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Apple deny App Store promo codes to 17+ titles: affects more than you’d think

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 17th 2009 No Comments

app store parental controls After suggestions earlier in the week that a significant proportion of titles in the App Store were so-called “bulk apps”, cookie-cutter templates offered as distinct programs that differ only in their text/image content (such as travel guides), now come grumbles from the Apple developer community regarding an unforeseen impact of age limitations. According to Marco Arment, an iPhone developer and lead behind the Tumblr project, Apple have decided that apps rated 17+ will not be able to use promo-codes.

Promo-codes are usually given out either to reviewers to build an audience for an application, or as rewards to users who spot bugs or errors in software. While this may not seem a significant issue to most developers, Marco points out that Apple’s guidelines for age restrictions may affect more apps than we initially thought.

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iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 released: WiFi for devs, no tethering for AT&T

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jul 15th 2009 No Comments

Apple have released iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 to developers, around fifteen days after the launch of the first beta. Among its most anticipated features is WiFi connectivity during development; however it also comes with a sting in its tale, as Apple have seemingly closed off the loophole which had been used for unofficially enabling data tethering on the AT&T network.

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Apple blocking Push Notifications to iPhone unlockers

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 14th 2009 No Comments

iphone push notifications Apple is reportedly blocking one of the most anticipated features of iPhone OS 3.0, Push Notifications, for those users who have unlocked their handsets. The issue has been flagged up by developer PoweryBase, who offer the NotifyMe reminder app, after finding “more than 80-percent of customer support requests” are from users complaining their hacked iPhone and iPod touch devices prove incompatible with the software. The issue is being blamed on Apple’s servers, which handle the Push Notification Service (APNS); the company is seemingly denying APNS updates to those handsets which have been unlocked.

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AT&T iPhone MMS delayed until September? Tethering cost controversy continues [Updated]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 10th 2009 No Comments

att iphone tethering 55 dollars rumor We probably shouldn’t be surprised, but AT&T have reportedly delayed the activation of MMS for the iPhone until September. According to Appmodo, AT&T themselves suggested that the originally tipped date of mid-July would be missed; they’ve now heard that in fact MMS will come three months after Apple enabled the feature in iPhone OS 3.0.

MMS will be accompanied by iPhone tethering, it’s believed, which Appmodo insist is still expected to cost an extra $55 per month. That’s on top of existing data plans for the iPhone. Users will be able to connect their laptops via USB or Bluetooth.

AT&T tethering cost denial after the cut

Updated with new comments from AT&T

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iPhone 3GS jailbreak “purplera1n” tool released

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 3rd 2009 No Comments

The iPhone Dev Team may have held off on releasing their ultrasn0w iPhone 3GS jailbreaking and unlocking tool, but that hasn’t stopped long-time Apple hacker George Hotz. He’s released a tool called purplera1n which, while not unlocking the iPhone 3GS, does at least jailbreak it so that unofficial third-party apps can be installed.

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AT&T Navigator for iPhone released: functional but expensive

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 24th 2009 No Comments

AT&T have released the iPhone version of their Navigator PND program through the App Store [iTunes link], offering turn-by-turn directions on the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. The Telenav-developed app supports both verbal and on-screen guidance, speech recognition, traffic alerts and full 3D mapping.

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22Moo GameBone Pro controller for iPhone and iPod touch

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jun 24th 2009 No Comments

We’re not entirely convinced by the name 22Moo, but now that iPhone OS 3.0 supports third-party peripherals we’re sure we could find some bag-space for their GameBone Pro controller. Intended to be used with an iPhone or iPod touch, the GameBone Pro hooks up via Bluetooth or Apple’s dock-connector, and has an 8-way D-pad plus six buttons.

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Over 1m iPhone 3G S sold in first three days

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 22nd 2009 No Comments

Apple have announced sales figures for the iPhone 3G S, and while there was talk of fewer buyers turning out for their latest-gen smartphone the numbers are still undeniably healthy. The company sold over one million iPhone 3G S handsets through Sunday, June 21st; meanwhile six million users have downloaded iPhone OS 3.0 in the five days since it was released on Wednesday last week.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 25 2009

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Jun 21st 2009 No Comments

We’ve been singularly cellularly obsessed here at SlashGear over the past seven days, and it’ll come as no surprise that the run-up to the iPhone 3G S has occupied much of our attention. The new Apple smartphone may not look much different to its predecessor, but if our hands-on first impressions are anything to go by, Cupertino have done their best to make the user-experience as polished as the casing. Still, it’s not just shiny Apple hardware that’s caught our eye this week; Novatel Wireless’ GSM MiFi 2352 piqued our interest when we talked to the company themselves on Monday, and then proceeded to impress us considerably in our full review.

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Apple iPhone 3GS hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen on Friday, Jun 19th 2009 6 Comments

The first new US iPhone 3GS users are picking up their handsets today, and SlashGear is among them. We’ve been down at the Apple Store in NYC this morning, and have been eagerly playing with the new smartphone to see whether all the hype was worth it. For the moment we’ll put aside any arguments about whether it’s too expensive to upgrade or comes on your carrier of choice;

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read on for our iPhone 3G S first-impressions. Update: iPhone 3GS Review