China is known for a lot of things: The Great Wall, a rich history, paper, gunpowder, Pandas and, of course, knock off gadgets. We came across a pretty cool knock off today: it’s called the Aocos N19 and it is a 9.7” tablet that looks like an iPad, but works like an Android-powered device.
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be in the presence of some of the finest and most influential members of the jailbreaking community. Scores of iOS modding enthusiasts, reporters and developers turned out for the first ever jailbreak convention, now called JailbreakCon (formerly MyGreatFest), of which Redmond Pie was one of the key sponsors.
Jailbreak developer MuscleNerd has announced that a major update to popular jailbreaking tool Redsn0w is on its way which lets users jailbreak without needing to point at an IPSW and also lets users submit SHSH blobs to Cydia.
With Microsoft unveiling its developer preview of Windows 8 Tablet this week, it was only a matter of time before the inevitable comparisons began to appear. Courtesy of WinRumors’ Tom Warren, we've a first look at Microsoft's new mobile operating system pitched with the current daddy of the tablet market - the iPad 2 running iOS 5.
According to reports surfacing from 9to5mac, Apple could be preparing to launch an iPad specific to Sprint. With the mobile carrier already confirmed to be bringing the iPhone to its line-up come October, it is believed a Sprint iPad will join the party shortly thereafter.
The iOS jailbreaking community is, I personally believe, the most active mobile OS hacking community today. The community itself is pretty small, but they are pretty productive and regularly release jailbreaks (untethered or otherwise), exciting new tweaks on Cydia and amazing themes. This may be due to the fact that iOS works only on a handful of devices, but the fact is: these guys are simply amazing.
According to a new report, Apple is preparing the final beta seed of iOS 5, which is beta 8, before the Golden Master Candidate eventually drops for developers. This is the eighth developer-only release of iOS 5, which will likely be used to squash a few last-minute bugs before Golden Master is released.
A couple of weeks back, we featured Dolphin Browser, which aimed to take the surfing experience on the iPhone to a new level with gestures, webzine, as well as a whole host of other nifty features in one free app.
If you own an iOS device, the greatest roadblock to browsing the web you've ever run into has been Apple's insistence not to build in native support for Adobe Flash, citing performance issues that the plugin would cause. While today's development doesn't change Apple's stance, Adobe has developed a new technology that could, 4 years later, finally bring Flash content to all iOS devices, namely; iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Apple has just seeded iTunes 10.5 Beta 8 to all existing developers enrolled in Apple’s developer program which brings in better support for iTunes Music Match service.
