iPhone OS 4 beta 4 drops in
If you like living on the brutal, life-altering bleeding edge the same way we do, odds are you’ve got iPhone OS 4 beta 3 installed on that 3GS of yours — assuming you have an iPhone 3GS, naturally. That also means that you’ll likely be interested to hear that beta 4 is now out and ready for you to download, install, and not brick your phone if everything goes according to plan, just as long as you’ve got access to an Apple iPhone Developer Program account. Go forth, intrepid readers — and do report back on your exploits, won’t you?
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iPhone OS 4 beta 4 drops in originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 20:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Adobe decries Apple’s ‘walled garden,’ yet pledges ‘best tools’ for HTML5
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch says Flash works just fine on the Apple iPhone, thank you very much — and he thinks that’s exactly why Apple keeps on denying it access. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he explained his belief that by eliminating Flash, Cupertino is forcing developers to build apps natively for iPhone OS rather than one of Adobe’s cross-platform solutions, and thus creating a “walled garden” of applications that users must flock to an iDevice to be able to use. Lynch compared Apple’s control over development formats to 19th century railroad lines that competed for customers by using differently sized rails, and pledged that Adobe would not be part of such a competition. “It’s not HTML vs. Flash — they’ve been co-existing for over a decade,” he said, adding, “We’re going to try and make the best tools in the world for HTML5.” So, what do you think about that, Steve?
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iPhone / iPad ‘Spirit’ jailbreak released to the world
We’ve been seeing the iPad / iPhone Spirit jailbreak demoed here and there for a few weeks now, and here we go — the download is now available. The untethered jailbreak works on activated iPhone OS devices running 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.2, although iPad owners are warned that “all this is still sort of beta” and might require you to restore if things break. That’s not the worst thing in the world, we suppose — anyone taking the plunge?
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iPhone / iPad ‘Spirit’ jailbreak released to the world originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 May 2010 21:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone OS 4 hands-on (updated with video!)
Okay, so we’re currently holding our breath while the developer preview of iPhone OS 4 installs on our 3GS — a process that seems to be, uh, not going so well, but we wanted to share these quick shots we took from the simulator in the meantime. The dock is now 3D, like the one in Snow Leopard and on the iPad, multitasking works just like you’d expect — you can swipe left and right to see more open apps — and the Game Center app is present, although not functional. There’s also Events and Faces in the Photos app, which you’d expect after the iPad version got them. We’ve got our fingers crossed that our latest restore attempt is going to work, so check back in a few for a video walkthrough, but hit the gallery below in the meantime!
Update: Wonder of wonders, we actually got the bugger working! We’re doing video right now, let us know what you want to see — and check out some on-device shots below.
Update 2: Video time! We also added some impressions, it’s all after the break.
Gallery: iPhone OS 4 simulator screenshots
Gallery: iPhone OS 4.0 device screenshots
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iPhone OS 4 hands-on (updated with video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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