There is no doubt about the fact that iPhone is one of the most popular cell phone out there. The argument for a longer battery life on the iPhone is relative in terms of its user requirement. If used as a cell phone, for the primary purpose that it has been designed for, the battery life would be fine and will last probably all day. However, if someone likes to use it as portable computer which I assume most iPhone users are doing, for checking email, web browsing, playing games etc, then the battery is comparable to that of any standard notebook at best.
Apple is expected to announce the new iPhone OS 3.1 firmware at their “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it” event this Wednesday. All iPhone users who have either jailbroken or unlocked their iPhone with firmware 3.0.x should avoid updating to iPhone OS 3.1 unless the infamous Dev-Team releases updated versions of redsn0w and ultrasn0w for firmware 3.1.
The final version along with general availability of the highly anticipated iPhone OS 3.1 firmware is expected to be announced on September 9th, in Apple’s “Rock and Roll” event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. Here’s a list of features that will be part of the new firmware, based on the feature set of iPhone OS 3.1 Beta 1, Beta 2 and Beta 3 come September 9th.
Recently, Google’s new doodle with its theme of "unexplained phenomenon" caused a big buzz on the web world. Everyone came up with their own versions of stories on their sites, Facebook and Twitter pages explaining why Google has chosen a UFO to display upon their search engine website depicting a flying saucer sucking away the second "O" in Google with its tracking beam.
Google normally changes its logo on the Google.com homepage to mark important events. Today, it mysteriously changed its homepage logo to a UFO with a link to the search terms "unexplained phenomenon" leaving many wondering what event the doodle is intended to represent.
The Mozilla Foundation has just released a new version of Firefox, codenamed Fennec for all Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.0 or later. The main focus of Fennec is to bring decent desktop browser like functionality to Windows Mobile devices which are currently lacking a browser like Safari is for iPhone.
Apple has started working on the upcoming update v10.6.1 to address all the bugs and shortcomings which is hampering the current retail release of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (GM Build 10A432). Word of Apple has got hold of the complete change log (seed notes) of OS X 10.6.1 Build 10B503 which has been released to a selected pool of private testers and it includes stability, compatibility and security fixes.
Ready to install cooked ROMs of Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23041 are now available for a variety of popular Windows Phones. Those of you who were having problems in cooking ROMs can now download these ready-to-install cooked ROMs of Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23041 for the following handsets.
Take Android for a ride on Windows. Test and run the complete emulated mobile Android OS experience on Windows without having to download and install the SDK. You can even install Android compatible apps on it.
The 2009 US Open Tennis Championship is underway at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. The tournament which has started today will last for 14 days from 31st August till 13th September 2009. Online streaming sites such as UStream, Justin.tv and the official US Open website will be broadcasting the event LIVE. You can watch the top tennis players in the World including 5 times defending champion Roger Federer as he competes for one of the biggest prized crown of the year!
