At Apple’s education event today Apple launched iTunes U, iBooks 2, and announced a partnership with major textbook manufacturers, but now authors won’t be the only ones with the power of the pen and paper. Apple’s newest addition to the Mac App Store is iBooks Author, a free application that puts the power of e-book [...]
Chronic Dev Team members Pod2G and DHowett are buried in work as they put the iPhone 4S jailbreak through its final stages of development before a public beta or release. They have made amazing progress given the setback of Apple’s A5 chip which solved the jailbreak prone flaws of the A4. A release is expected in the [...]
Corona has offered the untethered function to tethered jailbreaks for a short while now and is being updated rather frequently because it can be used as a simple fix in the future to turn a tethered jailbreak untethered. Cydia’s Jay Freeman (Saurik) announced the update of Corona to version 1.0-5 after it had been updated [...]
Lenovo has been the primary supplier for sample devices powered by Intels “Medfield” processor. With Medfield tablets soon to be available for purchase, smartphones are lacking with only one official device making its way to the market later this year. The Lenovo K800 will be the first Medfield smartphone arriving Q2 2012 on China Unicom. [...]
Intel’s President and CEO Paul Otellini will take the stage today at 4:30 PST in Venetian ballroom to introduce their latest in mobile processors. The “Medfield” processor appears to be the highlight of the show, but behind the scenes the “Clover Trail” mobile chip is lurking awaiting its announcement. Clover Trail will be specifically made [...]
Motorola has had countless leaks of the Droid 4 all leading up to a CES announcement. Motorola took the stage today and unveiled the Droid 4 available on Verizon with 4G LTE integration. Inside the Droid 4 has 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of on-board memory with a 32GB expansion slot for MicroSD. On the [...]
Today at CES, Huawei showcased its newest smartphone the Ascend P1 S. Huawei designed the phone to be as thin as possible, however, Huawei made it so thin that at 6.68mm thick it is thinner than Motorola’s 7.1mm thick Droid RAZR, a device named for its thin design. The thin design comes at a price [...]
When Google introduced Ice Cream Sandwich alongside the Galaxy Nexus their main focus was the smartphone with a quick mention of tablet support. Google, however, never mentioned TV support. Today at CES, Chinese electronics giant Lenovo introduced a 55-inch television, slated the K91, that relies on Android 4.0 or ICS as its operating system. Aside [...]
The arrival of a Sprint Galaxy Nexus on Ebay has grabbed the attention of the press, but Sprint might have well released an official statement or press release because Engadget discovered a Sprint ad for the Galaxy Nexus on Sprint with 4G LTE via CNET. The ad also clocked the Galaxy Nexus’ processor at 1.5GHz, [...]
Sony Ericsson has been keeping the press rolling already in 2012 with a lot of rumors about new devices coming at CES or even post-CES. These rumored devices include but are not limited to the “Nozomi,” Arc HD, “LT28at,” and the Xperia Ion, whose name was recently discovered after Sony Ericsson filed to trademark the name [...]
The Nokia Lumia 900 or “Ace,” also code-named the Eloko, is in large speculation right now as we approach CES, at which Nokia is rumored to announce the Lumia 900 on AT&T with 4G-LTE service. At the moment, no plans are public for the availability of the Lumia 900 in Europe or Asia. Twitter user [...]
Microsoft, previously critiqued for lack of visual taste, has brought their “A-game” with the Windows Phone interface slated “Metro.” The Metro interface has led Windows Phone to a competing level alongside iOS and Android and will soon be making its desktop debut in Windows 8. Microsoft’s Metro UI even has iOS users wanting a taste [...]
A recent holiday promotion featuring a Windows Phone slated the Nokia “Ace” or 900 left us grasping on to what little information we have about upcoming Windows Phone devices. The holiday promotion, while only displaying half of the device at a time, could have been enough to identify with Microsoft’s mystery device seen in a [...]
Sony’s Tablet S, originally priced starting at $499.99, just dropped $100 off of its price leaving it available for $399.99 with 16GB of on-board storage and $499.99 with 32GB. The price drop, effective as of today, also bundles with 5 classic PlayStation titles for free, 5 free movie rentals, and 180 days of Sony’s music services. Anybody [...]