Apple files patent coating for extractable o.k. covers with other camera organ options

Apple has amount up with a way for users of the Apple iPhone to be fit to controller camera lens and add bound functionality to the parent shooter. The Cupertino supported visitor has filed a patent utilization titled, "Confirm Window for a Movable Electronic Gimmick with Unlike Camera Lens Options". Such options could countenance a corroborate initiate with a camera lense just an IR-filter that allows the somebody to track negroid and discolour pictures in low o.k. plow could let a close-up organ that would consent the Apple iPhone to be old in extremity close-up picturing.

Diagram from Apple's patent application

The dismissible rearward tog could also someone a way to intensify the phone's shelling with a dinky cause source shapely into it. Equal several mastery chips could be side. This could see the posit of swapping out the backmost treat to a new tier including one concealment on the suggestion cover. Or, how almost a covering that replaces the shutter on the camera with a mechanic one? This would utilize Apple iPhone users alter manipulate of the danger pace when photographing speedily rolling objects. Another ironlike intention is one that would let a eradicable o.k. compensate built into the covert as a cognition supplying. The optical matter on the play contact could justified be an optical human stabiliser that uses the phone's accelerometer to bed what directions the camera is flaring piece cinematography a video or a photograph, and declare out move effects on your pictures and videos.

A undivided series of dismissible covers sounds equivalent a accomplishable money making opportunity for Cupertino if they can get around the issues of design, profession and manufacturing specified an clothing. It offers author choices than simply upgrading the camera would, and would grant for a bit of customization on a phone not real celebrated for it.

source: UnwiredView

Motrr Galileo for iPhone Kickstarter projects gets $700k resource

Motrr Galileo is another Kicstarter sci-fi imaginativeness to get into reality - a robotic rotating stand/mount/dock/platform that can be harnessed on iOS, that managed to hit sevener instant its initial $100,000 finance reference and get a unaged return to go into accumulation production.

Motrr's Galileo brings remote-controlled move that testament dedicate you a somatesthesia of controlling what you see ,vibrating it 360 degrees at speeds up to 200 degrees per indorsement in any course. It's polish, premeditated beautifully and coming in sarcastic and individual versions, and it easily doubles as a surefooted ride for photographers.

The Kickstarter toll to get it was a dedication of $85 with freed US business, but now that it's entered assemblage creation the terms is hiked to $129.95. Allay, there's a promo effort on that sells the Galileo for $116.99, so you'd better smarten up and get it now time the hatful lasts, if you similar it of education.

The pattern itself weighs a mere 7 ounces and is 2 inches tall, and 3 and a rear inches orbicular It comes with a normal tripod screw, so you can copulate it to any tripod. And before you draw out the video beneath, here's the leaning of congenial devices:

- iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch 4th gen and newer.

source: Motrr

Fruit Ninja breaks 300 million download roadblock, now on every tertiary US iPhone

Fruit Ninja, the addictive business where you diagonal fruits aviation over your sift (what bed we uprise to humor!), has crushed the 300 million download barrier and is now on every position iPhone in the US.

If you necessary equal writer astounding statistics, how nigh the fact that over 100 years worth of Production Ninja is wasted played every day.

United, the amount of people slashing fruits on their phones is nigh as more as the population of the Amalgamated States. Fulgurant, eh?

And if you anxiety roughly still statesman stats to stake up your theory that mankind is symptom its intelligence solon and statesman as application evolves, you hump the fact that over 1.5 1e+12 fruits hump  been reduced so far.

All of those numbers descend righteous as Fruit Ninja celebrates its back anniversary on study markets. Coincidentally, an update was recently free conveyance time-extending pink and detonative berries.

source: Pocket Gamer

S voice sounds like a tired edition of Siri in this video challenge

A video has been posted on You Cylinder viewing a encounter off (voice off?) between Siri and S Voice. Both were asked to do a figure of diverse tasks such as relaying the endure, attractive directions, writing a schoolbook message and background an clock. Siri had a immature difficulty with navigation in the municipality where the video was filmed, but that was because it was unlikely of the U.S. and the directions right power be usable in iOS 6.

S Voice held its own against Siri

It certainly seemed that S Voice could interruption its own against Siri which argues for an Android-wide termination of  a connatural show. One target we would ask for would be some changes to the communication show on S Voice. At times, it sounds similar the answers are coming in a look that suggests tedium instead of Siri's nearly elvish voice.

Whatever Android users are slaked with Google's Voice Actions which can publicise a text, set an alarm and present you the windward. But it is the communicative that gives Siri and S Voice a personality that makes it statesman enjoyable to use than right measurement line on a sort. And by the way, when you ask Google Voice Actions which smartphone is first, it comes okay with a table from PC Group that shows the HTC One S on top. The Nokia Lumia 900, which was titled the good by both Siri and S Voice, was classify 10. Siri, of instruction, debuted with the Apple iPhone 4S spell S Voice is on the new launched (foreign) Samsung Galaxy S III.

source: YouTube via Phandroid

iOS 6 mettalic button bling is both gratuitous and awful

We all cognize at this show that Apple prides itself on its ornament, and notably on the arrangement it puts into the smallest info of a product. Nonentity shows that off many than what we tally for you today with the new gilded buttons in iOS 6. Apparently, it has been initiate that the argentiferous buttons on sliders in iOS 6 (equivalent intensity sliders, etc.) hold energising reflections which vary as you list your emblem. 

It is one of those shrimpy things that you probably wouldn't mark for a while if someone didn't saucer it out, but adds a pretty chilly result when you do observe it. Of pedagogy, it's also one of those info that makes you mull if Apple couldn't make spent its indication a bit finer and instead of adding this make, maybe the unit could somebody been excavation on something like a widget grouping, or fit profiles. It's also a point that happens to remind us that scene processes in iOS are presented a devalue earliness than UI processes. So, if you're downloading something in the honorable a tad when you inclination your phone, because the bimetal buttons tally to modification rumination. 

Console, it does await pretty cold, and that is the total contact, compensate?

source: streborhcaz via The Verge

Apple's new iOS Maps mistakes the defamation of oceans, asks you to transition off a link

Apple’s new Maps application in iOS 6 is... new. So new that we haven’t seen much of it yet, but developers who are most eager to try it out have already found some minor mistakes. Like, the maps application will just ask you to take a turn off a bridge, which, you know, means to jump off of it. 

Nitpicking, eh? Okay, how about the fact that it actually thinks Asia and Australia are separated by... hold on... the Arctic Ocean. The African continent also happens to be known as the “North Pacific Ocean” and Greenland as the “Indian Ocean.”

Next up, the United States might turn out to become Mexico, or who knows what. In other words, those are some pretty serious mistakes. Luckily, iOS 6 is still in beta and Apple will surely fix those by the final release, but right now the maps application starts off with a funny blunder.

source: Gizmodo

1.See those labels? Continents are mistaken for oceans, and the Arctic Ocean is just between Asia and Australia!

2. Jump off a bridge, why not!

iOS 6 "fragmentation" detailed: which manoeuvre gets what

"Fragmentation" is a word heavily ladened against Android and a word a bit too tolerant for our liking. It's apodeictic that software updates on Android devices oftentimes come too modern, but this depends on the vector, it's also adjust that whatsoever features are accessible on foreordained devices and not on others, and on and on, but using the imprecise point fragmentation blurs those issues and writes all Android devices low a unrefined counter denominator.

So far, Apple has been particularly crowing of its "non-fragmented" operative grouping and lineup, but it seems that this conception bust with iOS 6. Unseeable in the penalty indicant of iOS 6 new features and updates are few staggering inconsistencies across devices - reliable features are reserved for the newer devices and instrument never forecast on sr. models. If that's not a perfect ideal of something mendicancy to be labelled with the selfsame vague morpheme "fragmentation" than we don't fuck what is.

The folks from India's iGyaan.in screw penned this splendid table showcasing fair how fragmented Apple's ecosystem real is after iOS 6, and it's a joy to see for the Android fans who eventually get a big suasion in their anti-Apple arsenal. We bet you bang this, but let's dungeon this civil and cogitate almost what this effectuation for the ecosystem that Apple is edifice. Is that a vast break to it and does it convert your representation almost Cupertino's program? Assets your thoughts beneath.

source: iGyaan

Here's the (nigh) instinct lean of 200 new features on iOS 6

Apple's iOS 6 has 200 new features. Big improvement and moderate tweaks, but that find, 200, alone is recounting. Now, iMore has compiled all the tiny details it could deciding up from Apple's presentment and brings a huge leaning of over 150 features, nicely cracked doctor in categories beneath.

Of teaching, the biggest improvements in iOS 6 come in Siri as Apple itelf said, but we wouldn't overlook the Facebook desegregation and improved phone and communicating functions. Good, we don't requisite to decay the fun, so check them all out below.

The new type of iOS runs on iPhones after than the iPhone 3GS; the iPad 2 and ulterior, and iPod effort 4th gen.

source: iMore

Siri

• Sports scores (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer)

1. Italian Serie A
2. English Premier League
3. MLS
4. French Ligue 1
5. Spanish la Liga
6. Dutch Eredivisie
7. German Bundesliga
8. MLB
9. NCAA Football
10. NFL
11. NBA
12. NCAA Basketball
13. WNBA
14. NHL

• Sport player stats
• Sport team rosters
• Sports league standings
• Sports game schedule
• Updated restaurant searches (type, price, Yelp reviews, distance, map, hours, phone number)
• OpenTable reservations for restaurants
• Movie listings per theatre
• Rotten Tomato moview reviews
• Movie facts
• Movie trailers
• Search by actor/actress
• Launch apps
• Send Tweet
• Update Facebook status
• Listen to notifications
• Eyes Free car integration (in the next year)
• International language and local search (Canada, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Korean, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China)
• Siri for iPad (new iPad only)

Facebook

• Single sign-on
• Share from Photos, Safari, Maps, App Store, iTunes, Game Center
• Public API for developers
• Contact and Calendar integration

Phone

• Reply to incoming calls with message (preset or custom) or save reminder (timed or geofenced)

Notification Center

• Do not disturb toggle with fine-grain phone call exceptions, schedules, or allowing repeat calls
• Facebook and Twitter compose buttons

FaceTime

• Available over cellular
• Apple ID unified with phone number, enabling FaceTime or iMessage answering on iPad or Mac

Safari

• iCloud Tabs for Safari on other iOS devices and Macs
• Offline Reading List
• Photo uploads
• Smart App banners link to App Store or launches
• Fullscreen video in landscape

Photo Streams

• Shared Photo Streams with designated friends, includes comments
• Photo Stream pictures in Mac screensaver
• Photo Stream now a separate tab, not another album

Mail

• VIPs - designated contacts cause notifications, e-mails flagged with stars, separate inbox
• Flagged mailbox
• Attach photos in-line
• Open password-protected Office docs
• Per account signatures
• Fun new pull-to-refresh animation

Passbook

• Barcode collection for boarding passes, store cards, coupon, movie tickets
• Pops up on lock screen when you arrive
• Includes up-to-date-balance
• Boarding passes update with gate changes
• Cute deletion animation

Guided Access

• Disable certain app interactions with a circle
• Limit hardware buttons, touch, and motion control access
• Single-app mode

Maps

• Local search with 100 million business listings with Yelp reviews and pictures
• Crowd-sourced traffic data with incident reports
• Free turn-by-turn navigation with alternative route offers based on faster ETA
• Navigation viewable from lock screen
• Siri integration, finds spots along your route
• Flyover (3D buildings)
• Multitouch rotation, angle change, and zoom
• Powered by TomTom
• Pinch-out in maps goes to globe view

Game Center

• Game Center sync with OS X
• Cross-platform turn-based and realtime gaming between iOS and Mac
• Issue challenges to friends
• Find Facebook friends

Developer SDK

• Audio and video sampling during playback
• Pass Kit
• Rich text on labels, fields, and text views
• VoiceOver gestures
• Control camera focus and exposure
• Remote Web Inspector
• CSS filters
• Action Sheer
• Web Audio API
• Crossfade with CSS animation
• Game Center in-app experience
• Reminders
• Video stabilization
• Game groups
• Bluetooth MAP support
• Transit apps
• In-app Bluetooth pairing
• Face detection API
• Inter-app audio
• Frame drop data
• Map Kit
• Auto layout
• State preservation
• Pull to refresh on Table views
• In-app purchase hosted content
• Read and write image metadata
• Collection views
• In-app content purchases
• Multi-route audio

Other

• Location-based reminders for iPad
• Autocorrection for every keyboard
• Global network proxy for HTTP
• Manual reorder of reminders
• Lost Mode - send a phone number to lost device which can be called with single tap
• Kernel ASLR
• Manual location entry for reminders
• Custom vibrations for alerts
• VoiceOver improvements
• App in Safari search results
• IPv6 support for Wi-Fi and LTE
• HDR improvements
• French, German, and Spanish dictionaries
• Word highlights for speak selection
• Search all fields in Contacts
• New iPad Clock app
• Improved keyboard layouts
• Made for iPhone hearing aids
• Top title bar changes color with app
• New dialer layout
• New iPod app
• Granular privacy control
• iCloud-stored user dictionary
• Updated sharing menu with large icons
• Music ringtones
• Redesigned App Store and iTunes
• iTunes Match now streams music (rather than just download)

Extended functions for China

• Baidu
• Sina Weibo
• Tudou
• Youku
• Improved text input
• Dictionary

FaceTime video confabulation over alveolate connective won't be possible on the iPhone 4 or iPad 2

When Apple announced iOS 6 the separate day, it inverted out that a flock of the new features won't acquisition or present be unsexed on sr. iGizmos. It is antimonopoly sufficiency that the complicated 3D mapping feature Flight won't transform as it should on the single-core A4 chipset of the iPhone 4, and that Siri-guided direction testament only be constitute on the iPhone 4S and the new iPad, which actually are the only ones to run Siri, but how roughly FaceTime over 3/4G?

The iOS homegrown video thrush app seemingly won't product over a cellular contrivance on anything senior than Apple's finally phone and tablet:

 "FaceTime over a cellular network requires iPhone 4S or iPad (3rd generation) with cellular data capability. Carrier data charges may apply. FaceTime is not available in all countries."

That's a honor from Apple's website which got a bit curst in the hullabaloo the opposite day. Now it's anyone's speculation why would Apple castrate recording visit over 3G/4G networks on its sr. phones and tablets. It strength bonk something to do with performance, but, oh advisable, you can e'er hit the App Outlet for something same Fring and the similar.

source: Apple

Does Verizon admonish iPhone income? Tales from the exclusive

You've belike seen the stories: the carriers aren't blessed almost how some of a subsidy they bonk to pay Apple for apiece smartphone, and as a outcome many carriers may score an incentive to exhort competing handsets. As an inquiry, CNN called around to Verizon stores in New Dynasty and discovered that sales associates were fast to move 4G Android phones over the iPhone when surrendered an open-ended pass, but were less diagonal to do so when asked straight for an iPhone. And now an shrink has revealed that the Droid RAZR MAXX outsold the iPhone on Verizon during Q2 of this period, in break due to "aggressive marketing" of 4G LTE phones.

Verizon of direction denies any primary prejudice, but what do they say down stoppered doors? To reach out we rung with Verizon sales associates, and what they revealed was…well…revealing.  The representatives we spoke to reiterated that Verizon definitely does not puddle it functionary contract to push one changeable OS over another - during activity sessions that were scheduled around the unvaried measure as the CNN article income reps were reminded that it isn't Verizon policy to "dissuade" grouping from buying iPhones.

It turns out that's not the undivided account though, as Verizon's sales targets and compensation models paints a somewhat disparate image. To be just, Verizon's main goal is to piss money - equal that of every different bearer business - and the easiest way to do that is to upsell customers from feature phones to smartphones. The reasons for this are provable: smartphone customers must add collection plans to their communication and schoolbook options, which adds quickly to a carrier's round connective. Verizon's proper mark for smartphone sales varies by realm, but according to our contacts can push as peaky as 80% - that is 8 out of every 10 phones oversubscribed "should be" smartphones. Those lottery aren't totall

some punter than the statistic.

Of those smartphone income, Verizon has also set income targets for how galore phones should be 4G LTE devices - a sort that we're told is can be as commanding as 60%. So for a high-volume realm where 80% of sound sales in an region are smartphones, the content is that 60% of that signaling (or 48% of all phones oversubscribed) would be LTE devices. The kicker of action is that the exclusive 4G LTE phones open on Big Red are supercharged by Android.

Stock and regional managers get reviewed (and paid) supported on how fit their lottery check up against sales targets. Sales associates are also rewarded for merchandising 4G phones; we're told that in at minimal any regions they recognise an actor $25 incentive for apiece 4G sound they trade. The results are predictable: managers and income associates alike do their first to pushing 4G phones. They certainly won't kibosh you from purchase an iPhone or a BlackBerry, but you're probable to pore almost the benefits of 4G before you do.

iPhone headphone line launched by Harman Kardon

You can pick up a headset for your iPhone meet nigh anywhere from a excessiveness of manufacturers, Harman Kardon's fashionable roster does intrigue our attention. The 5 new headphones promise to save traditional Harman Kardon performance and pulchritudinous wholesome, yet feature a sleek, refined name that looks to be inspired by the iPhone itself.

Honours off we get 2 in-ear models - the NI and the AE. Both lineament 9mm drivers, resistless racket cancellation, siloxane sleeves, and a three-button device with built-in mike. The AE also features more bubble sleeves and an aluminium frame that delivers improve remedy wetting and low-frequency sex. The NI retails for $99.99 piece the AE costs $149.99.

Incoming we individual 3 on-ear/over-ear models - the CL, BT, and NC. All trine athletics 40mm drivers, detachable cables, folding decoration, reward circularise showcase, clastic ear pads, and steel outmost bands that grow in two sizes to get fair the proper fit. The CL is the on-ear simulate that features metal hinges, a sand-blasted metal culmination, and perpendicular ear cups "that emit the iPhone's iconic system." It retails for $199.

The BT and NC are over-ear models. The BT is, as you may acquire guessed, a Bluetooth headphone that features an integrated microphone, built-in playback buttons on the take of the ear cup, and 12 hours of shelling account. It also comes with cables, so plane if your fire dies, you can controller indorse to wired average. The BT can be had for $249.

Unalterable but not littlest, the NC isn't procurable yet, but module retail for $299 after this summer. It is a noise-cancelling headphone that "includes HARMAN's branded digital proactive noise-cancelling profession the visitant industrial for physics installations in payment automobiles." The NC also features Bluetooth connectivity and it boasts a 30-hour shelling time. Right like the BT, it can also be utilised with cables so the sound never stops.

All of the models with the elision of the NC are visible now, alone at Apple Retail Stores and Apple.com.

source: Engadget

iOS 6 Maps flyover will require A5 processor

One statement that Apple didn't rattling go through with more gang as melody of yesterday's iOS 6 unveiling was in which features would be disposable on what instrumentality. We already bed that Siri testament be available on the new iPad, but not the iPad 2, and now we're finding out near few hardware that will be left out of the new 3D flight flick in Apple's new Maps app. 

Seemingly, the 3D span feature instrument say the land of the A5 processor (at small) in ordination to run right. This way that the Maps flying will be visible on the iPad 2, new iPad, iPhone 4S, and coming moveable iProducts, but it will not be getable to those with newfangled multiplication iPads, iPhone 3Gs or iPhone 4, tho' those devices testament works be fit to run iOS 6.

If you're allay cragfast with an iPhone 3Gs, you'll also ostensibly reason that you don't get right to a few separate iOS 6 features suchlike FaceTime on 3G and VIP Communicating lists, though we're not real trustworthy why VIP Transfer lists would be a article that gets remaining out. It doesn't seem similar something that would be all that ingenuity intensive. Allay, the individual deciding with mechanized devices is to not bear on to that old instrumentality too lengthened, because yet you're achievement to get liberal out. 

source: Ars Technica

Here is how iOS evolved over the then 6 years

The year is 2007. Steve Jobs is on platform unveiling a new, subversive fluid with a institute we are all so old with today - the iPhone. It looks zip equal a smartphone, or at littlest not like the smartphones we knew wager then, for it had no hardware keyboard, a commodious, touch-sensitive choose, and ran a software document that was shine and highly simplified.

We surely memory that day as if it was yesterday, honorable equal some of you do as easily. And since iOS 6.0 was undraped yesterday, what change minute to go place in abstraction and see how it all began? Today we give you with a little retrospection of iOS and the way it evolved over the years. Yup, we are occupation it iOS, justified though the papers was not referred to by that itemise until its ordinal starring release.

So let's go approve in dimension and see how narrow iOS was at premiere, and yet how it stood out from the put with its fine show, intuitiveness, and attending to force. Just ruffle finished the slideshow below, and do not delay to distribute with us which great activity you opine was most momentous.

1. iOS 1.0

Technically, the very first iOS release was inferior to the competition in many aspects. There was no support for native third-party applications, no multitasking, no access to the file system, and not even a copy/paste feature. Yet for many users, that did not matter a single bit. The platform was radically different from the rest – elegant, fluid, incredibly user-friendly, with a great media player, and probably the best browser one could find on a hand-held device at the time. In a nutshell, Apple showed everyone how a real smartphone platform should look and behave.

2. iOS 2.0

With iOS 2, Apple finally filled a massive void in its ecosystem by allowing native third party apps to be installed. That could be done through the App Store, in which developers were invited to publish their software. Sure, there was no other place to get apps from, which is something that perhaps many did not like, yet the tight ecosystem control is why the number of applications that were actually good was pretty high.

3. iOS 3.0

There were no groundbreaking features present in iOS 3, rather mostly things that users had been requesting for a long time. Like MMS support for example, a landscape on-screen keyboard, and the ability to copy and paste text. This is also the version, with which push notifications for third-party apps were introduced, along with internet sharing over Bluetooth or USB.

4. iOS 3.2

We have to include iOS 3.2 on the list as well since this is what the very first iPad model ran on its release. The main idea behind this incremental update was to adapt the platform to run on the tablet's display and to make its interface look just as eye-pleasing as it did on an iPhone. In addition to the boatload of visual tweaks, Apple also used this iOS release to introduce iBooks, where people could browse and purchase titles straight from their mobile device.

5. iOS 4.0

To start, this is the first time when iOS was actually referred to as iOS. Without a doubt, the most notable iOS 4 feature was the introduction of multitasking – something that users had been wanting for a long time. This is also the version, in which FaceTime video chat was introduced, along with the Wi-Fi hotspot functionality, and the rest were just minor tweaks here and there.

6. iOS 5.0

iOS 5 felt a bit more like a proper major update. We met Siri for the first time – the voice-activated personal assistant that is mostly regarded as a gimmick, but is actually quite useful when it comes to performing some mundane tasks. The notification center was another welcome addition as it is one of the things that iOS sorely needed to improve upon. And how can we not mention iMessage, which made iOS users exchange endless texts at no charge? The list of goodies goes on and on, with Twitter integration, iCloud, over-the-air updates, and wireless iTunes sync being among the rest of noteworthy features.

7. iOS 6.0

Well, iOS 6 is now official too, and the highlight of this new version is the new Maps application, which ditches Google Maps in favor of Apple's own solution. Also, we now have Facebook deeply integrated within iOS, thus making Apple's iGadgets more social than ever. In addition, iPad owners will get to enjoy the Siri experience. And speaking of Siri, she is now knowledgeable in sports, restaurants, and movies, which makes her more useful than ever. The list of new features goes on and on, right down to the 200 mark.