Did you forgot to get a Christmas Eve present for one of your loved ones? Well you need to not to worry now. Walmart this year has decided to keep all their stores open nation wide until 8 PM local time on December 24th, 2009. Stores though will not be open on Christmas Day i.e. 25th, but will re-open on December 26th on the Boxing Day.
Year: 2009
Today, cell phones are extensively used by 4 billion plus people on earth. This has resulted tremendous increase in the demand for new devices. We see new brands and models floating in market every other day. No doubt, there is a great craze for cell phones, but at the same time there is also a major concern in the minds of the users about the radiations emitted by these devices. Significant risks of brain cancer and salivary gland tumors, migraine, vertigo, and behavioral problems are posed to people using cell phones, especially to young children who will be exposed to it for next 50 years or so.
Ever wished to have got the powerful Sense UI from HTC Hero on your Motorola Droid? Droid, which ships with Android 2.0 has got the plain and simple interface which comes as stock from Android 2.0 OS. But now thanks to folks over at AllDroid, you can now get the attractive looking Sense UI like theme right on your Motorola Droid.
According to informed sources at BGR, Apple has asked a few selected developers to prepare their apps that should support full screen resolution, and should be designed in a way to run on a larger screen rather than a 320×480 resolution screen of the iPhone. This news have given strength to the belief that Apple in its labs, has been discreetly preparing the long-rumored 7-inch tablet device to be made public in an event held in January 2010. Rumor also has it that a 9, and 11 inches tablets will follow this 7-inches tablet soon after.
Well they say that there is an app for just about everything, and now there is one for even the iPhone itself. The “iPhone in iPhone” augmented reality app is basically a promotional app developed by Ogmento – a company which is currently focused on developing mobile augmented reality games and apps. The said company is home to popular augmented reality apps like ‘Put a spell’ and ‘Pengun books’ etc.
Those of you who have activated your iPhone through an unauthorized carrier (aka hacktivation) on iPhone 3.x, then your Push Notification functionality in most cases will be broken. Even if you have tried getting it to work through “PushFix” via iPhoneil available in Cydia, it wont work as that fix uses a single shared certificate for all users who have installed it. This causes battery drainage and huge use of cellular data access.
According to the latest report from DigiTimes, Apple has contacted OmniVision regarding 5 megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) orders for the next generation iPhone 4G model which is expected to hit shelves in summer 2010. The order, being placed is for around 45 million CMOS sensors, which is double the estimated from this year. OmniVision is the same company which supplied the 3.2 megapixel CIS for Apple’s iPhone 3GS.
The Android powered Motorola CLIQ phone has been rooted for full direct access to its file system. Root access will enable you to modify the phone’s firmware to whatever you want to have on your phone like themes, apps and custom ROMs just like you do on the jailbroken iPhone. You can follow the simple step by step guide posted below to root your Motorola CLIQ without having to worry about bricking it. Credit for the Root hack goes to TheDudesAndroid of ModMyMoto.
After two weeks of all the drama, we finally have got a hands-on video walkthrough of the Google Nexus One phone. The video, which is of five minutes in length walks you through the Android 2.1 experience on the upcoming Google Nexus One phone. Everything from widgets on the multiple home screens, to the new Android Market, to the improved web browsing experience and Youtube app has been demonstrated for your viewing pleasure.
Camera Plus Pro is yet another camera app for iPhone that has been recently released by Global Delight. Global Delight are the developers and publishers behind the famous free app called Camera Plus. With a host of capturing, annotating, editing, managing and sharing options, Camera Plus Pro certainly is one of the most advanced camera app available for iPhone.
Last week we informed you about the first evidence, which hinted towards the possible existence of iPhone OS 3.1.3, and iPhone 4.0 firmware. Today, MacRumors has been tipped by a developer who has spotted a single instance of iPhone OS 4.0 being used in his application’s Pinch Media analytics data. This discovery corresponds to the discovery of “iPhone 3,1” (the next-gen iPhone 4G model), which was spotted by the developer of iBart app last month.
Do you want to test Android OS on your Windows Mobile phone? Well folks over at XDA-Developers have managed to (soft of) port Android 2.0.1 (Eclair) on selected Windows Mobile based HTC phones through an emulation software named Haret. If you have HTC Touch Diamond2, Touch Pro2 or Touch HD, you can go ahead and try it out to get a taste of Android OS on your Windows phone.
The first unboxing pictures of the upcoming Google Nexus One phone has been leaked via djrobrob on twitter. The design of the box is very Google-like with white background color, and “Nexus One” and “Google” branding in black to go on top of it. Though the design of the box may not be the final thing, it leaves little to no doubt that this phone is indeed going to be a Google branded phone.
For the last few months, ZodTTD was working on a new Nintendo 64 emulator for iPhone 3GS and the new iPod touch 3G, using the Open GLES 2.0 libraries. He has finally released the much awaited emulator by the name of “n64iPhone”, and it is now available on Cydia for $2.49 on ZodTTD repository.
The upcoming Google Nexus One phone with Android 2.1 has this built-in feature with which you can set animated wallpaper as your background just like how you can do on HTC HD2 with HTC Sense. Since Android 2.1 has now been ported over to Droid, it is now possible to run animated wallpapers. Thanks to the folks over at DroidForums who have posted a hack to enable this feature on Motorola Droid, running Android 2.1 ROM.
