MicroSoft Kin is dead to no surprise, not even MS The Kin was DOA for almost everyone who reviewed it. It was basically a low feature, low capability smart phone that was not that smart, nor much of a phone, and yet still had the same cost of a phone. You HAVE to imagine that even the brain dead at MS mobile knew this was… Read More
A new iOS4 jailbreak Scam is out there, ClawPack. Avoid it. At first when I saw this, I thought it was a new jailbreak, but as I dug around, it turned out to be a scam. How do I know? I go to the iphone dev website to check, and there is was.. Update #3: Remember, there are scammers everywhere in the iPhone scene. The latest… Read More
The iphone 4 death grip drop call fail should be fixed with iOS4.0.1 First of all, the ‘grip of death!’ was not a complete shock. Based on my testing on the iphone 3 looking at the various ways reception can be compromised, I had a feeling that having the antenna on the outside could be an issue. And lo and behold.. It does. So, can software along fix… Read More
This is a test post from my iphone; its only a test. Dont bother reading it. Really, it’s just a test. I would just stop reading now. Sry. I’m even typing this on my iPhone so I can test saving a draft and then posting using the wordpress app. And given that I’m using wordpress 3.0, I would not be all that surprised if it does not work. And anyway, why… Read More
Will the new iphone4 antenna reduce dropped calls? Not if you hold it wrong The new iphone4 not only does not seem to significantly improve reception, but hold it the wrong way and it make is it worse.… Read More
Samsung Wave given out at the Samsung dev conference Today we got the Samsung wave test unit phone using the bada OS. So far, the phone OS worked pretty well, very responsive touch screen. Now there are more things I still need to check more things out, but not bad, not bad at all. However, the GPS does not work right off. Took a… Read More
Will multitasking on the iOS4 make backgrounder on jailbreak redundant? For those of you who have jailbroken iphones, and have read my top ten reasons to jailbreak, know about backgrounder. This is a great jailbreak app that allows you to run applications in the background. And its one of those apps that I have a hard time living without. Yes, I have a feeling it… Read More
Track how many minutes are left on your iphone with Quickmin A reader brought this to my attention. Quickmin is an app that will keep track of your min and warn you if you are getting low. This is best used with a family plan I would think unless you are on your cell phone ALL the time. What I really like about this app though… Read More
4 tips to improve your roomba’s performance I love my little Roomba, and most people you talk to love theirs too. However, as far vacuum cleaners go, they cannot really compete with a standard high power vacuum cleaner. Nor are they supposed to. However, here are 4 tips to get the most of your Roomba. 1. Maximize your battery life: Depending on… Read More
Will the iphone 4 with the new antenna layout reduce dropped calls? As all iphone users have experienced, I get my fair share of dropped calls. Actually, live in the the San Francisco / San Jose Bay area, I get more then my share. I wrote about ways to reduce dropped calls back in 2009 as a response. So when I saw the new antenna layout for… Read More
If I had a vuvuzela … Or at least download the iphone app Or not. I actually find the bloody things annoying. Since they are not going to be banned, what the heck, download the Vuvuzela app and be hated by people here too. Want to go to a pub and get free beer? Get this free app and blast it at the next futbal game. People will… Read More
Is the AT&T online ordering failure a factor of demand or just plan FAIL? begin rant <rant> If you have been trying to order the new iphone 4, I’m sure you have been frustrated with the errors messages you have been getting back from AT&T. “There was a problem with your request,” the error message reads. “P1015: We’re sorry, but we are experiencing a system error that prevents us… Read More
IPhone 4 higher graphics could mean shared graphics as well as shared code with iPad When the iphone 4 was announced, Steve made a big point about the higher resolution capability of iphone 4 with the new ‘Retina’ display. Now there is a bit of marketing hype there. Dissecting this would be a whole other post, but the upside is now there is a value proposition in putting high resolution… Read More
Twitter going to OAuth ONLY in 2 weeks. You have been warned. {UPDATE} Well, seem with all the issues Twitter has been having lately they have pushed this back a month, perhaps 2. But dont get lacks, its going to happen, so you may as well get on it now. The end time are nigh. Yes, for all of us first gen Twitter App dev’s our old… Read More
Foosball or table football on the ipad Just in time for the world cup eh? I just came across the video for this and it looks pretty cool. Supports single player and two players. And I guess 4 players if you don’t mind crowding around the thing. The physics and movement reaction looks pretty good for being a flat surface. I once… Read More
FIFA world cup futbal apps for iphone ipad I’m watching a bit of the world cup here and there, mostly to watch the US / ENG game, but I know there are futbal freaks out there so I though I would at least provide some info. Mashable has a post on the top 6 free World Cup futbal apps. The ESPN app looks… Read More
iphone 4, iOS4 already jailbroken within 1 day! ONE DAY people! Yes, even before the iphone 4 or known as iOS4 hits the market, its already jailbroken using a Pwnage Tool Bundle. Wow. And hoo dunnit? msft.guy Yup, the same guy who did the blacksn0w, ultrasn0w fix for jailbreak and baseband unlock for 3.1.3. He ALSO did the oS4 Beta jailbreak. Now, we… Read More
The fastest mobile phone could break the 1G mark by end of year Yes, just as we were starting to get used to the idea of a 1 gig processor in our phones, there is already rumor of a 1.5 gig Android phone on the way. And again, rumor control, but mobileCrunch reported that a phone called the HTC Scorpion could be coming to Verizon that not only… Read More
Andrioid 2.2 for HTC MyTouch and perhaps Ion Magic users? Oh lets hope so. Its total rumor, but I just read on androidandme.com that t-mobile will be updating 3G myTouch phones. That COULD also mean the Google Ion I/O phones we got in 2009, aka, the Magic. For those of you who still have your Google Ions, it has been stuck at 1.6 forever just… Read More
Virtual City. A new SimCity like game, that looks even better. Virtual City is a new iphone/ ipad game that is basically a take off of SimCity. However, if you look at the video, it looks way more detailed. The app is not out yet, scheduled for mid June. From watching the video, it looks pretty interesting and you can see people walking around. The normal… Read More