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  Well, it is bound to happen someday but Boy Genius Report has supposedly got the mitts about how it will be possible since FaceTime requires a phone number to dial. Apparently, all non-iPhone devices will be able to receive or call a FaceTime call by using an Apple ID, in this case, your email [...]

  Amazon has updated their Kindle app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that brings audio and video playback functionality to the ebooks. Users can now play embedded AV content in Kindle books and the first books that will support such functionality are Rick Steves’ London by Rick Steves and Together We Cannot Fail by [...]

  It’s been few hours since iOS 4 went live and here we are with the jailbreak tool from the iPhone Dev team. The updated Redsn0w tool can now jailbreak iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G devices running iOS 4 to allow you to install 3rd party apps outside the Apple App Store. The tool [...]

  Apple has upped its biggest OS release for its iPhone and iPod touch users. The iOS 4 is available on iTunes for all iPhone and iPod touch users except for the first-gen model users. The update is free and can be downloaded after clicking on to Check for Updates. There are over 100 new [...]

  Vietnam has suddenly become a hotbed for scooping all unreleased devices. After giving us a sneak peek of iPhone 4G, Vietnam-based Tinhte has posted some images and a video of the next iPod touch…with a 2 megapixel camera. The iPod touch is clearly marked as “DVT-1”, a design verification test unit and pretty similar [...]

  Spirit jailbreak is now available for consumer consumption for various Apple devices. Its an untethered jailbreak and works with iPhone iPod touch and most importantly, iPad running on firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3 or 3.2 However, there’s a caveat for iPad users. The iPad jailbreak is not fully touched up and some packages in Cydia might [...]

  Camera in iPod touch has been rumored for many months. In fact, purported images of the device were also circulated before Apple pulled out a faster and larger capacity iPod touch with no camera. Apparently, two partially working iPod touches recently hit the eBay auction before eBay took it down (assumingly on Apple’s behest). [...]

  Opera has a reason to celebrate as its first ever app made its way to Apple’s App Store. It took more than 20 days for Opera’s Mini browser for iPhone to be approved and can now be downloaded from the App Store for free. Opera claims Mini is six times faster than Safari, which [...]

  Apple has unveiled iPhone OS 4 and although the consumer release is expected in summer this year, developers will be able to get their hands on the preview from today. Developers will be able to tap in about 1500 APIs in the new firmware. As for the consumer-centric features, users will be able to [...]

  iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 2G/3G users are bound to get another jailbreak solution. This one’s developed by Comex and brings in the untethered jailbreak goodness for previously tethered-only devices. Just like Geohot’s solution, this jailbreak is also said to work with iPad. Check out the preview below as the release date is still [...]

  George Hotz aka Geohot has released a short video demonstrating an untethered jailbreak solution for devices like iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 2G/3G that currently use tethered jailbreaks. Although a good news for iPod/iPhone users, he says that the solution could also work with iPad which is yet to reach consumers or retail shelves. He [...]

  There are number of car mount solutions available for iPhone but this accessory from Taiwan-based Just Mobile is different. Dubbed as Xtand Go, the accessory can mount various gadgets in addition to the iPhone and can be mounted on windshield and dashboard of cars.

  Apple may downplay Flash by not supporting it but Adobe claims iPhone and iPod touch users think otherwise. According to their in-house data and visits to Adobe.com, more than 7m attempts to download flash were initiated by iPhone / iPod touch users in December alone. This number is more than double than what Adobe [...]

  iPhone and iPod touch users will soon be able to view and share content stored in SD cards. ZoomMediaPlus has unveiled a new accessory that tends to give iPhone/iPod touch a detachable SD card slot. Zoomit’s accessory is basically a SD card reader that goes into the data/charging port of the device. The contents [...]

  Apple has updated the iPhone OS to v3.1.3. Being an update on the same v3, this doesn’t bring drastic improvements but promises to do some things right. For instance, it will improve accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS, resolve third-party apps launch issue and fixes app crash using Japanese Kana keyboard. For [...]