The Boy Genius brings the iPhone 4.0 hype with some leaks about Apple’s next-generation iPhone OS — confirming some of what we’ve heard before with some new tidbits to light our imaginations:
Global multitouch gestures, leveraged from similar iTablet OS
Background apps/Multitasking
UI enhanced for easier, more efficient navigation
iPhone 3G/3GS only (and presumable 4th gen iPhone later in [...]
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The Boy Genius claims, based on info from a source who’s proven reliable before, that we haven’t gotten an iPhone OS update recently (oh, hai still missing iPhone 3.2!) because:
there’s too much tablet-related code/references in the OS and Apple obviously didn’t want that to leak.
He’s also heard that multitouch gestures for the iTablet/iSlate [...]
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BGR, citing sources of the shinobi-kind, has posted a couple of screen captures showing the Settings for the digital Compass enabled via debug menus in iPhone 3.0 Beta 5.
We’d heard rumors of a digital compass being included in the next generation iPhone — widely speculated for a WWDC 2009 introduction this coming June — but [...]
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So yesterday we linked to Zach Epstein’s story over at BGR, the one about an internal Rogers briefing call that claimed Vancouver would be enjoying some 4G LTE at 50Mbps+ just in time for the Winter Olympics.
Rogers contacted us almost immediately to say the story was inaccurate and the call never happened, and we [...]
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There are no demos available in the App Store, we know this. No try before you buy, no download now, pay later. According to Erica Sadun at Ars Technica, even mentioning demo in your verbiage, like beta, will get you a swift kick in the rejection button. Free “Lite” versions are the only way to [...]
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