A recent article on British mobile gadget blog PhoneHome highlights 10 jailbreak applications that should be reason enough to install the latest iOS 4.3.5 jailbreak on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Included in PhoneHome’s list are the My3G video-calling app, SBSettings, the Backgrounder multitasking-enabler, AppBackup, VLC Media Player, MobileNotifier and iOverclock, which lets your processor run at full throttle.
“iOS notifications are rubbish. Everyone knows it. You can be happily tootling along in an app when BAM – a message comes in and you just have to deal with it. MobileNotifier …

One minute, the iPhone 5 was due to be released September 5. The next, it was ridiculous to believe it would arrive on shelves before early October. Now, one analyst is insisting Apple’s fifth-generation smartphone will be released next month.
Apple’s plan for the rest of the year “still suggests iPhone 5 product ramp August/September for a September launch,” according to Mike Abramsky, an analyst at RBC Capital.
Although the release date for the phone is still up in the air, the new Apple phone is expected to be a significant upgrade …

The official website of upcoming jailbreak festival MyGreatFest includes a section titled, “Why We Jailbreak,” which features stories from several Apple users about their first jailbreaks and why they continue to customize their mobile devices. Jailbreak fans Gunnar Wagner, “Dracossaint” and “d4ndym1k3” simply wanted their phones to work for them, rather than Apple’s strict standards.
“The reason I first jailbroke my phone was to give it the freedom it deserved. My friend showed me his jailbroken phone one day, nothing special just a theme and a keyboard but at that moment …

According to a survey detailed by Piper Jaffray industry analyst Gene Muster, retention among iPhone users will be about double that of Android owners in the next product cycle. More than 200 mobile users were recently surveyed, and the numbers that came out are staggering.
The study found that: “Among all respondents 64% indicated that they plan to buy an iPhone when they purchase a new phone,” “Of those surveyed, 29% already have iPhones and 64% expect their next phone to be an iPhone; 17% have an Android device and 17% …

According to an All Things Digital report from Tuesday, a recent study shows that Google’s Android phones are much more susceptible to malware than are Apple’s iPhones. Lookout Mobile Security recently found that while Android hackers affected about half a million people in the first half of 2011, only a relative few individuals had their iPhones compromised.
“Lookout’s analysis of data collected from more than 700 thousand apps and 10 million devices worldwide reveals a significant increase in mobile malware since January, and while some of it was geared toward device’s …

According to a Tuesday story on Gizmodo, the iPhone 5 is out in the public — sort of. Lucky executives at Apple and its wireless providers have been testing the new smartphone, although they’re reportedly cased in iPhone 4 bodies, in the interest of secrecy.
“Even if you’re one of the elite few Apple and carrier execs who gets to open this entombed iPhone 5 inside a special laboratory, the phone itself is encased inside a dummy body, furthering the aesthetic mystery,” writes the site’s Sam Biddle. “This makes snooping and …

The official website of upcoming jailbreak festival MyGreatFest includes a section titled, “Why We Jailbreak,” which features stories from several Apple users about their first jailbreaks and why they continue to customize their mobile devices. Devoted jailbreaker Cal Fisher first got interested through a jailbreak application that turns the iPod Touch into a virtual piano.
“I got my first iPod Touch in March of 2008, just months after it’s debut. It was on 1.1.4 which meant no games, no customizability. I ran into an article one day which sparked it all. …

A new jailbreak app makes it easier than it’s ever been to control the music coming out of your iPhone’s speakers, as Joe White at AppAdvice reports in an article from earlier this week.
“A new jailbreak package to come to our attention is HomeScreenMusic, a tweak that allows users to control the playback of music on an iPhone using Home screen icons,” he writes. “Once installed, the tweak places a new app icon on the Home screen, and touching this icon plays and pauses music housed within the iPod application. …

Over the past couple of years, Apple has been accused, time and time again, of stealing ideas for mobile applications from jailbreak app developers. However, in an article from last week, Business Insider’s Steve Kovach lists 10 iPhone features that Apple borrowed from Google’s Android phones, rather than its own hackers.
“There’s no question that the iPhone was the first device to reinvent the smartphone market. Every non-Apple touchscreen smartphone since the first iPhone has been a variation of the original,” writes Kovach. “But competition helps spur innovation. And Android phones …

Apparently, Chinese consumers either can’t wait for the upcoming iPhone 5 or don’t realize that it hasn’t been released yet. Knock-offs of Apple’s soon-to-be-released smartphone have already begun showing up in China.
This particular ‘iPhone 5’ is being sold for $108 USD with a JAVA based OS, MP3 and MP4 playback and Wi-Fi,” reports Arnold Kim on MacRumors. “The images show a tapered edge design similar to the leaked case designs, though it’s not exact. This ‘iPhone 5’ doesn’t have the mute switch moved to the opposite side as seen on …