So the rumors appears to be true. Apple had just announced the new iPod Touch. It is thinner, more beautiful and many more. Just name it. Retina Display, A4 chip, 3 axis gyro, iOs 4.1, front facing and rear camera and you’ll love it, it now comes with FaceTime! It’s not too much to say that the new iPod Touch is nearing iPhone 4 features except, probably making phone call over the cellular network. It has FaceTime though, so you can still make a vide call though Wifi with the loves one without paying a single cent, right?
Pricing will starting from $229 for 8GB model, $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB. The pre-order will start today in the US and it will be shipped by next week. Apple Store Malaysia appears to be down, so hopefully it will landed here right away as well. Stay tune folks
Two reports from 2 different sources confirmed that Apple’s App Store now has whopping 250,000 plus applications as of today. This is obviously another major milestone for App Store, since it’s inception about 2 years ago, a number that undoubtedly will keep increasing in near future.
The first report is coming from 148Apps.biz which track that App Store now has 251,007 applications from 50,304 publisher. Another report from AppShopper.com, report the total apps now stood at 253,777 apps, including 24,334 for the iPad, not far from the figure reported by 148apps.biz.
Though this figure is unofficial, the number should pretty close with the actual figure in App store. Steve Jobs may have that answer on 1st September, when Apple is going to held special event to launch what could be the next gen of iPod and Apple TV.
In another sign that impending iPhone 4 is nearer, Digi has started offering iPhone 3GS/3G without contract. But there is catch. You must Digi’s existing postpaid customer, and must subscribe to Digi’s data iDiGi Internet Unlimited 3GB plan (RM68/permonth) . You can purchase the iPhone with price as above, well, it still quite expensive. Bu to sweeten the deal, there is rebates for the data service worth RM25 per month for 24 months, which bring the total to RM600. So in case you subscribed the plan for 24 months , you’re actually paying RM600 less for your iPhone. So is it worth? Hit the source link below for more info.
Way before iOS 4 with multitasking is released, Proswitcher, an application in Cydia that enabled multitasking in iOS has been around quite a while, serving the community with that needs. Now we have multitasking in iOS 4, but that doesn’t stop the creativity of coders out there to come up with alternatives, and probably better.
Multifl0w , an application in Cydia is another implementation of multitasking in iOS, using Backgrounder as the app engine. iOS 4 multitasking might looks bored to some, which display only app icon currently running on background. Multifl0w on the other hand has addded little twist on it’s implementation of multitasking which looks pretty interesting. It display the application snapshot; the state of the app when you minimize them. The application snapshot image is huge as well and can be dragged upside down.
But there is trade off of this nice pretty app. It drain your battery pretty fast. And jailbreaking your iPhone is mandatory to have this app installed, from Cydia. It’s not free, you have to fork out $4.99 to have this nice looking multitasking in your iPhone, as well as iPad
Have you try the new Yahoo Mail on iPad? Yahoo has released Yahoo Mail for iPad which is built on HTML5 standard and it looks real good. Yahoo Mail for iPad is the same web app on iPhone but optimized for Apple iPad bigger screen. It now has 2 pane for better reading experience, with email list on the left pane and reading pane on the right. The new Yahoo Mail feature also include local caching for online viewing and email search.
