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iPod Touch Is Truly A Phoneless iPhone, Runs The Same Binaries

Posted September 7, 2007 2:00 PM by Tanner Godarzi
Categories: Third-party add-ons Hacks Software 

image It’s funny to see the iPod Touch’s slimmed down and anorexic home screen with so little Apps (my god they forgot Notes!) But a post on Gizmodo seems to indicate that the iPod Touch is truly a phoneless iPhone.

First off, let me say that I am incredibly angry at this new iPod, I cannot find any iPhone news worth mentioning (the Touch still hasn’t shipped yet, will we be bombarded by unboxing pictures for hours).

Now then, Gizmodo mentions that an insider from Apple has said the unofficial word is “They use the same damn binaries.” So while you don’t see the usual suspects of Apps, in theory you should be able to jail break an iPod Touch and even get an Installer.app on there, running fully functional.

Via: Gizmodo

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  1. I am not suprised by this.  The iPhones were originally scheduled for an earlier release this year and that got held back because apple had completely forgotten phone support for the iPhone.  These things make much better ipods and icameras/iphotoalbums than phones.

    Posted by Jacob on September 7, 2007 3:44 PM

  2. The iPod Touch looks awesome! I’m gonna get me one.

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    Free Pod Touch participant!

    Posted by mark on September 7, 2007 4:40 PM

  3. I’m going to respond to the news that it runs the same OS as follows:

    No duh!

    Posted by Paul on September 8, 2007 7:46 AM

  4. iPod touch - finally!  I’ve been waiting for apple to come out with this.  It’ll be interesting to see the chaos when it’s actually released.

    Posted by Jen on September 12, 2007 8:16 AM

  5. Interesting guide!

    Posted by Freebies on November 21, 2007 11:18 AM

  6. I got an iPod touch already, and although it is a “dumbed down iPhone” it’s really quite a neat tool and I like it a lot.

    Posted by jen on December 22, 2007 3:31 AM

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