Apple has just released iOS 5 beta 6 for developers, build number 9A5302b. Apple has also released a new iTunes 10.5 beta 6, Xcode 4.2 Developer Preview, Apple TV software and the second beta of iWork for iOS with iCloud. iOS 5 is expected to ship with the next iPhone generation which is supposed to come out in early October.
iOS 5 beta 6 can also be installed over-the-air on devices running iOS 5 beta 4 or later. 144 MB worth of size.
Hewlett-Packard engineers hacked iPad 2 to install webOS only to find out Apple’s hardware runs their mobile operating system more than twice as fast compared to their own TouchPad hardware, according to The Next Web:
The hardware reportedly stopped the team from innovating beyond certain points because it was slow and imposed constraints, which was highlighted when webOS was loaded on to Apple’s iPad device and found to run the platform significantly faster than the device for which it was originally developed.
It should be pointed out that webOS Â runs on single core Qualcomm ARM chips while iPad 2 runs on dual core Samsung silicon.
With a focus on web technologies, webOS could be deployed in the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser as a web-app; this produced similar results, with it running many times faster in the browser than it did on the TouchPad.
TNW also details how the news went down within HP.
Almost everyone at HP found out about the death of the TouchPad and Pre hardware as the public did, in the press release. Only the top executives knew anything about this decision and even senior staff as high as Ari Jaaksi, the Vice President of webOS software, didn’t know about the shuttering of hardware before it happened.
After the press release came out, there was a company wide meeting filled with a bunch of ‘corporate speak’, in which staff were told that they were going to be in limbo for 3-4 weeks.
Taiwan Economic News is reporting that local Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC), the world’s largest semiconductor foundry by market shares now, has started trial production of the A6 processor in cooperation with Apple Inc., with the production design to be taped out in the first quarter of next year and scheduled to be publicly unveiled in the second quarter at the earliest, according to industry sources.
TSMC has applied its newest 28-nanometer process and 3D stacking technologies to produce the next-generation processor A6, which is based on the ARM architecture and will undergo TSMC’s cutting-edge silicon interposer and bump on trace (BOT) methodologies. Industry insiders said that the manufacturing will help to pump considerable momentum into TSMC’s business growth starting next year, though the company has yet to comment on the deal for the moment.
We already reported that Apple and TSMC have begun testing in July, however, both reports suggest that the next iPad 3 could be the first to sport the new processor in 2012.
Let us wait and see how this will affect Samsung as Apple keen to shift most of production away from the korean company as Samsung has emerged as Apple’s toughest competitor in the smartphone and tablet market.
Waiting for Google+ app on your your iPad or iPod touch? You can update the now-universal version right away.
The update comes with more control over huddle feature via the app, as well as aggregated circle add notifications, stability improvements, and bug fixes.
Download the latest Google+ update here.
There is no native iPad app yet but I have activated the version and now works natively. Check screenshots below:
You can make it iPad compatible without pixelation and 2x button. Here is how:
1. Â Navigate to the app you want to make compatible in /var/mobile/Applications
2. Â Open the info.plist in the applications main folder
3. Â Add the follow:
<key>UIDeviceFamily</key>
<array>
<integer>1</integer>
<integer>2</integer>
</array>4. Respring and then you should have a nice iPad size app