Apple has finally announced the availability of GarageBand for iPhone and iPod touch users after a long but worth-it wait.
According to an official press release, Apple will start rolling out the iPhone 4S to fifteen more countries.
Well, it's about time! Gmail for iPhone is said to be in its later stages of review in the App Store. According to MG Siegler, the app is scheduled for release any-day now and comes with those helpful little push notifications.
If you've ever set foot in an Apple Store, the chances are you've experienced the hugely irritating situation of knowing exactly what you want to buy – often having it in your sweaty little hands at the time – but being unable to get hold of a store employee to ring it up for you.
Last week, a new sort of jailbreak for iOS 5 popped up in the form of a Cydia package – named SemiTether – which you could install after performing a tethered jailbreak using Redsn0w/Sn0wbreeze. This package, once installed, would allow users to reboot their tethered-jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with limited functionality without having to connect your device to a computer. SemiTether has received a big update today and it is what we’ll be talking about in this post.
The developers and hackers from the iPhone jailbreaking community sure are a talented bunch of people. Despite reports of Siri being incompatible with older iOS devices because of them “not having suitable hardware”, these folks took up the challenge of making Siri work on these devices and, if today’s news is anything to go by, they have successfully completed that challenge.
Apple appears to still be in the market to revamp iOS Maps and get away from Google's back-end. With the recent purchase of 3D Mapping company C3 Technologies, they may just do that!
As simple a service as Twitter may be, sending out tweets isn’t. On iOS, you have to launch a Twitter app, tap a button to activate the tweet-input box, face unnecessary information and, finally, tap the Send button.
If there's been one polarizing feature of iOS 5, beyond the Notification Center that just won't stop notifying, and a battery issue that drains juice faster than a 4G Android phone, it's the lack of an iPod app.
With iOS 5 bringing a lot more sophistication to the experience of using an iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, we can only but hope that the jailbreak community does likewise, upping the ante in order to really take advantage of the new options available within Apple's latest mobile OS.
