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iPhone 4.1 Security Flaw

RealWorld — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:16:57 +0000

Users of iPhone 4.1 software should be aware of a flaw which allows anyone to access your contacts, recent calls, voicemails. The security hole allows access to the phone application even if you have locked the phone with a PIN.

The process is as simple as typing ### in the Emergency call screen and immediatley hitting the lock button. This loads the telephone application without requiring the unlock code. iPhone 4.1 users are advised to be aware of this flaw and to be vigilant until this flaw is fixed.

No date has been announced yet for the iOS4 fix for this issue.

Apple’s Free iPhone Case Program Ending 30th September

RealWorld — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:42:13 +0000

Apple have announced that the iPhone 4 Case Program is to end on September 30th 2010. If you have an iPhone 4 and are affected by the poor signal strength problems reported recently, you can choose a case for your phone and it will be shipped free of charge to you.

Due to the unique design of the iPhone 4 – the antenna is situated on the outside – without a case you may find your signal affected by your hand covering the antenna during a call.

Apple also announced that the issue has affected far fewer users than originally thought.

Dropbox Goes Mobile

RealWorld — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:41:08 +0000

Dropbox has quickly gained a reputation of being THE synchronisation and backup tool for both Mac and PC. It offers simple and fast cross-platform file sharing and has now added an iPhone application to its armoury.

Featuring the ability to view or listen to any file type that is supported by the iPhone i.e. Documents, Images, Video and Audio, it can be used in either on or off-line mode. Sending links to files stored within your Dropbox is also included via a simple email link.

The application is available free from the iTunes Store but does require a corresponding account with Dropbox. Currently the Basic 2GB account is still free, with the 50GB and 100GB accounts priced at $9.99 p/mth and $99.99 p/mth.

Spotify Available for the iPhone

RealWorld — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:25:31 +0000

The Swedish based music streaming service, Spotify, have released the iPhone version of their premium subscription service.

The app itself is free, however only works for subscribers of the £10 per month desktop service. Music can be downloaded to your phone and listened to even if you do not have an Internet connection. However as Apple do not permit non-Apple programs to run in the background, you have to keep the Spotify program running to continue listening to tracks.

QuickOffice 1.4 Supports Office 2007

RealWorld — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:41:10 +0000

The popular business oriented iPhone application QuickOffice has been updated to include compatibility with Office 2007 documents.

Although the Microsoft .docx office format has been slow to be adopted, increasingly users are receiving files that can be difficult to open if you are running an older Office version. QuickOffice allows not only the viewing and editing of 2007 version Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, but also gives you the ability to :

Transfer desktop files via WiFi
Remotely access MobileMe® iDisk® accounts
Email files directly via iPhone
Mount your device as a drive

QuickOffice is currently available at the offer price of £8.99 from the iTunes store.

TomTom Released for iPhone

RealWorld — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:47:13 +0000

TomTom have released the long awaited iPhone application offering full turn-by-turn navigation.

First demonstrated at the Apple expo WWDC, the app has been priced at £59.99 available from the iTunes App store.
A car cradle offering boosted GPS signals, charging and an external speaker will also be available in the UK soon.

iPhone 3.0 Arriving Today

RealWorld — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:51:55 +0000

Version 3.0 of the Apple iPhone operating system is due to be released today. Some of the new features included in this release are :

Cut – Copy – Paste
Horizontal keyboard layout
Voice Memos
Shake to Shuffle
Spotlight Searching
Multimedia messages
Data Tethering
Find my iPhone

The update will available to download via iTunes later today.

Track YouSendIt via iPhone

RealWorld — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:03:45 +0000

With file sizes increasing all the time, YouSendIt.com is becoming a popular way to send files too large to email. They have now introduced an iPhone application to allow registered users to list all files that have been sent via yousendit.com.

Also included is the ability to view the number of downloads and who downloaded the files. Premium tracking services are available to premium members.

Skype for iPhone Available

RealWorld — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:05:23 +0000

Leading voice-over-Internet company Skype have launched the application that many people believed would never make it on to the Apple handheld device – Skype for iPhone.

As we have previously mentioned, Skype is a great way to stay in contact with friends and family as well as making cheap business calls.

The new application works on both the 1st and 2nd generation iPhones and iPod Touch models. It allows free Skype to Skype calls on wifi and instant messaging over wifi, 3G, GPRS and Edge

Update – For users of ‘jailbroken‘ devices, it is possible to update the software to run over 3G for calls.

iPhone 2.0 goes live

RealWorld — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:41:27 +0000

After a frustrating week for existing iPhone owners, the 3G iPhone, complete with the version 2.0 software, has launched.

Technical issues at O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores on launch day resulted in a reversal of the original plan for all iPhones to be activated in-store. Instead customers details where taken down by hand and customers were told to activate themselves at home. The Apple system coped with most activation requests, with only a handful of instances of activation failures being reported.

Apart from the well published additions to the iPhone in version 2.0, such as 3G data speeds and the App store (which allows you to download games, programs and utilities previously only available to unlocked models), the major development is the introduction of Exchange support.

Microsoft Exchange powers a large segment of the business community and until 2.0, connectivity to Exchange (in a seamless manner), has only been available to Blackberry users.

RealWorld have been testing the Exchange functionality and can confirm its stability, speed and ease of setup are excellent. However, there are a few minor points to mention to any Exchange based users considering the iPhone:

Personal or business phone? – A feature which has not been covered in previous press announcements is that both the contacts and calendars folders fully synchronise. A useful feature if you have your personal phone numbers stored in your work address book. However, when you first connect your iPhone to the Exchange environment, it will prompt you that personal details will be removed i.e. any numbers you have stored in the contacts folder on the phone will be removed. This will be a slight annoyance, but one which can be overcome by adding personal contacts to your work address book under the category ‘Personal’.

Nod to Blackberry – By default, emails have a footer inserted into them with the words ‘Sent from my iPhone’. Business users will spot the reference to the same wording from Blackberry devices.

Where’s my info? – Also by default, only the past 3 days of data is synchronised, so you may be wondering where your emails older than 3 days are. This can be changed in the System Preferences section of the phone to either 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month or No limit i.e. everything (bear in mind the 8/16GB limit for storing local copies of data).

The new iPhone also fully supports our hosted Exchange 2007 service, available here, and also our anti-spam service available here.