iPhone Hacks

Fourth Generation iPhone Midboard Revealed [RUMOR]

Folks at ChinaOntrade, the online Chinese wholesaler website, who had earlier successfully leaked iPhone 3GS parts weeks before the actual release and also recently in news for leaking pics of what they claim is the SIM tray of the fourth generation iPhone/iTablet are at it again. 

The website now claims to be stocking a fourth generation iPhone midboard which they say has been procured from Foxconn, the OEM who supplies these parts to Apple for the iPhone. While it is not possible to verify the veracity of the claims, it surely raises doubts about when the next iPhone is actually going to be launched. 

Is the Apple iTablet For Real? Rumors Say So

Is Apple really working on the new iTablet or is this the SIM tray of Apple's fourth generation iPhone or is it just a hoax? 

While most of us still believe that there is something nice cooking up at Cupertino, today we get two tidbits of rumor that makes the launch of the iTablet all the more plausible. 

Apple Rumored to be Working With Verizon on New 4G iPhone

As in politics, in business too, there are no permanent friends or enemies; only permanent interests. 

At least we know it now. If the rumors are true, Apple and Verizon might be engaged in a partnership to test a new 4G LTE iPhone that could be released over the Verizon network next year. 

Apple Working on Radio.app to Bring FM Radio on iPhone And iPod Touch

FM radio could soon be coming to your iPhone and iPod Touch. According to a tip received by the folks at 9to5Mac, Apple is working on an in-house Radio iPhone app for iPhones and iPod Touch. This iPhone app will be able to run in the background; similar to iPod app and also incorporate other functionalities available on the iPod Nano FM radio feature that includes the ability to pause live programming. 

Verizon Apple Partnership to Sell iPhones Unlikely After Google Deal: IDC

Earlier this week, Google and Verizon got together to announce the launch a strategic partnership between the two companies to bring Android based handsets powered by Verizon Wireless network to the market. According to the analysts at IDC, this could well signal the end of any possibility of a partnership between Verizon and Apple to sell the iPhone through their network.

AT&T Wireless CEO Hints At Rationing to Manage Disproportionate Data Usage by iPhone Users

Has Apple's partnership with AT&T to exclusively offer connectivity to iPhone users in the United States been more of a curse than a blessing to the latter? 

Ralph De La Vega, CEO and President of AT&T Mobility could probably be implicitly agreeing to this when he complained about the disproportionate bandwidth usage among the iPhone users.

Digg Founder Confirms Native App For iPhone

Two years after Apple announced a Digg website for iPhone, Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, the popular social news aggregation service has confirmed that the company is in fact building their own native iPhone app that shall be released shortly. 

The announcement was made pretty accidentally when CNET editors caught Kevin Rose off guard toying with the app on his iPhone at the recent 'Future of Web Apps' conference. 

Apple Acquired Placebase, A Google Maps Substitute Back in July

With Google and Apple now starting to compete over multiple products with the advent of Android, Chrome OS, and with recent issues over the objection of Google Voice and Google Latitude iPhone apps, 

Apple probably thinks it best to move away from its dependency on Google as much as possible. Today, we are hearing about an Apple acquisition that possibly happened in July of this year - of the company Placebase that provides a service called PushPin which is pretty similar to Google Maps.

Intel's New Light Peak Technology Was Conceptualized By Apple

This past week, Intel unveiled what is touted as the future of connectivity on mobile devices. Called the Light Peak, this is an optical interconnect that can serve to replace all other connectors. Now it has come to light courtesy folks at Engadget that the concept of Light Peak was actually brought forth by Apple who see it as the future on all their upcoming devices including future versions of iPhones, iPods and Mac.

AT&T Customers: Is MMS Working on your iPhone?

Based on feedback from our readers, we had felt that AT&T’s launch of MMS feature to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers yesterday had gone off smoothly.

But folks at Boy Genius Report have just reported that AT&T might be facing an outage currently as users are reporting issues sending MMS.