Or so we think. I’ve been checking out this video on Gizmodo of the apparent v1.1.3 iPhone firmware update that Apple should be releasing soon. The video shows a guy moving around the iPhone’s icons changing the order. Apparently the updated firmware version breaks all unlocks, and jailbreak apps, and cannot be cracked this time around because iTunes installs Apple’s private key.
Hit the cut to read why I think the video is fake, and indeed does not show the real v1.1.3.
The video is easily spotted as fake because of the Carrier name being shown as “Nate”. The carrier name is easily changed by downloading Erica Sadun’s MIM application from installer.app. Another thing I spotted was that when moving around the icons, he can move to the next page. Why would Apple allow a next page with not enough icons to fill a 2nd page? This concludes that it still is a previous version with a new hack, and customize to hide all the icons.
Here’s a list of all new features that are supposedly coming in v1.1.3.
* The ability to send an SMS message to multiple people
* Google Maps application can now pinpoint your location using cell tower triangulation
* Google Maps can now display the Hybrid map view
* You can now drag and drop application icons on your home screen
* The home screen supports pagination
* You can now add web bookmarks to your home screen
[Via Gizmodo]
well, I hope you’re wrong, buddy. I want to put Safari bookmarks onto more than one page, the SDK is on the way – the update makes perfect sense, at least to me – my guess is that you’re wrong on this one, but I guess we’ll see soon enough! :-)
Nice to read your comments on the video. If the other screenshots on the web are to be believed then you can add your bookmarks as your own home screen icons. This would facilitate the need to have more than one page of icons. I’d also gathered that Nate is the name of a person on one of the iPhone hacking teams that has been given a copy of the new firmware. It is reportedly being kept in limited distribution between hackers because they believe it can be tracked back to the source within Apple that gave them it in the first place.
I’m not sure if it’s true myself. There are some features that I’d love to see but the whole wobbly icons on the home screen just doesn’t seem very Apple, expecially when compared to the iPod method for editing the icons on the bottom bar. I can’t see why they’d alter the look so drastically so make them wobble as in that video.
…the guy that wrote ibrickr says that its real. I believe him. It installs with Apples own private encryption key that only apple has. As for the carrier name, that part is not effected by apple upgrades. Therefore, if the user changed it with the 1.12 firmware, the changes would not have been reset during the upgrade.
One more thing, the extra screen space that you said was a waste can be needed now as you can now create web shortcuts and put them on your homescreen. So I guess there is no limit to how many you can add. Gizmodo has a video showing all the new features including the enhancements to google maps. A jailbroken iphone cannot do these things to this application.
just another ploy to drive more traffic to gearlive.com
Great marketing strategy
Hi, nice catch with the carrier name! Too bad, you’re wrong.
Fluff the teddy bear.
If you chance the carrier name and icon, they are not changed back after a software update. This also happens if you change it on 1.1.2 and then do a firmware restore.
Seriously, the only reason I keep your feed in my RSS reader is for pure hilarity. Sometimes it’s tedious to read your half assed, poorly written dreck but then I get little gems of sunshine like this.
Apple has been digitally signing applications since version 1.1.1, nothing new there. Apple patches the current method of 1.1.2 jailbreaking, just as 1.1.2 patched the TIFF exploit.
However, Apple still leaves the user parts of the OS (the Media folder) untouched. That means ringtones, wallpapers, settings, logos, and yes even carrier signal names still work. If you were to take a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone and relock/restore it you would still have the carrier name as well as any other content in the Media folder available to you.
Pagination was introduced with 1.1.1, and Apple will be using it to allow bookmarks to be icons on the Home screen (to further support their idea that web apps are the only real SDK right now, and allow you to launch them from Springboard so they feel more like real apps).
Gear Live has recently posted a new video showing the features, as if it coming from Nate True, a respected iPhone developer wasn’t enough.
“Why would Apple allow a next page with not enough icons to fill a 2nd page?”
Because you can add icon from Safari bookmark.
For the Nate Carrier, It must be the old Carrier changed on 1.1.2 which has not be modified while upgrading to 1.1.3
still thinks it is a fake ?
The wobbly icons has now surfaced as an Apple patent from last August. So perhaps this is in fact true.
Still think it’s a fake?
LOL
Dear writer,
You sir, are an idiot.
Signed,
Jailbroken 1.1.3 owner.
for the retrieve, but I’m truly the new Zune, and prospect this, as recovered as the reviews many other person handwritten, forbear you end if it’s the change prime for you.