Here at TiPb, we’ve all had bugs with the leaked 2.0 update and, like the rest of the interw00ts, we’re also not getting Mobile Me working reliably since it went live yesterday. Thankfully, Apple has fessed up and admitted that the transition from .Mac has “taken longer than expected” (per Engadget).
The Mobile Me desktop login just worked for me for the first time just now, this morning. I’m successfully pushing data out, but I’m not about to start depending on it for real work. Is it working for you?
Those of us who went ahead and downloaded the iPhone 2.0 Firmware Update direct from Apple may have jumped the gun a little too early. There have been some problems with it — I myself have had a handful of crashes and, yes, a couple of full-on resets. A couple of times these crashes (and one of the reset) happened in the Phone App. The Phone app should be the most SOLID application on the device, so seeing it freeze up and make me drop a call (and wait for a reboot) was disheartening to say the least.
Looks like I’m not alone, though Engadget notes that they’ve been having some problems too and posits that maybe, just maybe, the firmware we downloaded was technically meant for the iPhone 3G and not the current-gen. If so, that would explain a lot, especially in the Phone app, which I imagine needs some pretty exact radio information in order to work properly.
Let’s hope that when the official release comes via iTunes, these bugs will disappear, because otherwise it’s going to be pretty tough to call people and brag about my iPhone 3G tomorrow when it’s resetting on me.
How ’bout y’all? Did you download? Is it holding up?
JAR! Avast ye scurvy 2.0 firmware and prepare to be unlocked!
Didn’t take long, did it? Well, actually it did — the iPhoneDevTeam has been hax0ring away at it since the SDK went wide and Apple, in an attempt to woo legitimate developers, made the beta 2.0 firmware (all 8 versions of it), widely available.
Their latest, release version 2.0, Pwnage tool hasn’t gone public yet, but will soon. Are you willing to unlock? 22 countries are getting the iPhone tomorrow, and 50 more are following, but with Apple’s tight control of the SDK, my bet is there will still be a few folks out there who want to run anything they dang-well please on their iPhone.
What about you? Are you one of the crazy-ones, the pirates? Are you going to jailbreak/unlock?
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Ouch! Was that the sound of Crackberry Kevin Hulking Up for another NERD FIGHT, or RIM CEO Mike Lazeridis smashing the desks over at R&D?
Seems like Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz has just put Apple’s new MobileMe push Email, Contacts, and Calendars service through it’s iPhone paces and their verdict?
BlackBerry is dead, dead, dead. Dead.
And this from a self-confessed former Crackberrian, no less, using a Spanish SIM, on a UK Network, over EDGE! Along with the better, faster, and more powerful OS, Diaz credits the flawless App Store, media, and new enterprise and consumer features as making the Blackberry look “like a brick”.
Yowzer, they say there’s no such thing as bad press but… Yowzer…
As to MobileMe itself?
Not a single glitch—the thing just worked almost instantly. Knowing that Apple is using Sun Java Messaging Servers, probably paired with Synchronica or Consilient’s over-the-air synchronization modules, I’m not surprised. It feels like they have put together a rock-solid operation.
Sign me up! (D’oh, I’m already legacy’d in!)
Ah, to be an AT&T employee the day before the official iPhone 3G launch. To be in the backroom, taking a camphone video (naturally, not with an iPhone) of the device while the boss isn’t looking, to take photos (below) and then to send them along to TiPb’s tip line with the note that the 3G reception is superb and the GPS’ reception is too, picking up satellites even indoors. Would that we were all so lucky and so brave. Our hats off to you, anonymous tipster, for now we have visual proof that the iPhone is indeed in stores in the US and that, well, that the darn thing is more reflective than any other phone we’ve ever seen.
D’oh! We should have sent Dieter to New Zealand!
But thanks to the power of the interwebs, Engadget head honcho Ryan Block has his hands all over a Vodafone NZ unit, and is willing to field all your geeky questions. Flash? Pics? SMS? Exchange? Will it blend?
Check out the good, the bad, and the quirky.
Now let’s go see about some airmiles for launch day 2009…
Saw this one coming, didn’t you? Apple’s new App Store Remote app (FREE!) lets you control iTunes or Apple TV, and .Mac Galleries are now MobileMe Galleries, so that means Apple TV needs an update to.
Could Apple’s servers get any busier today? (And how ’bout ours! Yowzers!) Just fire up your Apple TV, go to Settings, General, Software Updates, and let it rip!
My Apple TV updated this morning, and Chad’s already thrown his old cable box out the window. Are you updating yet?
YES! It has begun! New Zealand has the iPhone 3G! Officially on sale as of 12:01 AM local time, the Kiwi’s are the first to grab up Stevo’s 2nd generation mobile platform.
Shoppers, start your engines. From Oceania, the iPhone will start lighting up Asia, Africa, Europe, East Coast North America, West Coast North America, and finally Hawaii as its march across the globe — and total Risk triumph concludes. (Well, except for holdouts China and Russia).
Where are you? When will you get it? Let us know your story!
You can grab the 2.0 update a little early, MacRumors notes, you can grab it directly by downloading this file from Apple. Let’s get it on!
Note: since this is a separate file, make sure you’re backed up to iTunes before you start, this full update will erase all your data and you’ll need to have your data backed up in order to restore afterwards.
In order to install the firmware, you will have to do it manually by pressing the Option key when pressing the “Check for Update” button in iTunes. Then select the .ipsw file manually. If for some reason your download is a “.zip” file, rename it to “.ipsw” before proceeding.
This will come as a surprise to precisely no-one, but it looks like iTunes announces itself over Bonjour when you turn on “Look for iPhone and iPod Touch remotes” under the advanced preferences. Above are my iTunes Remote details that popped up in Bonjour Browser after I clicked the iTunes’ check box.
Sadly, there are no remotes to read the signal just now, but it does seem likely that some enterprising hackers may someday be able to use this info to hack together iTunes remotes for other platforms besides iPhone 2.0. Because, you know, there are still going to be people out there that don’t use the iPhone. 
