An alleged leak of Apple’s upcoming iOS 5.1 update appears to show the addition of a permanent camera button on the lock screen and Japanese support for Siri. Brazilian iPhone blog blogdoiPhone claimed on Thursday to have a obtained a “pre-GM” version of iOS 5.1 with a few minor changes from current beta versions. The […]
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It’s the hidden features that tend to make a gadget that much cooler. Per iDownloadBlog, a group of hackers have discovered a hidden panorama mode embedded within Apple’s Camera application on iOS 5, though the feature does not appear to be completed. iOS hacker Conrad Kramer, who goes by the alias Conradev, revealed via a […]
Only a few weeks after the iPhone 4S was announced, hackers began trying to fully jailbreak the new smartphone and to also port the new voice assistant system, Siri, to previous generation iOS devices. According to 9to5mac, developer Steven Troughton-Smith was the first person to port Siri to the iPhone 4, but the system was […]
Per the cool cats at Free Patents Online, Apple is apparently investigating new ways of interacting with devices, such as using hand gestures to navigate and control a video recording system without touching anything. Apple’s interest in hands-off control of a device like an iPhone, iPad or Mac was revealed this week in a new […]
If there were any doubts that the iPhone 4S would be a decent seller, the pre-orders have apparently killed them stone dead. Per AppleInsider, just 24 hours after opening up pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S, Apple has rolled back expected shipping times for the device from expected delivery on the Oct. 14th launch date […]