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By Usman on November 9th, 2011

Recently it has been discovered that iOS 5 has a hidden built in panorama mode for the native Camera app. Enabling the option allows users to tap and move the camera from left to right along a blue line after hitting the shutter button to capture a panoramic image. Even though @chpwn has released a Cydia package installing which…

By Usman on October 25th, 2011

Over the past few years, one area that has been steadily improving in smartphones in the mobile camera technology. Back in 2007 when the original iPhone was launched, it was fitted with a camera which could barely shoot any decent shots with less megapixels, no auto-focus and no flash. Many people quoted it as “a…

By Usman on October 6th, 2011

If there’s anything available out there that comes close to Siri, the brilliant Voice Assistant technology which Apple has included in the new iPhone 4S, its this. Its called Vlingo, a personal assistant, voice-recognition app which can be downloaded for free from the App Store for your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4. The app supports integration with…

By Usman on September 2nd, 2011

Apple seeded iOS 5 beta 7 to the developers yesterday and it didn’t take our Canadian homeboy iH8sn0w much long to update his Windows exclusive jailbreak tool. Sn0wbreeze 2.8b7 has just been released and is now available for download with full support for tethered iOS 5 beta 7 jailbreak on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod touch 3G and…

By Usman on August 31st, 2011

The Dev-Team has just released another update to their iOS jailbreak tool. The latest version is Redsn0w 0.9.8b which brings support for iOS 5 beta 6 and iOS 4.3.5 IPSW. Previously there was a bug recognizing the two IPSW files but the latest version is now fully compatible. Once again though the jailbreak is tethered for…

By Usman on August 29th, 2011

Cydia is the reason we all jailbreak our iDevices right? Whenever we see the Cydia icon on our iPhone, iPod or iPad’s homescreen after performing a successful jailbreak, it brings a smile on our face! Developed by Jay Freeman also known as Saurik, Cydia allows us to find and install thousands of tweaks, software packages including apps, interface…

By Usman on August 23rd, 2011

Heads up guys! MuscleNerd has just announced the release of  RedSn0w 0.9.8b6 “JetBlue Edition” which supports tethered iOS 5 beta 6 jailbreak on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G and iPad 1. No love for iPad 2 once again since the current Limera1n jailbreak exploit used in both Sn0wbreeze and Redsn0w…

By Usman on August 21st, 2011

Apple pushed iOS 5 beta 6 to the developers a couple of days back and we already have our first working jailbreak solution. iH8sn0w has just released Sn0wbreeze v2.8 b6 with full jailbreak support for iOS 5 beta 6. Like the previous release, this one also adds the ability to remove device UDID checks which means…

By Ex on June 7th, 2011

With the launch of iOS 5 beta, Apple confirmed that the latest firmware is compatible with the iPhone 3GS. However, we have received some reports that iPhone 3GS users on iOS 5 may have some iOS 5 features disabled. So far it seems that iPhone 3GS users are affected as follows: Significantly slower performance than…

By Ex on May 24th, 2011

Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of Russian mobile phone blog Mobile-Review, reports via Twitter that iOS 5 will not be compatible with the iPhone 3GS. Just one comment. Apple iPhone 3Gs wont be upgradable to iOS 5.x. iPhone 4 will. At this time, the statement is unverified. However, Apple is known to drop support for older models…