It’s Christmas time! when most of you must have got iPhone or iPod touch as your Christmas presents. We have comprehensive guides here covering Jailbreaking, Unlocking, Apps and Games reviews, other tips and tricks for both iPhone and iPod touch. I thought it was the right time to do a blog post where i collect all the popular articles, and present it to you so that you don't have to dig them on site.
We are giving away 5 (five) keys of PushFix 2.0 for unlocked iPhone 3.x for free with absolutely no strings attached. To qualify for the giveaway, you must have a jailbroken + hacktivated/unlocked iPhone (which is not activated with AT&T) because there is no point in giving it away to those who don't need it. You are also required to join RedmondPie.com and PushFix.info facebook fanpages (if you haven’t already) and then leave a comment here on this post you are reading with a legitimate email address for contact. Winners will be notified by email.
Swype is a new, faster and easier way for text entry on your smartphone. With Swype, you can type at a rate of 50 words per minute with one single continuous finger motion without having to lift the finger from your screen. Folks over at XDA have extracted the Swype keyboard which is installed by default on Samsung Omnia II on Verizon. You can now use it with any Windows Mobile based WVGA device, including the HTC HD2.
There are always some people who stagger behind to get Christmas gifts in time for their loved ones. As the 25th December is already on in some parts of United States, these late comers must be running around and wondering as to which store can they find open to buy gifts etc as their last moment effort. Well there is a good news for them. Though unfortunate for the employees, Scarlett has informed that there are a few stores that will almost certainly remain open through the Christmas Day on 25th, depending on the area you living in.
As the pre-Christmas sale offers draws to a close, retailers are now shifting their focus on offering amazing discounts right after Christmas as the after Christmas sales. Offers this year promises to be even more spectacular then it has been over the years. All the major online retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, American Girl stores, Newegg, Target, Kmart, Amazon and the likes are going to offer discounts of upto 75% off on different types of items. In fact Walmart already has a dedicated page which shows off their after Christmas sales discounts.
Did you forgot to get a Christmas Eve present for one of your loved ones? Well you need to not to worry now. Walmart this year has decided to keep all their stores open nation wide until 8 PM local time on December 24th, 2009. Stores though will not be open on Christmas Day i.e. 25th, but will re-open on December 26th on the Boxing Day.
Ever wished to have got the powerful Sense UI from HTC Hero on your Motorola Droid? Droid, which ships with Android 2.0 has got the plain and simple interface which comes as stock from Android 2.0 OS. But now thanks to folks over at AllDroid, you can now get the attractive looking Sense UI like theme right on your Motorola Droid.
According to informed sources at BGR, Apple has asked a few selected developers to prepare their apps that should support full screen resolution, and should be designed in a way to run on a larger screen rather than a 320×480 resolution screen of the iPhone. This news have given strength to the belief that Apple in its labs, has been discreetly preparing the long-rumored 7-inch tablet device to be made public in an event held in January 2010. Rumor also has it that a 9, and 11 inches tablets will follow this 7-inches tablet soon after.
Those of you who have activated your iPhone through an unauthorized carrier (aka hacktivation) on iPhone 3.x, then your Push Notification functionality in most cases will be broken. Even if you have tried getting it to work through “PushFix” via iPhoneil available in Cydia, it wont work as that fix uses a single shared certificate for all users who have installed it. This causes battery drainage and huge use of cellular data access.
According to the latest report from DigiTimes, Apple has contacted OmniVision regarding 5 megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) orders for the next generation iPhone 4G model which is expected to hit shelves in summer 2010. The order, being placed is for around 45 million CMOS sensors, which is double the estimated from this year. OmniVision is the same company which supplied the 3.2 megapixel CIS for Apple’s iPhone 3GS.
