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iPhone 4 Fixes becoming quite comical!

AshMan says…

With the launch of the iPhone 4, there were and still are a myriad of issues surrounding its design. When you gripped the phone with your left hand, covering a crucial part of the phone’s antenna the phone would lose signal and drop calls.

Some people have come out with some comical designs to help fix the problem as below:

The end call vinyl: The name says it all, when you want to drop the call simply cover this area!

iPhone 4 End Call Sticker

AntennaAid-Bandages: Again, name says it all. A simple band-aid solution for your iPhone 4! Not bad for $5 US.

Antenna-Aid - Not bad for $5US!

So what are you waiting for? Go grab it for when iPhone Launches on July 30!

AshMan says…

Not too long ago a hacker from the Netherlands found a simple exloitation that allowed him to take control and read the files of jailbroken iPhones.

The hacker didn’t do any permanent damage to the devices he accessed, he demanded for money to restore and give control back to the owner. He then gave up the hacking spree and informed the community on how to block the exploits.

This was only just the beginning of what is seeming to be a string of problems for jailbroken iPhones. Australian users have become the recipient of the first iPhone virus according to Mashable.

iPhone's first Virus spreading through Australian and Japanese jailbroken phones.

The virus is called ikee, and like before is non-destructive but changes the background of the device to an image of Rick Astley.

This virus has spread in the same manner, by exploiting unsecured SSH access. iPhones share the same root password for SSH access as part of Apple’s factory settings.

However if you are the owner of a locked handset, Apple switched off SSH access as a default setting, and users of jailbroken iPhones are urged to turn SSH off when not in use, or to simply change the root and mobile passwords.

This new virus has only attacked so for a range of IP addresses in Australia, though there is word that it is filtering through a number of Japanese iPhones.