The battle of the best is a continuing fight and when we look at the third quarter of 2011 we see that Samsung has taken the lead. We aren’t just talking about a slight lead here either.
Unless their chipset has already been exploited and jailbroken on a previous device, it takes a lot of time for the iOS jailbreaking community to come with a jailbreak for a new iOS device. The iPhone 4S and iPad 2, both of which are based on a still (bootrom) unexploited dual-core A5 chip, haven’t received a jailbreak for iOS 5 yet, but it appears that they’ll be getting one soon as a certain eminent iPhone hacker has let us know that the iPhone 4S has already been jailbroken with a jailbreak for iPad 2 in the works.
Keeping your music, movies, TV shows and photo library in sync across multiple devices emerged as one of the biggest first-world problems with the rise in popularity of smartphones and tablets a few years ago. The issue has only recently been resolved to a certain extent thanks to solutions such as Apple’s iCloud and Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive, but managing data - and keeping it in sync - is still not as seamless as we would like it to be. Adobe is attempting to solve the photo library syncing issue to the fullest possible extend with their new Carousel apps for iOS and OS X which, well, keeps your photos in sync. Check it out after the break!
One of the first things bloggers do when they attend an event where a new smartphone is announced is compare said smartphone’s performance against others, more established names in the smartphone industry. Our friends over at SlashGear did exactly this at yesterday’s Nokia World, where Nokia announced its first Windows Phone 7-based smartphone called the Lumia 800, comparing its browser performance against the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S II.
The jailbreak community presents the perfect opportunity for developers to plug the holes which exist with each and every iOS release. Apple's fifth iteration of its mobile operating system has brought forth some great new features, but there is, and always will be, room for improvement.
It's really not a great time to be involved with Research In Motion. Take the company's tablet, for instance, the PlayBook was announced to much fanfare not that long ago, and after its release, some people went and bought one, not a lot, but some. Now the Canadian firm has had to delay the next big software update for the PlayBook, and things are getting worse for the beleaguered company.
The patent system is a meticulous, drawn-out system, and it often takes inventors and innovators years to finally be acknowledged as the brains behind the ideas.
So we know Siri is just about the coolest thing this year in mobile technology, but though still limited by its creation, there are companies out there looking to expand on Siri's usefulness. Queue ThinkGeek.
With Steve Jobs' eagerly anticipated biography hitting all major outlets in the last couple of days, many fans of the late innovator have consulted the iBookstore in order to get a closer look at the man behind the company.
Nokia is still hard at work with Nokia Maps; said to be one of the best features on their own devices. They have now ventured out to bring Nokia Maps to all Android and iOS touting devices out there in the market.
