EFI Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Recently; the guys at iPhonelogy, after tampering with the iPhone's firmware, found some very interesting hidden gems. One of them came as a total surprise, since the iPhone's hardware does not even support the feature: The guys at iPhoneology didn't have anything better to do this weekend, so they were poking around in the iPhone's firmware, and look what they found: four applications they hadn't seen before, including one for mobile radio that's not even supported in the iPhone's hardware. They also found a few widgets that aren't on the iPhone yet, either. Link to Image: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/07/apps-1.jpg As you can see in the screenshot above, it has an entry for a Unit Converter, as well as three widgets: a phonebook (something that's already available in the Phone section of the iPhone), a Translation widget and a World Clock, also already present and accounted for on the iPhone. The iPhoneologists also posit that there could be a dictionary in the offing. That firmware screenshot seems legit, but we're still not so sure about those icons in the pic above, which are probably made up. Since iPods have gone without radios for so many years, it seems unlikely that the iPhone would adopt such a capability. However, there is already a radio on board with the iPhone, so maybe it's not that much of a leap to guess that there may someday be an FM radio inside the iPhone, too. But we know what radio we'd like to see in there: 3G instead of the EDGE network. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Interesting, I'm wondering if maybe the radio would just be streamed off the Internet as opposed to dedicated FM radio..?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1g1ta7 Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Isn't it a possibility that this is not "radio" as in the AM/FM entertainment sense, but simply radio as in connecting to the cell phone towers or wireless networks? I've seen laptops that have "Turn Radio On/Off" in their wireless network configurations. Unless there was something else in the firmware that gave further insight into what it means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Hmm, very interesting. I guess we'll just have to wait and find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 It's possible that these are merely backends for some of the phone's features? Like the phonebook for ..well, the phonebook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon1971 Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Isn't it a possibility that this is not "radio" as in the AM/FM entertainment sense, but simply radio as in connecting to the cell phone towers or wireless networks? I've seen laptops that have "Turn Radio On/Off" in their wireless network configurations. Unless there was something else in the firmware that gave further insight into what it means. Exactly what I was thinking. It's listed as com.apple.mobile.radio which sounds more like it's the configuration for the cellular radio, not for an FM tuner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Interesting. Wonder if they will add games? That'd be nice, considering Apple added games to the iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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