Archive : Official News

Apple have gone ahead and confirmed with us that the iOS 4.1 software update for the iPhone will be coming out on September 8th, for UK customers at least. The US website still says “Coming Soon” and hasn’t committed to a date as of yet, but I don’t see why Apple would do a staggered roll out of this. What this also means is Apple’s new line of iPods will also become [...]

Contrary to a rumor that appeared yesterday, it seems that iOS4.1 will be providing a fix for the proximity sensor issue that users are experiencing with the iPhone 4. Not only that, but it will also fix issues with Bluetooth and speed up performance on the iPhone 3G which has been very poor. The new features? Well we have High Dynamic Range photos (allows you to take 3 images and combine them to form [...]

Apple are constantly pushing the boundaries of design and always coming up with new ideas to implement in their products, but this new patent filling will have a couple of you raising your eyebrows. According to this patent application, Apple are looking to remake the headphone jack as we know it. To put it simply, Apple doesn’t like holes or buttons on their devices, so any that can be got rid [...]

Just as they do every year for the last couple of years without fail, Apple are holding a music even in September which generally introduces a new line of iPod models and one or two other little things. Apple has issued invites for their media event scheduled for 10:00 AM Pacific Time and as usual will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Now there’s a couple of things [...]

Now the first preorders in the US sold out pretty quick and caused chaos all over the place, but that was to be expected, but it seems South Korea also has got the iPhone bug. Preorders were made available as of yesterday but the demand was so overwhelming, that servers of the carrier KT Corp were crippled. An incredible 130,000 handsets were preordered by 7pm local time, 13 hours after preorders [...]

Despite all of the iPhone 4′s antenna issues, it doesn’t appear to be affecting sales in the US at least. 7 weeks after the iPhone 4 was released, nearly half of Apple stores have none in stock. Analyst Gene Munster polled 30 retail stores this week, and found that 16 of them had some stock. They also said that several of the stores reported that they are getting daily shipments just to [...]

The New York Times reports that Mark Papermaster, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering, has left Apple, possible due to the recent antenna issues experienced with the iPhone 4. Papermaster was only with Apple for 1 year and 4 months after he left IBM and it appears he never really settled into the job to well. No explanation has been provided for his departure, but many [...]

Members of Apples iPhone developer program now have access to the most recent build of Apple’s iOS operating system. iOS 4.1 Beta 3 has now landed, only a week after iOS 4.1 Beta 2 did. So this could be a sure sign that a release date is near as Apple tends to accelerate its release cycle coming up to a public release. What’s new in iOS 4.1 so far? The Game Center Flash/Camera buttons [...]

Yes it’s finally here! iPhone 4 users can rejoice! Jailbreaking was only made legal a couple of weeks ago, and now we can do it! Thanks to the dev team themselves, they’ve released an official jailbreak, that works and you can install it directly from your browser, it’s that simple! We’ve been teased a couple of times but now we finally have an official release from the Dev [...]

Unlike their neighbors New Zealand, the Aussies seemed to have no problem releasing the iPhone 4. In fact it seemed like it was more of a party than a mad rush to get in the doors. The iPhone 4 went on sale there at midnight, with carriers Optus, Telstra and Vodafone/3 bending over backwards to ensure the wait was an event in itself. For Optus customers, Singer Kelly Rowland was on hand to provide [...]