Though iPhone OS 4′s real potency will come when developers seize the new tools and build multitasking apps that do crazy, crazy things, many of the OS’s inherent secrets are coming to light. You might have spotted some of these screens in our thorough hands-on videos, but most of nuggets below are new discoveries. If [...]

In this Week’s sadly-still-monotasking app roundup, villains and heroes, conjured from paper! Comics, beautifully presented! Things, climbed, forever! Car crises, mitigated! Calculations, calculated! Turn-by-turn navigation, set free! And more… If you’d like the view this gallery as a single page, click here. Sketch Nation Shooter: This is a game built around a fantastic concept: It’s [...]

Breaking News Just a bit more than a year after we first laid eyes on iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is back with the latest big revision of the OS that powers the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. iPhone OS 4 is shipping this summer (iPad in the fall), and the developer preview will be out [...]

// This is iPhone OS 4 running on an iPhone 3GS. Even though it’s not finished, it’s surprisingly usable—not nearly as slow as iPhone 3 beta running on iPhone 3G last year. Most of the new features we mentioned today are there, theoretically, but it’s not exactly usable until developer support shows up in apps. [...]

There have been tablets before the iPad. They weren’t as beautiful or well crafted, but that wasn’t why we chose not to pick them up. It was the software. To call the iPad a big iPhone is both truth and disservice, belying the simple fact that changing the screen size really does change everything. It’s [...]

Bizarrely timed and impressively unleaked, iPhone OS 4.0 is coming—at least as an announcement—this Thursday. So what’s it going to change, really? Here’s what we think. And because it’s about eight times as fun, what we hope. Predictions These are the changes that seem most likely, or that’ve been rumored previously. Since we don’t know [...]

It looks like the pre-order process worked out very nicely for Apple. Today the company announced that the iPad sold over 300,000 units on its first day, which includes both pre-ordered and store-bought units as well as units shipped to ‘channel partners’ (aka Best Buy). – Yahoo News Additionally, the App Store sold over 1 [...]

When the iPad was first unveiled, many immediately assumed it would be a great device for real-time strategy games. Don’t let Command & Conquer: Red Alert completely dissuade you. Electronic Arts only ported up the iPhone edition of Red Alert rather than creating an all-new iPad-specific version, so basically we’re left with some of the [...]