Posted by MoiN on July 29th, 2010
Apple’s iPad has brought a significant decrease in Kindle sales. In light of this Amazon worked hard to revamp its eBook reading device. The result of their hard work, the third generation Kindle, was very recently revealed.
Compared to the older model, this Kindle is 21% smaller and 15% lighter. Despite its smaller size and lighter weight, the third generation Kindle offers a lot more than its predecessors. The model uses a new E-ink Pearl display; this display delivers 50% better contrast and 20% faster page turns than its older versions. With wireless off, the device can last up to a month on its battery and 10 days with wireless on; that is a nearly twice the battery life of the older model.
Posted by MoiN on July 29th, 2010
As cellphones turned into smartphones and began replicating the features of a computer, hackers quickly turned their attention to new ways of collecting people’s information. But thanks to security firms like Lookout, malicious tools are soon detected often without causing any large scale damages.
Posted by MoiN on July 29th, 2010
Chatr Wireless will soon expand to include Canada in its covered areas. The carrier is entering Canada carrying a great new package that offers unlimited talk time and text messages for a fixes monthly fee.
Posted by MoiN on July 28th, 2010
Currently the unlocked 8GB iPhone 3GS is already being sold in Canada for $549 CAD ($532 US). Soon Canada will be getting the unlocked iPhone 4 sets from Apple, news that Apple has now confirmed.
In case you are unfamiliar with the term ‘unlocked’ it means that Apple will not be restricting the Canadian iPhone 4 owners to a specific service carrier. Instead, owners will be free to use their handset with whichever cellphone carrier they see fit. Of course this carrier-free package will come with a price.
Posted by MoiN on July 28th, 2010
We already know that Motorola is designing is a 10-inch tablet that will ship in the Fall of this year. We also know that the tablet will run on Android. The latest news related to this is that he Motorola tablet might feature Android 3.0.
A check of online analytics revealed some sets running Android 3.0 and even 3.1 and 3.2. The 3.0 sets indicate that Google has already finished the OS and is testing it out. The 3.1 and 3.2 versions are believed to be examples of concurrent development which will branch out once the 3.0 version is finished.
Posted by MoiN on July 27th, 2010
Earlier this month, AT&T’s 3G users started reporting serious problems in upload speeds. Most of the problems were being faced by owners of the iPhone 4 and other devices that support faster HSUPA upload speeds. The speed dropped from 1Mbps or more to often just a fraction of the regular speed.
Posted by MoiN on July 27th, 2010
According to the latest leak on Samsung’s set Galaxy Q, it will be similar to Galaxy S in a number of ways.
The phone will run on Froyo (Android 2.2) but that does not make much difference as Galaxy S will soon be getting a Froyo update itself.
The processor, storage, and connectivity options remain more or less the same: 1GHz Hummingbird CPU, 16GB storage, Bluetooth 3.0, and Wi-Fi 802.11n.
Posted by MoiN on July 27th, 2010
So far, Apple’s customers had been unlocking and jailbreaking their devices to get the most of out of them. Many iPhone owners considered it ‘wrong’ or ‘illegal’ to jailbreak or unlock their devices. Apple certainly did because if the warranty became void in case you had jailbreaked or unlocked your device.
Posted by MoiN on July 26th, 2010
You will find many iPhone jailbreaking guides on the web. But most of them are unreliable and might present troublesome problems for new iPhone owners.
If you are not familiar with Cydia, it is the store for apps not authorized by Apple. Basically, Cydia is what you jailbreak your phone for. Recognizing that there were many iPhone owners unable to find reliable jailbreaking guides and unable to take advantage of Cydia, Cydia’s owner (Jay Freeman) decided to take matters into his own hands.
Freeman recorded the video regarding the iPhone 4 jailbreak being developed by @comex, @musclenerd, and @planetbeing. His mention of this jailbreak makes it reliable. Check out the video to find what Freeman had to say about the jailbreaking process.
Posted by MoiN on July 26th, 2010
Hackers and tweakers are usually working on ways to get rid of problems. But over at xda developers, on tweaker with the name of rolle3k took the road less travelled.
I hope most of you are familiar with Samsung’s unimpressive TouchWIz user interface. It is quite an inconvenient thing and users try out different ways to avoid it via hacks. Hence it made no sense when rolle3k developed a hack that ported the TouchWIz interface over to the Android running Nexus One.
