Since the iPhone is the hot topic of the week,
here
is an article dedicated to taking the iPhone apart. The iPhone's
irreversible destruction is documented in detail with plenty of pictures,
revealing how the device's components are set up. The iPhone is apparently
powered by a Samsung-built ARM processor, which AnandTech says is either a model
S3C6400 or
S3C2460. The iPhone's flash memory storage is provided by Samsung, as
well-Anand's $499 model has a K9HBG08U1M chip, which according to
this page has 3.77GB of actual storage space and respective sequential read
and write speeds of 12MB/s and 3.7MB/s. Anand also took apart the iPhone's
display, although it's hard to make out exactly which of the delicate-looking
translucent layers would do what in an unspoiled iPhone. Another article claims
that
the iPhone costs only $220 to make, the rest is gravy for Apple.
Update: The root and another "mobile" account password of iPhone OSX 1.0,
have been obtained from a passwd file and been cracked by the famous fellows
from hackint0sh.org. The hash turned out to be old plain 1979 DES. Sadly this is
not of any use so far, as the iPhone does not (yet) present us with a nice and
tidy login screen to explore it's system.
The password for root is "alpine"
The "mobile" user accounts password is "dottie"
Is it sick to have root pasword to all iPhones worldwide? Well not really, there
is no terminal yet to login :P
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