With Nokia's recent issues with poor sales and dodgy software, it's perhaps unsurprising that rumors are once again abound that the mobile phone behemoth is batting its eyelashes at a 3rd party operating system with the hopes of improving its ailing fortunes. This time it's Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.
Yesterday Verizon made the iPhone 4 available for pre-order to its existing customers only, and managed to break the carrier's own sales records in just two hours. Perhaps most interestingly, those orders came in between the hours of 03:00 and 05:00. That's the morning folks!
According to a report by MacStories, Apple could possibly be releasing another major iOS update on 14th of Feb. The iOS version to be released will be 4.3 which will also include potential fixes of several bugs and improved support for AirPlay.
The following instructions will help iPhone 4 unlockers to update to iOS 4.2.1 while keeping the old 1.59.00 baseband, jailbreak it untethered with GreenPois0n RC5, and then unlock it with Ultrasn0w.
We're firmly in rumor territory now, and MacRumors has managed to piece a few tidbits together that certainly seem to point towards iOS 4.3 being released to the public on February 13th, along with a possible iPad 2 announcement.
Members of Chronic Dev Team have just confirmed that the upcoming GreenPois0n RC5 untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 will support animated custom boot logo on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Video after the break.
First of Verizon iPhone 4 reviews are now popping up on the Internet. From Wall Street Journal, to Macworld, to Engadget, to TechCrunch, all have great things to say about CDMA based iPhone 4.
The well known iPhone developer, chpwn, has finally released VoiceActivator for iPhone. This new jailbreak tweak brings a world of new voice commands like the ones in Android to iOS powered devices.
During Google's big Honeycomb announcement today, the company also debuted its online App Store called, unimaginatively, the Android Market Web Store. Yes it's the Android Market in handy dandy web form, but there's more magic involved under the hood.
Google hosted an android 3.0 honeycomb showcase event today at 10 a.m Pacific. The event kick-started by the quote "Our approach has been to equip developers with best possible toolkit then get out of their way"
