Apple’s latest iPhone OS 4 beta adds customizable user dictionary
AppleInsider Staff, AppleInsider, 5/20/2010 Users will be able to add and edit their own words to the iPhone’s dictionary when Apple delivers the iPhone OS 4 software upgrade to the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS this summer. One of the many minor features set to be added to the iPhone in the latest upgrade was [...]
In: Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, MMS, Tether
Apple to introduce iPhone OS 4.0 on April 8
AppleInsider Staff, AppleInsider, 4/5/2010 Apple on Monday announced that it will formally introduce the next version of its mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0, at a special event scheduled for this week, April 8. Apple sent out invitations on Monday for the event, scheduled for 10 a.m. Pacific, offering a “sneak peek of the next [...]
In: Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: MMS
Jailbreaking in the iPhone 3.0 era
Mel Beckman, ComputerWorld, 3/1/2010 In a few short years, Apple has established the iPhone as the mobile platform to beat. Each successive firmware update opens new, and often unmatched, features for users and developers to explore. Many of these features, however, find their roots outside Apple’s walled-garden approach to the iPhone, as the jailbreak community [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPad, iPhone · Tagged with: 3G, API, AT&T, Bluetooth, FCC, Flash, JailBreak, MMS, Push, SDK, Skype, VoIP, WiFi
Palm releases WebOS 1.4, adds video capture, Flash 10.1 plug-in
Daren Darrow, CNET, 2/28/2010 Updated to include WebOS’s new plug-in support for Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta. Palm’s release of its WebOS 1.4 on Friday adds video capture, editing, and sharing to the company’s Pre and Pixi smartphones. Along with video recording, the updated operating system lets users trim videos and upload them directly to YouTube, [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm · Tagged with: MMS, Sprint, WebOs
Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know
Joshua Topolsky, Engadget, 2/18/2010 Microsoft just planted a massive flag in the ground with the debut of Windows Phone 7 Series. The company’s new mobile operating system is a radical and potent departure from the past, and there’s a lot to take in — so we’ve gathered together all our knowledge and impressions of the [...]
In: Mobile Technology, WinPhone 7, iPhone · Tagged with: 3G, AT&T, Chrome, Ericsson, HTC, MMS, Samsung, SMS, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, WiFi, WinMo
Patent suggests location-based social networking for iPhone
Chris Rawson, Tuaw, 2/8/2010 Imagine you and a friend are on a phone call, and both of you own iPhones. You’re trying to meet up somewhere downtown in a city neither of you know very well, so the best answer you can give your friend when he asks, “Where are you now?” is “Uhhh…” followed [...]
In: Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: GPS, MMS, SMS
Mobile Apps Flood the Market: Will Hackers Notice?
Sven Appel, Mobile Tech Today, 2/2/2010 With Apple and its App Store leading the way, smartphone users are dialed in to a huge selection of apps ranging from virtual whoopee cushions to highly refined video games. But experts fear that smartphones will become more vulnerable as they grow closer to PCs in functionality, and the [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, Mobile Technology, Palm, iPhone · Tagged with: Malware, MMS, Nokia, SMS, Vodafone
Blackberry 8310 Curve – Your Personal Computer
admin, Wheel BLOG, 1/12/2010 The BlackBerry Curve 8310 is very small and light phone, which only weighs a total of 111 grams. The dimensions of this small handset makes the handset easy for the user to hold, use and carry, which are 107 x 60 x 15.5 mm. It has a large colour screen and [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Bluetooth, EDGE, GPS, GSM, MMS, SMS
Vonage Offers Unlimited International Calling for Mobile Users
Nathan Eddy, eWeek, 12/24/2009 Voice and messaging services provider Vonage spreads the holiday cheer with unlimited mobile international calls to more than 60 countries for one flat monthly rate. Just in time for the holidays, Vonage announced an enhancement to the Vonage Mobile application to include the Vonage World calling plan. Vonage World Mobile provides [...]
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Jailbreaking your iPhone: The pros and cons
Mike Keller, PC World, 11/13/2009 iPhone “jailbreaking” has been a hot topic since Apple releasedits smartphone more than two years ago. While the amazing little device does indeed have applications for “just about everything,” Apple’s sometimes arbitrary or self-serving rejections of apps such as Google Voice has turned more people on to the idea of [...]
In: Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, JailBreak, MMS, Tether