Cydia, despite being the de facto standard tool for installing non-Apple-approved applications on jailbroken iDevices, it has a major drawback: it won't run in the background. That means you can't keep using the phone while you're installing an app, which can be quite tedious, especially when you're on the road, and most likely in a hurry. Here's how you can modify your iPhone to your wildest dreams and still check your email while you do it.
iPhone 3GS users should be disappointed, since, according to a tweet by a popular and well respected Russian tech analyst Eldar Murtazin, who's broken stories in the past, the 2009 device, iPhone 3GS, won't be getting iOS 5.
Apple has reached yet another milestone in its meteoric rise to mobile phone and application daddy, with the number of apps accepted into its App Store reaching the half million number.
Rumors of a future iPhone are definitely intensifying. Just over the last few months, a lot of information, including design aspects, have leaked out. That could only mean one thing: the next iPhone is months away from being unveiled. A leaked image by the Taiwanese website Apple.pro, allegedly depicting the back plate of a future iPhone, will only add to the excitement.
We've lost count of the number of times seemingly crazy technology has found its way into everyday hardware years down the line. Come to think of it, there have been some whacky hardware prototypes that have turned into must-have technology - just imagine what a Tablet PC owner would think if you could have put an iPad in front of them way back in the mid 1990s. Technology changes and often ends up making our lives better further down the line, and that's why we're so excited about the invisible iPhone concept we just spied over at Engadget.
Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay, two researchers from the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble at the EHCI Research Group in France, have created a plausible system for viewing 3D images on iOS devices without glasses, all thanks to the device's front-facing camera. Interested?
FolderLock is an iOS mod that lets you password-protect some features in iOS, such as folders, Spotlight, multitasking and the phone's settings. If you ever wished to lock down your phone in order to stop others from changing your settings or accessing your background apps, this might be a good choice.
Sources are suggesting that a next-generation iPhone, possibly the long-awaited iPhone 5, is getting a curved glass screen. This comes after Apple has reportedly purchased 200-300 glass cutting machines for use by suppliers, which will be used for production once further testing is completed. Could this mean a radical change in design is coming?
140plus Tweak For Twitter for iPhone Lets you Send Tweets Over 140 Characters Long [Jailbreak Tweak]
140plus is a tweak for Twitter for iPhone which allows you to get around the annoying 140-character Twitter limit. Instead, you'll be given the option to either shrink the tweet down to 140 characters or send it anyway. So how can you send a larger tweet? Read on.
The iOS 4.3.x update has brought a fair amount of benefits, including an improved AirPlay featured, which allows users to stream content content from your iDevice to your Apple TV; and Personal Hotspot, allowing users to create a mobile hotspot they can use to connect other devices to the internet via the phone's network. Despite those enhancements, performance was heavily affected in some handsets. Thankfully, a topic at MacRumors has shined a light on how to fix this problem.
