You’ve got a new Android device ad you love it because it offers you so much flexibility, loads of free apps and customizations that you can do to it. But soon enough you realize that you’re using a stock version of the OS on your handset, which has certain limitations. These limitations won’t be apparent to a general user, but if you’re a hard core product destroyer like me, you’d want more power and the ability to resurrect your device if you have to. Don’t you?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must be well aware by now that Google and Samsung unveiled the next generation Nexus phone called Galaxy Nexus. Although I’m not a fan of the name, I like the specifications that Samsung has been able to cram into the phone. Seems like they threw in everything that Apple rumor sites were saying that the iPhone 5 would have like the tear drop design and so on. I wont go through all the details here but you can just catch up with them on our friends’ coverage of Ice Cream Sandwich at Redmond Pie.
We all know Lion is coming, whether it is tomorrow, or next week, Apple did say July. Since Apple released it’s GM build of Lion to developers, we thought it would be a good idea to help our readers prepare for this incredible upgrade. Follow along for a fool proof plan to an easy install of Lion!
Among the 200+ new features that have been introduced in iOS 5, iMessage is definitely one of the best executed ones. It is incorporated seamlessly within the messages app and lets you send free text messages, photos and even videos to all other iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users running iOS 5 via Apple’s push notifications service, much like the Blackberry’s instant messenger. It even shows you delivery and read receipts as well as updates in real time as the other person is typing a message.
Reports are now stating that Mac OSX Lion has been released for Internal Testing at Apple. With this release for testing, it means that the public release is near, and with WWDC in 2 weeks, we could see a release very soon.
This just in! iOS 4.3 is set to release for iPhone 3GS/4, iPod Touch 3G/4G, iPad and iPad 2 at 10AM PST today according to BGR’s sources. iOS 4.3 will bring Air Play support to third party apps, hardware rotation lock/mute switch option as well as Personal Hotspot amongst others. Check our our detailed list of new features in iOS 4.3 here.
After a long wait and tons of leaked Android 2.2 Froyo builds, Samsung Galaxy S users got a well deserved Gingerbread 2.3.2 build I9000XWJV1. This is a beta build but everything seems to work in it. There are some reported incompatibilities with different apps but that’s due to the fact that it’s a Gingerbread build and not Froyo. Other than that, it seems like a good build to try out. If you’re interested, follow our simple instructions to install it.
Apple has been releasing iOS 4.3 betas to developers for testing. These betas have shown a hint of new features that will be available in the final build such as Personal Hotspot and the likes. Macstories have been informed through a source that iOS 4.3 final build will be released by Apple on February 14th at 10 am PST.
I have seen a lot different articles and blogs about what should be included in iOS 5. After reading through these countless articles, I see a pattern starting to form. Almost NONE of the ideas would benefit the general user. I don’t know about you but I would like to see some better UI benefits in the update. It is no secret that the white coats at Apple have taken ideas from jailbreake developers for a long time now. And the beta version of iOS 4.3 is no different, it shows signs of being a great update (if they don’t kill the major improvements before it is launched to the public).
Steve Troughton-Smith, a Mac developer, has managed to get MeeGo 1.1, an upcoming Linux based mobile OS, working on the popular HTC HD2. This is the 4th (or 5th if you trust the Windows Phone 7 port demo videos) OS to work on the HD2. HD2 was one of the first phones with a 4.3” display as well as a 1Ghz SnapDragon processor. While Windows Mobile 6.5 has slowly faded away, HD2 is living thanks to wonderful support by the community by porting Android ( up to 2.3 ) to the phone.
