In the depths of the current iPhone SDK lays evidence of a Video Chat feature, that will most probably be used in future iPhones. This means that we will in fact see a front facing camera on the coming iPhone.
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Google today released a new version of the Google Mobile App for the iPhone. The changelog can be seen in the image above.
Did you know that you could catch up with your Webex meeting on your mobile while waiting for your flight at the airport lounge.
Whereas there is a native app already available for the iPhones, other platforms use the web route. But the best part is, they have a solution and if you are always between e-meetings, Webex mobile is out to set you free.. More at http://www.webex.com/mobile/
Here’s an interesting passcode hack for the iPhone. Actually, this one isn’t even a hack, since it has been made with Apple’s own tools and can be used on a non-jailbroken device. 9to5mac used Apple’s Corporate Development kit to make this.
The hack will let you use letters in your passcode, and it forces you to combine numbers and letters in it, and will not let you use sequences of any kind. For instance ‘abcd1234′ is not allowed, when ‘adbc4132′ is allowed.
To apply this hack, you just simply have to open this file with your iPhone. If you ever need to get rid of this, simply go to Settings/General/Profiles/9to5mac/ and remove the file.
Here’s a video of the Opera Mini for iPhone, which is still in Alpha development stage. They claim this will speed browsing on the iPhone by up to five times.
Check out the video after the break.
Opera Software, maker of the world’s most popular mobile Web browser, plans to reveal Opera Mini for iPhone in an exclusive press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC). Visit Opera’s exhibit in Hall 1, C44, to witness a new way to surf the Web on the iPhone — an experience that Opera promises will be fast, easy to use, and packed with favorite Opera features.
Read the Press Release here.
A gameplay video of the recently released Doom II RPG for the iPhone. The game is available in the App Store for 2.99€.
Check out the video after the break.
Apple has just released the iPhone/iPad SDK 3.2 beta 2 for developers. Hit this link to download the beta.
Dev-Team today released a new and updated version of PwnageTool. The new version is PwnageTool 3.1.5, and is able to crack the iPhone OS version 3.1.3. Here’s a take from the Dev-Team Blog:
On Tuesday, Apple released firmware 3.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod touches. Unless you’ve personally observed a problem with the reporting of your battery percentage, there’s no reason to update to 3.1.3. We know some of you will want to anyway. Superbowl Sunday’s PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X will let you do so safely, preserving your jailbreak and ultrasn0w unlock. (If you use the blacksn0w unlock (at baseband 05.11.07), you need to stay at 3.1.2.)
iPhone 3G and 3GS unlockers should always be very wary to update their firmware. This is no exception. If you make a mistake along the way you may find yourself updating to official 3.1.3 in which case you will lose your unlock, possibly forever.
iPhone 3GS users (regardless of unlock) should stay away from this and all 3.1.3 jailbreak tools unless you know you have your “SHSH hashes” backed up via Cydia. That’s because if you make a mistake you may find yourself stuck at official 3.1.3 with no way to jailbreak or come back down to 3.1.2 to jailbreak.
If you really truly feel that you need to update, this version creates a custom 3.1.3 IPSW for you to restore to on your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS with early bootrom, iPod touch 1G, and iPod touch 2G with early bootrom. If you don’t know if you have an early bootrom or not, please avoid updating until you learn more.
To download this, head over to the Dev-Team blog here.
French game developer firm, Gameloft, today announced its 2009 financial result. Revenue generated by software/game sales for iPhone are 17.6 millions Euros, up by 231% from year 2008. Sales for iPhone generated approximately 14.5% of Gameloft’s total revenues for year 2009.
Gameloft withdrew from boxed games in January 2009, and says mobile games accounted for 94% of the company’s sales for the whole year. The remaining 6% are related to consoles game sales.
Full-year revenues from the mobile game segment grew by 12%, self-reportedly due to the success of the games the company distributes through Apple’s App Store. To demonstrate this growing importance for the company, you need only look at its revenue figures for the fourth quarter of 2009: iPhone revenues for the company reached €7 million ($9.75 million), while initial expectations were €4.4 million.
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Phone Arena presents you with a side by side comparison of the iPhone 3GS and HTC Nexus One, so you can get a good idea of their similarities and differences, and in the end, hopefully you will have a better feel for which one is right for you, assuming you haven’t committed yet to one of them.
Hit read more for the review video, or to read the full review following this link.
The iPad UI has been ported to jailbroken iPhone’s using Winterboard(available via Cydia). The process is not hard, but you need to do many small things to achieve this. Hit read more for an instructional video, and a guide on how to do it.
Google’s Android operating system is catching up on Apple’s iPhone OS, which has led analysts to believe that Android will beat Apple in 2013, to become worlds second most popular mobile OS. This has made a few iPhone developers thinking about changing to Android, including Tapulous, the company behind the hugely successful Tap Tap game.
We previously wrote that Tapulous is making nearly $1 million a month with their Tap Tap games on the App Store. So getting a game this big to the Android Market is good news for everyone with Android.
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