div align="center"a href="http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/new-arrivals/swap-watch/index.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/swap-watch-phone.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left"While a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/watchphone"watch phones/a have gotten a tad more "wearable" in recent years, they still haven't exactly caught on like some folks may have thought they would in their younger, jetpack-filled visions of the future, and we're going to go out on a limb and speculate that this new so-called sWaP watch won't change that situation. As far as watch phones go, however, this one looks to be fairly capable, with it packing a SIM card slot to let you easily hop onto your cell network of choice, a 1.3 megapixel camera, 128MB of built-in memory, a T-Flash card slot to add up to 2GB more, and even an included Bluetooth headset to avoid the embarrassment of actually talking into your watch. You'll have to pay a bit of a premium for this particular slice of a future that might have been though, with the device sporting a price tag of pound;249, or roughly $370.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20081120/lets-swap-a-watch-for-a-phone/"Coolest Gadgets/a]br //div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/wearables/" rel="tag"Wearables/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/swap-watch-phone-likely-wont-change-your-opinion-of-watch-phone/"sWaP watch phone likely won't change your opinion of watch phones/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:56:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/new-arrivals/swap-watch/index.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/swap-watch-phone-likely-wont-change-your-opinion-of-watch-phone/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1379859/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/swap-watch-phone-likely-wont-change-your-opinion-of-watch-phone/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/A3do6CEy2xUPBlhlMbTeoJ6rbu4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/A3do6CEy2xUPBlhlMbTeoJ6rbu4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=nkUw77sO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=nkUw77sO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=VcYAMNgB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=VcYAMNgB" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/I4zYwXiPNuQ" height="1" width="1"/

While watch phones have gotten a tad more "wearable" in recent years, they still haven't exactly caught on like some folks may have thought they would in their younger, jetpack-filled visions of the future, and we're going to go out on a limb and speculate that this new so-called sWaP watch won't change that situation. As far as watch phones go, however, this one looks to be fairly capable, with it packing a SIM card slot to let you easily hop onto your cell network of choice, a 1.3 megapixel camera, 128MB of built-in memory, a T-Flash card slot to add up to 2GB more, and even an included Bluetooth headset to avoid the embarrassment of actually talking into your watch. You'll have to pay a bit of a premium for this particular slice of a future that might have been though, with the device sporting a price tag of £249, or roughly $370.

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I unlocked the iPhone with the first free dev team procedure. It was a lot of manual stuff, and it resulted in a corrupted seczone. Obviously things are a lot cleaner now, but it leaves early adopters like me in the dust.

In the interest of allowing others to learn from my research/trials, I'm posting what I went through (so if you see a similar problem you're having partway through, this might be useful) to finally get to a pwned, 100% functional, 2.0.2 iPhone.

You can probably eliminate or condense a lot of these steps.


(Note, started using iTunes 7.5. You could/should probably start with iTunes 7.7.1.11, but I can't verify that.)

1. Phone was working, at 1.0.2 plus corrupted seczone old-unlock-hack. Because of this, installer wouldn't work right.
Tried manual installs / reinstalls of installer, but nothing worked. I even tried SSHing in and manually running virginizer
scripts. Odd things happened; chmod didn't function correctly. The scripts wouldn't work; even if executed individually.
I concluded I needed to restore to 1.0.2 and start over installing installer on a fresh iphone.

2. This appeared to work. I tried to use iliberty to free my fresh iphone, and it failed. I tried to use winpwn,
and it also failed. At this point I noticed that my phone wasn't booting correctly any more. It was getting the
"BSD root: md0, major2, minor0" error. None of George Zhu's proposed fixes via iliberty, restore, nor DFU restore
helped.

3. I found a post that said to start at step 12 (actually , 11) of this post:
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42046 and after DFU installing firmware 1.1.1, the phone seems to
boot correctly again. I then DFU down to 1.0.2.

4. Attempting to use iLiberty to jailbreak, activate, and cydia the phone causes the purple usb cable --> itunes logo screen and
subsequent boots have the "BSD root: md0, major 2, minor 0" error. This is repaired by DFU restoring to 1.1.1. (SIM card being
present doesn't matter; I checked)

5. This looks promising. I DFU restored to 1.0.2. http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10858
(This didn't actually go anywhere)

6. AppTappInstaller stopped in iPhoneComm.exe Stage 2, (4) Booting iPhone in recovery mode.
(I don't think this helped)

7. So I download iDemocracy: http://www.drakenza.com/Were_Done_Here.html and activate, then jailbreak.
I tried to "refurbish", then use iTunes to restore to 1.1.1 (yes, phone was in DFU mode) but that caused an
itunes "2003" error.

8. Power off the iPhone; restart in DFU mode. Do the same operation: restore 1.1.1. Should work this time.

9. Trying winpwn 2.5beta, I get to the "preparing pwnage DFU restore information", but I always get "Failed to pwn
your device." I never get a countdown, and even trying to put the iphone in DFU mode and then clicking "go"
doesn't seem to work.

10. Found a page saying that winpwn requires the iphone be at 1.1.4. Why do I have to find this out via anecdote?
DFU, restore to 1.1.4.

11. Winpwn won't correctly do it. So I found that the .ipsw image is in "My Documents". Copy to desktop, then try to DFU
restore via iTunes. Doesn't work. Found an anecdote in the older winpwn guide that iTunes 7.7 is required, at minimum.
Installed itunes 7.7. Retried restore, got 1601 error from itunes.

12. Rebooted into DFU again, tried again, 1602 error from itunes.

13. Tried using expert mode on winpwn 2.5beta. Apparently easy mode doesn't actually work; it creates the
restore image, but it never goes into the countdown code to pwn the phone. I upped the root partition to 700mb per
some comments on the winpwn page, and it worked like a charm.

14. Installed iTunes 8.01. Reports are on the web that it works fine.

15. EDGE isn't configured. I find a post that references an apple tool for corporate iphone config:
http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/forums/...9&postcount=23
Install that tool and follow the directions. You may find your APN by looking here:
http://www.webmessenger.com/support/APN.jsp
I emailed the file to myself after connecting the iPhone to my local wifi.

16. Cydia only half-works, popping up a message that says "sub-process bzip2 returned...". This is solved by
allowing Cydia to update all of its source sets (just click "changes" on the bottom and then "upgrade (5)"
in the top right).

Hi, I got a first generation iPhone and had it unblocked. Then, it was accidentally updated to 2.2 firmware. All I see now is the connect to iTunes screen wit a slider on the bottom for emergency call. How can I remove this and do all the stuff needed to use the phone with any SIM card?

Thanks in advanced

Well like an Idiot I upgraded to 2.2 without checking the dev team's blog, and after my iPhone rebooted from the 2.2 install it's stuck at activation through iTunes. "iTunes cannot activate your iPhone because the SIM card is not inserted or a SIM Pin is required" Also iTunes doesn't' recognize my phone.

Is there anything I can do or am I screwed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks, John

Please note: This phone is unlocked and can be used with any SIM card. No activation required (check carrier frequency requirements)br / br / Carrier: ATT (GSM based), T-Mobile, and Other GSM carriers*br / * Please check compatibility with your service provider br / Technology: 3G EURO Standard, 3G ATT Standard , Quad Band 850/900/1800/1900 br / Feature: 3+ Megapixel Camera, Bluetooth, Calendar, Camera, Candy Bar Form, Edge, Email Client, GPS / Location, High-Speed Data GPRS, Megapixel Camera, Memory Card Slot, MP3, Smartphone, Speaker Phone, Touch Screen, Video Capture, Video Clip, Voice Dialing.

Pour limiter l'utilisation personnelle de portables professionnels, Sentry Wireless commercialise un pare-feu hébergé dans la carte SIM qui limite l'utilisation du combiné.

I bought the iPhone 3G from my friend on AT&T who got it by upgrading his contract. I'm an AT&T customer but did do not have an iPhone contract. His phone still worked when I put my sim card in there.

If I upgrade to 2.2, will I get locked out?

In other words, does upgrading an iPhone bring you back to the activation screen (even if is on contract)?

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As I wrote previously, do not upgrade to 2.2 yet. Here is yet another warning from the creators of the actual jailbreaking programs. If you don’t listen to me, at least listen to people who know what they are talking about.

So, as anticipated our friends the misfits have recently released the long awaited 2.2 update. We can confirm that this update SHOULD NOT be applied using iTunes if you want the chance of a soft-unlock in the near future.

If you want to keep that option of a ‘soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a PwnageTool created custom ipsw file that disables the baseband update. You will be able to do this using an updated version of PwnageTool that will be released sometime soon.

Some facts -

• The 2.2 firmware for 3G contains a baseband update for the 3G iPhone
• The 2.2 firmware for 2G (1st gen iPhones) doesn’t contain a baseband update and the baseband is still at 04.05.04
• We believe that our Pwnage technique (and therefore the Jailbreak) isn’t affected, but PwnageTool and QuickPwn do not support this release as yet, so DO NOT install 2.2 using iTunes as you will lose your jailbreak
• If you apply this update and you previously relied on PwnageTool or QuickPwn to activate your phone, it may become temporarily deactivated and unusable (until we release the new version of PwnageTool or QuickPwn).
• PwnageTool and QuickPwn updates will be released as soon as possible that will allow a safe update path to 2.2 the release of these updates is inevitable but not imminent, we are creating the modifications right now and we need to put the new software through the usual testing process.
• If you apply this update and you have third-party (non AppStore) applications  that you rely on they will stop working.
• 2G (1st gen) iPhone users who cannot wait for the new PwnageTool or QuickPwn can safely “Update” to 2.2 using iTunes, this will preserve the existing activation. However “restoring” to 2.2 using iTunes will return the iPhone to the unactivated state. If you are in any doubt just wait. NB: This works for 2G ONLY.
• The use of SIM-Proxies (small circuit boards/chips that sit underneath the SIM card) to provide GSM/UMTS service on your locked iPhone 3G is a method that we have always advised against. Early reports suggest that the 2.2 update disables the functionality of these devices. The techniques used were always unreliable and we are surprised that they have lasted this long.
• We are not working on the 2nd generation iPod touch at the moment, so we cannot comment on what the the 2.2 software update may do to this specific model

So, as always, if you are in any doubt whatsoever please delay the install of this firmware on any of your devices until we have investigated the release in more detail. Watch this space

So there it is. The warning. Do not update yet, and I will not have to help you and answer all of your stupid questions dealing with NOT FOLLOWING ADVICE. Thank You.

Also, there is a new version of iTunes is out (8.02). Do not upgrade to this. iTunes is quite stable now, and this update may affect the jailbreaking process. Don’t upgrade until we say it is okay to do so.

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Well For some of you it might be to late Please read the lastest blog From the Iphone Dev Team

Sir, step away from the keyboard.

So, as anticipated our friends the misfits have recently released the long awaited 2.2 update. We can confirm that this update SHOULD NOT be applied using iTunes if you want the chance of a soft-unlock in the near future.

If you want to keep that option of a ‘soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a PwnageTool created custom ipsw file that disables the baseband update. You will be able to do this using an updated version of PwnageTool that will be released sometime soon.

Some facts -
The 2.2 firmware for 3G contains a baseband update for the 3G iPhone
The 2.2 firmware for 2G (1st gen iPhones) doesn’t contain a baseband update and the baseband is still at 04.05.04
We believe that our Pwnage technique (and therefore the Jailbreak) isn’t affected, but PwnageTool and QuickPwn do not support this release as yet, so DO NOT install 2.2 using iTunes as you will lose your jailbreak
If you apply this update and you previously relied on PwnageTool or QuickPwn to activate your phone, it may become temporarily deactivated and unusable (until we release the new version of PwnageTool or QuickPwn).
PwnageTool and QuickPwn updates will be released as soon as possible that will allow a safe update path to 2.2. the release of these updates is inevitable but not imminent, we are creating the modifications right now and we need to put the new software through the usual testing process.
If you apply this update and you have third-party (non AppStore) applications that you rely on they will stop working.
2G (1st gen) iPhone users who cannot wait for the new PwnageTool or QuickPwn can safely “Update” to 2.2 using iTunes, this will preserve the existing activation. However “restoring” to 2.2 using iTunes will return the iPhone to the unactivated state. If you are in any doubt just wait. NB: This works for 2G ONLY.
The use of SIM-Proxies (small circuit boards/chips that sit underneath the SIM card) to provide GSM/UMTS service on your locked iPhone 3G is a method that we have always advised against. Early reports suggest that the 2.2 update disables the functionality of these devices. The techniques used were always unreliable and we are surprised that they have lasted this long.
We are not working on the 2nd generation iPod touch at the moment, so we cannot comment on what the the 2.2 software update may do to this specific model

So, as always, if you are in any doubt whatsoever please delay the install of this firmware on any of your devices until we have investigated the release in more detail. Watch this space ;-)

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Sagem Orga, spécialiste de la carte SIM, a annoncé un partenariat avec BlueSky Positioning, une société qui a développé une technologie pour intégrer un récepteur GPS dans une carte de SIM. Coller à la loi européenne   Alors que la plupart des nouveaux

La société Sagem Orga va développer avec le spécialiste de la géolocalisation sur mobiles, BlueSky Positioning, des cartes SIM intégrant un récepteur A-GPS. Selon la société allemande, filiale du groupe Safran, ce partenariat technologique permettra de créer de nouvelles cartes SIM aux possibilités décuplées.

La société Sagem Orga va développer avec le spécialiste de la géolocalisation sur mobiles, BlueSky Positioning, des cartes SIM intégrant un récepteur A-GPS.

La société Sagem Orga va développer avec le spécialiste de la géolocalisation sur mobiles, BlueSky Positioning, des cartes SIM intégrant un récepteur A-GPS.

La société Sagem Orga va développer avec le spécialiste de la géolocalisation sur mobiles, BlueSky Positioning, des cartes SIM intégrant un récepteur A-GPS. Selon la société allemande, filiale du groupe Safran, ce partenariat technologique permettra de créer de nouvelles cartes SIM aux possibilités décuplées.

Sagem Orga, en partenariat avec BlueSky Positioning, s'intéresse à tous ceux qui n'ont pas encore de GPS avec la sortie annoncée d'une carte SIM équipée d'un récepteur AGPS. Le gadget nous paraît à la fois utile et intelligent. Le brevet était développé au départ pour la géolocalisation précise des appels ...

Sagem Orga, in partnership with BlueSky is targeting the array of cellphones (and presumably mobile-internet enabled PCs and such) that currently don't have GPS with this new invention: a SIM card...

Sagem Orga, in partnership with BlueSky is targeting the array of cellphones (and presumably mobile-internet enabled PCs and such) that currently don't have GPS with this new invention: a SIM card...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/sagemAGPSsim.jpg" width="494" height="323" style="display:block;" /Sagem Orga, in partnership with BlueSky is targeting the array of cellphones (and presumably mobile-internet enabled PCs and such) that currently don't have GPS with this new invention: a SIM card with AGPS aboard. Clever stuff indeed, packing all the chips for a "highly accurate GPS receiver", wiring and antenna into a thumbnail-sized space. We've got to wonder how good its satellite fixes will be with such a small device though, and since it looks like every gadget that comes out has GPS aboard nowadays, adding GPS to a device via its SIM card might just be a temporary stopgap option. But it'll undeniably have lots of applications when it hits the market. [