Browsing all posts in May, 2009.

First images of the next gen iPhone screens?

Hell yeah! It’s the first images of the next generation iPhone in the wild! The more I’m learning from the handful of [blurry] pictures that have just posted on a Hong Kong blog , the more I’m convinced they are the real deal: the magnetic compass, autofocus camera, video recording capability, MMS capability, CPU log/activity, [...]

iPhone Safari to Support Geolocation, Google Latitude Demoed

ComputerWorld points out a little publicized fact that iPhone 3.0’s Safari browser will support Geolocation services. This means that websites will be able to request your current location (if you give them permission).
How many times have you had to put in your Zip code in your browser to tell it where you are? [...]

Shooting to software stardom on the iPhone

Mitchell Waite could think of only one reason that Apple’s legal department would leave a voice message last February asking him to call back: he was about to be sued. Waite has a tiny software company bearing his name–it has no full-time employees–whose principal product is a field guide to birds called iBird Explorer, [...]

Apple to Start Charging for Re-Downloading Apps Over-the-Air? [Update]

The iPhone Blog reports that in the iPhone 3.0 beta firmware, users are being told that may not re-download applications over-the-air without being charged. The dialog box (shown above), however, does indicate that users may still re-download applications for free through their computer.
This is a distinct change from how things currently work. [...]

‘Face Match’ Brings Facial Recognition to Your iPhone

iPhone developer PolarBearFarm released Face Match [$0.99 ] to the App Store yesterday. The app promises to bring the feature similar to Apple’s iPhoto facial recognition to your iPhone.
Face Match brings face detection and recognition to the iPhone.
Simply take a photo, and Face Match will detect and attempt to recognize people in the [...]