Shortly after the untethered jailbreak was released for iOS 4.2 by GreenPoisOn, they, along with various other hacker development camps will be rushing to get their jailbreak ready for 4.3. We know form some of our developer friends that they have been playing with 4.3 for a while now, but no word on the official … Read more
So I decided to try again to use the iPhone WordPress app and write about Skyfire, the flash capable mobile browser for the iPhone that has just been updated. There are a bunch of fixes included in this update that you can check out in the screen shot below. So head on over the the … Read more
I’ve mentioned MyBookie a number of times here. It’s a Windows Phone game/Facebook app that lets you bet on real sports with virtual money and it’s getting positive reviews across the board. And it’s about to get a sweet upgrade. Coming this Sunday, on Facebook you’ll be able to add Office Pools so you can … Read more
Everyone’s pointing fingers these days but it looks like the same exact bug that caused excess data on Windows Phones also affects iPhones. It’s the same issue. The Yahoo IMAP servers returned 25x the data than it is supposed to in WP tests and it looks to be the same here. Within Windows tested it … Read more
So Engadget just posted their Verizon iPhone 4 review and we all know that the hardware is almost identical. The fight has always been about the networks though. A few surprises here (at least for me). First off, you can still degrade the signal by touching that spot on the VZ iPhone so that hasn’t … Read more
App downloads are only one metric but getting someone to download an app just to have them uninstall it doesn’t do you a lot of good. Well analytics firm Localytics tracked Android, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 apps and found that the rate of one-time app usage was around 26%. That’s pretty high. … Read more
If you blog from your iPhone, iPod, or iPad then there is a new update fro you to get rid of some of the bugs you may have been experiencing. Honestly I don’t blog a whole lot from my iPhone but it is a nice fallback to have when there is breaking news that I … Read more
You can say it’s quantity over quality if that makes you feel better but the Q4 figures from NPD show that Android swept the market with 53% of phone sales. Adding to the pummeling, as speculated, Windows Mobile outsold Windows Phone 7. And worse yet “Windows Phone 7 also entered the market with lower share … Read more
Mobile security is a misnomer at this point. There are very few things in the way of someone creating and deploying malicious code and it looks like proof of concept botnet code is set to be publicly revealed. The app can hide itself on the phone and send out text messages that don’t leave a … Read more
With Google’s release of information on Android 3.0 we learn more about how the OS multitasks. And it seems like the Playbook is the best multitasker of the tablets. Shocking. Getting to it, here’s how Google describes multitasking on Android 3: Multitasking is a key strength of Android and it is central to the Android … Read more