While many people took the time, money, and resources to upgrade to the new iPhone 3GS, some of us who either weren’t compelled enough by the minor updates or simply didn’t have the money stayed behind. One of the best parts about the coming of the new iPhone was the release of iPhone OS 3.0 which brought with it numerous enhancements for legacy users of older iPhones. The initial honeymoon was great. People were affixed to their devices trying out all of the...
Now before you sell your background capable smartphone, put on a cape, and try to jump off the roof, you may want to first know that it isn’t true background processing still. It isn’t like you can open an app such as Pandora, get the digital bits flowing and then back out of it expecting to still hear your streaming audio goodness in the background. That still won’t fly. However, thanks to mobile Safari’s latest updates and support for HTTP...
For some time now, background application support and the iPhone were something that didn’t quite go together, an oxymoron if you will. However, thanks to the developer community, Backgrounder, an app available on Cydia brought the ever elusive background support to virtually any and every app. Because backgrounder isn’t an “officially” supported app by Apple, naturally some bugs do exist such as certain apps occasionally “dropping”...
For many Apple fanboys and Steve Jobs Fan Club members hoping to see their dear leader return to the helm of the fashion forward tech giant will have to come to the realization that it just isn’t the right time yet. Apple themselves have outlined the way WWDC is going to go down with Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing leading the charge, not everyone’s favorite black turtle neck model. As always, the event will...
If the iPhone’s measley 2 megapixel camera just isn’t doing it for you and your fed up with the blurry, overexposed crap called a picture that Apple’s jesus phone currently puts out, you may have something to look forward to in OS 3.0. iPhone.ru has some pictures showing the differences between objects photographed in iPhone OS 2.2.1 and OS 3.0. You’ll notice in the particular cat picture above that it is obviously less blurry. On top of better...
