9to5Mac Using a credits-based system, Apple is proposing (via a new patent filing) an option for offline purchasing of iPhone and iPad games and apps. When you do not have a network connection, you will still be able to purchase items using the credits you purchase from Apple (much like an iTunes Gift Card currently), …

Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti If you’ve got cinematographic chops and an iOS device, you could win yourself (or someone you love) an iPad 2 or other prizes by submitting your best film creations made entirely on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad 2. The Original iPhone Film Festival has four categories: Fiction, Brand Film, Nonfiction, or Music Videos. Submissions will …

TiPb Less than 24 hours after jailbreakme.com went live with an online jailbreak solution for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 users, more than 1 million iOS devices had been jailbroken. Apple, however, has stated that it will close the exploit with its next iOS update. While the news of surpassing the 1 million downloads mark in less than a day …

MacRumors Hacker group Dev-Team (specifically noted jailbreaker @comex) has released the latest version of its popular iOS device jailbreaking tool, available entirely online. This comes as a great comfort to users who may have been considering jailbreaking their iPhone or iPad but were not feeling confident in their device-hacking skill set. The site works pretty simply. Log on with the …

BGR Forget the rumors of an iPhone 4S coming this fall. In fact, you may be able to forget an iPhone 4S entirely. Word on the street from Boy Genius Report is that the iPhone 5 is coming. Apple has been rumored to be testing iPhone 4 (or 4S) models for T-Mobile and Sprint lately, causing many to conjecture that …

According to Apple’s most recent patent application, “Wireless power utilization in a local computing environment,” you could soon be charging your iOS device simply by keeping it close to your computer system. In case this sounds too pedestrian for you, the research comes from the field of midrange wireless power transfer physics. Near field magnetic resonance is used to power …

Apple According to sources who talked to 9to5Mac, Apple is currently in the advanced testing stages for an iPhone compatible with Sprint’s network. Sprint was in the rumor mill a few weeks ago when an Apple job post appeared for a cellular engineering team based in Kansas City, Mo., where Sprint is headquartered. With so much attention going to the …

Apple According to tech blogger Robert Scoble, as reported by TechCrunch, despite Apple not announcing a major voice activation upgrade during WWDC, the technology will still be included in the public iOS 5 release. Voice integration has been a major part of iOS 5 rumors all spring and according to TechCrunch: “At least three of our original sources on this …

Apple According to conjecture from Linley Gwennap (reported by Barron’s), senior editor at Microprocessor Report, Apple’s next-generation mobile processor, the A6 chip, should be quad-core but only available in iPads. Gwennap wrote a piece examining the structure of Apple’s current A5 processor found in the iPad 2 and come up with two interesting conclusions about how Apple is using their …

Naztech Ladies and gentlemen, your iPhone 4 now has a slide-out keyboard. Sort of. If you’ve been an iPhone detractor because of its lack of a physical keyboard, you may now rest, all thanks to Naztech’s Ultra-thin Sliding Bluetooth Keyboard for iPhone 4. The keyboard “easily pairs over Bluetooth using wireless connectivity and features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that includes …