Apple‘s latest mobile software release, iOS 4.2, has made its official debut today, consisting of what’s said to be over a hundred new features and innovations. Available for iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod touch, iOS 4.2′s main updates include iPad multitasking, folders, AirPrint, AirPlay, Game Center (updates to this, since it’s been around since 4.1), improvements to Mail, text search in Safari, enhanced enterprise support, and enhancements in accessibility, keyboard, and dictionary functions.
Apple's hardware is generally pretty well-admired; it's the company's attitude to software that rubs quite a few people the wrong way. Now, the prospect of dual-booting Android and iOS 4.x on the iPad, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS is another step closer, with Hexxeh managing to get the OpeniBoot boot-loader tool running on the Apple slate.
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It is truly a wish born of a ritualistic and unnatural set of events put in motion by a port of Google's Android 2.2.1 over to the iPhone 3G, allowing then Apple's IOS and Google's Android Froyo OS to have a baby named Flash on the iPhone. The entire process is basically illegal, so don't actually do it if you fear the law or have any hope for getting into Apple or Google heaven, requires that you jailbreak your iPhone. After broken, you'll need to install Cydia (not approved in any way by Apple), add a repository to Cydia, and download the package by the name "iDroid" for either your iPhone 3G or original iPhone.
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Apple has tightened its iTunes rental T&Cs, removing a loop-hole that allowed TV shows to be transferred between the iPad and other iOS devices. The new agreement, paidContent spotted, now refers to generic "content" rather than differentiating between movies and TV shows, and basically means that anything rented from your iPhone, iPod touch, Apple TV or iPad is now only available on that device.
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A security loophole in iOS 4.1 (as well as the 4.2 beta, apparently) allows unauthorized access to the iPhone's contacts, phone functionality, emails and MMS. Spotted by MacRumors forum members, the exploit is straightforward: from the iPhone 4 lockscreen, hit "Emergency Call", type in a random number and initiate the call, and then press the sleep key as soon as the end-call button appears on-screen. That automatically takes you to the handset's contact list.
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AT&T has announced its Q3 2010 financial performance, and revenues are up 2.8-percent from the 2009 to $31.6bn. That number was helped both by a 2.6m increase in wireless subscribers over the three month period - taking AT&T to 92.8m altogether - as well as an increased average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) up 2-percent to $62.84. Of course, the iPhone 4 gave AT&T a big boost, with the carrier activating 5.2m iPhones during the quarter.
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The iPhone 4 is certainly a slick piece of design - it's already inspired countless knock-off tablets, not to mention a table - but has Apple shot themselves in the foot with their overly-glass construction? Warranty specialists SquareTrade says its been tracking iPhone 4 accidents and has discovered the reported accident rate for the iPhone 4 is 68-percent higher than for the iPhone 3GS.
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Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised; Panasonic's latest digital photo frame has sprouted an iPhone dock, allowing you to not only display images stored on its 2GB of internal storage but any pictures on the Apple smartphone. The Panasonic MW-20 has a 9-inch LCD display on an adjustable hinge, and also works as a speaker-dock thanks to its 5.6-mm Super Slim Semi Dome Speaker and sound diffuser.
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Apple has been riding high when it comes to user satisfaction surveys of late, but has it taken a hit when it comes to "cool"? It's a pretty nebulous metric, but according to the CoolBrands Council the iPhone has been knocked off the number one spot for "cool" by Aston Martin. The smartphone now holds second place, above the iPod at number three and BlackBerry at number four.
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Sennheiser's latest headphone range has been outed, and the company is resolutely targeting iPhone users. That basically means that the Sennheiser MM 70i, IE 8i, PX 100-IIi, PX 200-IIi, HD 218i and HD 238i each get a microphone and remote control block in-line in the cable, which also controls voice commands on compatible Apple PMPs.
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Another day, another plaudit for the iPhone, and after Apple proved itself top of the pile for computing satisfaction they've now done the same thing among smartphones. J.D. Power has published its latest Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study, polling users in the US and finding that - for the fourth consecutive time - the iPhone ranks highest.
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Sonos has outed the latest part of its streaming music puzzle, in the shape of the Sonos Wireless Dock WD100. Packing an integrated Sonos wireless connection and an iPod/iPhone docking connector, the WD100 basically takes whatever music is stored on your Apple PMP and funnels it around the house.
It's all Apple certified, so there shouldn't be any annoying "this accessory isn't supported" pop-ups, and it'll work with a broad range of the company's hardware: the iPod touch (1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation), iPod classic, iPod nano (3rd, 4th, and 5th generation), and iPhone (original, 3G, 3GS and 4). Sadly no iPad support, since the cradle is the wrong shape.
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