We just told you about iOS 4.1, which is set to launch for the iPhone and iPod Touch next week, but what about the iPad? Well, thankfully Steve Jobs knows that we’ve been waiting for that, too, as he has just pulled the curtain off the updated software for the iOS mobile Operating System. Unlike iOS 4.1, this is meant primarily for one device: the iPad, and while it’s bringing plenty of iOS 4.1 features, it’s also adding a few goodies, too.
There's nothing wrong with a bit of ambition, but we can't help but wonder if Acer chairman JT Wang is going to end up regretting his cavalier predictions about the iPad's falling market share. Speaking to Chinese language paper the Economic Daily News, Wang suggested that by the time the tablet market "stabilizes" Apple's share will have dropped from nearly 100-percent to 20 to 30-percent. The Acer chairman suggests that Apple's closely-tied hardware, software and content divisions helped them "preempt" the market, but highlights recent research that found Android market share had surpassed that of iOS.
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It's only Monday, but we're already hearing rumors about the Verizon iPhone. Not only that, but the iPad, too. We'll let you be the judge if this is an eventful day or not. In any event, thanks to an Apple tipster speaking with Boy Genius Report, it looks like the iPhone and iPad are about ready to get kicked into some good, old-fashioned field testing. At least, that's what the code suggests, anyway.
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Apple has just released the iOS 4.0.2 software update for the majority of their iDevices. But, unlike many other updates in the past, this one's primary focus is one thing, and one thing only: to patch up that pesky malicious PDF situation that shot up a couple weeks back. The update doesn't really do anything other than that, despite the fact it comes in two variations: 4.0.2 and 3.2.2. (for the iPad).
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Maybe it's the fact that there were some more leaks of the new iPod Touch with a camera yesterday, or --better yet--, maybe Apple doesn't want their wares showing up on eBay without, you know, them making a bundle from their initial sales, first. But, either way, a new rumor that has popped up today tells a story of Apple going out of their way to bring a major press event some time around the middle of this month. And, sure enough, a new iPod Touch gets top billing.
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Apple has reportedly come up with a fix for the remote PDF exploit that led the German government to issue an official warning about iPhone security. The exploit is the loophole used for the Safari-based jailbreak launched at the weekend; as well as allowing Apple devices to be hacked for unofficial third-party applications (and the first step in the path for unlocking locked handsets), it also leaves the door open for malicious attacks which could potentially get root privileges on the device.
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How's your Bluetooth? We didn't notice any issues with the Bluetooth performance when we reviewed the iPhone 4, but it looks like others haven't been so lucky. Multiple complaints (see here, here, here and here) have sprung up in the Apple support forums since the release of iOS4, either for upgraded iPhone 3GS handsets or iPhone 4 units with the latest OS preloaded, with owners describing sporadic connections, an inability to play music wirelessly and poor audio quality during calls.
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The applications just keep on coming for iOS4, and there's no slowing them down. Today's app is one you might have heard of: Skype. Yep, that's right, one of the largest VoIP providers out there just got a brand new version for Apple's shiny new mobile Operating System, and it brings with it a plethora of changes and features. Dig in after the break to find out just what they are.
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Some iPad confusion this morning, as reports out of Stuff.tv suggest that Apple may be planning to charge iPad owners a fee to upgrade their tablets to iOS4 this fall. According to their app developer sources, the upgrade fee is a "definite" and if they refuse to pay it then iPad owners will miss out on multitasking, folders and other tidbits. Of course, that strongly contrasts with talk of the iPad EULA back in March, which suggested that Apple would provide iPad owners with "the next major iPad OS software release following the version of iPad OS software that originally shipped from Apple on your iPad, for free."
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So, you didn't get a chance to make it over to the press conference that Apple held today? That's a real shame. Then, hopefully you managed to watch our Liveblog of the event, or you've already read our summary of all things announcement related. And once you get all caught up in the text format, you'll probably want to watch Steve Jobs on stage, talking about all that, right? Right. Now you can.
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Time to stop the speculation. Over the course of the last 22 days, we’ve heard from every angle of the Internet that the iPhone 4 is plagued with reception issues. And, throughout those days, we’ve heard all sorts of reasons: it’s the antenna, it’s the software, it’s the way you’re holding it. Maybe it’s even your face. Or, it’s a combination of all of those things, jumbled into one big issue that no one could figure out why the new iPhone was suffering from. Well, we can finally say that we’ve got an answer, and it’s straight from Steve Jobs himself. The antenna is the best antenna they’ve ever created, but it does have a flaw — just like every other smartphone on the planet.
We love a good colored diagram here at SlashGear, and so this comparison chart showing just how Apple has changed iPhone signal strength bar mapping in their latest iOS 4.0.1 update is tickling us nicely. The handiwork of AnandTech reader Mike Escoffery, it shows the considerable margin by which Apple emphasized a "full bars" signal. Meanwhile, while there was no mention of it in the iTunes release notes, iOS 4.0.1 also addresses Exchange ActiveSync problems.
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