Apple [AAPL] has won a patent for a couple of software features found in iOS.
The first is in relation to the “Slide to Unlock” bar that is found when you switch on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. The second is in relation to the character-pop on the virtual keyboard that Apple uses.
What it basically all means is that you can’t copy Apple by creating a Slide to Unlock that looks like the version that Apple uses. Also you cannot create a keyboard with popping characters like shown in the diagram above. [Read more…]
Almost 2 years ago, the T-Mobile G1 was launched. When launched, it ran Google Android which started a new class of smartphones. The phone seemed to quickly grow old in that many other Android smartphones have been launched although the G1 has a good following of people who still use it.
Sony is launch a couple of new PlayStation 3 models with higher capacities. The reason for doing this is to accommodate the additional downloads that will be made available via the PlayStation network over the coming months.
Apple [AAPL] only just released the iPhone 4 within the last couple of months which of course naturally leads us on to speculating what will or wont be made available in the iPhone 5 when it launches next year.
We just mentioned that the Samsung Galaxy Tablet firmware had been spotted. In that firmware some details were found about the specs of the new Galaxy Tablet due to be announced at IFA 2010.
Vodafone has launched a new Wireless Mobile broadband hotspot. The mobile WiFi, or MiFi, allows up to 5 wireless devices to attach up to it and share a 3G or HSDPA signal depending on the area where you use it.
Over here in the UK, a leaked Android 2.1 firmware was made available to download for the Dell Streak on the O2 network. It isn’t clear at the moment if this is an official ROM that O2 will eventually release, or if it was a test ROM.
The 35 dollar tablet was recently revealed. It appears to be another type of cheap computing device that probably wont launch at $35 like previous attempts at the $100 laptop. But, we’ll remain hopeful that it does happen.
Sprint [S] is launching the 
Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop.com Mobile. The new version has been renamed to Photoshop Express and now functions fully on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Previous versions running on the iPad had to use pixel doubling to fill the screen.
For a while now some rumours have been going around about the 
A new technology has been developed that lets you easily capture the surrounding area as a 3D model that you can navigate around.
