Ever came across an iDongle? May be not. For, iDongle has just debuted, and the promise is that it can jailbreak and activate an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch running OS 3.1.2 just by plugging it into the dock connector! The cunning piece of hacker-created hardware can jailbreak a factory fresh iPhone unit. Doesn’t that sound interesting?
The iPhone will get the long-awaited multitasking support for third-party apps with the release of its iPhone OS 4.0, as indicated by one of the countless rumors circulating the Internet right now.
Many considered the iPhone a joke in terms of gaming possibilities when it came out, but today, this is far from true, as the device can easily be considered one of the most important gaming platforms right now. The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week will likely show products that will end the debate for good.
Apple are continuing to purge apps from their App Store, as they’ve recently started. It all started with the “sexy” apps oriented towards displaying pleasing pictures of women. It looks like it won’t stop there though, as some developers are reporting that Apple will also be purging pre-made apps – for example, RSS apps which were made using templates from app-building websites.
The Apple iPhone users who are involved in avid gaming will be pleased to know that Street Fighter 4 from Capcom is destined to arrive on their screens in the coming month. The game will be available on both handhelds i.e the iPhone and the iPod touch. Huge gaming franchises hitting the app store is no novelty but the 4th edition of the Street Fighter making it to the shrunk Apple screen still manages to surprise.
Amazon is sprucing up its Kindle e-reader bringing in touch screen start up company Touchco by way of an acquisition. It is expected that the Touchco’s interpolating force-sensitive resistance technology that allows for flexible, transparent and pressure-sensitive touch-screens would be soon be injected into the Kindle hardware operations.
The Apple special event gave us nothing more than the iPad and the iPhone 4G hopefuls were left in dismay. Rumors have now started pouring in and here we have the first ‘probable’ look at the iPhone 4G which has been codenamed the N89. Previous iPhone models were codenamed M68, N82 and N88 and therefore the N89 codename sounds genuine. It was actually the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK where the codenamed was discovered for the iPhone 4G along with codenames for the iPhone 3G.
Other than discovering information about the next-gen iPhone, the SDK and Firmware arrival also gives hints about the next iPod touch version for which the firmware 3.1.3 will be made available.
In case you haven’t still heard this, here is some exciting stuff for you. Valentine’s Day is round the bend and it is time to start shopping for your sweetheart. And, modern times being tech driven, Apple has lined up all things special in time for Valentine’s. Check out the new deals.
The tablet is arriving, and it seems like a few parents have started speculating on what it would bring to their kids. No doubt, the tablet will be a toy, a learning device and much more for the children of the world. While it is for sure that many kids would find it wonderful to have a larger screen where their iPod Touch apps would be magnified, many others would see it as a home-schooling tool too.
With the popularity of the iPhone and iPod Touch growing so rapidly and their gaming capabilities becoming more and more obvious, it’s only natural that some of the greatest gaming franchises would eventually make their way to the devices.
