The famed Apple critic John Gruber of Daring Fireball believes that the much talked about tracking down of user’s location data on the iPhone is likely an oversight or a bug, which is mostly likely going to be fixed in the next iOS 4.3.3 / 4.4 update.
We have already reported about how the iPhone or iPad running on iOS 4.x has been secretly tracking all your moves. Security researchers have revealed that iPhone tracks user’s location and stores it in a secret hidden file which is replicated to the computer once it’s synchronized with the device.
Apple today has been granted with a design patent for iPhone 4. Apple has been busy lately in safe-guarding the design and innovation of its products by taking legal cover of patent grant policy provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
One of the most popular and widely used app on iPhone, Facebook, has just received a minor update. The new version 3.4.1 of Facebook for iPhone adds the ability to find you friends, add your phone to your profile, and more.
Apple has just posted earnings for Q2 2011. They have managed to sold a record number of 18.65 million iPhones, 4.69 million iPads, 9.02 million iPods, 3.76 million Macs, and made around $24.67 billion in revenue. These statistics are slightly lower than the earnings recorded for Q1 2011 where the Cupertino-based company broke its own previous records.
Sources close to Reuters have informed them that Apple plans to start production of iPhone 5 in July this year, and will ship the final product to consumers in September.
iPhone developer iH8sn0w has just released Sn0wbreeze 2.6 for Windows users to fully jailbreak iOS 4.3.2 untethered running on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad (1st-gen) and iPod touch. Just like Redsn0w, iPad 2 jailbreak on 4.3.2 is not supported yet.
Apple has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung for the Galaxy line of products. Apple claims that Samsung has infringed on their rights with the Galaxy S phones and Tab by violating various patents which were assigned to Apple by US PTO.
The iPhone Dev-Team has released Redsn0w 0.9.6rc13 to include support (except for iPad 2) for untethered jailbreak on iOS 4.3.2 using the same i0n1c’s exploit which was used to previously untether 4.3.1.
iPhone developer DjayB6 has released a new version of his “Ultrasn0w Fixer For 4.3.2” to make Ultrasn0w 1.2.1 unlock for both iPhone 4 and 3GS (old basebands only) compatible with the latest iOS 4.3.2 firmware.
