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Microsoft Kin delays Notifications up to 15 Minutes

April 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Microsoft [MSFT] unveiled the Microsoft Kin social networking phones. The main features of the Kin phones are their social networking abilities. The whole user interface revolves around sharing with friends and keeping up to date with what’s happening.

We have learned today that Microsoft have enabled a 15 minute delay on status updates, as in they only ping the servers of Facebook, Twitter and other networks in fifteen minute intervals. Reasons cited for this include Microsoft not wanting the phones to always be connect, thus draining battery life and also API issues with the young social networks and their lack of ability to deal with a huge influx of requests.

Engadget mention it could be also related to throttling back bandwidth on Verizons [VZ] network allowing for cheaper data plans. [Read more…]

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Google Mobile App Approved for Apple iPad

April 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Apple [AAPL] have approved the Google Mobile App for the iPad. If you already had the Google Mobile App on your iPad previously, you would have noticed that it was pretty much a scaled up version. With the iPad version of the app now being official, it has been re done to fit the larger screen.

The new version is of course free to download. It features a My Location bar, but other than that it’s the same as the previous version. It gives access to a number of Google [GOOG] services such as GMail, Maps, Images, news, shopping etc… with some of the apps working within the app, and others kicking you out to the browser. This is the case with GMail for example. [Read more…]

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WePad Tablet Pricing and Launch Details

April 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment

We first mentioned the WePad a few weeks ago and from what we saw, we were quite impressed at the alleged specifications. The whole WePad device seems to revolve around doing things that the iPad cannot do. Features such as a camera have been included allowing for video calls to be made. An SD card slot has been included along with USB and the ability to multitask.

The WePad Tablet runs the Android operating system from Google [GOOG] and has access to the Android Marketplace to download applications.

Overall it looks quite impressive and we hope that the CPU and graphics chip are up to scratch making it run smoothly. Update: It has an Intel Atom N450 CPU and no NVIDIA although it does support full HD, so perhaps another quicker than Intel chip.

From what we hear there are a couple of versions with one being WiFi only costing ‚¬449. This will have 16GB of RAM. [Read more…]

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Tesco iPhone Tariffs Updated

April 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Tesco Mobile have made changes to their iPhone tariffs that include several new 12 month contracts. Prices are as follows…

For a 12 month contract paying £35/month you can get the iPhone for the following prices…
iPhone 3G 8GB – £100
iPhone 3GS 16GB – £200
iPhone 3GS 32GB – £275

If you want to get a free iPhone 3GS (16GB) you can pay £45/month on a 24 month contract. [Read more…]

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Nokia Everyone Connect Event

April 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment

An event by Nokia [NOK] is happening in the next 14 hours that nobody really knows much about. Some believe it could be related to Ovi Maps Navigation although that was recently pushed in an event in London.

Over at Mobile review we heard that the event isn’t related to the Nokia N8 which is a shame, but with a bit of investigating they found out that the event could be related to a new messaging solution called Nokia Messaging. [Read more…]

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iPhone OS 4.0 Developer Agreement Defended by Steve Jobs

April 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment

When the new Apple [AAPL] OS was announced last week, some changes to the development process also changed. The changes to iPhone OS 4.0 included the lack of ability to develop applications in anything other than Objective-C, C, C++ or JavaScript as executed by iPhone OS WebKit engine. What that means is software such as the Adobe iPhone Compiler now cannot be used.

If you remember over the last few years, Apple have never allowed Flash to work on the iPhone OS. After a few years of trying, Adobe recently changed their approach by creating software that allowed native applications to be compatible with the iPhone that were created originally in Flash and then converted to an app. This is now not allowed on the new OS which has upset Adobe.

Greg Slepak wrote to Steve Jobs when finding this out…

Slepak told Jobs he believed the reaction to the change across the entire internet was negative, including from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, who Slepak called Jobs’ “biggest fan.” Jobs reportedly responded by sending a link to Gruber’s commentary on why Apple changed section 3.1.1 of its developer agreement. “We think John Gruber’s post is very insightful and not negative,” the Apple CEO allegedly said.

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iPhone OS 4.0 Multitasking on iPhone 3G Can be Forced to Work

April 9, 2010 by 24 Comments

Yesterday when the new iPhone OS 4.0 was unveiled by Apple [AAPL], the announcement about multitasking was right at the top of the list and it sounded great until we then heard it only works on the Apple iPhone 3GS. This isn’t too bad as many people own the newer iPhone 3GS, but some people are still on the older iPhone 3G.

Some kind of good news has appeared today (unofficially) that says by a bit of hacking around you can actually get the iPhone 3G multitasking. This is achieved by making a setting change in a preference file called N82AP.plist where you set a value for multitasking to TRUE. Once done the service then becomes available.

To achieve this hack you’ll of course need to have access to the internals of the iPhone by jailbreaking it and the ability to know what to do although someone could probably create a simple program that can enable it for you in the near future. [Read more…]

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iPhone OS 4.0 Jailbreak

April 9, 2010 by 6 Comments

Within hours of iPhone OS 4 being made available to developers for download it appears that someone has already managed to jailbreak the new OS. This was achieved by MuscleNerd who is from the iPhone Dev Team.

A video has also been uploaded to YouTube showing Cydia running on the new operating system. Details of how to perform the jailbreak I suspect will be kept secret until the iPhone OS 4.0 release date which we have now as just sometime in the summer.

MuscleNerd also comments that the new developer release of OS 4 is quite buggy and recommends it not be installed yet unless you want to test it’s features out. [Read more…]

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Apple iPhone OS 4.0 Hands-On

April 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Engadget managed to get OS 4.0 installed on their iPhone 3GS to test what all the new features are like. Overall it looks very impressive and although not the final version of the OS, it seems to run smoothly without any issues at the moment.

Engadget demonstrate all the new features such as multitasking, folders, mail, the camera and various other functions. Some things worth noting are that the camera now has zoom. Zooming the camera unfortunately doesn’t use pinch to zoom, but the slider is more responsive than any other mobile phone zoom slider we have ever seen – ie, it has no delay to the zoom when dragging in and out.

The folders function seems to work very well in that you can easily create a new folder, give it a name and simply press and hold to grab an app and drop it in (or out) of the folder you created. Once done, a mini icon appears in the folder icon to show you how many apps are in there and perhaps, which apps are in there if the mini icon is clear enough). [Read more…]

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Dell Latitude E-Family Laptops Launched

April 8, 2010 by 1 Comment

Dell have unveiled the E Series of laptops today that include three new E ranges which are the Latitude E6410, E6510 and the E6410 ATG.

In the new range of laptops there are a variety of processors to choose from which include either Intel Core i5 ot Core i7 processors. For memory they use DDR3 and they also have HD displays.

The Latitude E6410 and E6510 are classed as Mainstream laptops and come with either 14.1 inch or 15.6 inch screens. The prices for each start at $1,129 and $1,164 respectively. Each of these two laptops include 3 megapixel cameras along with optional graphics from NVIDIA (depending on which upgrades you purchase).

The other laptop is the Latitude E6410 ATG that falls in to the semi-rugged category. This particular laptop has a 14.1 inch display and meets MIL STD 810G which covers it for shock, vibration, temperature, humidity and altitude. [Read more…]

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Drobo FS File Sharing Solution for Home and Office

April 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment

The Drobo FS is a device that allows you to easily share files amongst people on a home or office network. The Drobo FS was built with the purpose of delivering the best file sharing experience for home and office users.

‘This is the decade of being connected, no matter where you are or what kind of data you are storing. The Drobo FS was designed to best serve the needs of our customers with file sharing needs from small offices and home offices to connected homes

BeyondRAID technology has been built in to the Drobo FS providing protection for data stored within the device. Up to five hard drives can be installed on the device and if configured in a RAID format, it allows for up to two simultaneous drive failures keeping data safe on the other three drives. [Read more…]

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Geohot gets “Other OS” working on New PS3 Firmware

April 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment

On April Fools day, Sony released a new PS3 firmware update that in particular, got rid of the Other OS option on the older and fatter PS3. If you decided to run the update then you basically lost your Linux or other OS you had running on the PS3 along with any files that you may of had associated with it.

When the announcement was first made, popular hacker Geohot urged people not to upgrade if they wanted to keep that feature and also mentioned he was in the process of making a work around for it.

The work around has now been created although it hasn’t been publicly released just yet. In the video below you’ll see a PS3 running the latest firmware 3.21 along with the OtherOS option still present. When the hack is launched it will be just a matter of installing a PUP file and once done, the option will be enabled. [Read more…]

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