Bad news from Cupertino this morning as Apple front man Steve Jobs is taking a second leave of absence due to health related issues. The first leave of absence came in January 2009 when he took 6 months to rest and recoup from a “nutritional ailment”. This resulted in the SEC looking into Steve’s illness … Read more
In case you missed it, we have been posting some information on how to Jailbreak your iPhone over the weekend that we help would help some folks better understand what it is and what it does. We also do a write up about where to go and pay for non Apple approved apps that have … Read more
I guess you know your mobile OS has made it when there’s a hit rap tribute to it on Youtube: While I’ve got you in a Youtube levity mood, here’s another more high production value report expose on a Google device running an unnamed fork of Android. What, I never said it was a fast … Read more
Well the good ol boys at Boy Genius Report got some interesting details on some new Blackberry’s that will soon be hitting the market. First up is the upgrade to the Curve, codenamed “Apollo”. Nothing too fancy or aesthetically different on this one. Just some more horsepower and added memory along with OS 6.1. More … Read more
It’s apparently an early version with just a nicer look to it, it doesn’t do the music cloud syncing, but if you want to get down with a taste of Honeycomb and you know how to push in a /system/app-level native application (need root first of all and no, you don’t install it like some … Read more
I know what you’re thinking, “Oh man I just wish my embedded Gmail app were black like the non-Gmail Android email client, preferably a relatively new version,” ain’t that right? Well today’s your lucky day because thanks to ecsnead69 from Droid Forums for somehow making this happen and XDA’s drexman8244 for ripping out an APK … Read more
With a large percentage of Windows Phone users coming from a Window Mobile background, one of the seeming absent features in their new devices is the ability to backup their phone. Obviously calendar/contacts/mail/etc are all backed up on the cloud, but in terms of apps, settings, and everything else, you’re out of luck. Fortunately, it … Read more
Thanks to NoLED by madmack who’s hailin’ out of Boston, not having an LED for notifications off my small list of Nexus S let-downs. Basically it uses the screen to notify you of whatever you tell it to notify you about. Highly configurable, you can set it to blink briefly with specified delays, sporadically pop … Read more
So Amazon has been working on their own Android market. That pisses me off on its own but get this, Amazon, not the developers, will set the prices for apps on their market. Developers upon submission may declare an MSRP to Amazon, so long as it is equal or no greater than the price of … Read more
If you have an iPhone, somewhere somehow you have either read about, or talked with someone that has Jailbroke their iPhone and told you all about how great it is to to be able to use Facetime over 3G or the most popular reason a lot of people jailbreak their iPhone, tethering. Or maybe you … Read more
Dave Amenta is at it again. 2 days after releasing a homebrew LED flashlight app, he has now released another homebrew app to change the accent theme color on Samsung devices. Even better, the color can be chosen using slider, rather than with RGB codes. Just select the color off the chart, then choose that … Read more
If you are waiting for the Honeycomb Android 3.0 Tablets to start hitting the market, then this should be some good news for you. One of the most talked about Tablets at the CES Show was the LG G-Slate heading to T-Mobile sometime this year. Now it seems to have made it’s presence known to … Read more