Archive for 'iPhone News & Rumors'

Multitasking Coming to iPhone in iPhone OS 4.0?

Developers kept on digging into latest iPhone SDk 3.2 for iPad and have found new references to multitasking.
Al named guy found the following mention of a “multitasking dialog box” in the latest SDK:

Two New Gestures Coming to iPhone/iPad: Triple Tap and Long Press?

While digging deep into the latest iPad SDK 3.2 beta 4, 9to5mac found two new touch commands for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. These new commands in the gestures folder of the iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK.
In the gestures folder, you’ll see two new types of commands (3Tap.plist and LongPress.plist) that are certainly not implemented in [...]

There Won’t be an iPhone-iPad Unified OS Till Fall 2010?

The Loop reports that Apple would not unify iPhone and iPad OS until Fall 2010.
iPad is set to launch on April 3rd and it will be running OS 3.2. It’s iPad specific firmware because it includes all the changes needed for iPad sized device and development purposes. On the other hand iPhone latest firmware is [...]

O2’s Updated iPhone Plans Reveal That iPhone 4G Will Feature Video Chat

A couple of weeks earlier, evidences were found in iPhone SDK 3.2 about the possible video chat in iPhone 4G and/or iPad. Now a UK carrier Q2 confirms it by updating their iPhone data plans which reveal that iPhone 4G will feature a front facing camera for video chat.
Have a look at the screenshot below [...]

Saurik Updates Cydia: Speed Increase and Error Handling

Saurik has updated the Cydia with a new version of APT which has an optimized cache generator, improves Cydia performance and has become more error tolerant in repository parsing.

All WiFi Detecting Apps Pulled from App Store

Apple has reportedly removed all the nearby WiFi networks detecting apps for iPhone and iPod Touch from the App Store. The WiFi detecting apps include WiFiTrack, WiFiFoFum, yFy Network Finder, WiFi Get, WiFi-Where, eWifi, and WiFi Analyzer.

Apple Discovers Child Labor In iPhone/iPod Manufacturing

iPhone is really a revolutionary device and new iPhone users are often told that it’s simple enough for a child to use. Apple’s annual supplier report reveals that iPhone/iPod is also easy to build for a child as Apple found about 11 minors working in factories that manufacture their products.

Steve Jobs Still Using iPhone OS 3.1.2?

After the strong recommendation from the Dev-Team, here’s another reason not to update to OS 3.1.3; The header of an email sent to Macsoda by Steve Jobs shows that Steve is still using iPhone OS 3.1.2.
Macsoda sent an email concerning the future of Final Cut Pro because Apple recently fired 40 employees from the Final [...]

iPhone 4G to Offer Lower Cost of Ownership?

Cost of ownership of an iPhone has always been a barrier to its adoptions. This cost includes the actual iPhone hardware cost and the overall plan cost from the carrier side. The higher investment in the device is not only taken seriously in developed countries like USA but also the emerging ones like China.
As per [...]

Scribd Goes Mobile, Sharing Feature for iPhone

Scribd, a very popular document-sharing social network, has introduced a “send-to-device” feature which will enable users to send documents to their iPhone or e-readers when away from home or otherwise on the go.
If you do not know, Scribd is a very popular document-sharing social network that connects about ten million documents with a large [...]

Untethered Reboot of Jailbroken iPhone 3GS New BootRom (Demo)

They started with Gull1Hack (fake?) which is claimed to jailbreak all iPhones and iPod Touches including iPhone 3GS (new BootRom) and iPod Touch 3G and now they have posted a demo video revealing the device details using F0recast, it shows a jailbroken iPhone 3GS from week 46 (means new BootRom) and then an untethered reboot [...]

Gull1Hack: Jailbreak iPhone 3GS New BootRom (Untethered)?

Gull1Hack team claims that they have found an exploit to jailbreak iPhone 3GS with new BootRom. The hackers team also claims that the exploit not only works to jailbreak iPhone 3GS new BootRom but also has the ability to jailbreak all other iPhones and iPod Touches including iPod Touch 3G.
“We just found an amazing Exploit [...]

Video Chat Coming to iPhone and iPad?

Here comes an evidence of video chat in future iPhone and/or iPad found in the TelephonyUI.framework in latest iPhone SDK 3.2.
Some of the icons available in the iPhone 3.2 SDK are labeled as “Accept Video” and “Decline or End Video” which indicates the implementation of the video chat in iPhone 4G and/or iPad.

GeoHot Has an Exploit to Unlock iPhone Baseband 05.12.01

A few days earlier, we reported that Shref_Hashim found an exploit to unlock iPhone Baseband 05.12.01 and handed it over to the Dev-Team. Later Musclenerd confirmed it as a promising exploit.
Here’s an exiting news for all those who lost their unlock due to updating their iPhone firmware to OS 3.1.3. GeoHot, the first unlocker of [...]

13 New Countries Added to the App Store

Apple has added 13 new countries to the App Store.
The added App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda is a good news for developers.
iPhone developers log into your iTunes Connect to update the countries where you want to make your application available.

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