Posts Tagged ‘iphone os’

Skype updated for iOS 4, background VoIP is a go (update: no plans to charge for 3G use)

Well, it's about time.

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iPhone 3G, iOS 4, and you — what’s missing (spoiler: multitasking)

While iOS 4 is delivering on every promise for the iPhone 3GS users out there, as we were all told up front , the iPhone 3G would be missing some of those touted new features. Granted, we knew such disparities would exist but were never given the finer details. Now that the final build is percolating through the internet , we decided to take a look at what features are and aren't working on the earlier year's model

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Steve Jobs at D8: Foxconn, iPhone prototype, TVs, and more

In case you hadn't heard, Steve Jobs got downright conversational last night at D8, riffing on questions from Walt, Kara, and the attending audience of elites. You can hit up the entire liveblog for a timestamped play by play, or browse through some of the highlights below

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Steve Jobs: iPhone OS ‘started on a tablet’

Well, Steve Jobs just dropped a little nugget of history on us during his chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the All Things D conference. When asked by Walt why they originally put their new OS on a phone and not a tablet, Steve said, "I'll tell you a secret. It began with the tablet." After working on the tablet OS which had a glass display and multitouch, another idea occurred to Jobs

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iPhone video conferencing surfaces in supposed test firmware

Need a bit more evidence that the next iPhone will do video conferencing? Then take a good, hard look at the exciting screenshot above, which supposedly comes from a field test firmware for the next-gen iPhone that Apple is apparently working on.

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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option

See that screen there? That's from the minty fresh beta 4 of iPhone OS 4.0 , which was just released to developers moments ago. Unless our eyes are badly mistaken, that's an option to setup internet tethering on AT&T, something that WWAN warriors have been waiting for since..

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Adobe decries Apple’s ‘walled garden,’ yet pledges ‘best tools’ for HTML5

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch says Flash works just fine on the Apple iPhone, thank you very much -- and he thinks that's exactly why Apple keeps on denying it access. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he explained his belief that by eliminating Flash, Cupertino is forcing developers to build apps natively for iPhone OS rather than one of Adobe's cross-platform solutions, and thus creating a "walled garden" of applications that users must flock to an iDevice to be able to use. Lynch compared Apple's control over development formats to 19th century railroad lines that competed for customers by using differently sized rails, and pledged that Adobe would not be part of such a competition.

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Apple rumor roundup: Intrinsity behind the A4, ARM being eyed

Mama always said that downpours followed Spring showers, and sure enough, the Apple news has been flowing hot and heavy overnight. For starters, an IEEE report has people talking once more about Intrinsity; if you'll recall, rumors flared up earlier in the month about Apple overtaking said company, similar to the way it acquired P.A.

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iPhone OS 4.0 paving way for Apple-branded car kit?

Apple dropped iPhone OS 4.0 on us last week in a big way , and we spent plenty of time breaking down and exploring the details. But, there are apparently a few gems left to be discovered, like dedicated support for in-car use -- possibly even with an Apple-branded mount of some sort. When put into this mode the iPhone generates a simple menu that's fed over video output (demonstrated after the break) while the handset becomes a remote control..

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Apple’s iPhone lockdown: apps must be written in one of three languages, Adobe in the hurt locker

Apple's already got a veritable novella describing things you can't do with the iPhone as a developer -- create apps that execute their own code is the biggie, obviously, blocking technologies Flash and Java in the absence of a loophole -- but it seems they've locked down the ecosystem just a little further today with the release of the iPhone OS 4 beta SDK.

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