Rockstar has announced the arrival of its popular gaming series Grand Theft Auto to the iPhone/iPod Touch.
The first in the series to hit this platform would be GTA Chinatown Wars! The game is a 2D one and is fun to play on the Nintendo and PSP!
The game will be out in January or February!

Can you believe it? Tapulous is an company which makes iphone apps and sells them for as low as 0.99$. Tapulous, the development studio behind the wildly popular Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game franchise, rakes in a cool million every month. That’s not EA or Gameloft or someone similar that came in with a reputation. That’s an iPhone-specific development company. So, for all the developers out there, just get into this business!

Whaddya mean, you’re skeptical about reports regarding an upcoming Tablet announcement? When did you last hear a major publisher report exciting Tablet news from unnamed sources? Oh, wait.

Earlier in the week the Wall Street Journal reported on the rumors of Apple’s forays into television content subscription. It also made a passing reference to the tablet coming “by the end of March.” And we’d have left it at that, except that yesterday the Financial Times also chimed in with a little more on the same theme:

Apple is preparing an announcement next month that many anticipate will be the official unveiling of its tablet, but the company has so far declined to confirm the existence of the device. Wall Street analysts expect mass production of an Apple tablet to begin as early as February.

Of course, when it comes to reporting about Apple’s fabled Tablet device, no one ever properly cites their sources. Instead, we get fleeting, nebulous references to shady characters and nameless insiders: “Sources close to Apple told us…” or “An executive familiar with the matter revealed…” Occasionally, some enterprising analyst stares at a spreadsheet for a while and makes up some bold predictions — and then they get named as sources, their prophecies presented almost as iron-clad statements of previously super-occluded fact.

Even worse, it’s not hard to imagine that sometimes ( just occasionally) those same analysts become the mysterious, unidentified sources of privileged insider information, referred to almost casually as “sources with intimate knowledge of Apple.” While that’s not technically incorrect, it’s still wildly misleading. And unethical, too.

Of course, I’m not suggesting venerable publishers such as the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times get up to these shenanigans. However, it’s at least interesting to note that earlier this month, and reported by AppleInsider, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner offered much the same predictions for a first-quarter 2010 Tablet launch;

Reiner…revealed his latest tablet news in a note to investors issued Wednesday morning.

“Our checks into Apple’s supply chain indicate the manufacturing cogs for the tablet are creaking into action and should begin to hit a mass market stride in February,” the note said.

Reiner said Apple would likely need at least five or six weeks of inventory built up before it can release the product, positioning a likely launch in March or April.

Now, I don’t know about you, but when I read that an analyst has revealed his “latest” news about Apple’s super-duper-secret-history-making-miracle-tablet, I gotta assume that doesn’t mean his latest morsels of juicy, hitherto-unknown insider information, but rather, his “latest roundup of most reasonable rumors and assumptions gathered from around the Internet.” I guess it depends on your level of cynicism, how badly you want the Tablet, and how you choose to read between the lines.

Either way, the WSJ and the FT are in competition with one another. One mustn’t be outdone by the other — even if that means reporting “old” news that isn’t really news at all. It’s conjecture from a man who doesn’t claim to have inside knowledge, but just looked into Apple’s “supply chain” and offered some best guesses. That is, after all, what analysts do. You can do the same thing, by the way, just by gathering together a half dozen industry trade-press magazines.

Mind you, that line which begins “Apple is preparing an announcement next month…” is pretty specific, isn’t it? Specific without actually telling us anything, but then, that’s what the rumor mill is all about these days, right?

Frankly, I’m growing tired of all these rumors — Apple can’t release this thing soon enough, as far as I’m concerned, if only so we can finally put all this frothy prognostication behind us!

UPDATE: Boy Genius Report is now reporting that its own inside source is reporting a 7-inch Apple tablet launch in January is a 100 percent certainty. Looks like we may not have to wait much longer to put the rumors to rest.

The iSlate or the Apple Tablet is going to have the iPhone OS and not the MacOS which is very dissapointing for most of the users. On Apple’s part, this is justified as the Mac OS does not have support for touch whereas the iPhone OS is completely designed for touch. The Apple tablet being completely touch enabled along with hand gestures is going to have the iPhoneOS. For many users this wouldn’t be a thing to cheer for as many people already own the iPod touch or the iPhone, why would they go for a device which is exactly like the iPhone but only has a larger screen and supports gestures? They would be able to run all the apps on their iPhone, then why should they purchase the tablet?
Apple told it’s developers to develop their apps now for a larger screen (mentioned in the below article). This is a hint that the iTablet is going to have the iPhoneOS.

Apple Tablet is due around march or may, said analysts. Also, now Apple has been found telling its developers that they need to make iphone apps which would support a larger screen.
This may be a hint, that the iTablet will run iPhone OS and not MacOS and also that the apple tablet rumor is true.

Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run unofficial code on their devices bypassing Apple’s official distribution mechanism, the App Store.
Whenever we hear that , once we jailbreak we could download all the paid apps for free, there is an urge to jailbreak. But the negatives about jailbreaking hold us back!
So, I am going to list down some of the positives and negatives about jailbreaking.

Pros:-
1. Paid Apps-Jailbreaking allows you to download all the piad apps from the app store for free.You just cannot do that without jailbreaking because jailbreaking changes the payload.

2.Customize– After jailbreaking, winterboard can be used to customize your itouch/iphone. you could change wallpapers, fonts, apply new themes etc.

3 SSH– jailbreaking also allows you to SSH into your itouch/iphone. With this you could explore all the contents of the itouch/iphone via the internet.

4.Internet Tethering – It allows you to surf the internet on your iphone by using the computer’s internet.

5. Removes restrictions from Apple.

6. If you do not like the jailbreak, you could do a restore from iTunes to get it back to normal.

Cons :-

1. There is a 0.1 percent chance that you may brick your itouch/iphone.

2. It voids your warranty( but you could do a restore to get it back).

3. You cannot upgrade to the latest firmware release by Apple instantly.

4. You could get the ikee worm or its variants(but if you just change your root password, you won’t get it).

So now its upon you to decide whether to jailbreak or not!

TO KNOW HOW TO JAILBREAK OR IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER PROS OR CONS, JUST POST IN YOUR COMMENTS!

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