Apple iPhone 1.1.4 firmware to come during SDK launch?

By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 17 February 2008 08:19

Mobility

Apple have been very proactive with their iPhone and iPod Touch updates, regularly delivering new updates and fixes, while also foiling the iPhone hacks that allow anyone to use their iPhone with any GSM telco. Now an online ‘hint’ has appeared suggesting 1.1.4 firmware may well be arriving soon, perhaps alongside the soon to be unveiled iPhone SDK.
Mac news website ‘Macenstein’ has uncovered evidence of an iPhone software developer specifically mentioning the as yet unavailable 1.1.4 firmware for the first time.

UPDATE: Tiny-Code's developer, 'KellyTM', has admitted the 1.1.4 firmware 'leak' was a 'lie'. The original story continues below.

That third party developer is ‘Tiny Code’, whose website first mysteriously went offline – and now diverts to the official Apple iPhone Developer website instead, adding even more fuel to our mysterious firmware fire!

Tiny Code, the company, produced a range of fixes and applications for the iPhone, originally without Apple’s authorisation, just like every other iPhone developer out there who wasn’t creating ‘web applications’ as Steve Jobs originally wanted developers to do.

Their website used to say: “Tiny Code no longer produces fixes or applications for firmware 1.1.3. We can’t say much, but we are working with Apple and with their SDK [software development kit] for the next firmware release and SDK applications and we shouldn’t be missed for long. We will no longer update our Installer.app repo[sitory] for legality reasons and you should see us soon on iTunes”.

It always surprises me that companies make these kind of statements, especially when you’d imagine they’d be under an NDA (non-discloure agreement), but then perhaps that’s why the website disappeared so quickly, first replaced with nothing, and now a link to the official developer website.

And it’s no surprise to hear that Apple will be selling iPhone and iPod Touch software through iTunes – it’s how they distribute, sell and give away content now.

So – what was the specific hint at the Tiny Code site that gave life to the 1.1.4 firmware rumour? Please read onto page 2.