Apple opens up iOS 4.1 to developers

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Apple has released the next version of its iPhone operating system – iOS 4.1 – to developers this week.

The new version is likely to be the update the company promised two weeks ago when it addressed ongoing antenna issues in its latest incarnation of its flagship smartphone, the iPhone 4.

An open letter from Apple, discussing what became known as the “deathgrip” flaw, whereby signal was dropping from iPhone 4s if held in a certain way, put the problem down to a software malfunction which had been present in all its iPhones to date.

Apple claimed the wrong algorithm had been used to display signal, meaning iPhones would show two or three more bars of signal than a user actually had, often meaning the user had no signal at all.

Yet critics believe this software explanation was a PR exercise, with the real problem residing in the hardware itself.

Rumours have been circulating that the phone would be recalled by Apple, fuelled further by the company calling a press conference about the iPhone 4 for tomorrow evening.

But we will have to wait until 6pm to find out what is really going on behind the scenes of the dominant company.

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