The Safari browser would not close at any cost. It was acually eating up the memory in the iPhone and ultimately forced it to crash down. When asked, Apple presumptively said it would not occur unless the iPhone was jail broken.

In a crave to enrich the applications suite on the iPhone, many users had their iPhone jail broken, well it does enough good but more than it, it does the evil. Jail breaking your iPhone opens a security hole that hackers can exploit to take control over your iPhone wirelessly and effortlessly.

This means that the iPhone users have something new to worry about besides their AT&T bills, bad coverage, and slow 3G speeds. It also creates business possibilities for the antivirus companies, the company who comes up with the first Antivirus for iPhone is likely to win. Do you really need a iPhone Anti-virus? It’s hard to say at this point but if a company comes up with a Antivirus for iPhone they will scare the users to death if they don’t get one.

The first iPod virus named Podloso was discovered by Kaspersky Labs that infected the iPods running iPod Linux, a very few of the majority. And what different is the iPhone from the iPod? Sooner or later, we were expecting this sort of chalk to infect the iPhone and today, the day has come.

It’s now the iPhone SMS Virus or iPhone Virus. It’s not really a virus, it’s a bug that was discovered by Charles Miller and Collin Mulliner, two researchers at BlackHat Cybersecurity some six weeks ago.

When the first time, the bug was discovered, it was only meant to crash the iPhone, now it has outgrown the possibilities and it can take over virtually any iPhone with just a simple SMS. So beware!

How do you identify the infection? Not a big deal. Some fine day if you receive a text message with a square character, you must immediately turn off your iPhone or just switch to airplane mode. That’s only how you can resist infection.

The virus can spread to any iPhone, you don’t even need to click a link or so but only if one of the infected phones has got your contact no in it, then you are done. Reports reveal that it is a consequence of the “serious memory corruption bug” that occurs due to the way the iPhone handles messages.

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When the iPhone bugs or so called iPhone virus was first reported, F-Secure, a security research organization said:

“Hopefully this serves as a warning for those who have opened their iPhones using a security hole in the system and then installing unverified software without a second thought to what they are doing.”

Once your iPhone virus is infects the phone, the hacker is at liberty to take over all the functionalities of your iPhone., from making a call to browsing the web, from accessing the camera to corrupting your applications, and more harmfully, forwarding this virus to other iPhone user. Cnet also termed jailbreaking posed a threat to national security.

“This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone,” said cybersecurity researcher Charles Miller. “Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this.”

Even if antivirus security organizations decide to confront the iPhone virus, the biggest hurdle will be the inefficiency of the iphone to run the applications in the background. JR Smith, CEO of AVG said “We can’t add a layer of protection on to the iPhone today, so that’s a lot of the conversation that we’re having with Apple.”

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McAfee which has been providing security solutions to Mac for sometime, said “We are working on a much more comprehensive suite for the Apple family.” Because the big deal is providing real time protection from viruses and not actually the antivirus.

More iPhone viruses are likely to emerge as people can’t resist cracking the iPhones and the hackers wouldn’t leave any chance to exploit the wicked possibilities and make the iPhone Original, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S vulnerable to this attack.

We are expecting a bug fix for this from Apple in its final OS 3.1 release, however Apple has been numb over the issue for all this while, even though the SMS Virus bug was brought to their knowledge about 6 weeks ago.

Time to taste the soup…..’cause ” . . . our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for . . . ” and it implies to iPhone users as well.

Update – 31st July: Apple just confirmed the SMS exploit and also released an update to patch the exploit. To get the latest update, plug your iPhone into your computer, launch iTunes and click on “Check for Updates” and install the new update.

It has been three years since the iphone came out but the hoopla surrounding it never ceases to exist. First in the modern generation of touchscreen phones, the iphone is the indisputable leader of the clan and in all probability, will continue enjoying that status for a long time to come.

Every aspect of the phone has sparked mini-revolutions in itself; the touchscreen, the virtual keyboard, the stunning design, so on and so forth.

The latest in the iphone range, the iphone 3GS sports a new operating system and a host of other features that was unseen in the first generation iphone and iphone 3G.

The original iphone had a battery that was able to provide 8 hours in talk-time. With a full battery, it could play videos for approximately 7 hours and music for 24 hours. It also had a standby time of 250 hours.

With the iphone 3GS, the figure goes up to 12, 10, 30 and 300 hours for talk-time, video, music and standby respectively (these figures are obtained when the 3G feature is turned off. The figures would go down when 3G is turned on.). This article deals with the subject of making your iphone’s battery charge last a long time and also making your iphone battery last longer.

The iphone uses a dry lithium-ion battery that is rechargeable. If you come across any problem concerning battery life such as the battery getting drained quickly, do not try to solve the problem yourself by tinkering with it as this could void the phone’s warranty.

As the first step towards ensuring a longer battery life, make it a point that your phone is charged exactly for the amount of time prescribed by Apple; not more not less. This is because under/over charging can significantly dent the performance of the battery.

Try to use the charger that has been bundled along with the phone and none other as the use of other chargers too can diminish battery life on the long run.

Another important point to note is to keep the phone as much as possible, in room temperature and not expose it to intense heat by way of leaving it in sunlight. When charging the phone, do not place it in its casing since that would create a large amount of heat, again leading to damage.

One major drain on the iphone’s battery charge is the use of the 3G feature. Turning off the 3G feature when you are in a non-3G covered area is only sensible. The use of the 3G feature halves the talk-time and reduces browsing time by two hours. Hence,it is better to turn the feature off when you are running low on battery charge.

Another significant cause of lower battery charge in the iPhone is the GPS app. Unless you absolutely need it, it only makes sense to disable the app. Disabling wi-fi when it is not available in the region you are presently in also helps the battery charge last longer.

There are a number of apps that connect with the net and gather data as soon as they are up. Disabling this feature for the apps prevents a faster drop in battery charge. Also, cut down on the usage of apps that drain batteries, such as games etc.

Another method to make charge last longer is to reduce your speaker volume and turning the phone into silent mode; the louder it is, more charge is required. Turning off the EQ feature for music playback also helps charge last longer.

Turning the bluetooth feature off and using the “airplane” mode when you are in areas with very low coverage also helps in the cause of making your battery charge last longer.

These nifty tips will help the battery charge in your iPhone last a little bit longer and ensure your battery serves you long and well.

There was technology in the air and gadgets everywhere at the WWDC 2009 and one thing that made it remarkably big among the rest is the Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G S. The new iPhone 3G S is an enhanced version of the iPhone 3G and is considered to be the fastest and the most powerful iPhone yet.

The physical design of the iPhone 3G S is same as that of the earlier iPhone models but the materials used are greener like arsenic free glass and a mercury LCD. The user interface is much fluid-like and renders smoother transitions between the applications.

The iPhone 3G S offers improved performance , voice control, digital compass, internet tethering and a built in digital camera for video recording as highlight additions besides innumerous various enticing features.

The iPhone 3G S dominates the earlier iPhone models by sporting a camera on its back with an extra mega pixel. Yes, it comes with a 3MP camera with smart features like auto-focus, auto exposure and auto white balance that will capture the finest quality images and record your memorable moments at 30fps video to your iPhone gallery. You can also get one touch access to options like delete, share and save to the images and videos you have shot or even share them over web via MMS, email, MobileMe or YouTtube.

Another smart new additional feature is the voice control operation of the iPhone 3G S. Interesting? Yes, of course. You can control a set of operations on your iPhone 3G S using your voice or speech. To activate voice control, just press and hold the home button on the iPhone 3G S for a couple of seconds and you will be prompted to speak. You can listen to the songs on the iPhone, make voice and video calls, and even ask your iPhone’s gallery to create playlists for you, play and pause songs and much more.

Imagine you are lost in a desert and no help at hand. The iPhone 3G S is here for your rescue with its digital compass which will assist you with the geography of your location. Basically, it operates like the actual magnetic compass but is much more than it. You can trace your destination over maps with the improved map support and navigate through the busiest streets with ease using its advanced GPS.

Noticeably, the user interface is much comfortable, smoother and faster to use, that means you can quickly open or close an application or switch between any open applications much faster and even faster is its internet access. The improved graphics support will render you a rich and appealing gaming experience so you can now play much complicated 3D games. Thanks to its CPU which now runs at 600MHz and the extended internal memory storage of 256 MB over the previous 128MB of storage.

The Nike Plus support will help those of you who are health conscious while the ‘Find my Phone’ feature will help you trace the location of your lost or stolen iPhone 3G S via GPS. The superfast iPhone 3G S is also packed with MMS support so you can quickly share your photos and videos with your friends or help them with contact info, voice memos and map locations as they need it.

The battery life is again an improvement over earlier iPhone models favoring you to listen to music for up to 30hrs against the previous 24 hrs, video playback of 10hrs against the previous 7 hrs and also longer talk time and internet browsing experience.

With increased performance, battery life and a host of other exciting and intelligent features, the iPhone is sure to claim its place as the mobile phone of the future or at least as the most powerful smart phone yet.

The iPhone OS 3.0 will be publicly available to all the iPhone users from around 17th of June and the iPhone 3G S will be available from 19th of June this year in black and white colors in two different memory capacities. The original iPhone 8GB (not an iPhone 3G S) will be available for 99$ against the standard iPhone 3G S models which include a 16GB and a 32GB phone which are priced at $199 and $299 respectively.

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Watch the following video to see all the functionalities of the new iPhone 3G S!

JayBird JB-200 is the next to be added to the list. JayBird claims JB-200 to be the world’s smallest headset headphone. These headsets are not custom made for iPhone but certainly compliment the stylish iPhone, not sure if I can say the same about the price though.

JayBird not only matches iPhone in looks but also in price. It comes in 4 different models ranging from $129.99 to $199.99 model number JB-200im-01, isn’t that how much an iPhone costs?

Following is the list of devices which can be paired with JayBird (Compatible Devices):

• iPhone & iPhone 3G
• Music Mobile Phones
• Non-Music Mobile Phones
• iPod
• MP3 Players
• PC / Notebooks
• Mac (Leopard)
• Mac (Non-Leopard)
• Playstation
• XBox, TV, DVD, Home Theatre
• GPS Navigation Device

With JayBird you can take call and listen to music at the same time. Music automatically pauses for an incoming call and resumes after the call ends. Headset comes with a Bluetooth adapter for iPhone as Apple is yet to enable Bluetooth on iPhone.

This gadget is capable of paring with multiple devices at a time. Battery time for Music is 5.5 hours, 6.5 hours for calls and it takes about 2 hours to be fully charged.

Regardless of how much it costs, it definitely makes a must-buy for the gadget enthusiasts.  

Resources:

• Jay Bird Site
• Product Gallery
• Order Page

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