In case you opted for Google Nexus S 4G on Sprint and were looking for root, then your wait is now over. For those who don’t know, Google Nexus S 4G is WiMax version of original Nexus S for Sprint customers and has, more or less, identical features and specifications. The credit for this guide goes to kpkimmel, Senior XDA developer and Android hacker, who claims this as a safe method and you can’t miss it if you follow rooting instructions to detail.
Apple has submitted a patent that shines a light on how future displays will behave. This patent introduces a way to ensure privacy on portable devices by making the contents of the screen invisible to anyone who's not vertically looking at the device.
Your next iPhone could feature a number of new sensors for working out your location, temperature and even mood according to an interview with Benedetto Vigna.
We've all got drawers, cupboards and other nooks and crannies stuffed chock full of old technology, be it phones, games consoles or MP3 players. If only there was an easy way to get hard, cold cash for them. Granted there are solutions like eBay and Craigslist out there but there are various barriers to entry for both of those options. Now Amazon is joining the fray by adding electronics to their trade-in program - including iOS devices.
Sony hasn't been having a great year as far as security is concerned. After a hack last month and quite a few ever since, it was just two days ago that another exploit was found, bringing all online services down once again. In an already bad week for Sony, F-Secure is now reporting that an actual scam site is hosted on Sony's Thai domain, sony.co.th.
Taking screenshots on Android phones and tablets has always been a pretty jumbled up issue. I do remember the time when taking a screenshot on my HTC Wildfire was actually real-time tinkering and hacking with my Wi-Fi network etc. However as development for Android gathers pace every day, there is now an app available that not only takes screenshots on your phone / tablet but also allows saving images in PNG or JPEG formats. The app under discussion is Screenshot ER for Android and according to its developer, ftgg99 from XDA, “ER is for emergency room, because it works where nothing else does”.
Google's Chrome browser is probably the most streamlined and minimalistic of all major web browsers out there. Now Google is stripping out the address bar as we know it, and only displaying when it's really necessary, at least if this obscure feature in the latest Canary build is brought down to the stable channel.
Sometimes we're all so preoccupied with gaining friends and followers that we're sometimes missing one of the most important metrics we can use to measure our performance on social media sites - who's unfollowing us?
Verizon just don't seem to be able to keep a lid on it these days, with executives leaking information about smartphone left, right and indeed center. The latest comes courtesy of CFO Fran Shammo with the news that Apple is planning to bring a world phone to market.
We already featured a rather interesting iPad app today, but we're not done. InStyle is an iPad app that lets you picture yourself with 200 convincingly-rendered hairstyles (50 if you're using the free version).
