Right now we are just a couple minutes away from Apple's special event where Steve Jobs himself (we believe) will teach us how to hold our iPhones correctly. Steve will talk about that, or it could be something else.
As you know, Apple released, just the other day, a new 4.1 beta version of iOS to developers. Unlike the 4.0.1 release made available to the general public yesterday, it comes with some new features that you might be interested to learn about. Here is what has surfaced so far:
Inspired by AntennaGate, one iPhone 4 user decided to put it all into music. And, it's not bad at all. Let's just say it puts it all into perspective.
As expected, Apple finally got around to approving the Firefox Home syncing iPhone app last night, and it's now available for download in the App Store.
Dan Frommer from Businessinsider has discovered quite an interesting little story today. Apparently, Apple tried to buy Palm not that long ago.
As we told you last night, Apple will be holding a press conference tomorrow morning (Friday) at 10am PST concerning the iPhone 4. Secretive as always, Apple simply didn't give any more details about it. So with no USB drive packed with Steve's keynote slides found in a bar this time, we're left with speculation.
There is a lot of chatter about Apple bringing Facetime to the rest of its iFloat. We've also seen a couple leaks and rumors about it. Yet, it will take some slight changes to work.
The Greek, iPhone-centric blog iPhoneHellas, is the source of an interesting rumor this morning. Apparently, Apple is on its way to releasing a bug-fixing 4.0.1 version of iOS to the general public.
The iPhone 4 antenna issue is now more mainstream than ever, and just like the iPad, it gets featured all over TV. Even David Letterman dedicated his top10 to it the other day.
In the middle of Antennagate, it seems Apple might have yet another problem to worry about. Indeed, the design of the iPhone 4 bumper case, widely believed to be the answer to the current reception and PR problems, is flawed as well.
TUAW has been able to confirm that FaceTime works just fine on Wi-Fi equipped airplanes.
The very talented iPad-powered artist Kyle Lambert is back at it this week, this time inspired by Toy Story 3. If you've never heard of him, Lambert is able of the most impressive artworks using nothing more than one finger, an iPad and the great brushes app.
An interesting thing happened on Twitter last night; Scott Forstall, Apple's senior vice president of iOS Software got himself a Twitter account. It's verified, so we know it's him and while he didn't tweet anything yet, he's now following someone: Conan O'Brien.
Good news for those of you whose iPhone came SIM-locked and are looking for some carrier freedom. Planetbeing of the Dev-Team has announced on Twitter that he and the Dev-team have now completed the iPhone 4 unlock.
Apple has always gotten a lot of praise for the extensive effort it puts into making its devices accessible to everyone. The iPhone's voice control feature is one of the best examples of the practice. Now, Macstories has discovered that Apple has apparently pushed this even further with the iPhone 4 by giving it full support for Braille displays.
Consumer Reports' decision not to recommend the iPhone 4 has now gone mainstream and has relaunched the debacle around the new iPhone's antenna. Yet, they got it all wrong.
It seems like offering cold hard cash to push developers to switch over to your platform is slowly becoming a common industry practice. Following this past weekend's story about Microsoft's practices to lure developers into working on their platform, we were forwarded a couple of similar emails, this time from Palm.
Working at Apple has, as you might imagine, certain benefits. The latest? Employees present at Apple's HQ in Cupertino last Friday for the weekly beer bash got to listen to some live Maroon 5, which they videoed with their white iPhone 4's.
It's very hard at the moment to figure out which apps support the latest iOS 4 features. What if Apple started adding some badges next to each App's icon to help you figure it all out?
The corollary of the well-known lack of clear written rules in the App Store's review process is a certain lack of consistency. Sometimes, certain apps make it through when they shouldn't, often it's the opposite. As reported by Macstories, this is pretty much what happened to Trailers this week.
It's been said many times that Microsoft and even Google are doing everything in their power to win over developers to their respective mobile platforms. Yet, these were often just rumors and the fact that they were offering money for a switch was still more of a belief than anything. Well, iOS developer Oliver Drobnik was approached as well recently, and had the good idea of publishing what he was sent.
After its Facetime calling service, what if Apple put people to your disposition who you could fully share your fanboyism with ?
You would think the iPad is so popular and overwhelmingly present in the media that Apple has almost no need to advertise it, or at least, no need to worry about such competition as the Dell Streak. Well, it isn't so apparently.
You can't argue that having 3G everywhere on your iPad is unbelievably convenient. This ubiquitous access to all the content you want is indeed nothing short of revolutionary. Unfortunately, it doesn't come without a price. Fortunately if you have an iPhone 4 already, there is a workaround.
