We've seen a bunch of leaks relating to Apple's as-yet unannounced iPhone 6 smartphone, but while most of them have highlighted the same key features - rounded rear shell, repositioned power button and larger display - a new purported sighting throws in the interesting prospect of a slightly curved display around the edges.
Apple's iOS device range is utilized by consumers mainly for the purpose of entertainment, productivity and communication. However, as the Cupertino company has regularly sought to demonstrate in promotional clips, the iPhone and and iPad offer great value when it comes to more significant fields such as education and medical, and early testing of a new iPhone app can apparently screen for skin cancer more accurately than a physician would be able to.
A week rarely passes by at the moment without someone managing to find a security or privacy vulnerability within Apple’s mobile operating system. The latest bug, discovered last week by security research specialist Andreas Kurtz, leaves email attachments without any encryption being applied to them. Apple has already been informed that the bug exists and apparently is working to resolve with a future iOS update. Until then, Ryan Petrich of the jailbreak fame has come to the rescue by offering a free-to-download tweak that resolves the issue for jailbroken users.
If you're an avid follower of mobile tech coverage, you'll have found that Apple's elusive iPhone 6 continues to command a fairly decent proportion of the blogosphere's column inches, which isn't bad going given that we're still over four months from the purported release. Based on a bunch of info an accompanying leaks, we've painted what we believe to be a fairly vivid picture of what Apple is preparing to release in Q3, and a new comparison of an iPhone 6 mock-up against pre-existing iOS devices offers an even better perspective.
As far as free iOS goodies go, this week has offered quite a few treats, and undoubtedly trumping every app to have shaken off its price tag in the past few days comes the news that TuneIn Radio is now also free. For the uninitiated, TuneIn is among the most celebrated radio apps of its kind, offering access to thousands of streaming radio shows from across the globe, and with seamless recording functionality to boot, it offers everything you could want of a radio app and more.
For the past few weeks, each new day has spawned a bunch of reports pertaining to the Apple iPhone 6. But while, for the most part, the revelations seem to add very little value to the overall picture, today's reports out of Asia suggest that the production wheels are very much in motion. Further to the report originating in China that Pegatron had received a bundle of iPhone 6 orders, it has now emerged that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has prepped the initial lot of Touch ID fingerprint sensors for the next Apple handset, along with the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3.
Pegatron, a key manufacturing partner of Apple's in recent years, is reported to have received a mere 15 percent of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6's orders, which is a dramatically smaller slice of the cake than was initially speculated. Even though Apple appears not to be utilizing one of its increasingly close allies in the production of the newer handset, though, Pegatron is still set to play a major role in supplying Cupertino smartphones in 2014, with the report also concluding that a total of 50 million handsets will be produced by Pegatron through this calendar year.
Photo-centric apps for mobile devices are ubiquitous, and if you're an iPhone user, you'll likely have noticed that the App Store is packed to the rafters with utilities touting superior editing and tweaking functions. Adding a it of blur, black-and-white overlay or a vintage frame are all fairly solid ways of rolling back the years, bringing a traditional feel to our photos, and Pocketbooth, which stylizes snaps in the traditional photo booth manner, has just gone free!
Google Maps is widely regarded as the authority in its field, even compared with the navigational prowess of TomTom, Garmin and the like. When the iOS 6 fiasco went down with Apple Maps, for for example, scores of ardent Apple fans were only too relieved to see the search giant's famed utility re-enter as a third-party App Store app. Today, said app has been treated to a healthy update for both iOS and Android, and you can catch the full details and download info right after the break!
Off the back of recent reports regarding an iOS bug that allowed a hacker to potentially access encrypted email attachments, it has now emerged that a further flaw, existent through Siri, allows users to bypass lock screen security and make calls or send SMS messages using the Apple voice assistant.
