Sure, Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread isn’t officially available for most phones designed to run Android yet. But that doesn’t mean you can’t unofficially install it on a number of handsets — including the iPhone 3G. That’s exactly what Nick Pack has done, and he’s posted the video to prove it. Using the same OpeniBoot method folks have been using for a while to load Android… Read more »

Apple is officially unveiling iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch today. The new version fixes a number of bugs, including a proximity sensor bug and Bluetooth problems. Apple CEO Steve Jobs also says that the new version improves performance on the iPhone 3G (and hopefully the iPod touch as well). The iPhone 3G was notoriously sluggish after upgrading to iOS 4.0, and hopefully… Read more »

When Apple launched iOS 4, the company took a sort of tiered approach. If you had an iPhone 4, it shipped with the new operating system and all its new features. If you had an iPhone 3GS or third generation iPod touch, you could install an update to get all the nifty new features. If you had a first generation iPhone or iPod touch, you… Read more »

Apple released a software update this week that closes a PDF exploit that allowed hackers to run code on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad by tricking it into loading a corrupted PDF file. That might sound like a good thing — and for the most part it is. Apple iOS 4.0.2 is more secure than earlier builds. But it also makes it a lot… Read more »

One of the coolest new apps in the iTunes App Store is iMovie. You can use this $5 app to edit movies you shoot with your iPhone camera, add music, transitions, and other effects, and export complete videos which you can upload to YouTube and other sites. The only catch is that it’s only available for the iPhone 4… officially. Redmond Pie has figured out… Read more »

Update: Not happy with iOS 4 and want to know how to downgrade to iPhone OS 3.1.3? There’s an app guide for that. Update 2: Or if you’d rather just add support for multitasking and fast app switching, there’s a guide for that too. As you may have heard, Apple iOS 4 is now available for download. You can install the update on the iPhone… Read more »

It was just a few weeks ago that we first saw Google’s Android operating system running on an iPhone. But that particular hack was limited to a first generation iPhone 2G. Well now developer David Wang is back, and this time he’s managed to squeeze Google’s mobile operating system onto an iPhone 3G. Audio isn’t working at the moment, but almost everything else is. Multiotuch… Read more »