We recently told you about the rumor that Apple won't unveil iOS 5 until later this fall. Apple announced the details about this year's WWDC event, and multiple sources are claiming that we won't see any hardware announcements from Apple this summer.
On the iOS 5 front, rumors suggest that Apple will be heavily integrating voice commands into the next major iteration of iOS. The focus looks to be on voice search, considering Apple bought a little voice search company called Siri one year ago...
CyDelete is nothing new. In fact we reported on it on iDB a few years ago when the tweak was released in Cydia. But if you remember back to its introduction then you might remember it had some problems.
Its biggest issue, for me, was stability. I would go to delete an application from my springboard and the icon would disappear from my home screen. But when I went into Cydia, the package still looked like it was installed. This didn't happen to me every time, but even once or twice was enough to make me uninstall it and delete apps the correct way...
Just days after an ITC (International Trade Commission) judge dismissed Nokia's claims of patent infringement by Apple, the Espoo, Finland-based cellphone giant has filed a new complaint with the ITC.
ITC Judge James Gildea had made an initial ruling in favor of Apple in which he found that the Cupertino giant is not violating Nokia patents in any of their products.
Today, Nokia filed its second ITC complaint against Apple, claiming that Apple is infringing seven new patents present in virtually all Nokia products. Those patents relate to multitasking, data synchronization, positioning, call quality, and Bluetooth accessories.
There are plenty of reasons for develepors to hate the iTunes review system. The problem mainly lies in the way that uninformed or biased reviews can negatively affect the success of a good app.
If you search for some of your favorite apps in iTunes and look at the reviews, chances are you'll see a lot of 1-star "sucks" or 5-star "this is awesome" comments. If you're lucky, you might stumble across a review that's half as good as a recent 5-star rating for Color...
Now that you've had a couple of days with iOS 4.3.1, for those of you that updated, we're wondering how the latest OS is going for you so far.
When iOS 4.3 was released, there were several bugs/issues reported by the iPhone community in the new OS, one of the major ones being poor battery life. At the time, a good amount of early iOS 4.3 adopters attributed the poor battery life to auto-lock issues, causing the screen to stay on for hours at a time. The problem seemed to be affecting only iPhone and iPod Touch 4G owners.
The introduction of AirPlay in iOS 4.2 was the start of something big. Over the last 6 months developers and hardware designers have been integrating AirPlay into their apps and products in unique ways.
Of course we know AirPlay allows us to stream video and other content to your Apple TVs. We also know that AirPlayer will let us stream content to our Mac computers. But what if you wanted to share content from your iPhone or iPad with a friend directly on their iDevice?
Apple has taken some serious heat over their moisture indicators in their products in the past. In fact they were sued over the LCI strips in their iPhone 3GS, or rather their placement.
LCI or Liquid Contact Indicators have been used in consumer electronics for years. It's that little white strip that turns pinkish or red when exposed to water. If you've ever had a mobile phone with water damage, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
But typically in mobile phones the LCI strips are behind the battery or underneath keypads. Apple has been scrutinized for leaving their LCI strips more exposed such as in the headphone jacks and the dock connectors of their iDevices.
The placement of these strips made them extremely susceptible to incidental water damage. Sweat and other elements would trigger these LCI strips, but not do any damage to the internals of the device. This would result in extremely unhappy customers at Apple stores who were denied warranty help due to the aqua sensors being triggered.
Well 9to5mac has posted this and other photos from their friends at iFixYouri showing that Apple has removed the LCI strips from inside the headphone jack of the iPad 2. Not only that but there aren't any in the dock connector anymore either.
The reason? It could be in response to all of the complaints that the LCI strips sometimes produced false positives. One thing for certain is that they will be replacing a lot more iPad 2s under the warranty. What's the new procedure for Apple reps to check for water damage? Check the sim card tray for corrosion.
Have you had issues with Apple's LCI strips before? Tell us below!
Are you a heavy sleeper? I know I am. So much in fact that I have a nighttime ritual of setting multiple alarm clocks. I set a dedicated alarm clock on my nightstand, as well as multiple iPhone alarms using the 'Clock.App'. If I'm really nervous about waking up, I will even set a timer.
But even with all of my preparation, I've been known to sleep through the buzzers and the midi files that just weren't loud enough to bring me out of my slumber. Is there any way to make the alarm on the iPhone louder?
Still looking for an iPad 2? If you weren't one of the lucky peeps to snag one on launch day, pay attention. We have some breaking news that consumer electronics chain RadioShack may be getting a late shipment of iPad 2s in.
While Radio Shack has previously carried Apple products, it has yet to carry the iPad 2. That could all change as of tomorrow as MacRumors is reporting that one of their readers emailed them the above image.
Perhaps more important to note, is the fact that iPad 2s have been out of stock at many other retail locations since launch day. How could Apple possibly have the stock on hand to launch an additional retailer?
Your guess is as good as mine, but MacRumors is not only showing off this image, they have confirmation from multiple RadioShack locations that they indeed have iPad 2's. Time of availability as well as stock on hand is still currently unknown.
Is anyone still looking for an iPad 2? Have you checked with your local Radio Shack? Tell us below!
A series of new developments has shed some light on Apple's product roadmap for the coming year. First, we thought that Apple would be holding a media event in April for iOS 5 and MobileMe. TechCrunch followed up on those rumors by saying that iOS 5 would be pushed back to the fall, and that the iPhone 5 would be released this summer running a version of iOS 4.
Today, Apple announced the dates and information for their annual World Wide Develepors Conference this June. Apple's focus for WWDC this year will clearly be on software, and, unless they've got a big surprise up their sleeve, we probably won't see the iPhone 5 launch during the expected time frame...
Apple's products couldn't be hotter right now. Almost 3 weeks into selling the iPad 2, and the lines can still be seen outside of marquee Apple stores around the country. Even their rumored iPhone 5, which has yet to be made official, garners up to 1.5 million results from your favorite search engine.
What does all this mean? Apple had a record breaking 4Q last year; the holidays were very good to the Cupertino giant. Even 2011 Q1 results were impressive, and Apple doesn't show any signs of slowing down. In fact, if this report by asymco gives us any indication, it's quite the opposite...
The cat and mouse game between Apple and jailbreakers is getting intense. Apple got real serious when they added ASLR to iOS 4.3 and forced iDevice hackers back to their drawing boards. But members of the jailbreak community responded, and a tethered jailbreak was quickly made available with a patched mobile substrate file.
The latest move from Apple seems to be a big one. Comex tweeted about an hour ago that his kernel exploit was fixed in Apple's latest version of the firmware, iOS 4.3.1. It was public knowledge that i0n1c and other jailbreakers were specifically waiting for iOS 4.3.1 to be released to prevent something like this from happening...