AT&T Staff Prepping for September iPhone 5 Launch

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 2, 2018

As we inch closer to August and then September, expect an influx of iPhone 5-related rumors. Not only is the gossip common for online tech blogs, but hoards of stock holders and consumers with eligible upgrades want to know when Apple's next smartphone will arrive.

Well, folks placing their bets on the new device dropping in September may want to double down. We've already heard today that Apple is readying themselves for a September launch, and now BGR has just confirmed the same thing with AT&T stores...

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‘LockLauncher’ Adds App Shortcuts to Your Lockscreen

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

One of the much anticipated features of iOS 5 is the ability to launch the camera app directly from your lockscreen.

That featured spawned the popular jailbreak tweak entitled CameraLock -- a tweak that mimicked the functionality featured in iOS 5.

Now, it appears that CameraLock has gone on to inspire its own derivative of sorts, a jailbreak tweak entitled LockLauncher, which enables you to launch apps directly from the lockscreen.

But it's not just the ability to launch apps that makes LockLauncher special; no, it's the ability to launch multiple apps sequentially that really makes this tweak stand out...

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Verizon Getting Ready for iPhone 5 by Clearing Out iPhone 4 Inventory

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated January 22, 2016

We're all waiting for the next iPhone announcement, with the smart money on a release date of late August to late September, depending on which rumor you subscribe to. The latest information coming out of the Apple rumor mill points to the same release window, with news that Verizon is beginning to clear out inventory to make way for the new handset.

We're always skeptical about trusted tipsters, but the guys at Phone Arena seem to think this one is legit, and if it is, Verizon obviously knows something that we don't....

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Apple Hiring Extra Employees This August for iPhone 5 Launch

Oliver Haslam ∙ July 25, 2011

Hot on the heels of reports that Apple Retail UK has been recruiting new staff for an unknown event in the next couple months, new claims have surfaced that Apple is undergoing a similar recruitment drive in the United States.

According to MacRumors, Apple has, in the past, turned to ex-employees to fill the gaps created by staff holidays, and it isn't unknown for them to be used during big product launches, too.  Now, one such ex-employee says they have been asked to do just that for what is believed to be the launch of the next iPhone...

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Facebook for iPad Hidden Within iPhone App, Here’s How to Get it Right Now

Guest Author ∙ July 25, 2011

TechCrunch has reported that the rumored Facebook for iPad app is hidden within the iPhone app. How so?

A Twitter user by the name of Marvin Bernal found that changing the "UIDeviceFamily" from 1 to 2 in the info.plist of the iPhone app will display a hidden Facebook iPad app. This also hints that hidden app will become a universal application, meaning that the same app can be downloaded on both an iPhone and an iPad.

Here's how to get the secret Facebook for iPad app on your own iPad right now...

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CellScope Accessory Turns iPhone into Microscope

Cody Lee ∙ Updated October 16, 2017

The iPhone accessory arena has to be one of the largest in all of electronics. iDevice add-ons enable your gadgets to do anything from receive TV broadcasts to detecting cataracts, and everything in between.

Now we can add the CellScope to the iPhone's list of interesting attachments. TUAW highlights the accessory, which turns your iPhone 4's camera into a microscope...

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Internalizer: Add Custom Text to the Lockscreen

Cody Lee ∙ July 25, 2011

Do you remember the photos of a T-Mobile-branded iPhone BGR published a few months ago? The device was believed to be an internal Apple test unit for a couple of reasons, one of them being the custom "Confidential and Proprietary" text on the lock screen.

Well now, jailbreakers can add custom text to their lockscreens too, thanks to Internalizer. Chpwn's latest TweakWeek entry allows you to place text on your lockscreen to use as a reminder or display contact info in case your device is lost...

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‘HUD Controls Plus’ Allows You to Launch Apps Straight From Your Heads Up Display

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Over the years, many a jailbreak tweak has taken advantage of the heads up display that appears when you press one of your iPhone's volume keys; for instance, biteSMS allows you to invoke quick compose for SMS messages by simply tapping the HUD when it appears.

While most tweaks that use the HUD only utilize it for some auxiliary function, HUD Controls Plus focuses solely on the HUD.

With that in mind, it's appropriate to refer to HUD Controls Plus as a supercharger for your iPhone's heads up display...

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New iPad TV Ad: We’ll Always

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated August 14, 2017

Apple just launched a new TV commercial for the iPad 2. Nothing really original here as Apple is still trying to touch our emotions, and of course they succeed.

This ad is titled "We'll Always," and it shows that we'll never stop doing the things we love, but with the iPad we'll do them in amazing new ways...

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Add a Free Landscape App Switcher to Your iPhone With ‘Switcherscape’

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

If you've ever wanted to open up your app switcher in landscape mode like you can do on the iPad, then your only choice is to jailbreak your iPhone.

Up until now, the jailbreak tweaks that enable the landscape app switcher on the iPhone have all been paid tweaks.

Thank's to @chpwn, there is now a free option to enable the landscape app switcher, and that option is aptly entitled, Switcherscape...

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iPhone Hacker ‘MuscleNerd’ Suspended From Google+ for Not Providing Real Name

Alex Heath ∙ Updated January 25, 2017

Google's latest attempt at a social network is Google+. After only a few weeks of being in a private beta, there are already 18+ million people registered on the network.

On Google+, Google requires that you provide your real, full name when making your account. While this may not prove to be a problem for most users, those under the internt's limelight that don't want their real name out there for all to see may find this requirement of Google's to be a dilemma.

Legendary unlock wizard and jailbreak hacker, MuscleNerd, has run into this problem with Google, and the results are that his Google+ account has been suspended...

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‘SBFloatingIcons’ Places Your iPhone’s App Icons Into a Virtual Blender

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated August 4, 2011

SBFloatingIcons is a recently released jailbreak tweak that brings a measure of organized confusion to your iPhone's springboard.

In the same vein as tweaks like GraviBoard and others, SBFloatingIcons allows you manipulate all of the app icons on your iPhone's Home screen.

Once installed, you'll be able to add 3D rotation, 2D rotation, and 3D scaling to the icons in both your dock and the home screen. Check inside for a video demonstration of SBFloatingIcons in action...

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