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poohbarr
Sep 1, 2008, 04:06 PM
Hi all,
I have a powerbook G4 and about 3 ipods currently and love apple, and yet I am a little bit of a traitor cause I just got an 80gb zune. To my dismay the zune isn't great and does exactly the same if not less than the ipod AND the whole wireless bs hasn't been hacked so it is usesless!
Anywho, I have a friends that just got both the touch and the iphone. They rave about it endlessly and I would be more than willing to sell all my ipods and my zune if the iphone has larger harddrive options. Unfortunately 16gb being the biggest and 32gb being rumored I have decided that if there is a way to hack or mod an iphone to hold a 120gb, 250gb, or 320gb drive then I would be able to play all/most of my music add a couple of apps. The bummer is that I don't know how to or if it would work!
So what I want to do is increase the battery size so it can handle the HDD and last longer than the stock one, increase the HDD, and later jailbrake it so I can use my cricket service.
Is there anyone that has done this already? If so where can i get the parts needed and how would you suggest extending the back of the case? And how much do yalls think that this hack or mod would cost?
Thanks in Advanced,
Poohbarr
mcdj
Sep 1, 2008, 04:12 PM
the iphone does not use an HDD. it uses a chip. there are no 120gb chips yet, or even 2x64. basically, between an extended battery, an extended back, and a 120gb drive, you are dreaming. come back in 3-5 years.
iblastoff
Sep 1, 2008, 04:31 PM
how the heck are you supposed to just 'hack' the iphone to all of a sudden increase its storage capacity? doesn't even make sense.
stoich
Sep 1, 2008, 04:38 PM
When you were sitting in front of your computer typing this thread was your brain even operating??? That is impossible!!! this thread needs to go to wasteland. Goodbye
Switz213
Sep 1, 2008, 04:56 PM
how the heck are you supposed to just 'hack' the iphone to all of a sudden increase its storage capacity? doesn't even make sense.
First off. He means a hardware hack. It completely makes sense.
When you were sitting in front of your computer typing this thread was your brain even operating??? That is impossible!!! this thread needs to go to wasteland. Goodbye
Shut up. Don't be rude. People like you ruin forums like these. This is clearly a forum so people can ask questions. Don't act like an ass because you probably have no idea what you are talking about.
I'm not sure if this is possible, but the iPhone/iPod touch does not use a Hard drive. It uses flash memory chips. I don't see why you couldnt just pop it open and solder on more chips, but obviously it is more complicated then that. I see these topics pop up all the time and im sure if you searched around you could find the exact answer you are looking for. I'm going to say it hasn't happened it and it will be complicated if you do try, but good luck!
-Switz
Insulin Junkie
Sep 1, 2008, 05:03 PM
From what I'm reading around the net you'd need to find a new logic board for your iPhone.
However google wasn't being very friendly to me when I tried looking for 'logic boards for iPhone 3G'
Good luck, and be sure to let us know if you succeed.
stoich
Sep 1, 2008, 05:04 PM
Im sorry to say switz that is Impossible as in it cannot be done. The only way possible would be to completley remove the innards of the iphone/Itouch and then install a hard drive. You cannot use chips cause you cant multibranch chips especially at a 8gb x 15 chips that would be completley unstable and could never be achieved.
After you install the hard drive you would need a new hard drive. New wiring and circuitry. Then a whole new casing that you would have to custom build yourself. Then you would need to figure out how to run the operating system that the Iphone/Itouch use to configure with the HDD which would also be unstable. Then after that You would need a new battery that could handle it. Then After all is said and done 1 year later you would have yourself a Box shaped Iphone and if you walked down to the apple store there in the window would be the brand new Iphone 120GB that was just released that day. So all your hard work would be essentially useless.
Be satisfied with your current 16gb Iphone/Itouch cause somepeople in this world would like to just have clean water to drink let alone worrying about more freaking memory! Just wait for apple to catch up cause believe me once the 120GB Iphone is released people will be on this forum posting about how to mod their 120GB to be a 1TB Iphone. Its completley absurd.
xsecretfiles
Sep 1, 2008, 06:31 PM
Don't you guys mean they iphone uses Flash memory instead of "chips"
lol
anyways, flash memories only go up to what 40 gigs?
the 80+ gig zune uses a small hard drive, that's why is bulky
so it's not possible to "hack" an iphone and make the storage that big...unless you want to carry around an iphone with a HUGE ass HDD sticking out lol
Techguy172
Sep 1, 2008, 06:35 PM
It doesn't seem worth is to me as it may never work. You don't even know how much room apple left. I doubt you could put more memory on. But you may be able to take the old chips off and then use the 32GB Touch's memory and install that.
Dimwhit
Sep 1, 2008, 06:38 PM
I actually wonder if this could be done, but not by 'hacking' the iPhone. Rather, by using something similar to the Juice Pack (http://www.mophie.com/products/juice-pack), which is a battery pack for the iPhone. Yes, it adds a lot of bulk, because you are pretty much sliding the phone into an external docking battery. But instead of a battery (or maybe in addition to), there is either built-in flash memory, or maybe a card reader, or something similar.
I don't know if you'd have to hack the iPhone's firmware or OS to make it work, so it might require a Jailbroken iPhone. But, I would think that it's at least feasible possible. Provided a user is willing to double the size of the phone, etc.
Just a thought. Maybe it's just not possible.
PecanEater
Sep 1, 2008, 08:30 PM
I'm totally in BS mode here but would it be theoretically possible to have a compact external battery/hard drive that would interface with the iphone via the dock connector? This external pack would add a bit of length b/c of the dock connector interface and maybe 2.5X the thickness. A software hack could allow itunes access to the hard drive.
Fonzijr1964
Sep 1, 2008, 08:38 PM
if u have some knowlege about writing apps you could jailbreak and write an app to use an external HDD that u stuck in one of thouse external batery extenders but u would have to mod that:( it would be easier than doing the whole new flash and re engineering the whole phone
Numzie
Sep 1, 2008, 08:51 PM
Hi all,
I have a powerbook G4 and about 3 ipods currently and love apple, and yet I am a little bit of a traitor cause I just got an 80gb zune. To my dismay the zune isn't great and does exactly the same if not less than the ipod AND the whole wireless bs hasn't been hacked so it is usesless!
Anywho, I have a friends that just got both the touch and the iphone. They rave about it endlessly and I would be more than willing to sell all my ipods and my zune if the iphone has larger harddrive options. Unfortunately 16gb being the biggest and 32gb being rumored I have decided that if there is a way to hack or mod an iphone to hold a 120gb, 250gb, or 320gb drive then I would be able to play all/most of my music add a couple of apps. The bummer is that I don't know how to or if it would work!
So what I want to do is increase the battery size so it can handle the HDD and last longer than the stock one, increase the HDD, and later jailbrake it so I can use my cricket service.
Is there anyone that has done this already? If so where can i get the parts needed and how would you suggest extending the back of the case? And how much do yalls think that this hack or mod would cost?
Thanks in Advanced,
Poohbarr
You can store 16gb of your favorite music on your iPhone and stream the rest with orb (www.orb.com)/Simplify Media (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/08/15/iphone-app-allows-you-to-stream-itunes-library-to-iphone/)
I'm currently beta testing orb on 2.0 and it works great. I can easily stream my 20,000 songs, music, tv and photos to my iPhone over 3g
tremlock
Sep 1, 2008, 08:55 PM
download SIMPLIFY MEDIA from the app store...follow the directions.....stream all your music from your pc or mac to your iphone...problem solved...
cherry su
Sep 1, 2008, 08:59 PM
no, there is no IDE channel on the iPhone motherboard. also, you can't unsolder the memory chips off the iPhone mobo without 1337 soldering skills and surgeon-precision hands :D
Saladinos
Sep 1, 2008, 09:24 PM
The iPhone's OS can support any amount of storage (well, not unlimited, but more than 120Gb). There's no software hack involved, just a hardware hack.
'just' may not be the correct word. You'd need to desolder the iPhone's NAND chips, find the pinout for those chips, and build an IDE bridge. That would require some electronic engineering knowledge, and you'd need to contact a manufacturer in China who could fabricate the circuit on an IC for you (or use a really big PIC). Next, you'd need to get a new backing plate made to fit the HDD in to, and you'd probably need a board with driver circuits to power the drive (it could use up to 12V, more than a NAND chip takes, I bet). Once you have the chip->IDE bridge and driver circuits done and tested, you can solder them in to your phone, and fix the new back plate on.
After that, you'd probably have significantly decreased battery life, thermal instability, and you'd almost certainly have voided your warranty. I'd advise against it.
jeffmc
Sep 2, 2008, 12:07 AM
whatever this dude is smoking... we all need some ASAP
on an unrelated note.. i hacked my iphone 3G to run off my G5's second processor wirelessly using 802.11Z, it's WAY faster now
poohbarr
Sep 2, 2008, 12:48 AM
Howdy all and thanks for your replies. Your way faster on this forum than others, i am impressed!
Anywho, I am technically inclined in some computer related fields while others I'll admit I am fairly retarded. The point of this post was to answer the question would my idea work? I could see working in my head, but don't technically know what would be needed to make it a reality. So after reading all yalls replies, I see that de-soldering the NAND chips and making an IDE bridge (which is what i had in mind) won't work. I am very interested in how you would make an extended module for the iphone though.
Oh and on a side note to yalls that don't want to lug a brick around, if you have ever used or had to use a pocket pc or pda or have a zune then you know that you get used to lugging it around. I would sacrifice looks, and being a brick for functionality. All I want is the iphone interface with my base 110gb music library, put some dvds on it and be able to make phone calls and surf.
My original idea before the iphone came out was to use mini-itx's newsest motherboard the "mobile" and custom your own touch screen handheld and use an archos like os!? But the iphone came out first and I don't have thousands of dollars to build a prototype :) So I have to settle with what is out and I was hoping that I could modify the existing iphone to what I have always wanted.
I am also surprised as to how many others would be interested in this sort of mod! Makes me feel more sane that I am not the only one asking for the future :)
And lastly about the streaming thing, I tried orb at one time and got choppy audio and I had to leave my laptop running at home. Also with the iphone if I want to stream music going down the road I either have to hot spot jump or pay for a service I am assuming neither of which are ideal considering where i live has multiple droped spots that I drive through all the time and hot spots aren't all over the place like a big city would have. Hence the reason why I wanted the onboard storage.
If you have any ideas, suggestions or creative builds that you think would work please let me know. I am open to everything!
tdhurst
Sep 2, 2008, 01:08 AM
Buy an iPod classic. 160 gigs. Problem solved.
stoich
Sep 2, 2008, 03:11 AM
This is honestly to the point of completley ridiculous! You seriously want to mod your F%*$#@! Iphone so you can store your 110 gb of music and movies because your "always on the go?" I feel like im talking to Donald Trump and telling him he doesnt need to buy anymore land cause he just is NOT going to listen. So think about it after you spend 500 hours and a whole lot of money to make this brick size fantasy Iphone to come to life what good is it going to do?? Can you Imagine actually driving down the road watching a movie on it? What case are you gonna hold it in? Maybe a duffle bag? or you could buy a fanny pack?!
You want to be watching your favorite flick on your homemade robocop Iphone?? Then when the phone explodes in your hand and you crash and cause a 40 car pileup youd wish you would of just stuck with the basics.
Ok so that story was a little exaggerated BUT SERIOIUSLY if your going to spend all the time and money on modding your Iphone just buy new car audio system with flip up 20 inch monitor on the dash and two monitors in your headrests maybe even a 40 inch drop down screen in the backseat and couple of 12in mtx thunder 5000s and a flippin 1TB Storage system then all your dreams will come true and you can watch them on the go! :D GENIUS!
Concorde Rules
Sep 2, 2008, 07:42 AM
Howdy all and thanks for your replies. Your way faster on this forum than others, i am impressed!
Anywho, I am technically inclined in some computer related fields while others I'll admit I am fairly retarded. The point of this post was to answer the question would my idea work? I could see working in my head, but don't technically know what would be needed to make it a reality. So after reading all yalls replies, I see that de-soldering the NAND chips and making an IDE bridge (which is what i had in mind) won't work. I am very interested in how you would make an extended module for the iphone though.
Oh and on a side note to yalls that don't want to lug a brick around, if you have ever used or had to use a pocket pc or pda or have a zune then you know that you get used to lugging it around. I would sacrifice looks, and being a brick for functionality. All I want is the iphone interface with my base 110gb music library, put some dvds on it and be able to make phone calls and surf.
My original idea before the iphone came out was to use mini-itx's newsest motherboard the "mobile" and custom your own touch screen handheld and use an archos like os!? But the iphone came out first and I don't have thousands of dollars to build a prototype :) So I have to settle with what is out and I was hoping that I could modify the existing iphone to what I have always wanted.
I am also surprised as to how many others would be interested in this sort of mod! Makes me feel more sane that I am not the only one asking for the future :)
And lastly about the streaming thing, I tried orb at one time and got choppy audio and I had to leave my laptop running at home. Also with the iphone if I want to stream music going down the road I either have to hot spot jump or pay for a service I am assuming neither of which are ideal considering where i live has multiple droped spots that I drive through all the time and hot spots aren't all over the place like a big city would have. Hence the reason why I wanted the onboard storage.
If you have any ideas, suggestions or creative builds that you think would work please let me know. I am open to everything!
Dude.
Seriousy, just buy a 32Gb Touch or a 160Gb Classic...
pj rage
Sep 2, 2008, 07:43 AM
<snip>Im sorry to say switz that is Impossible as in it cannot be done. The only way possible would be <snip> lol.
As funny as that is, I think what he means is that it can't be REASONABLY done. Anything can be done with enough time and money, but in this case, it's just not worth it. Unless your primary objective is learning, you have a huge budget, alot of know how, and you don't care how long it takes to complete, I would look into using the 16gb and streaming your music, or holding out a couple years until a larger drive option is available.
Tallest Skil
Sep 2, 2008, 07:46 AM
Don't you guys mean they iphone uses Flash memory instead of "chips"
lol
Yeah, what do you think the memory is stored on? It's just like RAM; chips. Micro... chips. Using a physical manufacturing process. It's not gray matter in there...
"lol" is right.
dukebound85
Sep 2, 2008, 07:51 AM
instead of orb, look into telekinesis (http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/)
heck it subs for simplify media as well
you can access your files, camera on computer, control the computer, stream music and videos
really sweet
Macrecycling1
Sep 2, 2008, 11:53 PM
Don't you guys mean they iphone uses Flash memory instead of "chips"
lol
anyways, flash memories only go up to what 40 gigs?
the 80+ gig zune uses a small hard drive, that's why is bulky
so it's not possible to "hack" an iphone and make the storage that big...unless you want to carry around an iphone with a HUGE ass HDD sticking out lol
Sorry that is impossible to do or is not worth it.... the flash memory is soldered to the logic board...
poohbarr
Sep 3, 2008, 07:44 PM
Guys,
I guess I am asking questions in the wrong forum. I am not worried about money, as all I want is a functioning device that meets my criteria. Unfortunately they don't make such a thing soooo I was willing to mod an existing device that I like in order to get what I want. But to me it sounds like I should just go the route of mini-itx's mobile motherboard and build my own "brick iPhone" (the only problem is I love the iphone os and I figured that if all I did was change out a couple things like the hard drive and battery when I plug it back in iTunes would format it like an iPhone so that I wouldn't have to hire engineers to program a linux based replica. I want this to be as little trouble as possible :)
Thanks,
Poohbarr
(oh are there any other forums that you would suggest me asking this "ridiculous" question?
jeffmc
Sep 3, 2008, 08:22 PM
Oh and on a side note to yalls that don't want to lug a brick around, if you have ever used or had to use a pocket pc or pda or have a zune then you know that you get used to lugging it around. I would sacrifice looks, and being a brick for functionality. All I want is the iphone interface with my base 110gb music library, put some dvds on it and be able to make phone calls and surf.
d00d all iz want to do is store 1 tb of music and 65 dvds on my iphone.. and it should be able to drive me to work and do all the work for me before teleporting my back home where it touches me sexually just a little bit every night before i fall asleep to my 3244523452345253452 songs
godkorg
Sep 3, 2008, 09:45 PM
If this is useful, remember ziphone jailbreak? The 8gb worked but not 16gb for a while because it had two chips and they were bridged somehow... I think you'd have to know the hardware AND software
Because it would be hard coded with the drivers required and you'd have to either modify the kernel or configure your hardware to fool the itouch/iphone into thinking its the same hardware? :)
aross99
Sep 3, 2008, 09:53 PM
Guys,
I guess I am asking questions in the wrong forum. I am not worried about money, as all I want is a functioning device that meets my criteria. Unfortunately they don't make such a thing soooo I was willing to mod an existing device that I like in order to get what I want. But to me it sounds like I should just go the route of mini-itx's mobile motherboard and build my own "brick iPhone" (the only problem is I love the iphone os and I figured that if all I did was change out a couple things like the hard drive and battery when I plug it back in iTunes would format it like an iPhone so that I wouldn't have to hire engineers to program a linux based replica. I want this to be as little trouble as possible :)
Thanks,
Poohbarr
(oh are there any other forums that you would suggest me asking this "ridiculous" question?
Unlike some of the other iPod models, the iPhone doesn't really have any modular components, except for the battery. With the Hard Drive based iPods, you could upgrade the drive, assuming you could get one that would fit, etc.
With the Flash based iPods and the iPhone, the storage is soldered to the main board, and it would require some very specialized equipment to unsolder the flash and replace it with more storage.
That is assuming you could find something with more capacity that would work with the same pinouts.
This would be similar to swapping the CPU from a Nano for the one in the iPod touch. Not practical to physically swap, and probably impossible to get to get functioning electronically.
sako94
Sep 3, 2008, 11:34 PM
you can mod the zunes and get a 120 gb ive seen lots of people do it on youtube
Dr. Cabrera
Sep 4, 2008, 12:56 AM
Facepalm in 3..... 2...... 1 ...
http://kevinchiu.org/emote/facepalm.jpg
the flash chip is soldered on, even if you wrote the software to access more space, you would need to figure out the pin out/configuration of the chips and how those pins can access the different locations on the new flash chips/new harddrive
basically its cheaper just to get an older ipod or a 120gb zune
stoich
Sep 4, 2008, 01:56 AM
Agreed or buy an Archos my buddy just got one of those and said they are pretty sweet!!
iWizzard
Sep 5, 2008, 09:11 AM
All you need is an 160GB 1,8" IDE hard drive and an IDE to "whatever flash IC thingy apple uses" adaptor.
It exist IDE to flash adapters so it probobly not impossible to do this. But you will not be able to go to radiochack and ask for the components.
It will require some master skills to do this. Some senior engineering student might be able to do this as an part of his education sins a person like this might have access to the components and tools needed for this project.
pj rage
Sep 5, 2008, 09:55 AM
I'm sure it can be done, someway or another. One of the big reasons you won't find any help with frankensteining your phone on these forums is because we don't have an unlimited budget to keep tearing apart iphones and trying different things. Additionally, most of us don't have the time and desire.
aross99
Sep 5, 2008, 05:41 PM
All you need is an 160GB 1,8" IDE hard drive and an IDE to "whatever flash IC thingy apple uses" adaptor.
It exist IDE to flash adapters so it probobly not impossible to do this. But you will not be able to go to radiochack and ask for the components.
It will require some master skills to do this. Some senior engineering student might be able to do this as an part of his education sins a person like this might have access to the components and tools needed for this project.
I think the adapters you are talking about are to allow you to use flash memory CARDS in place of an IDE interface. For example, I saw people replacing the 4GB drives in iPod Mini's with 8GB compact flash cards.
I'm not sure there is any "off the shelf" device that would convert flash memory CHIPS to an IDE interface. Maybe the chips are on a daughter board with an IDE interface, but I doubt it - there isn't enough room in the iPhone for that.
I could be wrong, but it would seem to me to be two very different things. I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but it is certainly well beyond the scope of any type of normal hardware hacking, etc.
LERsince1991
Nov 16, 2008, 04:57 PM
TBH this is what I wanted to do too... Thought there would be someone in the world that has a 80Gb+ iPhone...
I guess I was just.... dreaming....
As for all the people insulting the thread starter because he asked a question that lots of people want to happen... idiots...
As for the people that were suggesting the iPod or an alternative. He wanted the iPhone because its everything in one, He could buy and iPod classic and a phone but thats 2 devices... lots of reasons he/I would want a 80GB iPhone.
I guess ill play the waiting game till the 84GB iPhone comes out... of course then my library would have grown and I would need 160GB at LEAST. I might need to change the hard drive in my iPod classic for a 320GB one soon since they've stopped doing the 160GB Classic...
come on apple, I would like an iPhone with alot more storage
Dr. Cabrera
Nov 17, 2008, 04:22 AM
I don't see why you couldnt just pop it open and solder on more chips
-Switz
Sure just solder them onto the extra pins on the logic board that don't exist. Please don't act like you know what you are talking about when you have no experience
I could see working in my head, but don't technically know what would be needed to make it a reality. So after reading all yalls replies, I see that de-soldering the NAND chips and making an IDE bridge (which is what i had in mind) won't work.
"All you need is an 160GB 1,8" IDE hard drive and an IDE to "whatever flash IC thingy apple uses" adaptor "
Look all you people saying its possible have about zero coding/hardware/soldering experience and are just talking out of your external anal sphincter.
That is assuming you could find something with more capacity that would work with the same pinouts.
EXACTLY !!!
Its one thing to modify a flash chip, that has a known pinout, to work in place of an IDE hard drive, which also has a known pinout.
It is a completely different story when you are trying to connect an IDE interface with a pinout that is unknown, and has a set amount of access points. Each chip that is soldered onto the iPhone has a known location, that is, the iPhone logic board knows that if it wants to access information on chip A, then it will go through pins X ->> XX, etc.
helios16v
Nov 17, 2008, 11:55 AM
well i think it is possible, the new macbook air comes with a 128mb solid state hard drive, there for its a memorycard.
the ipod touch uses a CF card, now i know there are 64gb cf cards, so if you got a 64gb cd card, put it in the ipt then you would have a 64gb ipod touch, the only thing is i dont know what kind of solid state memorycard the macbook air uses so if its a 128gb cf card then your good to go with a 128gb ipod touch.
as for the iphone im not 100% sure on that, i heard rumors that you could do the hot swap mod.
you buy both iphone 8gb and ipod touch 32gb.
take the 32gb card out of an ipod touch and put it inside of the iphone, take the 8gb iphone card and put it in the ipod touch, and then sell the ipod touch on ebay to make your money back off of it.
when i heard about this "mod" there was a price list beside it saying how its better to do that then to buy the 16gb iphone.
8gb iphone 400$
16gb iphone 500$
8gb ipod touch 300$
16gb ipod touch 400$
32gb ipod touch 500$
so then the whole thing is:
you buy a 400$ 8gb iphone, and a 500$ 32gb ipod touch, you do what i said about swaping the memorycards, then sell the now 8gb ipod touch on ebay making 300$ back there for total price spent was 900$, then you make 300$ back from seling the ipod touch, which makes 600$ total so then its 600$ for a 32gb iphone.
BUT like i said i have noidea if the iphone and ipod touch use the same type of memorycards.
i think the iphone uses the same memorychips as the ipod nano, which can be piggy backed like in the tutorial on how to make an 8gb 1st gen ipod nano.(when 4gb was the highest you could get)
because for some reason apple decided to use al 2gb chips in the nano, but on the nano theres 2 flash chip spots for it, so instead of using both 2gb chips side by side on both pads they decided to piggy back them one on top of the other so there was 2 2gb chips stacked on top of eachother and the other pad was left empty.
so to do that you take a working 4gb nano, and a broken 4gb nano off of ebay, de-solder the 4gb chips off of the broken nano, then simply solder the 4gb chips you took off onto the blank pad on the working 4gb nano making a total of 8gb in chips on it, but now they have a single 16gb flash chip. back then the biggest was only 2gb chips so i think thats what the iphone uses, now if thats true then you could just as easily do that with the nano to the iphone.
might be a tight squeeze depending on what its like in side the iphone, i dont remember, my last iphone was stolen almost a year ago so i havent had one till yesterday when i got another one :P
im yet to open it up tho.
so theres 2 ways to getting more space in the iphone or ipod touch that you can look into, if one of those methods DOES work then let me know cause id be very interested in doing this if they are true
poohbarr
Nov 18, 2008, 12:22 AM
Ok, so I know I haven't posted for a while, but I have been busy going through and trying out different handhelds and such. Although it has a been a timely project it has also been a lot of fun :)
My best work around that I was just made aware of is using the Nokia N810 Wimax I can plug in my external 1tb drive (2.5 ide) into the N810 plus I have internet, phone, and the linux distro supports or already has running all the apps that I need/want.
Also it is great because I can use my bluetooth headphones, something the iphone doesn't have and all for less than what helios's work around would have cost.
I don't know about yall, but the N810 does it for me and I would suggest checking them out if you have similar interests. OR the closest competitor was the new archos 7 internet tablet with 320gb. I liked it alot but it was kinda big for me and i download all my movies so the dvr thing wasn't a big hit with me.
Oh and just on a side note after getting my new macbook and talking with some programmers for another project i am working on they were telling me now os x runs off a kernal just like any other linux distro! So really os x is like linux on steroids :) just thought that was funny!
Thanks everyone for the advice/critiques,
Poohbarr
ppc750fx
Jan 1, 2009, 02:13 PM
You might (emphasis on 'might') be able to desolder the existing chip and replace it with a higher capacity one. IIRC Toshiba and Samsung make 32GB modules. I know people have done similar hacks with the first-gen iPod nano, but I have no idea how easy/hard such a hack would be for the iPhone.
Airforcekid
Jan 1, 2009, 04:09 PM
:apple:8GB is way more than I will ever need! Tons of apps and 200-300 songs! Will you ever listen to more than that at once??????:apple:
Tallest Skil
Jan 1, 2009, 04:12 PM
:apple:8GB is way more than I will ever need! Tons of apps and 200-300 songs! Will you ever listen to more than that at once??????:apple:
You're right! No one uses that beautiful 3.5" screen for movies! :rolleyes:
gcmexico
Jan 1, 2009, 06:24 PM
You can store 16gb of your favorite music on your iPhone and stream the rest with orb (www.orb.com)/Simplify Media (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/08/15/iphone-app-allows-you-to-stream-itunes-library-to-iphone/)
I'm currently beta testing orb on 2.0 and it works great. I can easily stream my 20,000 songs, music, tv and photos to my iPhone over 3g
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how do you stream movies through simplify Media
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