The latest OS for iPhone included many cool new features and apps, but they came at a price. Each time your phone attempts to find your location, communicates with iCloud or has any lingering apps running in the background, your battery drains. Although a slow and steady battery drain is to be expected, iPhone users with iOS 5 are experiencing quicker drainage than with previous versions of the OS.
Google has a lot riding on Android 4.0, A.K.A. Ice Cream Sandwich. The first release of Android to combine the chaos of all previous releases of the mobile operating system with the flair of Honeycomb, 4.0 will be the first version of Android to be used on both smartphones and tablets.
Apple has started selling factory-unlocked, contract-free models of its iPhone 4S from its online Store in USA, Redmond Pie has learned.
Most of you may know already know about this, but co-founder and former CEO of the world’s most valuable company Steve Jobs’ annual salary was just $1. Details after the jump!
Some have argued that Google has made a bit of a mess of its Ice Cream Sandwich release. After all, unlike closest rival Apple, which ported its latest mobile OS throughout the entire (hardware competent) iDevice range, many, many decent devices across the expansive range of Android smartphones (Nexus One, LG Optimus X, HTC Desire HD, to name a few) will be limited to the crumbs of Gingerbread - much to the annoyance of many Droidsters.
With iOS 5.0.1 having now been made public, attention has swiftly turned to the jailbreak potential. As was the case with iOS 5.0, Sn0wbreeze has been updated to version 2.8b11 to cater for Apple's latest release.
A mere two days have passed since Mozilla dropped the official final release of Firefox 8 for public consumption, and already, Mozilla has seeded the first beta version of Firefox 9, and we used to complain about Chrome having the fastest release cycles.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia's brand new Windows Phone 7 smartphone. In fact, it's the Finnish firm's first handset to be packing Microsoft's mobile operating system, and to say there is a lot riding on it is the understatement of the century.
Hot on the heels of the developer release, Apple has just released the first of presumably many updates to iOS 5 – dubbed as iOS 5.0.1 - and just like that, it's jailbroken!
Apple has just released an updated version of its nearly month-old iOS 5, for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. There was a lot of toil and moil involved in creating iOS 5, and with several pre-release betas being thrown out to developers in the months leading up to release, it was almost inevitable that there would be a swift update after the public finally got their greasy paws on iOS 5.0.
