Great News Everyone - Happy New Year with the Totally Unlocked iPhone 3G

Well everyone, the day we were waiting for had finally come, ALMOST!!
I have two pieces of great news:

1. The DevTeam is able to unlock the iPhone 3G till FW 2.2, but the Baseband shouldn't exceed 2.11. Baseband or Modem Firmware 2.28 is still not supported right now. The DevTeam had put a schedule; it seems they want to stick with it on New Year's Eve. So everyone who got baseband 2.11 or earlier, don't touch your iPhone till 31/12/2008. To the unfortunate guys, who I know very well, don't feel hopeless, the DevTeam, and of course me as an Egyptian, are beside you. The DevTeam is planning to continue till they unlock the 2.28, but they had to stick with the schedule, since it already took them long enough to unlock it. This unlock will not be through any software, it will be through Cydia on the jailbroken iPhones, so that's also fabulous! check there link: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
2. The second great news, to everyone who got their iPhone from Egypt, knows very well that their GPS is banned, except if you have a reliable sim-unlock like me, and knows how to use it. Now a great man have found the solution, check this link: Hackint0ch Forums starting from Pg.15 , and you can download the Patch Here. I'm TESTING it right now!!
   HAVE FUN!!!

UPDATE-2: Please don't forget to change the permissions to 755 {VERY VERY IMPORTANT!-THANKS ADHAM}

UPDATE-1: Tested, and works great. But here are some advices:

1. Turn off 3G & use Edge while Google Maps/GPS Tracker searches for your location. It works easier and faster when 3G is off.
2. Download GPS Tracker, it has free registration online, to track your phone's position through internet. Track Thing is also a nice app. These apps give you the exact coordinates of your location & speed. They also synchs your iPhone 3G GPS chip with satellites, since Google Maps sometimes timeouts before doing this step.
3. The blue dot should take less than a minute to pin-out you location only in CLEAR SKY OUTDOORS. Using the previous two apps make things smoother.
4. In worst cases, if the GPS didn't pin you out, go to Settings --> General -->Reset --> Reset Network Settings -->Reset Network Settings confirmation. Try again after reboot, should work now.

Interested in winning free ARABTALLER PRO ?!

Dear all, one of the sites, I'm interested in visiting often, had announced a contest, that I'm sure you'll be interested in too. The contest prizes are two free Arabtaller Pro + Discount coupons.
Entering this contest is really simple. Just look around the site, and write down, your opinion regarding what is missing, and what should be removed, and your general opinion about the site.
Wish you all luck, and wish you'll happy browsing, and winning too!
Don't I deserve that you "TED3oolee" !! {Excuse my English -:)}

Here's the Link: http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/

P.S:

• I'm interested too, so I was the first to participate!
• To the ones who isn't familiar with Arabtaller Pro: it's a program for jailbroken iPhones, giving it the ability to support full Arabic, including keyboard, and most of standard apps in Arabic. The original program was developed by iPhoneIslam.com.

iPhone Arabic Support - At last I can sleep Happily !!!

Hi everyone, wish you all the best and all the fun with your lovely toy, i.e. iPhone
I'll be posting the steps for what you're seeing right now, very soon, once I finalize it, and pack it all together!













As you can see, now we reached to the point where we can connect the Arabic letters.
The only drawback is the last letter at the end of the words, where the letter should be different than the one being connected in the middle of the word. {I know it's obvious, I just needed to mention it just in case!}

UPDATE: BTW, Safari just works great with this new support, hope you like what you see!

One Step Closer - Definitely, Maybe

Well, without paying any additional fees, here's what I got for free!!

Picture-1/2 : As you can see, now you can read arabic letters from right to left, but seperated.

Picture-4 : Happy Eid Everyone, if you know arabic, I think it's easier now to read such a funny joke.

Picture-5 : Arabic Keyboard appeared in the Settings --> International --> Keyboards .

Picture-6 : Emoji Characters appeared in the Settings --> International --> Keyboards --> Japanese .

Note: Don't expect to send/receive Emoji characters to any phone including the iPhone, if it doesn't support it!

Picture-7/8 : Arabic Keyboard & Emoji Characters appearing in the Email application .

Picture-9/10 : Arabic Keyboard & Emoji Characters appearing in Mysms application .

Picture-11/12 : Arabic Keyboard & Emoji Characters appearing in Notes application .

iPhone Arabic Support - One step Closer ?!

Well, while exploring the surprising Firmware 2.2 {JB ofcourse}, I crossed by something. I don't think this was in any of the older versions - Correct me if I'm wrong - see by yourself:

This wasn't possible previously, except by using a patch from installer/cydia. So I think we'll just wait for the next step, the font maybe, or just the right-to-left languages support.

Is Apple trying to make someone happy here ???

Update: Will the day come when we'll all sing: El-iPhone Betkalem 3araby !

iPhone 3G - GPS woking in Egypt

Hi there,
well here are the screenshots I got from my apple iPhone 3G, during one of my drives in Alexandria, Egypt. GPS is great, and couldn't believe the results I got especially in Egypt. This proves that apple, did some hard work, and good team-work too with Google. And if it worked in Egypt, then .......... you know .......... it works anywhere !!



Picture-1 : Waiting in traffic.



Picture 2/3: You can see Alexandria Bibliotheque on the upper left.


Picture 4/5: Driving to Alexandria's lovely Beach-side.

Picture 6-10: Driving along Alexandria's lovely Beach-side.





Picture 11/12: Stanley Bridge - On the other side.

Picture 13: In front of Mercure Hotel.

Picture 14-17: Driving to Alexandria's lovely Beach-side.

Picture 18/19: El-Hurraya Street - Abu-Keir.

Picture 20: Entering Zizenia - Signal Weakening.