iPhone Techie

FaceIt-3Gs Tweak from Cydia is now available for download and install. This tutorial will show you how to install FaceIt-3Gs from Cydia on your iPhone 3Gs to enable the Apple FaceTime on your device.

Yesterday I wrote an article on the new Cydia tweak called FaceIt-3GS that will enable the Apple FaceTime on a jailbroken iPhone 3GS. The folks over at iPhoneIslam have released FaceIt-3GS and it is now available for all you iPhone 3Gs users out there.

I have personally tried out this tweak and can confirm that FaceIt-3GS does work and you can make Video phone calls from your iPhone 3Gs using the rear iPhone camera (The only camera 3GS is equipped with)

Follow instructions / tutorial listed below to Enable Apple FaceTime on your iPhone 3GS using the Cydia FaceIt-3GS. Read more…

Hey all iPhone 3Gs users, are you feeling left out with the whole “Apple Face Time” thing? Don’t worry about it because guys at “iPhone Islam dot com” have a fix for you and it will be available via Cydia in couple of days.

The app or this tweak will be called “FaceIt-3G” and it will be offered for free of charge through Cydia. Currently the iPhone Islam team is working on testing and getting rid of all the bugs in this release but the main thing they are still working in is the use of the rear camera on the iPhone 3Gs.

Obviously iPhone 3GS is now equipped with a front camera so only the rear camera will be used on the iPhone 3Gs with this tweak. Read more…

A 12-year-old girl used some quick thinking and an iPod touch to scare off a potential kidnapper. The incident happened in Delaware, at around 6:10 PM Wednesday evening.

The unnamed (as she is a minor) girl told investigators that a man driving a white van entered the Stanton Middle School driveway and pulled up next to her. He then told her to “get in the van.” Holding up her iPod touch, she told the man that she had dialed 911. Mistaking the iPod touch for an iPhone, he drove off.

The suspect is described as a white male, 35 – 45 years of age, with dark crew-cut styled hair. He was wearing a dark sweatshirt and was driving a white work van. Read more…

During the Apple’s October Back to the Mac Event the company has announced the public beta of FaceTime for Mac, an entirely new application that allows Mac users to video call iPhone 4 and iPod touch users as well as other Macs.

Featuring an easy to use interface, FaceTime for Mac automatically uses your Address Book contacts so there’s no need to create special buddy lists, and it works seamlessly with the built-in camera and mic on Mac notebooks, iMac and Apple LED Cinema Displays.

“FaceTime makes video calling to or from mobile devices easy for the first time,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve sold more than 19 million FaceTime-ready iPhone 4 and iPod touch devices in the past four months, and now those users can make FaceTime calls with tens of millions of Mac users.” Read more…

I have some Great / Good news for all you iPhone “unlockers” out there who have Purchased an iPhone 4 and now are unlocked on an unofficial carrier such as T-Mobile, Fido, Rogers, etc.

As you have probably found out for yourself; you can’t use FaceTime on T-Mobile or any other Unsupported Carriers besides AT&T (Now you CAN)

The developer of PushFix (he save a lot of you when “blackra1n” came out) has released a new app called MiTime which activates FaceTime on phones that are operating on unofficial / unsupported carriers such as T-Mobile US, Fido, Rogers, etc. Read more…

Guess what??? There is another way to enable iPhone 4 FaceTime feature / app to be used over the 3G  network and the app you can do it with is called Facebreak 1.12!

With the Facebreak 1.12 there is no setup, you can get FaceTime running over 3G and use it anywhere you want within minutes. You no longer have to look for nearby WiFi connection to use FaceTime. – Just install Facebreak 1.12 and Respring your iPhone 4.

After you install Facebreak 1.12 on your iPhone 4 your Facetime will work on 3G network without asking you to connect to WiFi. Read more…

An Apple representative has clarified that the new FaceTime video calls won’t use up carrier minutes, even when a video chat is originated during a phone call.

The news, highlighted report by Dan Frommer of Silicon Alley Insider, means that users won’t have to worry about how long they talk when establishing video calls over WiFi.

“The voice call ends as soon as the FaceTime call connects,” Frommer wrote. “The FaceTime call is over WiFi so does not use carrier minutes.”

That’s good news for users with AT&T, as it means FaceTime won’t be dependent upon the quality or continuity of a background 3G mobile connection. Read more…