A leaked T-Mobile document reveals that the company will soon begin offering additional support to its unlocked iPhone customers, reports TMONews.

Starting on January 30th, T-Mobile will “begin offering additional support to customers using an Apple iPhone on our network.” T-Mobile’s added iPhone support will include “common procedures, information about feature and specifications and other basic device questions.” T-Mobile is implementing these changes to support the 1 million plus users on the Magenta network with unlocked iPhones.

While T-Mobile is not currently an official carrier for the iPhone, the next generation phone is said to use a chip that supports the AWS spectrum band used by the network.

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Facing a proposed hearing for their FCC applications to assign or transfer control of licenses, AT&T and T-Mobile have withdrawn their pending applications.

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On Nov. 22, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission indicated a proposed order was circulating that would designate for hearing the applications of AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG For Consent To Assign or Transfer Control of Licenses and Authorizations, WT Docket No. 11-65. On November 23, 2011, AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG electronically withdrew without prejudice, as of that date, the pending applications listed in the Public Notice released by the Federal Communications Commission on April 28, 2011 in that proceeding. Associated manual notification of withdrawal filings also are being made.

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Steve Jobs biography reveals that the iPad was created to one up a Microsoft employee that kept bragging about how great their tablet was going to be.

[Bill] Gates was annoyed that the guy kept revealing information about the tablet PC he had developed for Microsoft. “He’s our employee and he’s revealing out intellectual property,” Gates recounted. Jobs was also annoyed, and it had the consequence that Gates feared. As Jobs recalled:
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A new iOS security flaw has been discovered that lets anyone with a smart cover break into your iPad. Read More

The iPad 3G has been hacked to enable full phone and SMS functionality by iPhoneIslam.

A hack that will change the game. Can you imagine turning your iPad to a fully functional phone.

With No Special Hardware all what you need is Jailbroken iPad 3G and your iPad 3G will do anything you expect from iPhone… Phone Calls, SMS, FaceTime by Phone Number… ETC

iPhoneIslam was behind the FaceIt3GS tweak as well. While they have no released date for PhoneItiPad. It will apparently be available on the Cydia Store ‘very soon’.

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The Chronic Dev Team has updated us on the status of the iPad 2 jailbreak and 4.3.x support in Greenpois0n. Here’s what they had to say…

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As I’m sure many people have heard, Josh (posixninja) has recently been quoted saying the iPad 2 jailbreak is coming in “weeks”, I know I have been very publicly abrasive and non-commital on giving any kind of timeframe or comment on Read More

I0n1c untethered jailbreak bug has not been fixed in the just released iOS 4.3.3 firmware, according to comex.

@i0n1c’s bug is not patched in 4.3.3. #whatisthisidonteven

This is excellent news for jailbreakers as they will soon be able to perform an untethered jailbreak of iOS 4.3.3.

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