iPhone 3.1

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iPhone 3.1 Beta 1 was first released by Apple to developers on June 30, 2009 along with the iPhone 3.1 SDK. So far, the update looks to focus on added functionality for the iPhone 3GS, including “save as” for trimmed video clips, and Bluetooth support for Voice Control. iPhone 3.1 Beta 2 was released on July 14 with improvements to accessibility options, such as Home Button triple click. iPhone 3.1 Beta 3 came on July 27 and boasts copy and paste for full resolution video and a usage counter for tethering data. iPhone 3.1 was publicly released on September 9.

For more on iPhone 3.1, TiPb suggests:

App Store adds Game Center games section

App Store Game Center section

If you’re trying to keep track of all the newly updated, Game Center enabled games for iOS 4.1, look no further than the App Store where Apple has gone and created a special page just to list them for your viewing — and buying — pleasure.

There’s about a dozen and half games now but we’re [...]

What’s your Game Center ID? [Waiting for games]

With iOS 4.1 going live, Game Center has gone live with it… well, except for the games part. Those will come any time now as developers and servers come online.

While you wait, let us know your Game Center ID in the comments below. You know, so you can challenge Jeremy to a Zombie shootout, or [...]

Did you update to iOS 4.1 and did it fix your bugs?

Did you update to iOS 4.1 and did it fix your bugs?online surveys

Did iOS 4.1 fix your bugs?Market Research

iOS 4.1 went live just a short time ago and we’re eager to hear if you updated or if you’re waiting, and if you did update, whether or not [...]

Apple releases iOS 4.1 for iPhone, iPod touch

Apple releases iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch

iOS 4.1 is live, get to iTunes and hit the update button. If you’re already on the GM, you’ll likely need to hit restore instead of update. If you’re jailbroken, you might want to stay clear or you’ll lose your Jailbreak.

It’s reading as 589.9MB for iPhone 4. Build 8B117 (same as GM seed).

For more, check [...]

iOS apps downloads increasing faster than iTunes music

iOS apps growing faster than iTunes music

Both iTunes Store music and iOS App Store apps are being downloaded at an increasing rate. Apps are just increasing faster.

As can be seen, the App store has reached the same total downloads in 2.2 years as the iTMS reached after five years. The two curves are likely to be the same height [...]

iOS 4.1, iTunes 10, Vapor Case contest – From the Forums

Waiting for iOS 4.1 to drop? What a better way to kill some time by visiting the TiPb forums to talk, commiserate, celebrate, get help, and offer advice to your fellow iPhone users. In order to create a new thread of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, you must be a [...]

Final Freeway – app review

I have seen Final Freeway in the App Store for a while and just glanced by. When looking at apps to review this week I felt a little nostalgic and thought I would give this little gem a spin. The result? Well, if you enjoy old-school arcade racing, if you remember when Out Run was [...]

Dev-Team reminds Jailbreakers to steer clear of iOS 4.1… for now.

The iOS Dev-Team, the folks behind a lot of the Jailbreak technology, have issued an Admiral Ackbar-style warning to Jailbreakers and unlockers about the impending iOS 4.1 update — stay away for now:

This time of year there are lots of new iPhone owners, and not everybody knows that accepting new iOS updates is [...]

Planning on updating to iOS 4.1 this week? Here’s what you need to know!

The final release version of iOS 4.1 for iPhone or iPod touch hits sometime this week (perhaps Wednesday?) and we’ll post it up right on the front page the minute it’s ready. Before you race to download, however, there are a few steps you want to go through to get ready — to make sure [...]

iTunes 10 features: Listen to music on someone else’s iPhone, iPad

If you’ve ever wanted to plug in your friend’s iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into your computer to listen to their music, 9to5 Mac points out that today is your lucky day. Doing so will grant you access to all of the music on that iOS device to play via iTunes 10 without having to [...]

Apple, AT&T paid Google millions for advertising in June

We’ve heard Google pays Apple millions to be the default search engine in Safari but now AdAge is reporting Apple (and AT&T) gives Google millions right back for AdWord advertising.

By comparison, one of Google’s top advertisers that month, AT&T Mobile, spent more than $8 million on AdWords in June, a big month [...]

Overboard vs Aquapac in iPhone 4 water torture test – Amazing Case [give away]

If you had to trust a water-proof case to protect your precious iPhone 4 during a torture test, which would it be — the Overboard or the Aquapac? That’s the challenge they gave me for the latest episode of TiPb’s Amazing Case, our hardcore, case vs case tests of strength, durability, and performance.

We figure if [...]

Wi-Fi Sync for Jailbroken iPhones – how to fix what it breaks in iTunes

Back in late June/early July, I reviewed an app called Wi-Fi Sync for jailbroken iPhones. You can find my revised version of the review here. Originally this seemed like a pretty neat app. It’s a bit pricey for what it does, but it did it well.

Now I’ve been having several issues [...]

iOS 4.1 coming September 8? Here’s your video quick start guide

While Steve Jobs and Apple.com (the main US version of the site) say iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch is coming sometime “next week”, Apple.com/uk is cheeky enough to put a date on it — Wednesday, September 8.

Download the iOS 4.1 Software Update. Available on 8 September.

New highlight features include Game Center, [...]

Apple announces 1 million Ping users in 48 hours

48 hours after Apple introduced Ping, their new social music network, they’ve announced 1 million users already signed on.

“One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping,“ said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “As many more people download iTunes 10 in the coming weeks, we expect the [...]

Documents to Go maker DataViz bought by RIM?

Documents to Go for iPad

Did BlackBerry maker RIM just buy DataViz, maker of Documents to Go for iPhone and iPad (and other platform)? CrackBerry.com has multiple sources saying they did, and for about $50 million cash.

This might just be why Docs to Go has cancelled their webOS app before ever releasing it. What does this mean for the iPhone [...]

Regarding Skyfire and proxied Flash on iPhone

Skyfire Flash for iPhone

Skyfire is a browser on other mobile platforms that was at one point purely proxy-based like Opera Mini (where everything was pre-rendered on a server then pushed out to the device via compressed files) but is now an all-grown up WebKit engine where Flash content is still proxied (processed server side and sent out as [...]

iOS 4.1 features: HDR photos

iOS 4.1 adds HDR photo capability to the iPhone — and now iPod touch — Camera app. HDR stands for high dynamic range and usually involves a photo with one or more identical photos that are over and under exposed and then combined together so that far more light and shadow information is available than [...]

iOS now 3rd most popular internet platform after Windows, Mac

iOS vs Linux vs Android internet share

Net Applications is reporting that iOS has passed Linux to become the third most popular platform accessing the internet. With a 1.1% share, they’re still behind big brother Mac OS X’s 5% and way behind Windows all-encompassing 91.3% share. However, for a mobile OS, especially considering the next most popular mobile OS, Android, is at [...]

iPhone live 115: Whoosh! Another 200!

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We’re all up in Apple’s 2010 Special Music event – new iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod touch with Retina Display and FaceTime, Apple TV with iOS… but no apps! Along with iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2. We’re streaming [...]

mophie juice pack air for iPhone 4 preview

Dieter’s at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany and he’s scored us a first look at mophie’s upcoming juice pack air for iPhone 4. It’s got soft touch paint and they claim ZERO signal degredation because the entire PCB board is on the bottom, so there are no electronics around the antenna. It’s shipping to [...]

Apple Special Music Event 2010 round-up

Apple Special Music Event 2010

Once again Steve Jobs put sneaker to stage and at the Apple Special Music Event 2010 wowed the crowed with new gorgeous new hardware, stunning new software, and… services of a sort. The big stories were iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2, the new iPod touch, iPod nano, and Apple TV, and iTunes 10 with its [...]

iOS 4.2 coming soon for iPad… and iPhone

iOS 4.2 coming soon for iPad... and iPhone

If Steve Jobs announced that iOS 4.2 would be coming to iPhone during his keynote a the special music event yesterday, I missed it, but that’s what Apple.com’s new preview page says:

Look for iOS 4.2 coming in November for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.1

(That footnote reads “not compatible with all models” so likely [...]

Epic 4G and Galaxy Tab – Sammy’s double competitive whammy

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Full Sprint Epic 4G review – Galaxy Tab preview

Phil and Dieter over at sibling site Android Central have gone a little Samsung Galaxy-class crazy, with a full review of the Sprint Epic 4G and an advanced look at the Galaxy Tab tablet (including hands-on video and spec shootout vs. our own iPad).

So is the Epic [...]

iOS 4 Ping social music network gallery

After a few hiccups, Ping, Apple’s new social music network, is up and running on iOS 4 devices. Yesterday we took a quick look at how Ping worked in iTunes 10 and while computers have some advantages, I think I’m preferring it on iPhone right now.

Putting it in the iOS iTunes app is strange of course, [...]