Tag Archives: iOS 5

Digitimes has been the source of many supplier rumors for Apple’s upcoming products, though their accuracy is always up for some debate. Based on our own record keeping at this time, Digitimes has had about a 55% accuracy on rumors that could later be validated. A new codename finding by 9to5Mac in the …

Chitika Insights has completed a study into the adoption rate of iOS 5 following its October 12th release. According to our data set, 38% of iPhone users had already updated their mobile devices to the latest version of iOS. The iPad came in second in our study with 30% of …

Apple is reportedly seeding iOS 5.0.1 to some end users that are experiencing issues with battery life, according to 9to5Mac. Apple warns program participants that their devices will not be able to be downgraded to iOS 5.0, but they will be allowed to upgrade to the final release of iOS …

Web application performance company New Relic released the results of a study comparing the mobile browsing speeds of iOS 4 and iOS 5 on the same model of iPhone. What did they find? That iOS 5 / Safari 5.1 is much faster than iOS 4 / Safari 5.0. New Relic …

Thanks to the quick Camera access and power of Siri as a virtual assistant, iOS 5 and iPhone 4S are more convenient than ever — but they also leave you open to everything from pranks to data theft. Double clicking the Home button and tapping the Camera icon bypasses a …

While Apple launched iOS 5 and iCloud last week, the company pushed back the debut of its paid iTunes Match service in the United States until the “end of October”. While iTunes Match had been in beta testing with iTunes 10.5 developer releases, the feature was removed from the public …

It seems as though Apple is designing a lot of new Mac and iOS features from the perspective of people whose internet access is the equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet. Photo Stream is a perfect example. The feature, built into Apple’s new iCloud service, automatically uploads photos taken on any …

The font / text size in Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch can be maddeningly small, but a simple way to increase the font size on just about any web site is to use the Reader function that is new to iOS 5: From any Safari window, hit the …

Many users who have upgraded to iOS 5 have noticed decreased battery life, the problem seems to effect iPhone and iPad users the worst, but some iPod touch users have noticed battery reductions as well. Even without heavy usage and when a device is in standby mode, the battery seem …

Google Voice has been pulled from the App Store following a crash that prevent sign in for some iOS 5 users.Vincent Paquet, Senior Product Manager for Google Voice confirmed to Engadget that the app had been pulled, explaining “our last update of this week had a bug that caused the …