Apple's iPhone 4 is pretty much accepted by all to be the best smartphone when it comes to industrial design. Say what you want about Apple's closed ecosystem, iOS and relationship with developers but you can't knock that beautiful handset.
We love Google. Specifically, we love Google search. That's not to say we don't love their Gmail. Or their Google Docs for that matter. It's just that, well, search is what makes the internet merry-go-round work. Before Google we had AltaVista and co, and we all remember how poor that was!
Google has updated Google Sync for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Three new features have been announced. Google Sync is used to keep your iOS device’s Mail.app, Calendar.app and Contacts.app in sync with your Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts (respectively).
If you're obsessed about privacy, this should be a bad day for you: according to a research done over at CNET, Google is tracking users through their individual device addresses and making them searchable. How does it work? We'll explain.
Our iPhones have become the home of our digital lives over the last few years. If you're anything like me, then the chances are you spend more time fiddling around on your iPhone than you do using an actual computer these days. One of the main draws of smartphones is their 'always-on' nature - if you're not sat at home connected to a WiFi network then there's always the 3G signal when you're out and about. The problem is 3G isn't cheap, and with unlimited data plans fast becoming a thing of the past we all need a proper way of monitoring the amount of data we're using, and the measuring built into iOS just won't cut it.
Nokia, which had disputes with Apple over patents for years, agreed to drop the charges in exchange for a one-time licensing fee, along with a royalty fee for every iPhone sold. Yes, Apple will now be paying Nokia money for every iPhone it sells.
When Apple announced iOS 5 during its WWDC keynote last week, one of the many new features was a completely revamped way of managing notifications, dubbed the 'Notification Center'.
Daniel Amitay has developed an iPhone security App known as Big Brother Camera Security, which relies on the simple concept of capturing a picture of anyone who enters the wrong passcode when unlocking the device. Weirdly enough, the app also tracks passcodes (on an anonymous basis of course) for statistical purposes, which led Amitay to write a rather amusing blog post with the top 10 most used passcodes. And yes, the most used one is 1234, how did you guess?
Ever wished you could view your Twitter timeline from iOS 5's Notification Center? WeeTwitter is an iOS tweak that displays your newest tweets, @-replies, private messages and even saved searches right on your Notification Center. This tweak was developed by Tyler Flowers, a US-based teenager who developed his first iOS app just a few weeks ago. Now he's venturing in the jailbreak community as well.
With a software-only WWDC behind us, rumors of next-generation iPhone hardware are back at full speed. According to a credible source, the next iPhone has reached final testing stages, which suggests that a release might be imminent.
