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Apple slyly enables background iDisk music streaming in iOS 4

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by IBM.

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Well, would you look at that? The v1.2 update to MobileMe iDisk that Apple pushed out last month has a secret — er, did have a secret. One of the concealed new features of the app is background streaming, or as Apple puts it, the ability to “play aud…

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Skype updated for iOS 4, background VoIP is a go (update: no plans to charge for 3G use)

Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by IBM.

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Well, it’s about time. Touted back in March as one of the pillar apps to benefit from the new multitasking API, Skype has finally been updated to iOS 4 compatibility. We’re seeing crisper, more retina display-friendly graphics and, more importantly, b…

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iPhone OS 2 apps no longer welcome on the App Store

Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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Apple hasn’t been shy about dropping support for older hardware and software in recent years, and it looks like the iPhone and iPod touch are no exception: according to a short note on the iPhone developer site encouraging devs to get ready for iOS…

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iMovie for iPhone gets a cheeky hack for jailbroken 3GS, runs well-oiled

Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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Not feeling hot about the trouble-prone iPhone 4, but still tempted by its optional iMovie app? Now you have a choice! Turns out to run said app on other devices (including iPod touch, supposedly) running iOS 3.0 and above, all you need are a jailbroken iOS device, iMovie for iPhone from the App Store, and two quick edits in the app’s info.plist file — change minimum system version to “3.0.0″ and front-facing-camera to “false.” Sounds easy enough, although we’ve yet to see the hacked app actually running on devices other than the 3GS demoed in the video after the break. And sorry, Redmond Pie’s already confirmed that this sucker doesn’t work on the iPad… yet.

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Okay, you’ve got an iPhone 4 — now what?

Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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Whether you were lucky enough to score an early delivery, blazed through a pre-order reservation line, or camped out all night, you’re going to want to take full advantage of your hard-won new iPhone 4 once you get it home. As we said in our review, t…

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iPhone 3G, iOS 4, and you — what’s missing (spoiler: multitasking)

Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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While iOS 4 is delivering on every promise for the iPhone 3GS users out there, as we were all told up front, the iPhone 3G would be missing some of those touted new features. Granted, we knew such disparities would exist but were never given the finer details. Now that the final build is percolating through the internet, we decided to take a look at what features are and aren’t working on the earlier year’s model.

What’s there

Folders
Threaded mail
iTunes playlist creation / editing
5x digital zoom: just tap on the display near the capture button, but be warned, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture
iBooks: we were having issues with the earlier build, but it seems to be running fine after today’s official download — PDFs work, too.
Photos: you can now sort by albums, events, faces, and places
Game Center: the icon is present, but as of this writing we’re unable to connect to the servers. (Update: a number of readers saying it didn’t come with today’s download. We nabbed ours as a gold build, which might explain the discrepancy despite still being considered “up to date” by iTunes.)
Spell check has been updated
Spotlight search: you can search the web and Wikipedia from the home screen search bar. That said, not all our queries — “Engadget,” for example — weren’t offering the option. [Thanks, jkane08]

What isn’t

Multitasking: this is the big one. Double-tapping the home button doesn’t give you the handy menu, there’s no fast app switching, and background use is missing in action.
Screen lock: normally in the multitasking menu (which isn’t available on 3G), it’s nowhere to be found, even under Settings. Bummer.
Home screen wallpaper: you’d think this simple addition would make the cut, but sadly no. The dock has been given a visual upgrade, though.
Bluetooth Keyboard support: we haven’t tried this ourselves, but an influx of reports from Twitter suggest this is also a no-go.

We’ll keep testing, but be sure to let us know your own discoveries below!

iPhone 3G, iOS 4, and you — what’s missing (spoiler: multitasking) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple now accepting iOS 4 apps, multitasking ahoy

Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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Although we’ve been running iPhone OS 4 — now known as iOS 4 — since it was first announced in April, we actually haven’t been able to try out any of the fancy new multitasking features, since no third party apps have been released with support yet….

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iOS 4 gold works with any compatible iPhone / iPod touch via iTunes 9.2, jailbreak also updated

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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Want to get your hands on an iOS 4-equipped device now without being a registered Apple developer? As a number of readers have pointed out, it seems yesterday’s gold build release works on any applicable iPhone / iPod touch whether or not its UDID has …

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iOS 4 gold build now available to iPhone Developer Program members

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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You’ve got to wait a couple weeks to get this if you’re the run-of-the-mill iPhone type — but if you’ve ponied up the Benjamin for an iPhone Developer Program membership (who’s probably suffered through a handful of iPhone OS 4 beta builds over the l…

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iPhone OS 4 renamed iOS 4, launching June 21 with 1500 new features

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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We knew it had to happen eventually — iPhone OS has been renamed to iOS with the bump to version 4. Some 1500 new features are coming along with the name change, including biggies like multitasking, a unified inbox, app folders, and data detectors. …

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‘iPhone vs Android’ report finds Apple has three times Google’s market share

Posted on 05. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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It’s oftentimes easy for us to get swept up in Android mania and forget that Google’s mobile platform is still in its infancy. Then we get cold hard numbers like these — showing iPhone OS owning 28 percent of the US smartphone market and closing in on RIM’s leading 35 percent — and we face up to the realization that Android handsets still account for less than one in every ten smartphones owned by Americans today. In spite of collecting 28 percent of all consumer smartphone purchases in the first quarter of 2010 (according to NPD), Google’s OS was only able to climb up a couple of percentage points in terms of total market share, showing just how long a road lies ahead of its world-conquering plans. Guess that now explains why Apple’s response to the earlier numbers was so nonchalant.

Other intriguing figures include a high rate of loyalty among iPhone OS and Android users, with 80 percent of the former and 70 percent of the latter expressing a preference for the same OS in their next phone — both rather shaming Microsoft and RIM’s numbers, which were a mediocre 34 and 47 percent, respectively. Funnily enough, despite its inflammatory title, this report finds Android and iPhone users are more similar to each other than anyone else — an uncomfortable fact for both parties to deal with, we’re sure. The source link contains some more demographic comparisons, so why not go check them out and drop some sage analysis for us in the comments?

‘iPhone vs Android’ report finds Apple has three times Google’s market share originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Same as it ever was: you can’t tether an iPhone to the iPad

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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This isn’t so much news as it is a public service announcement: even in markets where iPhone tethering has launched, you’ve never been able to use it to connect to an iPad, and you won’t be able to when AT&T flips the switch on tethering with the …

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Steve Jobs at D8: Foxconn, iPhone prototype, TVs, and more

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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In case you hadn’t heard, Steve Jobs got downright conversational last night at D8, riffing on questions from Walt, Kara, and the attending audience of elites. You can hit up the entire liveblog for a timestamped play by play, or browse through some of the highlights below.

We put some extra scintillating quotes after the break to shield the eyes of your children. Just a note, however: all of these are paraphrased quotes typed live as Steve was speaking, and not to be construed as the verbatim Word of Steve Jobs, though the gist is certainly there.

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Steve Jobs’ D8 interview: the video highlights

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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Sure, you read our liveblog of Steve Jobs’ D8 conference — and believe us, it’s heavily quotable — but don’t you want to see and hear the Apple CEO claim HyperCard was huge in its day? Or perhaps you’re more interested in his thoughts on Flash, market cap, and the iPad origins — either way, videos are after the break, with presumably more to come from All Things D.

Update: Four new videos have been added!

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Steve Jobs: iPhone OS ‘started on a tablet’

Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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Well, Steve Jobs just dropped a little nugget of history on us during his chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the All Things D conference. When asked by Walt why they originally put their new OS on a phone and not a tablet, Steve said, “I’ll tell you a secret. It began with the tablet.” After working on the tablet OS which had a glass display and multitouch, another idea occurred to Jobs. “My God, I said, this would make a great phone … so we shelved the tablet and built the iPhone.” And there you have it.

Steve Jobs: iPhone OS ‘started on a tablet’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone video conferencing surfaces in supposed test firmware

Posted on 22. May, 2010 by IBM.

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Need a bit more evidence that the next iPhone will do video conferencing? Then take a good, hard look at the exciting screenshot above, which supposedly comes from a field test firmware for the next-gen iPhone that Apple is apparently working on. Not much more to go on than that at the moment, unfortunately, but Boy Genius Report says the screenshot (and a second one after the break) comes from one of its “Apple guys” and, as you can see, it not only offers yet more evidence of video calls, but video call debugging.

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iPhone video conferencing surfaces in supposed test firmware originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 May 2010 18:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option

Posted on 18. May, 2010 by IBM.

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See that screen there? That’s from the minty fresh beta 4 of iPhone OS 4.0, which was just released to developers moments ago. Unless our eyes are badly mistaken, that’s an option to setup internet tethering on AT&T, something that WWAN warriors have been waiting for since… oh, forever. We’re downloading the new build as we speak, and we’ll let you know if we find anything out. Oh, and don’t get your hopes up too high — AT&T proclaimed that it was “still waiting on better network performance” before enabling iPhone tethering just three weeks ago.

Update: There’s a video of the screens after the break, just in case your belief was temporarily suspended for any reason. Thanks, Jerish!

Update 2: Well, this is interesting — we just updated an iPhone 3GS in Chicago, and we’re not seeing the tethering option. We’re guessing this is a glitch or just a mismatched carrier setting file, since so many others are seeing it, but we’ll do some digging and see what’s up.

Update 3: Okay, we’ve got it sorted — all it took was a quick network settings reset. Thanks, Gray!

[Thanks, Pete]

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