Somehow, iOS commentator BlogdoiPhone has supposedly gotten wind of a "pre-GM" leak of the upcoming iteration of iOS, which is iOS 5.1. GM, initialism of Golden Master, usually refers to the final version so, if true, the information and images below would appear to paint the full picture as to what Apple has in the pipeline.
In this fast paced world that we live in, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that if we can find a way to complete a task in a shorter period of time, we will more than likely grab it with both hands. Programmers and coders love to write scripts which automate repetitive tasks, and where possible, we all get our computers to do the leg work for us so that we don't have to. But what about users of smartphones? Surely, they should be able to benefit from time saving techniques?
The Apple iPhone is no doubt a beautiful example how an almost-perfect design can help make a product great. The first iPhone in 2007 was a triumph for Sir Jonathan Ives and his team, but perhaps one of those most memorable and iconic parts of the iPhone is the slide to unlock feature on the lock screen which has been made famous by Apple. Before the iPhone was released, mobile phones generally featured some kind of two button combo to lock/unlock the device, but Apple managed to change that, and have since featured the same swipe gesture in their iPod touch device as well as the iPad.
Today's tech coverage has been largely dominated by the coverage of Apple's upcoming version of OS X, with the developer preview of Mountain Lion (10.8) having just been released a matter of hours ago along with the new Messages Beta app.
The Sims is one of the most popular video games series today. Starting from the PC in 2000, the life-simulation series has made its way onto consoles, portable consoles and even mobile devices such as iOS/Android smartphones/tablets.
The latest version of the Android operating system, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, was originally displayed to the world in May of last year before being showcased on the Galaxy Nexus smartphone in five months later in October. Four months down the line and it seems that only approximately 1% of Android devices are running versions of Android 4.0, bring about big concerns and showing that the adoption of the latest OS has been a lot slower than expected.
One of the built-in features of OS X Lion, and previous versions is the chat application known as iChat which has always been billed as a fully featured instant messaging application which combines text, video and voice chat into one app. iChat has always been a very versatile application offering powerful features supported by the fact that it works with a number of services such as Yahoo and the largest instant messaging community in the United States, AIM.
With many of us running multiple e-mail and social networking accounts - as well as the bread and butter address book - keeping track of it all can often leave our heads spinning in confusion.
That's right, folks, today we present to you yet another Cydia tweak regarding Apple's voice-recognition software. Spire, the best Siri port available for older iOS devices, has been quite a hit amongst those wielding jailbroken devices. However, there is a moderate amount of configuration required in order to get things up and running - namely getting hold of the required authentication data from a real iPhone 4S.
Just a couple of days after the public release of the root for Motorola’s DROID 4 Android smartphone, a developer over on XDA-Developers has managed to put together and nice, handy tool for the device that provides a variety of system-level functions under one window. Check it out after the jump!
