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It didn't take long for the Apple community to jailbreak the iPhone iOS 4.1, a reliable version will soon be out, caution is advised for now says the Blog from the boygeniusreport: "Almost in unison with Apple releasing iOS 4.1, iOS tinkerer pod2g announced a bootrom exploit that will allow the jailbreaking community access to the innards of the California company’s mobile operating system. The exploit will eventually facilitate the next wave of iDevice jailbreaking, and isn’t something that can be plugged with a simple software update; Apple would have to flash a new bootrom to iP...
Google have updated their Google Search application according to Eurodroid.com "Here’s an odd one. There’s a new version of the standalone Google Search app up on the Android Market this evening, which updates your Android search too to v1.1.1 if you install the file. This doesn’t include Google’s new “Instant Search” search tool that’s been shown off today, instead offering a minor tweak to the layout of results – and some “performance improvements” according to the newly updated Android Market description. Here’s new Android Google Search in action a few moments ago:" SOUR...
TomTom are offering an adapter for the iPhone 4 for free in its car kits reports engadget.com: "We still maintain that you've got better options than TomTom when it comes to iPhone GPS software, but if you pulled the trigger before giving yourself a moment to consider what you were actually doing, this here news may just interest you. In an effort to maintain compatibility with Apple's latest and greatest iPhone, TomTom is now including a simple adapter for all Car Kit orders going out on September 1st or later. If you ordered one prior to that, you can apply down in the source...
Androidpolice.com have reported that the RD-D2 boot animations from the yet to be released Droid 3 RD-D2 version are now available for download: "The R2D2 is coming later this month, but in the meantime P3Droid from MyDroidWorld ripped apart the system dump and weeded out the special edition Star Wars themed live wallpapers. He was also kind enough to shoot a few handy videos demonstrating them, and I must say, they’re pretty cool and will definitely be appreciated by any Star Wars fan. Kudos, P3." Find another Youtube video at the SOURCE
Something that was commented on during antennagate was the lack of a field test mode for the iPhone after it was removed from iOS 4. Well 4.1 has it back in, simply call *3001#12345#* from your iPhone and the mode is activate with the dB reading present instead of the signal strength. Why is this important? Well you can now verify how the signal fluctuates with the death grip, no more 'scientific' tests but simply your own experiences.
As per the title, if you attach your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll find that the iOS 4.1 update is waiting for you, along with HDR photography, online gaming, AVCRP support over bluetooth and various bug fixes.
3 have just released the news: A network built for mobile Internet, Three will provide fast and reliable 3G connectivity for the Samsung GALAXY Tab, making the most of product features such as phone functionality, front and rear facing cameras for video calls, downloading e-books, using GPS and searching the Internet with full Flash capability. Nigel Field, Director of Devices at Three said, “With both the Android and tablet markets going from strength to strength, we’re proud to be ranging the Samsung GALAXY Tab. More than 97% of Three traffic over the network is data, so more than ever...
LG Electronics (LG) announced today that it will introduce a series of fast, powerful smartphones starting in the fourth quarter of 2010 utilizing the second generation NVIDIA® Tegra™ mobile processor, Tegra 2. Tegra 2 includes the world’s first dual-core CPU, which powers through complex tasks to achieve significant leaps in performance. LG will integrate Tegra 2 into its smartphones, providing them with unprecedented power, speed and graphics capability. These smartphones will be part of LG’s Optimus Series, a new line of innovative mobile products. LG selected NVIDIA Tegra because it e...
Here's hoping this one get's through the Apple meat-grinder, I like Skyfire and used it a lot on Windows Mobile... Just last week, a couple of much-trusted birdies popped into the MobileCrunch office, claiming to have some details on SkyFire (a Flash-friendly mobile browser already available on a number of smartphone platforms) and its impending iPhone release. “They’ve entered the very final round of testing!” they said. “It’s going to get submitted to Apple early next week!” We’re one day past what we’d personally consider “early next week”, but sure enough: SkyFire has ...
I spotted this in my MobileCrunch RSS feed. An interesting application called Notifo for the iPhone... Last time we wrote about Notifo, we called it a “simple mobile notifications platform for anything” — and really, that’s probably the best way to describe it. You take your iPhone, install the Notifo app, hook it up to your favorite services (like Twitter, or GitHub) or any of the “Projects” (read: plugins, like Growl alert forwarding, or Chrome-to-Notifo ), and bam! You’ve got push notifications coming down to your iPhone from just about anything you could imagine. All that notific...