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Apple has finally announced a new update, iOS 4.1, for iOS devices. iPhone and iPod Touch users were facing several issues with iOS 4.0, which was released earlier in WWDC 2010.
Apple team has been testing iOS 4.1 firmware since last month and it will be available in the next week for users. Apart from bug fixes, iOS 4.1 comes with high dynamic range photos, HD video upload over Wi-Fi, TV show rentals and dedicated game center.
It’s 1st September today! Apple is holding a special music event at San Francisco. According to several reports from top sources, the company is going to unveil its new iPod Touch 4 lineup in today’s event.
Unlike other Apple events, this time they have planned to broadcast it live for Apple fans and followers. Previously, we had to depend on different blogs and media sites, which is not so cool option to follow latest happenings at such events.
When Samsung started its aggressive promotional activities to promote Samsung Galaxy S, it was almost sure that the phone is going to be hit. On top of that iPhone 4 failed to make an impact on the telecom market.
Now, Samsung is reporting that they have shipped over one million Galaxy S devices in the US. Well, it’s quite interesting to see that Samsung is doing an awesome business with new phone.
Motorola’s Droid 2 has finally been rooted! Yes, the developer at XDA forums has come up with a cool method to get the root access of the Droid 2 phones.
Sebastian Krahmer, the developer of Droid 2 root tool, has made it easier for users to run the applications that require superuser permissions. There are lots of applications available on the Android Market that requires rooted phones, and now it would be easier to get hands on such apps.
Apple had released a firmware update, iOS 4.0.2 and iPad OS 3.2.2, to fix the hole exploited by widely popular JailbreakMe 2.0 tool. The latest firmware update does not allow users to jailbreak their iDevices, which means the next jailbreak tool is the only solution to jailbreak the iOS.
The iPhone Dev has been receiving several requests to release a quick tool for iOS 4.0.2 and iPad iOS 3.2.2. Today, they have cleared all the rumors and speculations of their forthcoming tool.
We have been listening to iPhone 3G performance issues on recently launched iOS 4 software, but there is no appropriate fix available for the end users. iPhone 3G was included in the list of iOS 4 compatible phones, and it was expected to run smoothly on the new firmware update.
However, iOS 4 seems to have serious compatibility issues with the iPhone 3G and older devices. Apple had confirmed that they would provide a software fix for the issue, which is still not released.
Google’s Android phone, Nexus One, has gone out of stock. Yes, you read it right. A month back, Google had discontinued the direct purchase service from their site and made it available for the registered developers.
In today’s update on the official Android Developers blog, their team members have announced that the new Nexus One developer units will take some time to come out. HTC, the hardware partner of the Nexus One, is not finding difficulties to manufacture the devices.
The one-click root method has become popular in Android world. The developers are releasing the similar tools that can be used to root the device with less complex steps.
HTC Wildfire users were also waiting for such tool so that they can root the phones. An Android developer at XDA forums has come up with similar tool for HTC Wildfire. This one-click soft root allows users to gain the root access of the device.
Gaming industry has seen significant change in the level of user interest in last few years and the obvious reason for such increase in demand is the advancement in mobile phones. Microsoft is also integrating cool gaming experience in their upcoming Windows Phone 7.
Windows Phone 7 devices will be able to provide Xbox Live games for users. Today, they have announced a list of gaming titles that will be available for the Windows Phone 7 enabled mobile phones.
Apple’s iPhone 4 is not the only victim of antennagate issue! Motorola’s much hyped phone Droid 2 is also showing the symptoms of antenna-fever and the users have already started reporting it to the company.
This time the Droid 2 signal issue seems to be different from what we have heard and seen in iPhone 4 devices. Some Droid 2 users are claiming that the new phone has antenna reception problem and it appears without even touching to the actual device.