Video: iPad Jailbroken
Well, that wasn’t a surprise either, just like iPhone OS 4.0 being jailbroken within hours of its release. Now, the iPad has been jailbroken as well, thanks to Geohot and a major contributor @comex. Geohot released a video of the jailbroken iPad running N64iPhone from the Cydia Store, which is below. Instructions on how to jailbreak your iPad haven’t been released yet, but hopefully will be released soon. Geohot has also released a photo showing his iPad with blackra1n and Cydia on it (to your right). I must say that the iPhone Dev Team is on a roll with these jailbreaks. Just in case if you were curious, instructions on how to jailbreak your iDevice running iPhone OS 4.0 have not been released, but will most likely be released when in the summer when iPhone OS 4.0 is released. Here’s the video:
Today, Apple announced iPhone OS 4.0 with a lot of goodies. Now, at Apple’s announcement they had a “tent pole” of what things they wanted to announce, which were 7 things. Here’s the 7 things that were on the tent pole:
#1 Multitasking - First off, Apple announced that iPhone OS 4.0 will have multitasking (FINALLY), but there’s a catch: multitasking will only be for audio streaming, VoIP, and GPS apps. Now, this seems confusing to me from reading from various sources, but to the best of my ability (and knowledge) that multitasking will be only for certain apps, however, I can be wrong. This “multitasking” is not true multitasking like on a computer, this “multitasking” saves the state of the app then lets you switch to and from apps that are in that are in that “saved” state. Non-the-less, this “multitasking” is better than no multitasking at all. Here’s a video of the multitasking in action:
#2 Folders – Apple also announced that iPhone OS 4.0 will have “Folders” for you to hold apps inside. Each folder can contain 12 apps, which brings the total number of apps you can have on your home screen to 2,160 apps in all. Now, you can label/name each of your folders, I’m not sure if there’s a limited number of folders you can have (such as 10 folders no matter what). This is a nice feature which will help organizing your home screen, especially if you have a lot of games on your iDevice.
#3 Enhanced Mail App – The third thing Apple announced today was an enhanced mail app, which will include will have a unified inbox, multiple exchange, you can also open attachments in apps, and threaded messages. This “unified inbox” will help solve the problem of having multiple e-mail accounts on your iDevice.
#4 iBooks Support – We sure didn’t see this coming (not) in iPhone OS 4.0 Apple has added iBooks support, which is Apple’s e-book store. Apple has also added the feature to wirelessly sync books between platforms as well. This iBooks support is nice, especially if you have an iPad and a iPhone and/or a iPod Touch, however, reading on the iPad’s bigger screen is more convenient.
#5 Enterprise - Apple has also added new features in Enterprise in iPhone OS 4.0, the new features include:
#6 Game Center – Apple has also announced their new Social Gaming Network: Game Center. Now, with this Game Center Social Gaming Network, I wonder what this means for all those other 3rd party Social Gaming Networks, such as Plus+, Crystal, Gameloft Live, OpenFeint, and others. Another thing that making me curious, is will Apple force all of these apps with the third party Social Gaming Networks to use Apple’s Game Center? This should be interesting on how this plays out. In Game Center you can invite friends, there’s also matchmaking, leader-boards, and achievements.
#7 iAd – Today Apple also announced its new mobile advertising framework: iAd. Before Apple’s iAd developers used AdMob, which is owned by Google, to place ads into their applications. The revenue split between Apple and the developer is 40-60, Apple gets the 40% and the developer gets 60%. iAd features interactive ads, ads within the app, ads built into iPhone OS, and Apple is to sell and host the ads. Something nice about iAd is that if you tap on the app, you don’t have to leave the application you are in unlike Google’s AdMob which makes you exit the app and launches Mobile Safari. Another nice thing is that in iAd you can include anything in the ad such as a game, a video, basically anything. Now, all the ads must be built in HTML5 (Ha, take that Adobe!), unlike using Adobe’s Web Flash.
Apple is set to reveal iPhone OS 4.0 in just 2 days. Rumors have been floating around that iPhone OS 4.0 will have multitasking similar to that of Exposé in Mac OS X. Other rumors say that iPhone OS 4.0 will have a unified inbox for multiple email accounts and the ability to place contacts directly on the home screen as well. These rumors started to surface back in January, while testing of iPhone OS 4.0 appeared late last year. Another thing is will Apple demo iPhone OS 4.0 on a new generation of the iPhone? 
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