Month: July 2011

Mobile Cloth “MC Nano” Giveaway [Winners Announced]

Alex Heath ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Sebastien reviewed the Mobile Cloth last year, and he was right in calling it a "no-brainer" for iPhone and iPad users. The Mobile Cloth is the most effective and affordable screen cleaning cloth out there, and we at iDB use Mobile Cloths to clean our own tech.

The folks at Mobile Cloth have launched their latest cleaning weapon for the iPhone and iPad, and it's called the MC Nano. It works exactly like the Mobile Cloth classic, but the MC Nano is a smaller cloth that easily fits in your pocket, backpack, or iPad case.

Guess what? We're giving away 25 MC Nano packs!

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TinyUmbrella Now Supports iOS 4.3.5 and iPhone 4 Baseband Updates

Cody Lee ∙ July 27, 2011

Saving your SHSH blobs is the single most important thing you can do to preserve your jailbreak. If you ever accidentally upgraded to a new version of iOS that hasn't been jailbroken yet, saved SHSH blobs would help you downgrade.

The new version of TinyUmbrella is out (version 5.00.77), and not only does it allow you to save your SHSH blobs for the new 4.3.5 firmware, it also gives you the choice of whether or not to update your iPhone 4's baseband...

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Apple Investigating Solar Cells For Future iDevices

Oliver Haslam ∙ July 27, 2011

Apple and one of its main smartphone competitors, Samsung, are looking into the idea of using solar power in future devices, according to the ever (un)reliable DigiTimes.

While it will probably be a long time before this becomes a reality, the technology would let solar cells become part of iPhones, iPads and other devices...

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Is There a Limit to What the Apple Store Will Allow?

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Apple Stores are pretty famous for being cool with just about anything. From dancing in the store,  to even bringing your own pet, Apple usually allows you to do just about anything you want.

Comedian Mark Malkoff decided to put Apple to the test and see if there was a limit to what the Apple Store will allow you to do. In this short video, Mark gets a pizza delivered, has a romantic dinner, gets his iPhone fixed while dressed as Darth Vader, and finally, brings a goat in the store...

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Fake Apple Stores in China Getting Shut Down

Alex Heath ∙ Updated January 27, 2017

You may have heard about the fake Apple stores uncovered in Kunming, China. Essentially, unauthorized resellers were created identical replicas of Apple retail stores without Apple's permission. As you can see from the picture above, some of them couldn't get the company's name spelled correctly, though.

Now it seems that Chinese officials (and oddly enough not Apple) have gotten word of these fake Apple store operations, and two stores in Kunming, China have already been shut down. We're still waiting for Steve Jobs to pull out the big red button and nuke the rest of these stores off the map...

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Amazon’s Future Tablet Will Support 8 Less Fingers Than the iPad

Alex Heath ∙ July 27, 2011

We recently told you about Amazon's upcoming consumer tablet that's set to release later this year. The rumored device is expected to be a revolutionary upgrade to the current Kindle, and it will most likely be marketed to compete directly with Apple's iPad.

Amazon has its own music, movies, books, and online retail infrastructure to go head-to-head with Apple, but what it apparently won't have is similar multi-touch support. While the iPad's touchscreen display supports 10-finger gestures, Amazon's tablet will only support 2-finger gestures...

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iOS 5 Beta 4 Will Expire on August 31

Alex Heath ∙ July 27, 2011

Apple released iOS 5 Beta 4 this past Friday, and there have already been numerous findings uncovered in Apple's lasest build. With an iOS 5 announcement set to happen in September, we're getting closer and closer to a final GM release of iOS 5 before it hits the public.

According to jailbreak hacker iH8sn0w, iOS 5 Beta 4 is set to expire on August 31. That gives Apple a little over a month to release the next iOS 5 beta.

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Apple Removes 3G iPod Touch Clue From Its Website, Slipup or Something More? [Updated]

Alex Heath ∙ July 26, 2011

This morning we told you about an interesting clue on Apple's website that hinted at a future iPod touch equipped with 3G data connectivity. An iPod touch with a 3G signal indicator in the status bar was displayed on Apple's own website, and we thought that it was maybe just an honest mistake by someone in Apple's web design department.

Apple apparently got word of this slipup, too, and they've just replaced the very same graphic with a Wi-Fi-only iPod touch!

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Jailbreak iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3.5 with PwnageTool to Preserve Baseband

Alex Heath ∙ July 26, 2011

Apple recently released iOS 4.3.5 to patch a few security vulnerabilities, and RedSn0w has already been confirmed to offer a tethered jailbreak on Apple's latest firmware.

If you're on an iPhone 4 with an unlocked baseband, jailbreaking iOS 4.3.5 with RedSn0w will not preserve your baseband. Luckily, a custom build of PwnageTool has been released to fix that problem.

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Face Detection Coming in iOS 5?

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 30, 2016

The folks over at 9to5Mac have found some more interesting information buried within iOS 5's code. The Mac blog that loves to expose hidden features in Apple's upcoming mobile software has just found another secret gem.

When Scott Forstall took the stage last month, he failed to mention some of iOS 5's most compelling features. iOS 5 has the ability to take panoramic pictures, recognize voice commands, and it apparently even has facial recognition software...

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Hilarious Target Ad “Leaks” the iPhone 5

Guest Author ∙ Updated March 18, 2019

We're not sure whether the iPhone featured in this Target ad is the work of a smart jokester in the retailer's art department, or whether someone has inadvertently leaked an image of the iPhone 5, but either way, this is interesting — especially because it seems to tie in with those iPhone 5 case designs we published earlier.

As you can see from the picture above, the iPhone in this image shares some resemblance with the iPhone 4, however, in some ways it's different. Most notably because of those curved edges and curved back, which seems to taper towards the bottom.

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