There has been a rumor going around in the streets that the next iOS version for the iDevices, the iOS 5, has been delayed to a late fall release this year that’s being built around the Cloud. The mobile Apple OS is said to be a  complete revamp of the current iOS 4; with more cloud based services. Well, that would be Apple’s hot topic on the WWDC in June this year. It’s also expected that as a new version of the Mac OSX Lion would be launched in June, it’s likely that the cloud will incorporate many of it’s features as well.

The fall release is indeed not following the iOS roadmap. But who knows? It’s still a rumor. We’ll keep you updated as we get more information on this.

Source: TechCrunch

This is big guys, Real Racing HD 2′s developer Firemint just announced through their company blog that their premium racer will be getting 1080p output for the iPad 2 version. 1080p output is exclusive to the iPad 2 mainly because of the much faster CPU and GPU than the other iDevices.

The update shall be rolling out shorty and all you need is a Digital AV cable to connect your iPad 2 to your HDTV. Check out the video after the break where the game is tested out on huge TV it’s full 1080p glory, while the game is in output mode the iPad’s screen features a different UI which is a really nice touch.

Source: The Firemint Company Blog

Saurik just announced through his twitter that the next major upgrade for the famous Jailbreak app store Cydia is now available. The new update is said to be much faster, slimmer and stable, it also includes major performance upgrades, bug fixes and a “resume where you left off” feature.

@saurik: Cydia 1.1: faster, slimmer, and more stable; including an improved search algorithm and “resume where you left off”. Available in Cydia now!

Source: Saurik’s Twitter

The latest iPad is very thin, one of the reasons to that is it’s glass screen which is 27% thinner than the original iPad’s. The iPad 2 is even slimmer than the iPhone 4 at just 13.4mm to 8.8mm which is 33% thinner than the original iPad.

Most people would be wondering that the thinner glass would lead it to be weaker but that’s not the case. The iPad 2′s glass is much stronger and the people at iFixyouri have ran a few tests which prove just that.

Source: iFixYouri

Cydia, which is the most popular gateway for Jailbreak applications has received an update, the latest version is 1.1. The creator Jay Freeman (saurik) posted this tweet:

Cydia 1.1: faster, slimmer, and more stable; including an improved search algorithm and “resume where you left off”. Available in Cydia now!

The advantage of this update is that now Saurik can provide even more updates on Cydia with much more ease and speed than ever before, but this isn’t the only great thing about the new update; you also get UI updates, improved search and speed increases.

Alongside these changes there are also more languages thrown in, including Spanish, Chinese, Greek, German and Dutch making this thing more acceptable to people who don’t want to learn english and own an iDevice.

You can receive the update via Cydia right now on your jailbroken iDevice.

Source: Saurik’s Twitter

Our friends over at The GeekaPhone researched the iPhone’s camera usability from it’s birth and showered us some wowing facts! The infogram compares the iPhone with digital and high end DSLR cameras and tries to explain the reason for it’s popularity.

In some ways, comparing the camera in the iPhone 4 to a high end DSLR is like comparing a hamburger from the local pub to an 18 oz. porterhouse from Peter Luger’s Steak House in New York. Yet, the hamburger is pretty darned good and most people eat hamburgers more often than they do expensive prime grade steaks. A comparison of this nature is unfair to the iPhone. It’s not designed to compete with a DSLR and to expect it to compete at that level is unrealistic. However, it is a camera, among other things, and we compare cameras of different levels all the time.

Source: GeekaPhone

Apple has just released iOS 4.3.1 for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad2, iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G. The update features nothing new just a few performance enhancements, bug fixes, vulnerabilities and backup improvements.

Just like all the previous updates to install iOS 4.3.1 all you have to do is connect your iDevice using a USB cable to your PC and open iTunes. A prompt shall open and ask you to install the latest update, accept and in a few minutes your device would be running on iOS 4.3.1

You can grab the update for your iDevice using the following links:

• iPhone 4 (GSM)
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2 WiFi
• iPad 2 GSM
• iPad 2 CDMA
• iPad
• iPod touch 3G
• iPod touch 4G

To get iTunes 10.2.1 click Download

Our friends over at Nowhere Else made an excellent infographic which displays all the rumors regarding the soon to be released phone. These include the bigger screen, HDMI port, metal back etc so check it out after the break.

The iPhone 5 will definitely offer an abundance of features, some old and some new but we hope that Apple doesn’t include surprises with it like they did with the iPhone 4 death grip or the iPad 2 screen bleeding issues. The phone shown in the images below looks like a 4G iPod touch but maybe Apple might be following a design similar to the iPhone 4. So far with better RAM, bigger display, NFC, A5 Processor, brighter screen, bigger screen / resolution and HDMI output this phone could be an awesome media center for watching videos on, surfing the internet on and many other great things which iPhones are all very well known for. If Apple decides to throw in 1080p HD video recording that would really be the icing on the cake.

And perhaps an improved battery life would also be a great incentive to encourage people to buy an iPhone 5. While the Q3 launch is not very likely right now we can only hope that people who are planning on buying an iPhone 4 on contract will hold their horses until the release of the iPhone 5. At the iPad 2 reveal Apple did boast that the iPad did meet a good response from the public and currently the iPhone 4 is one of the most popular contract based cell phones money can buy so hopefully Apple will give the iPhone 4 the remake it deserves in the form of an iPhone 5 just like Apple did with the first generation iPad.

For now we can only hope that in the future we hear news about iPhone 5 leaks and such and hopefully among those leaks will be an official unveiling of the iPhone 5

Source: Nowhere Else

This is an image of a third party metal back for the iPhone 4

Foxconn and Mac 9 to 5 are confirming existence of iPhone 5 prototypes, while the latter are even claiming seeing them in person. The sources claim the phone to be the same shape and design except for a bigger screen (vertically or edge to edge we don’t know) which would help it compete with those huge HTC, Motorola and Samsung devices. The phone is also said to have a fully metal back similar to the original iPhone, the type of metal is not confirmed yet but people are speculating it to be liquid metal!

Some sources are even claiming the phone to be coming back to it’s curved back roots like the previous revisions. Other rumors say that the one will feature a universal radio which would make it work with both CDMA and GSM connections.

We have one doubt though, the original iPhone metal back was changed to plastic and then later to glass because of weak signal issues so Apple should better have something planned if they are gonna come back to metal for the iPhone 5.

Source: 9to5 Mac

This year’s J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Survey Results are here and Apple’s iPhone has once again topped the charts leaving behind competitors Motorola, HTC, Samsung, Nokia, Palm, and RIM. In case you were wondering the following are the merits on which the phones are judged on:

Operation (30%); physical design (30%); features (20%); and battery function (20%). For smartphones, the key factors are: ease of operation (26%); operating system (24%); physical design (23%); features (19%); and battery function (8%).

The judges over at J.D. Power specifically mentioned the iPhone’s excellent design, easy to use OS and the excellent apps.

Source: J.D. Power