blog in the true sense of people writing about their interests, not necessarily with expertise. A week or so ago Erica was advising on her latest discovery that iTunes purchases were limited to five accounts - something that had been around even longer than your four year old site.

BTW kudos for your impressive and informative Gear Live site.

December 29 2007 at 1:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Dorv

Yeah, I mean, its not like the word "blog" is in the title of the site or anything :)

December 29 2007 at 3:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

a) We've been burned in reporting rumors before. Nik and Andru are clearing this up, but the skeptical tone is usually warranted.

b) If you're referring to Erica's post
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/10/ipod-account-limit/
then you either didn't read it or didn't understand it. The interesting point was not that iTunes purchases are limited to playback on five computers; it was that a single iPod could only sync songs purchased under five different iTunes accounts.

December 29 2007 at 8:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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