Another now-rumored feature for iPhone 5 is Near-Field Communication that Apple is “expected” to have built-in in the next version of iPhone in the form of an NFC chip.
Skyfire, which is already available for Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile (WP7) has been approved for Apple’s App Store.
Apple has just released the final GM (Gold Master) version of iOS 4.2 to developers! Only members enrolled in the iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise Program can access these bits by signing into iOS Dev Center (aka Apple Developer Connection).
Super geeky marriage proposals are becoming increasingly popular everyday. We recently covered Charlie proposing to his girlfriend with an iPhone and a group of Asians custom-programming smartphones to make them say “I <3 U” and now this.
An alarm clock bug in iOS is causing major punctuality issues across Europe with alarms set with iPhone going off one hour later than the designated time.
This year’s Dashboard Update for Xbox 360 is now rolling out to the general public. It features new updates like Kinect support, enhanced Netflixing, improved Zune music, ESPN Sports entertainment hub along with Metro-inspired UI updates.
The iPhone Dev Team has just released an updated version 0.9.6b2 of Redsn0w which is based on Geohot’s limera1n exploit and it can jailbreak iOS 4.1 on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPad (on iOS 3.2.2) and iPod touch 4G / 3G / 2G (Non MC Model only). Besides, this new version also offers custom boot land recovery logos for the older devices like iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) iPod touch 2G (Non MC), and iPhone 3G, along with the ability to let Windows users restore to a custom IPSW files that are cooked using PwnageTool for Mac.
The recently released VLC app for iPhone, and the iPad version may soon be gone from the App Store, reports, TUAW. The developers behind the popular VLC Media Player claims that the iOS version of VLC available in the App Store is “violating GNU public license under which VLC is released by applying DRM to it”.
AnyRing is a new app available on Cydia which enables you to set just about any song as your phone ringtone, or SMS alert on a jailbroken iPhone. You can even record your own sound and set it as your default ringtone alert. All you have to do is to simply drag and drop any song in iTunes, sync it with your iPhone, and then fire up AnyRing app to set it as your default Ringtone.
John Savio loves his iPhone 4 so much that he decided to make a dress out of it, just in time for the Halloween 2010 parties.
