Finally you can play music in the background of your iPhone 4 using Last.fm which is approved by Apple on iOS4. This is great news for all the music loving people. Another big news is that Spotify,a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs, has also been approved for the iOS4. This means that you can listen to tracks from streaming collection of Spotify in the background when you are using another app, this is simply amazing.
iPhone OS 4
redsn0w 0.9.5 Beta 4 updated for iPhone 3G running iPhone OS Beta 4 [jailbreak]
redsn0w, the popular jailbreak tool for iPhone OS, has been updated with support for iPhone OS beta 4 running on iPhone 3G only. This release is targeted mainly towards developers and is not recommended for the average user who has been brave enough to run iPhone OS 4. Also, redsn0w 0.9.5 only works on Mac for now.
Yet another iPhone 4G prototype leak! And this one runs iPhone OS 4
Engadget is reporting that yet another iPhone 4G leak has appeared from Vietnam on an online forum. The cool thing about this leak is that it isn’t running any debug OS but iPhone OS 4! Engadget thinks that this is an older prototype than the one Gizmodo had found as it is marked ‘N90 PRO2’ which stands for N90 (Internal Apple codename for iPhone 4G) Working Prototype 2.
Apple announces WWDC 2010 – will be held from June 7 to 11
WWDC is an annual Apple conference for developers with sessions and labs aimed at development for iPhone and OS X, although this year the focus seems to be mainly on apps for iPhone and iPad as evident from the image below:
Apple releases iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2
Apple has quickly released the second beta of iPhone OS 4.0 which was announced just a few weeks ago. iPhone OS 4.0 is the most important update to the mobile OS yet and brings new features like multitasking, iAds and many more to the iPhone. We don’t have a proper changelog yet, but here’s what FSMdotCOM has to say about it:
Clues found for Facebook Integration in iPhone OS 4.0
GunningForSafety has found some clues that apple is planning to integrate Facebook into iPhone OS 4.0 just as webOS and HTC have done in the past. Currently iPhone has support for user accounts of Gmail, MobileMe, Yahoo etc and looks like Facebook account would be included in the new OS too.
iPhone OS 4 supports Bluetooth keyboards
iPhone OS 4 doesn’t seem to stop impressing us with it’s awesome features. This time it is its ability to pair up with a Bluetooth wireless keyboard and do all the basic functions perfectly!
How to downgrade iPhone 3G with OS 4.0 baseband 5.13.01 with Fuzzyband
Fuzzyband is a Cydia app that is used for downgrading the baseband on an iPhone. It has been updated to support downgrading for iPhone OS 4.0 Beta baseband 05.13.01 on an iPhone 3G with bootloader 5.8. Version 5.8 bootloader is rarely available in iPhone 3G since it was released in a limited number of iPhones early in the production cycle.
How to Jailbreak iPhone OS 4.0 with Redsn0w 0.9.5
Video of Multitasking on Jailbroken iPhone 3G using OS 4.0
We already know that multitasking for iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G on iPhone OS 4 will not be officially supported because of lower RAM and slow processors. But multitasking is very much possible on these devices, if we jailbreak them and then edit the N82AP.plist file.