To regain the diminished popularity of the Treo series, Palm has recently unveiled its Pre handset. According to Palm executives the new device will give users a new feel of web browsing and multi tasking experience. The device runs on a new operating system WebOS, which the company said is a breakthrough for the company to compete in the smartphone market.
The Pre has a 3.1 inch multi touch screen and has a touch sensitive area below the screen that makes browsing extra convenient, letting users turn pages without touching the reading area. To type users have to slide out the Read More...
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) the firm that advocates personal freedom related to technologies has submitted a request to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to make iPhone Jailbreaking legal.
Public comments regarding the request are open till February 2, 2009 after which the Copyright Office will hold the hearings in California and Washington DC in spring 2009. The final ruling to the request is expected in October 2009.
EFF in the request argues that jailbreaking gives users the freedom of running applications provided by other developers not necessarily approved by the phone maker. In the argument, EFF further clarified that jailbreaking the Read More...
Here is another application from Smudge Apps to prove that the iPhone of all gadgets is a special one. Megaphone is the eighteenth application Smudge Apps has deployed in the App Store. The application turns your iPhone into a megaphone, which you can use on different occasions and for different purposes. You'll never need a microphone again. Read on.
Requirements
To turn your iPhone into a megaphone, all you need is either an FM transmitter or a 3.5MM cable to connect your iPhone to a sound system (amplified speakers). Once the device is connected it is turned into a microphone. The FM Read More...
Macworld Expo 2009 is not for the iPhone! Phil Schiller’s keynote address was really impressive, but it was disappointing for people who were really carried away by the expectation of seeing the iPhone nano. The long expected 32GB iPhone also was not on the hardware list announced the innovative 17 inch Macbook being the lone entrant.
We all have seen the fake iPhone nano from an anonymous maker sometime ago. Everything looked Apple from the back logo to the screen layout and that was the time rumors started spreading iPhone nano would be launched during the Macworld Expo. However, for Apple, Read More...
For those of you who missed the Macworld day 1 Keynote from Phillip Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing; here is a quick wrap up.
New Products
To ensure usability and desirability, Apple introduced a new 17” Macbook pro adding up to the existing 13” and 15” Macbook product line. The new Macbook is a technology breakthrough for Apple and laptop makers. The new product comes with 8 hours of battery life and extended charge time from normal 300 to 1000 times. This gives the new thin and light Macbook three times longer life than any laptops in the Read More...
Still remember NetShare, the application that allows tethering of the iPhone, which was removed by Apple? We knew Apple has a different plan about this and also wrote once that At&T is going to provide tethering plan to iPhone owners. Well, it is almost certain that tethering plan would be announced in the upcoming Macworld Expo 2009.
We have on many occasions discussed about the call quality and the patchy network coverage of AT&T. In view of this, the announcement is not likely to be part of the keynote address. Tethering plan for the iPhone could be made known as a Read More...
Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple Inc in 1976 has come a long way. Despite failing health reports that we read very often, the Apple chief says he will recover from his present health condition. For the first time, after all those rumors about his failing health, Steve Jobs himself concedes that he had not been keeping well for some time.
BBC quoted Jobs:
Doctors think they have found the cause: a hormone imbalance that has been robbing me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy.”
Steve Jobs further confirmed that he will continue to be CEO as he recovers from the Read More...
Tattoos have different meanings and implications for different people. For some, it is a way of beautifying the body, for some it is a modification ritual. Some tribes in the Amazon consider tattoos as prints to instill fear in other tribes. Some tribes liken the human skin to a canvas and paint on it to impress the gods. Now, we have a new meaning to add to those old values. People have started using tattoos for ad campaigns for smartphones. Is this totally a new trend? Has this trend resulted in selling more smartphones? Read on to know.
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Do you love your iPhone? Do you like chocolates? Do you want to treat your iPhone with a chocolate bar? The last one sounds weird. Nothing is weird in the iworld. USBfever has got a chocolate bar for your iPhone that protects the device from wear and tear.
The silicone case is designed strikingly similar to those chocolate bars you find in the supermarkets. Anyone who sees your iPhone wrapped in the case would think that you are carrying a chocolate bar. Moreover, with this special case, your iPhone is safe from the eyes of those iPhone thieves who have attacked Read More...
Yellowsn0w from the iPhone Dev team was out on the 1st day of 2009 with the promise to liberate the iPhone 3G from the tight grip of Apple and AT&T. For some, the New Year gift from the unlock experts was a dream come true, however for some it turned out to be a nightmare, as the tool doesn’t seem to work well at first.
The iPhone dev team unlocked the first generation iPhone within months of its launch. The same team managed to jailbreak and unlockd iPhone 3G as well. However, software updates from Apple created unwanted bricking and blocking Read More...