The Apple iPhone 4S has been with us for about seven months now, which means that we have also had the fabulous Siri personal assistant organizing our digital lives for the same amount of time. For those non iPhone 4S owners the lack of official Siri support has been very frustrating, especially considering numerous developers have proved that Apple's assistant performs perfectly fine on older generation devices.
Often, if you try and bring up the subject of jailbreaking to the uninitiated, you'll find yourself abruptly rebuffed, usually accompanied by predictable comments such as "it can mess up your device," "it voids your warranty," or, my personal favorite, "it's not legal."
There seems to be a growing trend in the world of iOS for apps and tweaks that allow users to use gestures, taps and swipes to navigate within an application, or when it comes to Cydia-based packages, even navigate around the OS. The SwipeNav tweak from Cydia continues that trend of implementing swipes but does it in a different way compared to how others have gone about it.
According to one analyst, a mobile payment service - likely incorporating NFC technology - is in the offing from Apple, and will be implemented into both the iPad and iPhone in the not-so-distant future.
With Samsung having only just announced the juicy details of its Samsung Galaxy S III, it arguably takes pride of place as the poster child of Android (sorry, HTC One X), thus instantly drawing comparisons with the flagship devices of the two other major mobile ecosystems.
When it comes to the use of installed packages through Cydia, more often than not the best and the most popular packages are the ones that are most easy to use and least troublesome to setup. When a developer comes up with something that is not only simple and useful, but also requires no configuration and just works right out of the box then it will definitely become a popular addition to any jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch.
Facebook's eye-watering $1 billion acquisition of Instagram last month shocked many, but certainly outlined its intentions to reign supreme in the increasingly popular socio-image market.
Slide To Unlock is arguably the most recognizable feature of iOS. Although Apple was only granted the patent for the feature late last year, it has been an omni-present feature of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch ever since each device made its respective introduction.
Talented designers are constantly creating wonderful concepts of new devices based largely on rumor and speculation, and while the prospect of a 3D iPhone seems fairly far-fetched at present, LA-based 3D artist Mike Ko has given us something of an inkling as to how it could one day look in real life.
Due largely to the success of the iPhone and subsequently, the iPad, Apple's increased wealth is becoming something of a spectator sport within the tech industry, and although Samsung has recently overtaken its fruit-loving rival in terms of smartphone market share, Apple's sales continue to rise through the roof - as does its bank balance.
