A couple of days ago we reported that Infinity Blade II has hit the App Store. Since then, it has received a lot of praise and almost perfect reviews.
However, there have been many problems with the game that people (including myself) have been experiencing. Some users have reported that the app crashes when opened on the iPad 1 and certain generations of the iPod touch.
Wireless carriers will typically do anything and everything to become an iPhone partner. But there have been some operators that have turned down the opportunity to carry the handset, such as US Cellular.
America's 6th largest wireless carrier told investors last month that it had just turned down a deal from Apple regarding its smartphone, citing "unacceptable terms." Now the operator is saying the iPhone's lack of "cutting edge" technology also played a factor in its decision to walk...
Analysts, investors, and tech pundits have been predicting an Apple-flavored TV set for quite some time now. It seems like everyone wants to see the company do for televisions, what it has for smartphones and tablets.
We've heard all kinds of gossip regarding the rumored television set — everything from integrated Siri voice control to built-in iCloud and App Store support. But this is the first time we've heard specific details on the hardware...
Gizmodo's Mat Honan writes about Siri, which he calls Apple's broken promise. The whole article is worth a read, but here is the conclusion:
And for me, once the novelty wore off, what I found was that Siri is not so intelligent after all—it's simply another voice program that will obey very specific commands. If it knows those commands. If it can understand you. And if it has a network connection. Were this Google, or Microsoft, I'd shrug. But it's not, it's Apple. And Apple is the company that sells perfection. It's a company that usually keeps its promises, and in its Siri ads, it promises far more than what it actually delivers. That's not what any of us signed up for.
No, Siri is not perfect. Yes, it's unusual for Apple to release a public beta of a product. But at the end of the day, it's still pretty darn good, and we know it's only going to get better.
As we told you yesterday, iFaith — the Windows based tool that allows you to manage SHSH blobs on all devices sans the iPhone 4S — has been updated with the ability to save iOS 5.x blobs, and create custom firmware that you can use to downgrade your iOS 5 device.
It works very similar to RedSn0w's stitching feature, except the big difference here is that it encompasses Apple's APTicket and features iOS 5 compatibility.
Up until now it was impossible to downgrade an iOS 5.x device to a previous version of iOS 5. That's no longer the case, as our video tutorial shows you inside...
We all saw this coming. BGR is reporting that multiple law firms from the north eastern region of the United States have just filed class action lawsuits against Apple and several other manufacturers and wireless carriers due to their part in the Carrier IQ scandal.
Carrier IQ's IQRD app comes pre-installed on millions of handsets each year, and was recently exposed for secretly collecting private user data. The software is hidden within mobile operating systems and never asks for a user's permission to collect their information.
Although Apple's patent war with Samsung has received a lot of media attention over the last few months, its battle with HTC has been just as fierce. In fact, it was HTC's multi-touch-enabled handset that first sent Steve Jobs through the roof last year.
As with Samsung, Apple has taken HTC on in dozens of courtrooms around the globe. But perhaps none of them are more important than the case going on in the United States right now. Its outcome could have huge ramifications for both companies...
It seems like it's been done a million times before, so why not a million and one? Yes, Slider Enhancer is a new jailbreak tweak that brings custom text to iOS' iconic "Slide to Unlock" bar.
Tweaks like Springtomize 2 and others already have such functions built in, but if you're looking for a standalone app that's free, Slider Enhancer could be exactly what you need...
NewTabSearch is a well thought-out jailbreak tweak that forces Mobile Safari to open a new tab for each new search that's performed via the bult-in search box.
It's even smart enough to know not to open a new tab when you perform the same search. Check inside for a full video synopsis of NewTabSearch...
Earlier this year Facebook added Skype video calling to its social networking service. The new feature allows users to make free video calls to other Facebook friends from their computers.
We've been expecting Facebook to bring the service to the mobile space since it was introduced this summer, but we haven't heard anything about it... until now. We've just gotten word that Facebook is testing a new Messenger app with the ability to make video calls.
The Pwn Dev Team has released a major update to their jailbreak tool, Ac1dSn0w. The tool was made available to the world a couple of weeks ago as an alternative to other apps for jailbreaking, like RedSn0w and PwnageTool.
Ac1dSn0w Beta 2 supposedly fixes the copyright infringement issues that the original beta possessed. The download file size has also been significantly reduced from over 100MB to about 11MB.
Let me preface this by saying that ESRA will be a disappointment to those who are expecting it to compete with Siri.
Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, let's talk more about this jailbreak app. ESRA stands for Experimental Speech Response Application, and as you can see from the video, it more than lives up to the "experimental" portion of the ESRA acronym...