Tag Archives : ios

Facebook is rolling out a Photo Sync feature for iOS users which is already available on Android, the feature allows the user to upload photos directly from the phone’s album to a private album on Facebook. “When you turn on photo syncing, your mobile photos will be saved to a private section of your Facebook Photos,” Facebook said on an FAQ page. “You can easily share your synced [...]

Nokia has launched an iOS 6 maps alternative named Nokia Here mapping application, for iOS devices running iOS 4.3 and up, the iOS version has the same features  which are seen on Nokia Windows Mobile OS like nearby places discovery, but there are also crucial components like transit direction that aren’t present in Apple’s  Maps app.  Features: • Map views – Pick the map you need from map [...]

Facebook has launched its new mobile Share button on Android, iOS and mobile web. The button has been rumored for some time . Facebook’s Aditya Koolwal says that the Share button “gives people a fast way to share stories with friends from their mobile phones, just as they can from their computers.” The iOS app is now live in the App Store, and brings along improvements to tagging and News Feed [...]

Twitter is currently being flooded with messages that “iMessage is down” or “iMessage outage.” The iMessage outage appears to have occurred around 9:00 pm BST. There has been no statement from Apple on the cause of the iMessage outage, nor has the company said when service will be restored. iMessage users are reporting delays, failed messages and incorrect read receipt notifications. The [...]

Credit : AnandTech Apple has always been secretive about the core component specifications  of its  devices, Apple’s iPhone 5’s custom made A6 processor was also the target of curiosity , thanks to tech blog AnandTech we now know the components of the A6 chip. Analysis of the A6 die by AnandTech has confirmed that Apple is using a triple-core GPU with slightly higher clock speeds to double [...]

A day after launching the new iPhone, iPod and iTunes  Apple has today launched the new iteration of iCloud.com for all users, earlier the portal was available as a beta product. iCloud.com hosts Mail, Contacts and Calendar, Find my iPhone, Notes, Reminders and iWork apps. The overall look and feel mirrors the iOS experience, clicking on the icons leads to a full screen versions of the apps that [...]

Google has rolled out an update to its Google Drive iOS app that atlast lets iOS users edit their Google Drive documents on the go, just as you can already do with the Android app. That’s not all, iOS users can also view Google presentations on  iOS device, this also means that you can now view speaker notes and use full-screen mode for presentations in Google Drive for iOS. Android app also [...]

Facebook released a new massive  iOS app today for its users on Apple iPhone and iPad, saying it would speed up the performance of people accessing the world’s biggest social network on mobile. The new mobile app is “a major update to the Facebook for iOS rebuilt from the ground up, to focus on one thing, performance,” said Facebook product manager Mick Johnson. Facebook for iOS [...]

A major security flaw in iOS that allows for spoofing of SMS messages has been discovered by security researcher Pod2g which allow malicious texters to spoof SMS messages and make them appear to come from other person’s mobile phone, potentially getting users to reveal information they normally would not, or rack up inadvertent charges on their bill. Pod2g outlines some scenarios where this might [...]

Credit : Macobserver.com Android dominance of the smartphone market continued during the second quarter, majorly powered by Samsung’s Galaxy 3’s success.  Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers unexpectedly held out for the next version of the iPhone according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419 million units in the second quarter of 2012, [...]