Filed under: iPod Family, Found Footage, iPhone
Found Footage: iPhone firmware 1.2 hacked
The iPhone hacking community is at it again, and they're not going to take the SDK for an answer. The dev team has recently found out how to install and run iPhone firmware 1.2. This is supposedly the SDK-only developer version, which runs the iPhone (Aspen) simulator. Firmware 1.2 may end up re-released as version 2.0 in June, assuming there are no showstopping problems. There is no word yet on how they got access to the firmware, but it is still a cool video, and looks like the real deal. In this video, you can see the following 2.0 features:
- New calculator with squared buttons
- iTunes Wi-Fi Store with a missing button (and missing text under the "search" icon)
- Select multiple messages to be deleted/moved in Mail
- New calendar setting (with Time Zone support)
- Microsoft Exchange in the new Mail accounts
- Parental controls
- Cisco VPN settings
Thanks Adam!
[via InsanelyMac]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
RFaulder said 12:08AM on 3-17-2008
the language section showed Canadian French. Hopefully a sign of things to come….
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XIV said 6:21AM on 3-17-2008
We have the Canadian French language since 1.1.3.
It was a feature I was looking forward to since I bought my iPod Touch. We have a qwerty keybord with accents, compared to the French keyboard which is azerty.
Stephen.4 said 12:12AM on 3-17-2008
How they got the firmware "I got it from a guy who knows a guy (who is a high level employee for Apple :)). Apparently a beta was sent out to Apple employees to make it stable enough for the enterprise beta testers."
This quote is taken directly from http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4080342
Where you can download the Ultra-High Def Video (1.2GB, 6 Minutes Long) Video as a .torrent file.
The quote is from the torrent uploader, i.e. the person who made the video.
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Stephen.4 said 12:17AM on 3-17-2008
Sorry for this but, you also might want to add that this is only half the video. Seeing as the title has "-Half Downloaded-" in it.
Max said 12:23AM on 3-17-2008
That's not 1.2. 1.2(Aspen Simulator) doesn't have any regular apps on it besides Contacts/Photos/Safari/Settings. That's 2.0 right there.
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Max said 12:25AM on 3-17-2008
That is to say, it's not the 1.2 that's in Aspen
Stephen.4 said 12:25AM on 3-17-2008
Incorrect, 1.2 was released to SDK beta testers. We are expecting that 1.2 will be transformed into 2.0 in late June.
Max said 12:27AM on 3-17-2008
Stephen.4
You mean the iPhone enterprise beta testers, right? Us devs didn't get 1.2 in full, just enough to develop with.
Stephen.4 said 12:32AM on 3-17-2008
Nope, i believe it was before the SDK was released, those few company's (Sega, AOL etc.) Got a hold of the 1.2 firmware from Apple for testing purposes. Not 100% sure though, don't quote me on that :).
Max said 12:36AM on 3-17-2008
Yes, they did, but I see no reason they wouldn't get the same tools as we have now, that being Aspen. Like I said above, Aspen only has a few apps in it, not the slew of apps that is shown in this video.
AriX said 7:26AM on 3-17-2008
Max, the Aspen Simulator Environment (Notice how I said environment) isn't the exact same thing as the Aspen 1.2 iPhone OS. Just because the Simulator comes with 4 applications doesn't mean the iPhone version does too. I don't imagine it's all that easy to port (some of) the apps (given how hard it was to port my jailbreak app to an SDK app, and Apple's apps are essentially jailbreak apps)
Max said 3:16PM on 3-17-2008
No, I got that Arix, but this story seems to insinuate that they were able to take the iPhone firmware out of the Aspen environment, and on to a real iPhone. My point is, Aspen's "firmware" is lacking in several of those apps, namely the App Store.
Dave Wood said 12:41AM on 3-17-2008
Don't confuse the firmware with the apps that come with the firmware. The Aspen Simulator could be the same firmware, it just doesn't have the apps on it.
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Beau said 12:47AM on 3-17-2008
The App Store wasnt included in the video simply because there well, isnt anything there yet.
They've said that it's just a blank page, so it'd have been pointless throwing that in the video.
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dagamer34 said 1:03AM on 3-17-2008
WiFi reordering! Yay!
What about trying 802.1X support? I go college and i've been dying to have 802.1X support on my iPhone so I don't have to constantly log onto the ghetto wireless page just to check my e-mail!
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Galley said 8:33AM on 3-17-2008
I'm almost positive it will be included in 2.0.
ramond said 1:21AM on 3-17-2008
How exactly has it been "hacked"?
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Dustin said 1:47AM on 3-17-2008
DRAGONFORCE! \m/
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waiownsyou said 2:05AM on 3-17-2008
Is it just me or do computer hackers/enthusiasts have the worst taste in music ever?
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Håkan said 2:53AM on 3-17-2008
It's all a matter of opinion. At least DragonForce is slightly better than what we usually see top rated in iTunes store ^_^.