Updating to iTunes 9.0.2 will not affect your current iPhone jailbreak or unlock. No news or advice has been posted by the official iPhone DevTeam on this subject. Jailbreak after installing iTunes 9.0.2 at your own risk.
Several new features for iPhone users have come to iTunes 9.0.2, now available from Apple as a free download. iPhone specific-improvements relate to app sorting and media syncing. Users can add or delete home screens and arrange apps directly in iTunes.
Sometimes backing up the iPhone in iTunes during a sync takes a while. According to Apple, now there's a new way to speed up the process.
Backup times can suffer when there are a large number of photos or videos on the Camera Roll. To speed up your iPhone backup the media files must be imported to your computer, removed from the camera roll, and re-synced to the iPhone.
Apple has confessed to pulling the first soft core porn iPhone application off the AppStore just one day after it was approved. The app, titled Hottest Girls, sold for $1.99 and swamped the developer's servers due to its popularity.
Some were speculating that a door for more adult centered apps had been opened now that Apple has developed a parental control system for iPhone content. One of the categories that limit content on a parentally-controlled iPhone designates applications appropriate for ages 17 and over.
Could a healthy smartphone rivalry turn into all-out legal war between Palm and Apple? The Palm Pre has been found to sync effortlessly with Apple's flagship software iTunes by tricking the software into thinking it's an iPod.
The Pre is due for release on June 6th, and Apple is widely expected to release the next generation of its iPhone later this summer. Apple watchers are waiting to see what response, if any, the company will make to the revelation concerning the Pre's iTunes syncing capabilities.
When iPhone 3.0 is released it looks like TV shows, movies and music videos will be available for purchase and viewing directly on the new device. Three mobile ads from Apple were found in the latest version of TwitterFon that linked to "iTunes Movie Rentals," "iTunes Movies" and "iTunes TV."
When touched, the ads led to a video area in Apple's mobile store that was under construction. Screenshots of the portal show various genres and featured items, however video content is not yet available.
The latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta version is live for developers, and requires installation of the iTunes 8.2 pre-release for activation. Questions and speculation have arisen over a reference to Blu-ray included in the "About iTunes" window of iTunes 8.2.
The text reads: CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and music and video-related data from Gracenote, Inc. Could it be possible that Apple has decided to acquire licensing for Blu-ray technology after all?
Thanks to developer Chris Devor, you can now easily transfer music from an iPhone or iPod directly to any computer using Pod to PC. This freeware transfers music, videos and podcasts from your device to your computer and into iTunes.
Music and playlists, along with track ratings, are recovered and Pod to PC will even tell you if there are duplicate entries already in your iTunes library. To begin, download and install Pod to PC on your computer. Mac users can download and install Pod to Mac.
Anticipating one billion iPhone app downloads, Apple has announced the best selling iPhone applications of all time. Two lists show the top 20 paid and top 20 free apps downloaded since the AppStore opened in July 2008.
According to Apple, over 953 million apps have already been downloaded. The company is holding a Billion App Countdown Promotion, offering the chance to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro to those downloading apps before the total hits one billion.
Our sources have updated to iTunes 8.1 without affecting the iPhone 2.1 jailbreak at all. In fact, performance during the sync process has improved dramatically. The iPhone backup is faster than ever using iTunes 8.1.
No news or advice has been posted by the iPhone DevTeam on this subject. Other reports indicate that the iTunes 8.1 update does not include new countermeasures from Apple against the iPhone 2.1 or 2.1.1 jailbreak. The software does include some interesting new features, however.
Philip Schiller, senior vice president for worldwide marketing, gave Apple's keynote address at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco yesterday. Apple's stock (AAPL) gained $10 to peak at $97 in a wave of excitement over the affair, but has since lost roughly $6. This may reflect disappointment over the lack of groundbreaking announcements at the event.
Admittedly, it may be hard to top the excitement surrounding the release of the iPhone itself, however the latest developments for iPhone users were minor in nature. The biggest change will be in pricing and functionality for users of iTunes on the mobile device. Instead of having to connect to a computer or Wi-Fi network to download songs, subscribers will be able to download purchases directly over the AT&T wireless network.
