iOS is undoubtedly a great mobile OS. Despite losing out to Android in terms of sheer activations, customer polls suggest iPhone users are not only happier with their devices, but more likely to stick with Apple’s smartphone range should they outlive their increasingly lengthy contract expiration dates.
We brought you the information at the beginning of the new year that Apple were planning on holding a small scale event in New York, stepping away from their usual event home within San Francisco. At the time of writing there wasn't a great deal of information available about the specifics of the event, other than it was rumored that Eddy Cue, the companies Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services would likely be in attendance.
Without a doubt, 2011 was a big year for the smartphone industry. We had the iPhone 4S, two new Google Nexus Phones and Nokia took to Windows Phone 7 like a duck to a frozen like - it got in there eventually.
Safely Listen To Music From Your iDevice When Washing With iShower Bluetooth-Enabled Speaker [VIDEO]
Although our smartphones, tablets and gizmos in general are perceived as convenient for use anywhere, anytime, this notion isn’t strictly true. There is one place we daren’t take our prized gadgets – the bathroom.
If you work in an environment where your smartphone is constantly in danger of getting water-damaged, you can either a. get yourself a heavy, rugged phone like the Motorola Defy or, starting today, b. apply a waterproof, internal coating from Liquipel!
It came as no surprise back in November 2011 when Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was released, the game became the fastest grossing entertainment launch of all time - and this happened within only 24 hours. During the first full day of release, Modern Warfare 3 flew off the shelves 6.5 million times and amassed over $400 million for the owners of the franchise. Considering Modern Warfare 2 and Call Of Duty Black Ops had similar public reaction, the numbers, although significant, were somewhat expected.
Probably one of the most talked about features on the latest iteration of the Android operating system is the facial recognition unlock software that comes bundled with it. The ability to use your own face to unlock your mobile telephone or tablet is one of the coolest new updates we have seen implemented into a mobile operating system in recent times, but questions will always surround how secure this actually is.
In the November of last year, Apple seeded the initial beta release of iOS 5.1, which as usual was available to registered members of the iOS developer program. The first beta build of 5.1 (9B5117b) was available as download for the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2 and the third and fourth generations of iPod touch.
Regardless of you opinion on whether or not people should jailbreak their devices, one thing I'm sure we can all agree on is that we have seen the rise of some great development talent due to the community that has been created around the art of jailbreaking. The innovation, creativity and dedication that goes into producing some of the finest tools and utilities that exist within Cydia is commendable, even more so when you consider that a good proportion of them are available free of charge.
We opened the door to 2012 just over a week ago, and already we have been treated to some tantalizing technology goodness in the form of rumors, announcements of future releases and also some official press releases about delicious new products. One such delicious product was announced two days ago by Tokyo based Nikon, who have officially introduced the world to their new Digital-SLR camera, the D4.
