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Apple followed up the original iPhone 2G with the 2007 iPod touch G1, but without , or an Email app. iPod touch G2 followed in 2008 and, the missing apps already having been found, fixed the hardware omissions to boot. 2009 saw the iPod touch G3, which doubled the speed and brought maximum storage up to 64GB. If Apple holds true to form, the iPod touch G4 should debut in September 2010.

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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, [...]

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 [...]

Steve Jobs: iPod touch more popular than Nintendo DS and Sony PSP combined

Yesterday during Apple’s annual Special Music Event Steve Jobs announced that the iPod touch was more popular than both Nintendo’s DS and Sony’s PSP… combined. Jobs also said more than 1.5 billion games and entertainment apps have been downloaded by iPod touch devices to date.

However, as every gadget and gaming blog has since pointed out, [...]

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, [...]

120,000,000 iOS devices sold, 250,000 apps, 6.5 billion downloads – by the numbers

120,000,000 iOS device sold by September 1, 2010

As usual, Steve Jobs began his Apple music event keynote today by giving a breakdown of iOS devices sold to date — 120,000,000. It took them from June 2007 to June 2010 to reach 100,000,000 and only 3 months to add another 20,000,000 on top of that. Jobs also said they’re activating new devices at [...]