Sony's PlayStation 3 originally debuted in 2006, and has seen a face-lift and more than a few different models over the last 5 years. Could we be in for a shiny new addition to the PlayStation home console family soon? Probably not according to SlashGear.
Unfortunately, Cydia still doesn’t support the native multitasking / backgrounding feature which Apple introduced with iOS 4.x last year. What this means is that Cydia updates are installed whenever you start the app, followed by those annoying “Reloading Data” screens.
If you're a PS3 owner, there's a little chance you haven't heard of the Sony-Geohot row that's around for a while. For making PlayStation 3 exploits and jailbreak tools public, Sony filled a lawsuit against Geohot to which Geohot responded with this awesome video letting the world know about his hidden talent.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, a Chinese carrier named China Telecom has managed to unlock the CDMA based Verizon iPhone to run on their CDMA network.
Even though Apple didn’t attend MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2011, but Apple’s iPhone 4 took the top honors among all the smartphones when it was awarded “Best Mobile Device” award at the Global Mobile Awards ceremony.
We informed you yesterday how Apple's iBooks app refused to open digital books loaded with DRM if the device was jailbroken. Comex discovered that the app was checking if the operating system allowed it to execute an unsigned binary, and if it did, the book wouldn't open. Now both PwnageTool 4.2 and Sn0wbreeze 2.2 have been updated to include a fix, but what if you're already jailbroken using Redsn0w 0.9.6, 0.9.7 or GreenPois0n? Now thanks to a simple fix available on Cydia, you can now easily fix iBooks from the device itself.
Already a key part of any Android user's arsenal, DoubleTwist's AirSync has provided wireless media syncing for Google's mobile platform for a good while now, plugging a gap created by not anchoring the platform to a desktop client as Apple did with iOS and iTunes. Now, according to TNW, DoubleTwist has upped the ante by adding AirTwist, ala iOS’ AirPlay, making Android devices act as a standalone media server.
Only 2 weeks after Apple introduced subscription based service with the launch of "The Daily", Google has also launched it's subscription service which allows the publishers to charge for content as they like. The service is named "One Pass". Google announced the service today which according to them will provide publishers flexibility over payment models and control over the digital content for which they charge.
As we reported earlier, both PwnageTool 4.2 for Mac and Sn0wbreeze 2.2 for Windows are now available which can preserve baseband, and jailbreak iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on iOS 4.2.1 firmware.
Earlier today, we published a report about some of the details of iPhone 5 leaked straight from the component suppliers of iPhone. Surprisingly, based on the report, the Apple's new iPhone will feature a 4-inch display which will help Apple compete in display size with the counterpart Android sets.
