Acer s200 Neotouch unboxing
Only had it a few hours and decided to do a quick unboxing. Initial impressions are, its a nice sleek device, little plasticy but minimalistic and good value. Full review to follow in around a week.
Phones
Today is a sn0w day, unlock your iPhones
Today is the day a lot of iPhone users have been waiting for, after agonising over updating to 3.1.2 firmware in the fear of losing the ability to be able to sim unlock your iPhone in the future, that is all about to change.
GEORGE HOTZ is about to release blacksn0w which is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app
If you are a loyal blackra1n user who kept the blackra1n.app on your iPhone, run it. You will see Icy replaced by an option "ra1n". Install this to upgrade your app. After upgrading, run blackra1n.app again. You will see "sn0w". Install this, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone.
If you are new to the scene, just looking for an unlock, finally ready to upgrade to 3.1.2 and the accompanying baseband, willing to restore for the latest and greatest, or stuck on the "Connect to iTunes" screen, you are in luck. Jailbreaking and unlocking have never been easier. Go to blackra1n.com, click on the logo corresponding to your operating system, run the app, and click "make it ra1n". When your phone reboots, you’ll see blackra1n.app. Run this, install blacksn0w, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone.
Also, a note. This may be the best iPhone users ever have it. Be sure, if you have a 3GS or iPod Touch 3, to use Cydia’s "On File" or Firmware Umbrella in order to be able to restore to 3.1.2 in the future. And as always, the baseband cannot be downgraded, so be *super* careful with updates if you need the unlock.
Orange / O2 iPhone comparison chart
Found a pretty handy price comparison chart at Mobile Computer. Can’t say there is much in it but I guess the majoy benefit is for those who have shoddy reception on O2 have another option.
GSM DROID with multitouch pinch-to-zoom demoed on video hating America
It seems Verizon has made a bit of a mess of the upcoming Motorola Droid Engadget reports:
The GSM flavor of Motorola’s DROID, or Milestone as it will be known in Europe, has multitouch built-in to the UI. For reasons we can only assume have something to do with an unspoken intellectual property agreement between Google and Apple, the US version of the user interface lacks multi-touch features like pinch-to-zoom even though the underlying 2.0 OS supports multitouch events. However, the video of a GSM DROID headed to Europe clearly shows this feature at the 3 minute mark. No really, see for yourselves after the break.
Orange announce iPhone pricing
Orange today announced that it will launch iPhone in the UK on 10th November. iPhone 3G and 3GS will be available in Orange stores on Tuesday November 10 from 7am*, with new great value Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go price plans for both business and consumer customers.
Orange iPhone Pricing:
Orange is launching a range of specifically designed iPhone plans and price points all with excellent data usage options, to ensure as many people as possible can enjoy iPhone on Orange.
· Pay Monthly – iPhone 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models will be available on multiple monthly plans, with the 3GS free on all £45 plans and the 3G model free from £30 plans (both with a 24-month contract). For those looking for full all-inclusive packages, a new high end “traveller” offer with inclusive roaming call and data allowance is available at £125 month. All plans include unlimited** anytime, anywhere UK mobile data usage on Orange’s data network, which has the largest 3G population coverage in the UK. In addition customers will also get free unlimited use of the UK’s largest single public Wi-Fi network, BT Openzone.
· Pay as You Go (PAYG) – Customers topping-up by £50 at purchase will be able to buy an iPhone 3G on Orange PAYG for £333. Any customer buying an iPhone on Orange PAYG will automatically get 250MB of data each month, plus unlimited use of the UK’s largest single public Wi-Fi network, BT Openzone, for 12 months.
· SME Plans – Similar to PAYM Consumer pricing, with an additional £50 monthly tariff.
· iPhone tethering bundles – Customers wanting to use their iPhone to get mobile broadband on their laptop can take out additional bundles starting at £5 per month.
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Bionic Ear for iPhone released – now you can hear everything!
Every day we are traversing the latest (released merely few hours ago) iPhone apps like a rat that is sifting through trash bin. Naturally we find a lot of junk apps, and only few of them offer “more quality, more depth” as certain befriended Dutch iPhone developer says about his apps.
Today we have found Bionic Ear:
WebOS web market share growing rapidly, leaves Windows Mobile in the dust
Prethinking has an excellent article utilising several graphics to illustrate the uptake of WebOS and how certain other OS’ are failing. Deep down we all know these results are true but it’s quite hard to believe it’s happening. Of course it probably doesn’t help that the like of the HTC HD2 are not hitting Stateside and the current phones in the Windows Mobile line are a little out of date when compared to Android and WebOS.
Palm Stock Scary…
Well, life was good at Palm with webOS, the Pre and upcoming Pixi garnering mindshare. Then came T-Mobile’s myTouch followed by the Verizon/Motorola "DroidDoes" campaign, the BlackBerry spots during the World Series, not to mention HTC jumping into the fray with their own branding campaign, and suddenly, Palm’s future, according to investors, isn’t so bright.
Barron’s Eric Savitz did a post in Tech Trader Daily talking about the scary happenings.
> Definitely, Apple’s disabling of iTunes again on the Pre must have hurt.
> And Sprint’s earnings call showed a noted shift in focus to devices from HTC and Motorola.
> A post by Motley Fool’s Eric "Candy Thief" Bleeker was especially harsh.
> Earlier in the week, "the ChangeWave report on smartphone market share wasn’t stellar for Palm (held flat month-to-month)
Maybe a sugar (Halloween candy) and sports overload this weekend will make investors forget the week that was — where Palm fell from $15 to $11.59.
One can only hope.
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Phonearena video review of Blackberry Storm 2
Phonearena have review the Blackberry Storm 2. A fairly interesting phone that follows up a phone that was somewhat flawed on it’s initial release. From the looks of things many of the problems have been worked out and the device has been refined to am more competant device. Check after the break for the video:
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