Gadget Venue

The glass back of the iPhone is prone to scratching. Scratching the back is as easy as sitting the phone on a desk and sliding it along.

As well as being able to easily scratch the back, the glass is also scratched when using some third-party cases. This happens when some dust gets trapped between the case and the back of the phone and when the case is slid on or off.

The Apple store has a lack of cases available for the phone and instead, is now just offering the bumper case on the site. [Read more…]

iFixit has followed tradition and has now managed to get hold of a Nokia N8 to tear apart.

The N8s unique feature is that it has a 12 megapixel camera sensor. To cram the sensor in, Nokia actually made the camera protrude out of the case a little to keep the casing thinner.

The camera flash uses a Xenon flash tube that is similar to those found in real cameras. [Read more…]

The iOS 4.1 jailbreak release date could be as early as this weekend.

On Twitter a tweet was sent out that said the ETA was 10/10/10 at 10:10:10am.

Things have progressed to the point where we don’t expect anymore roadblocks. ETA for greenpois0n is 10/10/10 at 10:10:10AM

This particular iOS 4.1 jailbreak is designed to work with the latest hardware which means it will work on the iPad, iPhone 4 and the 4th generation iPod touch. [Read more…]

When Skype for Android was released a few days ago, US users, as well as a few others, lacked the ability to make 3G calls.

Thanks to some smart hackers, 3G Skype calling is now possible on a number of devices. To get it to work, you need to sideload a modified version of the application. [Read more…]

The next generation webOS device could include a 1GHz processor. This isn’t really interesting for those running the latest generation Android and other various smartphones as 1GHz has been around a while now.

However, those running a Palm Pre Plus and the likes, are currently stuck at 600Mhz which makes a 1GHz jump a nice step for those owners.

Not much is known about the next generation webOS based device. What we do know is that HP will of course make it, and it will run webOS 2.0 from what we understand. We have heard that it is code-named Palm Mansion. [Read more…]

Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple [AAPL] is about to start manufacturing a CDMA variant of the iPhone 4 ready for a launch on the Verizon network early in 2011.

The CDMA chip is said to be built by Qualcomm and with it, it will allow the iPhone to be compatible with the different network in the US. [Read more…]

A document leaked shows a few more details about the Samsung Transform. The Transform is seen in the documentation sporting a four row QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard looks similar to what is being used in the Samsung Epic 4G.

The documents also reveal that the Transform will run a stock version of Android 2.2 rather than a modified UI such as TouchWiz. This of course could change when the device lands, but for now it appears that stock is the way forwards for the device. [Read more…]