After teasing us with concept images and video of iWatch, Italian design house ADR Studio is now back with full retail packaging for their Apple-like wristwatch concept. This small white box with Apple logo, iWatch inscription, along with slide-to-unlock package opener which gives the overall design a very nice touch.
If you thought the next platform wars between Microsoft (Windows Media Center), Google (Google TV) and Apple wont move to TV’s, you’ll be horribly wrong. According to the sources at Engadget, the next iteration of Apple TV will get a much needed complete revamp. It will be a small device (like iPhone), will be powered by a variant of iPhone OS, and best of all, will only cost a 100 bucks ($99 to be exact).
Apparently, an ex-Apple employee has managed to successfully jailbreak iPhone 3GS on iPhone OS 4 Beta. The redsn0w 0.9.5 jailbreak tool for iPhone OS 4 currently works on iPhone 3G only. The support for other iDevices will naturally follow once Apple releases iPhone OS 4 at WWDC. But KaatjeNL’s jailbreak method works on iPhone 3GS too. And the best thing about it is that it doesn't upgrade your baseband, which means you can enjoy iPhone OS 4, fully jailbroken on the older baseband with an unlock using ultrasn0w.
According to the latest round of rumors, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer will make a surprise appearance at WWDC 2010 (7 minutes to be exact from Steve Jobs keynote) to announce Visual Studio 2010 for iPhone, iPad and Mac OS development. John Gruber of Daring Fireball reports the following.
Although it’s quite evident that the new iPhone 4G / HD will hit the shelves this June, but now another report has just came in which AT&T has confirmed to it’s employees that there will be a new iPhone and it will hit the stores this June. Yes June it is for availability as apposed to July as previously thought and it wont even be late June.
Redsn0w has just been updated to beta 4 to support the latest iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 firmware. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 was released by Apple last week, which since Beta 2 has closed the jailbreak loophole used by Redsn0w 0.9.5b1 and b2 to jailbreak OS 4. But with this latest version of redsn0w, you should be able to jailbreak iPhone OS 4 again on iPhone 3G.
Engadget has got this latest scoop in which a source close to them has confirmed that the next iPhone is confirmed to have video calling/chat and that this feature will be the highlight of the first of ads that will go on air after June 7. This series of ads will be directed by Sam Mendes who was the director behind American Beauty and Jarhead. He will also be directing the next James Bond movie.
We have been seeing that every time a new iPhone is released, the price tag of the previous-gen model drops down drastically. When iPhone 3GS came out, 3G price was dropped to $99. And now according to fresh reports Walmart as of today has officially dropped iPhone 3GS price down to just US $97 on two years contract. Apple has also stopped shipping the iPhone 3G 8GB units to AT&T stores and further orders are not being taken anymore. This, if anything, are clear signs of the arrival of new iPhone, the iPhone 4G / HD.
Android 2.2 aka Froyo is without a doubt the best version of Android OS that we have seen yet! The main thing which everyone was interested to find out was about the speed of the browser which Google claims to be the fastest amongst any of the mobile web browsers available on any platform today.
It’s official now. Steve Jobs will kick off Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference 2010 with a keynote address on 7th June at 10:00 am Pacific Time. Even though this year there has been a rash of high profile leaks prior to WWDC, which includes: iPhone 4G/HD and iPod touch with camera, yet the conference is expected to be as exciting as ever.
