According to Apple Insider, iPhone OS 4.0 will be officially supporting Multitasking feature. You won’t be needing to Jailbreak your iPhone to add multitasking feature to your iPhone. iPhone firmware 3.x is also capable of multitasking but this feature has been restricted by Apple in the said firmware mainly because of security and battery life issues. The current security model of iPhone will close any app you are running on your iPhone as soon as you press the home button which reduces the risk for spyware, adware and viruses.

Opera has announced Opera Mini 5 for all Android based cell phones like Motorola Droid, Nexus One etc. Opera Mini is an award winning mobile web-browser well known for its lightening speed and new features. Main features of this released include Tabbed Browsing, Speed Dial, Download Manager, Password Manager and many more. You may download it either by visiting m.opera.com/next from your mobile browser or simply download it to your PC and then transfer it to your cell phone.

You can easily change the location of My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos, Music, Downloads & Desktop location in Microsoft Windows 7. Its a good pratice to store your data in a drive which don’t have any OS installed in it! Once you have changed the location of these folders, you can easily use Faronics Deep Freeze to freeze your OS drive to keep it safe from viruses.

If you have thoughts about iPad tethering with iPhone, then following is the answer from Steve Jobs. A Swedish Apple fan had similar thoughts and he sent an email to Steve Jobs asking whether or not iPad will be able to tether with the iPhone. Email conversion is given below.

Putting all rumors about iPad delay aside, Apple has finally announced that iPad is coming to US on April 3rd with pre-orders starting on March 12th. Only WiFi models will be available to US customers now, iPad 3G models would be available in late April. For countries other than US including (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK), all iPad models will go on sale in late April.

It seems that Apple upcoming tablet iPad will allow you to make emergency calls too along with its video conferencing and basic photo editing feature. According to Gumballtech, using the latest iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad, if you enter iPad passcode incorrectly 5 times consecutively, you will see an emergency call screen just like the one you see on your iPhone.

Wonder how you can download Facebook videos when you are addicted to Google Chrome? Yes you can easily download Facebook videos from Google Chrome’s cache once they are completely streamed. Accessing Google Chrome cache is not that easy. So you have to download ChromeCacheView, a freeware software which enables you to access and download files from Google Chrome’s cache.

According to an industrial analyst Katy Huberty, 85% of the people don’t buy iPhone because of the hardware cost and 66% don’t use iPhone because of high service charges. So iPhone hardware cost and service charges are the major issue in the mass level adoption of iPhone. Acc. to Huberty iPhone 4G will be less costly than is predecessors.

If you are using a hactivated iPhone, as in, you are running your iPhone 3.x on an unauthorized carrier, then Push Notifications functionality most probably won’t work properly. There are few fixes available in market, prominent ones include “PushFix” via iPhoneil available in Cydia, but it wasn’t a proper solution and it stopped working after a while as it used a single certificate for many users causing wrong push notifications and battery drainage issues. Later came PushFix Ver.2 which actually worked very well, basically the error/issue which was rectified in new release was that you get a unique certificate for your hactivated iPhone against your mobile EMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity).

Apple has sued the Taiwan based phone giant HTC accusing its rival of violating patents related to the popular iPhone. Apple said that the rival smartphone maker has infringed on 20 patents covering aspects of the iPhone interface, user interaction and hardware. In a statement Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that his company will not all its competitors to steal patents of its inventions.