The BBC has made your Christmas telly-watching dreams come true, assuming you own an iPhone or iPod touch. It’s just released an app, very similar to its iPad version, which lets you watch telly shows and listen to radio programmes via 3G on all mobile networks. No more huffing and puffing around the family gogglebox for you this December!
It’s Black Friday at Apple, meaning that prices on most of the tech-maker’s kit have been discounted. Black Friday is the online store communities way of trying to coerce you into starting your Christmas shopping, but has Apple done enough across the board? Read more
And so, it’s official. Apple says it will not be bringing its Siri voice assistant to the iPhone 4 or iPod touch. Both devices have been hacked to work with the iPhone 4S-only tech in recent weeks, with gossip emerging that Cupertino was testing Siri on the iPhone 4 ahead of a planned release.
But Apple’s engineering department have slapped down such talk, saying on the company’s official forum that “Siri only works on iPhone 4S and we currently have no plans to support older devices”. And for my money, that’s great news. Because it’s time we moved on and left Siri time to prove whether it’s really a worthwhile feature.
Siri, Apple’s iPhone 4S-only voice assistant, has been hacked to work on other iDevices before. But until now, the workarounds have not been able to contact Apple’s servers, rendering the feature largely redundant. Now though, a new hack has been revealed, bringing complete Siri powers to both the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G. Read on for all the details.
Siri, Apple’s ever-popular voice assistant, might only be officially available on the iPhone 4S. But now a new hack has helped put Apple’s latest iOS feature onto the iPod touch. The move comes just days after the iPhone 4 and iPad were both hacked to work with the assistant function. Read on to see just how well it works.
It was billed as a “breakthrough digital device”, but a gadget widely derided as a second-rate MP3 player that wouldn’t cut it. Yet, the iPod changed everything in the world of music. Yes, media players existed before it, but none were as easy to use or as brilliantly designed. Ten years to the day after it was first unveiled by Steve Jobs, its influence is still seen in tablets and smartphones, even if dedicated PMPs, the iPod included, are failing to set the world alight.
In fact, that’s being polite. Sales of iPods slipped by a colossal 27 per cent year-on-year between June and September this year. The device which defined a generation is struggling to keep up with growing smartphone sales. But write it off at your peril. The iPod is still, and can still be, a relevant piece of kit.
Zombie games are everywhere. From Dead Island to bonus missions in COD: Black Ops and the all-conquering Plants vs Zombies. But how about Runners vs Zombies? Here’s one that’s more exciting than any of the aforementioned moaning, groaning shuffle-a-thons put together, and it’s not even released yet.
Zombies, Run! is an iOS game which gets you out on the street, pounding the pavement and running real-life challenges to comple missions and battle zombies you can only hear through your headphones. It uses GPS to track your exercise, and hordes of the virtual undead to keep you moving. Sounds creepy, doesn’t it? And you can help make it a reality.
The internet, or rather the corner of it dedicated to Apple speculation, has gone gaga this afternoon as MacRumours reveals a white headphone jack, snaffled from Chinese repair site Luna Commerce. It seems to add more weight to the rumours of a white iPod touch coming out of Cupertino soon. But could it also pave the way for a white MacBook Air?