TUAW has the details on an iPhone hack that will get music playing over your Bluetooth headset. This is interesting because the iPhone doesn't support the A2DP/AVCRP protocols that proper Bluetooth headphones use, so you can't use these with the iPhone. The hack uses a sneaky way around this: you pair the iPhone with a Bluetooth headset, then go into the voicemail screen, hit the audio button (top right) and select the headset as the audio source. Then go back to the iPod screen and start playing music, and it will be played over the headset.
We tried it with a Jabra BT810 headset, and it works. Unfortunately, it will also be played over the iPhone speakers, so you'll be sharing your music with the person sitting next to you on the bus, which kind of defeats the purpose of using headphones in the first place. Like TUAW, we couldn't find a way around this; plugging in a set of headphones turned off the Bluetooth connection, and lowering the volume affected the headset as well as the speakers
The other problem was that it sounded awful; the music is compressed heavily, which sounds okay with a voice, but makes your music sound hideous; there's no high end and the rest of it sounds muddy and muffled. We tried listening to Mozart's requiem, but instead of sounding like the wrath of an angry god, the Dies Irae sounded like my dog snoring after along walk. So, unfortunately, this hack goes onto the “interesting, but not useful” pile.
The intrpid Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo has been trying the iPhone SIM card unlocking hack that we covered here, and has found that it works, but only sometimes. He was able to use it to enable one SIM to work with a non-AT&T network, but not others. Part of the problem is that the technique only works with the older Version 1 SIMs; many networks have now switched over to the Version 2 and Version 3 SIMs, which use a more complex encryption method to stop this sort of thing. Needless to say, the hackers behind the first hack are continuing their explorations to find ways around this. This hack is unlikely to work in the US: all of the carriers switched over to the more secure Version 2 and 3 SIMs several years ago.
The iPhone hacking app iFuntastic just got a version bump, with version 2.5.0 adding the ability to browse the iPhone's internal filing system. That's a big plus if you're nosey about what's going on inside your iPhone, but it doesn't allow for full control yet. You can copy files off the device, replace images and sounds, but you can't create or copy new files over to it yet. We've tried it out and found that it works as advertised; you can poke around the internals of iPhone, edit files and do all sorts of things that Apple probably won't approve of (and which could portentially crash your iPhone, so proceed with caution). Unfortunately, it remains a Mac only app, and will only run on Intel Macs; Windows and PowerPC Mac users will have to look elsewhere for their iPhone hacking thrills. Click on Read More for some of the interesting things we have found when poking around inside our iPhone...
Are you sick of your BlackBerry owning friends crowing about their ability to view spreadsheets, word documents and the like? Well, with a quick hack, you can do the same, and then boast about how your screen is bigger and you can see more of the document at once. And then you can crow about how you can zoom in on the document by pinching, see more of a document by rotating your iPhone and generally be cooler than them. Click on Read More for the details...
Gizmodo is reporting that the iPhone has been unlocked in Europe to work with other carriers, including incoming and outgoing calls. The hack apparently uses a SIM card reader, a SilverCard (a special reprogrammable SIM card) and a V1 SIM. The process then supposedly uses software to extract the Ki Key (a special encryption key that the phone network uses to authenticate the SIM), which is then written out to the V1 SIM.
Comments on the forum post claim that the hack has been succesfully applied in the UK, but we haven't heard of anyone trying this in the US yet, and the components required to do it are not things that most users will have readily available. Although SIM card readers are widely available, the SilverCard SIM is not.
This hack is also somewhat questionable on legal grounds; it involves writing to the SIM card and changing the data it uses to identify itself to the network, something that could be detected by the mobile network. At the very least, this could get your account disabled, and there is also a chance it could be regarded as an illegal attempt at cloning a SIM card.
It's another step on the road to unlocking the iPhone to work with carriers other than AT&T; the hackers at the iPhone Dev Wiki have managed to gain access to the code that runs the radio baseband chip. This is the piece of silicon that communicates with the cell phone network, and somewhere in this code are the instructions that tell the iPhone to refuse to talk to any network other than AT&T, so this is a huge step on the way to unlocking the iPhone. Once they understand how this works, they can start to look at ways round it, hopefully eventually leading to a way to unlock the iPhone.
In this new series of blog posts, we are going to show you how to hack your iPhone, ranging from complex hacks that change the way it works, to simple hacks that make it easier to use. For starters, here's how to activate a new iPhone without signing up with AT&T. Click on Read More to see the whole procedure...
We told you earlier about the iPhone hack to add custom ringtone support to the device, and now we've gone and hacked it ourselves. The result? Custom ringtones, but we did screw up our second attempt since we sent an old configuration file to the device. All in all, we did end up succeeding without further compromising the phone. Check out the video embedded below:
TUAW has the 
The intrpid Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo has been trying the iPhone SIM card unlocking hack that we covered 
The iPhone hacking app iFuntastic just got a version bump, with 
Are you sick of your BlackBerry owning friends crowing about their ability to view spreadsheets, word documents and the like? Well, with a quick hack, you can do the same, and then boast about how your screen is bigger and you can see more of the document at once. And then you can crow about how you can zoom in on the document by pinching, see more of a document by rotating your iPhone and generally be cooler than them. Click on Read More for the details...
It's another step on the road to unlocking the iPhone to work with carriers other than AT&T; the hackers at the iPhone Dev Wiki have managed to gain access to the code that runs the radio baseband chip. This is the piece of silicon that communicates with the cell phone network, and somewhere in this code are the instructions that tell the iPhone to refuse to talk to any network other than AT&T, so this is a huge step on the way to unlocking the iPhone. Once they understand how this works, they can start to look at ways round it, hopefully eventually leading to a way to unlock the iPhone.
In this new series of blog posts, we are going to show you how to hack your iPhone, ranging from complex hacks that change the way it works, to simple hacks that make it easier to use. For starters, here's how to activate a new iPhone without signing up with AT&T. Click on Read More to see the whole procedure...