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The size of the average application being launched in the App Store is growing, says a report by ABI Research.

According to the report, the larger retina displays in Apple’s newer devices have caused a massive increase in the size of all applications, but games have been the most affected by the change. Spanning all of the genres of applications of Apple's iOS App Store, the average application size in the month of September ...

If you have been waiting a long time to get your hands on Apple’s new iPhone 5 due to the long shipping wait times, then some good news has surfaced. Foxconn says productivity is "improving."

Foxconn has been the main assembler of several of Apple's devices. Out of all of them, Foxconn notes how the iPhone 5 is the "most difficult" to produce due to its "complicated" thin and light design. Over the ...

We know how you guys love customizing your iOS devices, so we’re going to show you a great new jailbreak tweak called Ostium by iOS developer danyl. With Ostium, you get a brand new Notification Center animation (illustrated above) that not only looks differently, but also behaves differently when you interact with the screen using your fingers.

The animation sort of resembles window curtains being opened. What’s cool about Ostium is that it’s not just an animation tweak, but it’s also a functional tweak, ...

We understand that Foxconn’s plants are experiencing issues meeting high iPhone 5 demands, but it’s not a proper solution to be hiring underage interns in the attempt to make things go faster and smoother.

Foxconn has reportedly admitted to hiring underage interns for work. Due to child labor laws in China, an individual must be at least 16 years of age to be working. Results of an internal investigation ...

Yesterday, ModMyi shared that the iPod touch 5G was lacking the ambient light sensor used to adjust screen brightness automatically depending on lighting conditions surrounding the user. It was an issue for some because it would require the user to adjust the brightness manually in dynamic lighting environments that could make the screen harder to see, which would quickly become cumbersome for the user.
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Last week ModMyi showed you a free jailbreak tweak called TitleSpeak that could be used to speak the titles of banner notifications. Granted it was free, speaking only the banner notification title isn’t as useful as speaking the whole notification. The same 13 year old developer behind TitleSpeak has brought us another free jailbreak tweak dubbed VSNotifications and it includes many more features including those of TitleSpeak.

Being that VSNotifications has many more features, it has the grounds to compete with other jailbreak ...

The ambient light sensor is the part of an iOS device that allows the device to sense the lighting conditions around you and adjust your screen brightness accordingly. Unfortunately, it appears that the ambient light sensor is not present in the iPod touch 5G according to a report.

GigaOm points out that after attempting to use Apple's new iPod touch outside, the device's screen brightness failed to adjust itself automatically, making ...

Back in late September we showed you Gameloft’s teaser trailer for their new title Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour. The game is a sequel to the popular iOS game, Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation. Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour will be available this Fall for iOS and Android devices.

Today, Gameloft posts more teasers about the game in both the form of screenshots and in video. The screenshots show of the awesome graphics in the new game from the perspective of battleground, ...

Updated Geekbench benchmarks show that Apple’s new fifth-generation iPod touch is much less powerful than the iPhone 5. The iPod touch 5G has Apple’s older A5 chip and the iPhone 5 has apple’s brand new A6 chip, but another interesting point is that the iPod touch 5G shows a lower score than the iPhone 4S, which uses the same A5 chip.

The iPhone 5’s A6 chip is clocked at 1.3Ghz, as ModMyi reported ...

It’s almost that time of the year again and ModMyi is celebrating with a Halloween Costume Contest! The contest will be jailbreak-themed, so to enter you will have to dress up as something jailbreak related.

We want to see your best costume attempts at dressing up as Saurik, Musclenerd, the renowned Pwnapple, or anyone/anything else jailbreak-related that you can possibly think of. Feel free to let your ideas run wild; you have about two weeks to ...

They’re not exactly the type of screenshot pictures that we would expect from someone with an iPhone, however it could be that the iOS developer testing the application, Ben Guild, needed to hide certain elements from the public.

These pictures supposedly display pieces of the Google Maps application that Google has been rumored to be working on for the App Store. The reason for Google working on such ...