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iOS 5 release date confirmed as October 12th at iPhone launch

At the eagerly awaited iPhone launch event Apple has confirmed the recently unveiled iOS 5 mobile operating system will be rolled out to iPhone users next week kicking off on October 12thApple has put an end to continued speculation confirming that the recently unveiled iOS 5 mobile operating system will be rolled out to iPhone [...]

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Carmack blows minds with id Software’s Rage, running on iPhone at 60fps with ‘megatextured’ graphics (video)

We’re sorry, but the Palm Pixi’s rendition of Need for Speed no longer impresses us — we’ve just seen John Carmack show off Rage for iPhone. While of course it looks nothing like the PC graphical monstrosity that swept the E3 Games Critics Awards, it’s safe to say the 60 frame-per-second tech demo at QuakeCon [...]

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Apple releases iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone and 3.2.2 for iPad, fixes PDF vulnerability

Bad news, jailbreakers: as promised, Apple’s just released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and 3.2.2 for the iPad, both of which close the PDF exploit used by JailbreakMe. That appears to be the only change — it’s definitely good news for anyone concerned about iOS security, although we’re guessing the Dev Team is hard at [...]

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iPhone 4: What you need to know

You would think an Apple-built smartphone would be old hat by now. After all, this is the fourth consecutive summer Apple will try to capture our hearts, minds, and disposable income with a brand new phone. Surely, after the first couple launches, we should pretty much know what to expect.

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iPhone 4 guide: preview, pricing, availability

In a lot of ways, Apple’s iPhone 4 announcement was short on surprises. We’ve been playing with the new iPhone OS 4 (now dubbed iOS 4) for a while, and photos of the hardware had been widely disseminated, a rarity for an unreleased Apple product.

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Opera Mini approved for iPhone

Opera Mini was just approved for iPhone according to a press release on the company’s site. The app is free and making its way across Europe as we speak and should be available in the US store soon here. Honestly, we weren’t sure if Apple was going to approve this one (it took three weeks). [...]

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iPhone OS 4 event summary…

Apple presented a lot of interesting stuff today.  Probably the biggest were: Multi-tasking including background operation of GPS, Audio (YAY Pandora), Voice (Yay Skype) and fast app switching Folders – a better way to organize apps…wallpapers too. Email: Unified inbox, multiple exchange (or GMail Push w/Exchange), fast switching iBooks for iPhones.  Just what you’d think. [...]

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Apple iPhone OS 4 Revealed on April 8!!!!!

Apple’s just sent an invite “for a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software” on April 8 at 10AM Pacific. That’s in three days! We’ll be there. Start your predictions now.

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Apple sells over 300,000 iPad tablets on US launch day

We heard some pretty ridiculous estimates over the weekend, but these figures are straight out of Cupertino’s mouth: over 300,000 iPads were sold on April 3rd.

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3,266 iPad apps and counting

AppShopper is listing 3,266 iPad apps available at the time of this writing. That’s slightly more than 100 apps added since this morning. As of the morning of April 4th there were a total of 3,122 iPad apps available in the App Store according to Mobclix, a mobile ad exchange. At launch yesterday, the Wall Street [...]

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