The production of the AssistantExtensions tweak for Cydia has made it a lot easier for developers to produce Siri based modifications for download from the Cydia store. Rather than have to do their own groundwork and lay the foundations for hooking into the intelligent assistant, developers can simply build their modification as a plug-in to the already created AssistantExtensions framework making things a lot easier and a lot less time consuming.
We're only three months into the year, but I can already tell that it's going to be exciting. And, contrary to what many PC hardware manufacturers wish to assert, this is not because of some gimmicky new PC form factor that nobody will care about in a few months; rather, it is because two of the major players in the tech space, Microsoft and Apple, are each doing awesome and unique things this year as far as their entire product ecosystems are concerned.
Sometimes technology can be used for good, and other times it can be used for evil. The development and inclusion of the Siri intelligent voice assistant on the iPhone 4S is an example of how technological advancements can be a good thing and no matter what a user’s personal opinion of Siri is, we must all agree that is represents an exciting future for human mobile interaction. With that in mind, developers involved in the jailbreak community also have the ability to modify Siri behavior, making her dance to the beat of their drum, which isn't always a good thing.
Devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch have an almost unlimited array of features, and with every next-generation release, that feature set is expanding through the use of more advanced hardware and more intuitive and intelligent software. You only need to look at the original iPhone to see the progress through the years, with the addition of new hardware sensors and faster processors along with serious advancements made within iOS.
The HTC One V - which is suspected to be releasing in black, purple and grey for those not partial to the Zune brown coloring demoed at MWC - is quite a similar smartphone to the preceding Desire S, so switching ROMs between each device would make more than a little sense.
When it comes to apps it can prove to be somewhat difficult for developers to get their apps noticed due to the fact that between the iOS App Store and Google Play hub, there are close to one million apps available to users. It also stands to reason that certain apps and categories are always going to be more popular than others, with social networking and photography apps as well as games always likely to be a user’s first port of call on the respective app stores.
NBA JAM, that classic basketball simulator from way back in the 90's, has finally been ported through to Android, having been present in the App Store for the best part of a year.
Samsung may be keeping the Samsung Galaxy S III under its hat for the time being, but that hasn't stopped supposed press images leaking left right and indeed, center.
Although the Retina display of the new iPad is inarguably the highlight of the new features, the 5 megapixel iSight camera certainly plays a significant supporting role in proceedings.
Yes, you read that right! Stefan Esser - better known by his online pseudonym i0n1c - has demonstrated an untethered jailbreak on his iPad 3rd-gen running iOS 5.1 on video.
