iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 On The Way

[mcdj]

"It's official" - T3

http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/communi...mware-update-2

[I3eXa]

hmm....interesting. But seeing that I just got AppSnap to get installer on my 1.1.1 I'll stick with it for a while. Unless 1.1.2 has GPS, 3G, and MMS, oh and of course copy/paste

[aerospace]

they didnt indicate it came with any new apps which would be necessary to get people to upgrade

[hidehide]

1.1.2 seems to be a useless update
I can type all the chinese I want right now, with my unlocked 1.1.1

Apple cant force iPhone user to update. And its just a matter of time that 1.1.2 will be hacked..
Come on, there are like thousands or more hackers working on it. Thats thousands vs one...

[Sobe]

Originally Posted by T3

...some gentle experimentation shows that the TIFF exploit (described over at MacNN) which could be used to jailbreak and hack the 1.1.1 iPhone has been closed, rendering the latest attempts to jailbreak the phone obsolete.

Awfully nice of those hacker fellows to tell everyone where the security gaps are.

[anarchron]

I wonder what's in the bigger box?

[cjmal]

Im all for updating my phone if it fixes those damn lines going across my screen.

[Bernie-Mac]

Originally Posted by anarchron

I wonder what's in the bigger box?

Its for the Uk outlets

[foidulus]

Originally Posted by hidehide

1.1.2 seems to be a useless update
I can type all the chinese I want right now, with my unlocked 1.1.1

Apple cant force iPhone user to update. And its just a matter of time that 1.1.2 will be hacked..
Come on, there are like thousands or more hackers working on it. Thats thousands vs one...

How do you get the chinese keyboard to come up? Is Korean also available?

[gmanrique]

It seems like a critical update since with the current version a single click on a malicious website could give away all the personal info stored in your iPhone.

Originally Posted by hidehide

1.1.2 seems to be a useless update
I can type all the chinese I want right now, with my unlocked 1.1.1

Apple cant force iPhone user to update. And its just a matter of time that 1.1.2 will be hacked..
Come on, there are like thousands or more hackers working on it. Thats thousands vs one...

[Nagooya]

Originally Posted by mcdj

"It's official" - T3

http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/communi...mware-update-2

Hmm... do you think that could be a PS?

[MacRumors]

T3.co.uk claims to have seen the a forthcoming update to the iPhone -- firmware version 1.1.2. According to T3:

First off, there's support for dozens of languages, so if you happen to be a fluent Cantonese speaker, the phone has all the relevant character sets so you can display your language properly.

There's full support for French and German, with special keyboard lay-outs on the ready to tackle accented characters - perfectly understandable, of course, what with the phone heading for launch across the channel this month too.

MacRumors had also independently heard that iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 is destined to arrive upon the European launch of the iPhone later this week. According to these sources, the release will be mainly bug and security related with some European language localizations, and will require yet-unreleased iTunes 7.5 to sync.

Our source also mentioned that 3rd party SIM unlock software will be once again broken as well as some 3rd party applications. iToner was specifically mentioned as being broken by the update, though readers should note that Ambrosia has released a free update for every firmware release thus-far.

Readers may remember that the iPhone 1.1.1 update disabled all native 3rd party applications and even "bricked" some iPhones that had undergone certain SIM unlocks, which lead to a somewhat rough public reaction and aftermath. Nevertheless, workarounds were discovered and methods have once again been developed to jailbreak the iPhone in one step.

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[ventro]

unlocked/jailbroken iphone owners, heed this warning! Don't press that Update button any time soon! In fact it's probably a good idea to uncheck that "Automatically check for updates" box in your settings!

[jokarak]

So the cat and mouse game continues...hope people don't take this round of escalations too harshly. As for me, I'm still taking a wait-and-see attitude to the whole iPhone thing...maybe I'll jump on the bandwagon at 2.0

[celloman]

well thats good...and bad at the same time

[xUKHCx]

So basically in about 5.5 days.

[macUser2007]

Um, what's the purpose of this update? Other than making people who have customized their phone miserable?

Oh, so I can make my menus show up in Cantonese...! Way to go Apple!

How about concentrating on delivering some useful upgrades? Like horizontal email/message input, or mms, or that rumored Internet Radio?

[mixel]

This is a useful upgrade.. For people who aren't English speakers, which is.. Hell, more than half of the world?

Seems pretty important to me.

[mithun914]

seems important to me to!

lot of ppl don't find it important because it may not be relative to them, but in reality it is to most of the ppl overseas.

[guzhogi]

Originally Posted by mixel

This is a useful upgrade.. For people who aren't English speakers, which is.. Hell, more than half of the world?

Seems pretty important to me.

Very true. Americans seem to think that they're the most important people in the world. That reminds me of a joke:
Q. How many Americans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. None. They just hold the light bulb up and wait for the world to revolve around them.

[Swift]

Originally Posted by macUser2007

Um, what's the purpose of this update? Other than making people who have customized their phone miserable?

Oh, so I can make my menus show up in Cantonese...! Way to go Apple!

How about concentrating on delivering some useful upgrades? Like horizontal email/message input, or mms, or that rumored Internet Radio?

In case you haven't noticed, Apple intends to sell this phone in places where they speak different languages, and they have different alphabets. So if it just does that, it's good for the European and Asian markets, for starters. Oh, and it will undoubtedly close the TIFF road to hacking into the phone, which, for most users, is a good thing. Don't update your phone ever again, and you'll be fine. Sort of. But you'll still be vulnerable to a bad guy using the malformed TIFF attack and NOT putting new apps on the phone, but putting viruses or pulling off your personal information and selling it to spammers and fishers. Most people don't want that, but you apparently think that's okay.

Meanwhile, you will eventually have an approved path for 3rd-party apps, and then you could update all you want. What do you want to do?

[exigentsky]

Originally Posted by jokarak

So the cat and mouse game continues...hope people don't take this round of escalations too harshly. As for me, I'm still taking a wait-and-see attitude to the whole iPhone thing...maybe I'll jump on the bandwagon at 2.0

No! People should take it harshly! They should be outraged! They should complain as if the world is ending and the sky is falling! Apple and AT&T need to be given limits - they need to get the message or have it smashed into their faces.

It is absurd what we cannot do with our own purchase. Currently, Apple is selling a screwdriver that zaps you every time you want to use it on a different screw than what they say you should. They need to understand that consumers won't be good sheep and let their rights slip away. The DRM fiasco where songs are owned but only so much as the company lets you has been ridiculous and painful enough. Having to buy your song twice if you use it as a ringtone fueled the flames. Making updates with the express purpose of destroying what we have found useful is bad enough. We should not tolerate more abuse and against overwhelming negative PR, Apple and AT&T will have to respect us. That the industry has always spit on its customers is no comfort to me and it is time for change.

[cheunghy]

Mmm... I am still waiting for an official launch in Hong Kong (We speak Cantonese here!).

I guess... at least after Japan.

[dguisinger]

Originally Posted by exigentsky

No! People should take it harshly! They should be outraged! They should complain as if the world is ending and the sky is falling! Apple and AT&T need to be given limits - they need to get the message or have it smashed into their faces.

It is absurd what we cannot do with our own purchase. Currently, Apple is selling a screwdriver that zaps you every time you want to use it on a different screw than what they say you should. They need to understand that consumers won't be good sheep and let their rights slip away. The DRM fiasco where songs are owned but only so much as the company lets you has been ridiculous and painful enough. Having to buy your song twice if you use it as a ringtone fueled the flames. Making updates with the express purpose of destroying what we have found useful is bad enough. We should not tolerate more abuse and against overwhelming negative PR, Apple and AT&T will have to respect us. That the industry has always spit on its customers is no comfort to me and it is time for change.

Huh
last time i checked i can do whatever I want with my phone
I can choose to upgrade it, I can choose not to
I can choose to hack it, I can choose not to
Most cell phones never get upgrades, the original factory installed firmware in June would work just fine for most things.

Just because apple releases a new update doesn't mean you have to install it; your hacks were never supported to begin with. And someone will make them work likely in the near future, so quit having a cow and leave it up to the folks who do the real hacking to find a way to make things work with the new version.

[happydude]

Originally Posted by jokarak

So the cat and mouse game continues...hope people don't take this round of escalations too harshly. As for me, I'm still taking a wait-and-see attitude to the whole iPhone thing...maybe I'll jump on the bandwagon at 2.0

plus it nicely corresponds to my tmobile contract running out!!