2010: The Year Of The Android
Not robotic humanoids, but the Google-led mobile operating system that’s being primed to challenge the iPhone for its throne. “Android adoption is about to explode,” Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt claimed in an earnings conference this week. “You have all the necessary conditions.” Those conditions, of course, being the newfound availability of Android-powered phones. With a [...]
A Jailbreak-Proof iPhone 3GS? Not Really
Reports of updated bootroms on the latest shipments of iPhone 3GS handsets earlier this week pegged the latest versions as jailbreak-proof. Unfortunately for Apple, that’s not really true, according to iPhone Dev team member Eric McDonald. Speaking with Wired Magazine, the hacker disclosed that the new bootrom really does disable the “24kpwn” exploit currently used [...]
Full Flash On Smartphones By Mid-2010, Except The iPhone
Adobe has announced their upcoming plans for Flash 10.1 on mobile devices, effectively defining the future of Flash support on smartphone platforms. According to the company, full Flash is coming to browsers on Android, Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile phones beginning in the middle of 2010. You read that right – there’s no iPhone [...]
iPhone OS 3.1: Why Many Aren’t In A Hurry To Upgrade
iPhone OS 3.1 rolled out this week. If you haven’t installed it or checked out reviews, let me give you the down low: install at your own risk. Before thinking there’s something nasty in the new OS, let me assure you there’s none. In fact, a couple of good things come with upgrading. One is [...]
Nokia Booklet 3G Specs Are Out, Just A Connected Netbook After All
After last week’s hype about the Nokia Booklet 3G, the “mini-laptop” finally had its specs detailed in an official way. The verdict: it’s just a netbook, alright (and an under-powered one, at that). Touting slim lines and a MacBook-like aluminum unibody, it’s one good-looking piece of hardware. Regardless, hot looks getting priced to the hilt [...]
New Linux-Based OS, iPhone 3GS Guts And Multi-Tasking Could Make The Nokia N900 The Finnish Company’s Best Phone Yet
While the N97 is officially Nokia’s flagship phone, it’s fair to say that the high-end handset isn’t exactly their most exciting model around. With a souped-up hardware set and a fresh operating system at the helm, the Nokia N900 could potentially take its place. Sporting the company’s new Maemo 5 OS, the device comes with [...]
Rooting Your Android Phone Made One-Click Easy
A new application that surfaced on the Marketplace earlier this week now allows handset owners to open up their phones the same way that you jailbreak an iPhone. Of course, it’s been taken out of the storefront by now, but dozens of mirrors are still available online. That means you can perform custom OS upgrades, [...]
Music Labels Introduce CMX Format For Albums, Here’s To Watching Them Mess It Up
It’s fair to say that the record industry has beautifully screwed itself over with advancing technology. As much as they may own the facility that creates the music, its digital distribution has been taken squarely out of their hands. Like their past efforts to catch up, the large music companies are once again banding together [...]
Palm Looking To Add Games To WebOS
Want to know which direction Palm is looking to take with webOS into the future? Apparently, it’s a small case of iPhone-envy, as the company looks to deck their future handsets with gaming capabilities. We all know about the iPhone’s highly-touted game-friendly talents, both in terms of hardware and software. It’s an area people are [...]
Microsoft Tries To Create Buzz For Windows Marketplace With The Race To Market Challenge
Microsoft has formally opened Windows Marketplace for Mobile to developers today. While the actual storefront won’t debut till the company releases Windows Mobile 6.5, the company is sweetening the pot a little to offer potential developers a little enticement, with a contest called the Race To Market Challenge. Under the rules, all apps that get [...]
