When Apple launched iOS 4, the company took a sort of tiered approach. If you had an iPhone 4, it shipped with the new operating system and all its new features. If you had an iPhone 3GS or third generation iPod touch, you could install an update to get all the nifty new features. If you had a first generation iPhone or iPod touch, you… Read more »

Update: There’s now an easier method for installing Flash on a jailbroken iDevice. See below. There’s good news and bad news for iPhone users who have been hoping to get Adobe Flash up and running on their phones. The good news is you can do it now. The bad news is that it only works on iOS 4 and you need to jailbreak your device…. Read more »

Apple iOS 4 is designed to run on the iPhone 4, but it also works with older devices including the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3, and second and third generation iPod touch models. But if you have an older device like the iPhone 3 or iPod touch 2nd generation, you’re stuck with a limited version of the OS that lacks some key features such as the… Read more »

A few weeks ago Apple launched iOS 4, which allows you to run certain third party apps and functions in the background. From the get go, developers started pumping out apps that could play music in the background or which stored some data in the background to enable faster app switching. But it wasn’t until today that one of the apps most in need of… Read more »

When Google introduced Android 2.2, the company announced that one of the biggest changes was a new Just In Time (JIT) compiler which dramatically sped up Javascript performance. That means that most third party apps run faster on Android 2.2 than Android 2.1, and many web sites with Javascript elements render more quickly. But how does Google’s latest mobile operating system stack up against Apple’s?… Read more »

One of the coolest new apps in the iTunes App Store is iMovie. You can use this $5 app to edit movies you shoot with your iPhone camera, add music, transitions, and other effects, and export complete videos which you can upload to YouTube and other sites. The only catch is that it’s only available for the iPhone 4… officially. Redmond Pie has figured out… Read more »

Apple hasn’t officially announced a release date for iOS 4 for the iPad. While you can multitask to your heart’s content (with specially coded apps) on the iPhone 4, 3GS, and 3rd generation iPod touch, if you’re using Apple’s recently launched 10 inch tablet you’re stuck to running one app at a time (or running a handful of apps from Apple in the background). But… Read more »

The iPhone 4 ships standard with some of the features that led many people to jailbreak earlier iPhone models. You can change the home screen wallpaper. You can run some activities, like streaming music or VoIP phone calls in the background while using other apps. But if you want full control of your operating system, including the ability to install third party apps that aren’t… Read more »

Apple released the iPhone 4 this week to much fanfare. The company also made the operating system running on the iPhone 4 available to iPhone and iPod touch users with earlier models. But unless you’re using an iPhone 3GS or 3rd generation iPod touch, you may find that you don’t have all of the new features in iOS 4 such as multitasking, custom home screen… Read more »

Sure, iOS 4 adds some of the features that you previously had to jailbreak your phone to enable, including support for multitasking and changing the home screen background. But if you want to install apps that aren’t available through the app store, jailbreaking is still the way to go. It’s also the only way to get enable multitasking on older iPhone and iPod touch models…. Read more »