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iPhone Applications – Hidden Functions

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hiddenappsiPhones have been selling like hotcakes and with every new model comes several updates to their operating systems and applications that allows them to attain better security making them maintain relevance in terms of current threats. Being one of the most popular smart-phones on the market and seen by many as the role-model with their iPhone lookalikes it is only fitting that it has one of the biggest library or applications created by companies, users and other developers. Some of these are pre-built into the iPhone fresh out of the box, known as native apps but other than those that came from Apple that was designed for the smart phone itself, everything is considered to be non-native and is run in a window that can make it a bit hard to use.
One user and Apple expert found a way of making apps look as if they were native which was an un-announced feature built into the OS of the iPhone when it received it’s firmware update version1.2 that
allows non-native apps to operate full-screen. Apple has been known to include some hidden features that they may not intentionally announce, like the hidden wi-fi chip built-into the iPod Touch that was found by hackers who cracked open the case and found the hidden radio chip built-in. There is a bit of programming to be done to enable the feature but tips on how this can be done is easily available on the web for curious and determined types.

Written by Faye

May 25th, 2009 at 1:19 pm