It's got to be a dream for phone geeks everywhere - two such high-profile mobile platforms being converged through the work of a very good hacker.
Master iPhone hacker David Wang, known by his online moniker "planetbeing," first was able to run Android on the first-generation iPhone last month. Now he's done his magic on the iPhone 3G.
As Steve Jobs goes out of his way to badmouth Adobe Flash and keep it off both the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is developing its own Flash alternative.
Citing tweets from a developer who viewed a demo of the technology, AppleInsider reports that Steve Jobs and company are developing a standards-based framework for building rich internet applications (RIAs). They call it Gianduia, after, um, an Italian hazelnut chocolate.
Potentially lending support to the rumored "iPhone HD" name, new evidence in the iPhone OS 4 SDK suggests the camera in Apple's next-generation handset could record 720p high-definition video.
Preset values for video capture in the latest beta of the software development kit show a supported resolution of 1280x720 pixels, according to MacRumors. That's the same progressive-scan resolution used for high-definition 720p content. iPhone OS 4 beta 3 was released this week with a new iPod widget feature.
Like many other successful tech companies, Apple, Inc. is a myth magnet. There's a simple reason for this: The Cupertino, Calif.-based company is shrouded in secrecy. The press and Internet message boards are rife with rumors about Apple's next big product release -- a secret guarded more closely than the plot twists contained in the next Dan Brown novel.
Apple could face an investigation over iAd, a feature of its upcoming iPhone OS 4 that allows third-party developers to embed advertisements into mobile applications, according to a new article in The Wall Street Journal. That article’s unnamed sources also suggested that Apple could alter the language of its iPhone developer agreement to avoid a possible antitrust investigation into its application-development process by either the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice.
If you want to buy a consumer-friendly tablet computer today and you don't want to purchase Apple's iPad, you're pretty much out of luck.
The iPad currently has no real competitors, and the touch-screen computer is so far ahead of the market that it has some gadget makers running back to the drawing boards, according to technology industry analysts. "In essence, what Apple has done is created a wake-up call to the rest of the industry -- that they need to look at what they're offering," said David Daoud, research director for the firm IDC. "They raised the bar significantly."
Comex and team have released Spirit - an untethered jailbreak for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch on the latest firmwares. Spirit is not a carrier unlock. Also if you are currently using a tethered jailbreak, you have to restore to use Spirit.
Do not upgrade if you use an unlock on an iPhone 3G or 3GS. (You can, however, restore to 3.1.2 if you have SHSH blobs for that version). More details and the download link is on their site...
A group called the iPhone Dev Team (who are not officially associated with Apple) have claimed they have already been able to port across the iPhone’s SMS application and run it using command lines on the recently release iPad 3G + WiFi.
Though neither model of the iPad is available in Australia yet (pre-ordering begins next Monday), the team have reportedly managed to unofficially add support to the iPad 3G for messaging once a third-party SIM is placed into the device with an SMS plan.
The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com.
Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says although he was paid by tech site Gizmodo, he believed the payment was for allowing the site exclusive access to review the phone. Gizmodo emphasized to him “that there was nothing wrong in sharing the phone with the tech press,” according to his attorney Jeffrey Bornstein.
Responding to a public letter issued Thursday by Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said he believes that any crashes of Flash in Mac OS X are not related to his software, but instead are the fault of "the Apple operating system."
