Picture yourself back in the 2006 holiday season: if you were a geek, you were most likely struggling with your Windows Vista upgrade (those were the days!) and dreaming of owning that then-brand-new smartphone. More likely than not, it had a physical keyboard, had a rudimentary built-in web browser and definitely not a multi-touch display. When the iPhone first launched, the whole smartphone space was taken into a whole different direction.
Score one up for the iPhone! The App Store has exclusively received a new and a very different kind of photo-sharing app today: it’s called GLMPS and it records a video clip of the moments before an actual photograph is taken.
Patently Apple has brought to our attention a patent which sheds some light on Apple's potential plans for inductive charging, comparable to the Touchstone charging hub on the market for those HP's webOS-based devices.
Are you using your iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot using an unofficial tool without AT&T’s permission? According to a warning issued by the carrier, if you’re still using AT&T’s discontinued but still honored unlimited plan you might be thrown out of it by August 11th.
With the release of the next iPhone anticipated in around 4 weeks' time, it is still unclear what exactly to expect in terms of features. A report over at Giz-China appears to confirm that one thing that we can expect is 4G capability.
Today, two well-known members of the jailbreak community won awards for very different kind of work. Comex, the developer of the well-known JailbreakMe 3.0, has earned an Pwnie Award for discovering such an exploitable vulnerability. George Hotz, the man who first unlocked the original iPhone back in 2007, won a very different kind of prize: read on!
After several reports pointing to a lower-end iPhone set to be released this fall, a new source is now suggesting that along with the iPhone 5 we’ll see a “simplified iPhone 4”, as reported by the Chinese language website Sohu.com.
According to “industry sources”, Apple has placed orders for the next-generation iPhone, likely to be known as the iPhone 5, and plans to begin shipping it in September as most insider sources and analysts had predicted. The company is also diversifying its supply chain by hiring multiple companies to build the iPhone instead of just Foxconn, which was largely responsible for assembling previous iPhone models.
Do you sit at the computer for many hours straight? Ever wished you could send SMS messages without taking out your iPhone? You now can with WifiSMS, a rather genius jailbreak tweak that lets you access your iPhone’s SMS app through your browser, no client software needed!
Another day, another jailbreak tweak. Today's offering is a simple tweak that brings a functionality to the iOS Photos app that some would argue should have been there from day one - the ability to upload photos straight to ImageShack.

