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iPhone 5 Rumor: Apple Partnering with MasterCard/PayPass to Bring NFC Technology in Next iPhone

With the existing iPhone 4S already has become three months old now, the rumors surrounding Apple’s future products, especially iPhone 5 and iPad 3, has started gaining momentum.

Adding to the rumor mill, a recent report published in 9to5Mac suggested that Apple’s next generation iPhone would feature near field communication or NFC technology.

The report was based on a conversation between one of their reporters and “a well-connected developer” at the recent Macworld convention. According to the report, the developer claimed to be building an application that includes the ability to process mobile transactions using the NFC technology.

Although the developer didn’t give any information about the specification of any new hardware release, he told 9to5Mac that he did speak to Apple iOS engineers many times, and they are “heavy into NFC.”

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Unlock solution for iPhone 3GS BB 5.16.05 (iOS 5.0.1)

Pretty much every iPhone model and baseband variant out there can now jailbroken and unlocked, however whilst carrying out a little research the other day we realised that the iPhone 3GS running baseband 5.16.05 was one exception – but there is a way around this!

People who have jailbroken and unlocked iPhone models in the past have probably come across redsn0w and ultrasn0w, well the good news is that these are the tools you need to carry out the jailbreak and unlock, but for some reason only a certain version of redsn0w worked for us while we tested out this method, the rest was pretty easy.

Before carrying out this method we connected the iPhone 3GS to the computer, updated it to iOS 5.0.1 and once that was installed we ran a factory reset to give the iPhone ‘a fresh start’, we’re not saying this is necessary, but this method worked for us.

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