An iPhone user has found a way to bypass the handset’s passcode lock screen and access the phone application. A few button presses are all that’s involved. When faced with the passcode lock screen, tap emergency call, type in a random number, tap the call button, and press the lock button on top of the phone immediately after. Hey presto! …
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The BlackBerry PlayBook has been demoed live for the first time, with its multitasking and Flash capabilities given a thorough airing. Although the PlayBook has been discussed and pictured to death, the tablet itself had been kept well under wraps — until now. At the launch of the PlayBook, the anticipated slate was locked behind glass, lest a stray tech …
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Dell’s first foray into smart phones, the Venue Pro, has shown up priced and tagged with a release date, together with a load of new specs. The Windows Phone 7 handset with Qwerty keyboard will be available for £500 on November 8, on the Expansys website. This is the only Windows Phone 7 mobile currently offered SIM-free. Microsoft has kept …
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Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, MeeGo and Symbian will all run Adobe Flash Player 10.1 in the future, joining Android and HP’s WebOS 2.0 platform. Apple’s iOS is now the only major smart phone platform that will not allow it. Flash 10.1’s Windows Phone 7 and Symbian debuts were made official by Adobe at its MAX conference in Los Angeles. No timeline …
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Orange spends a fortune telling you to turn off your phone during a movie, but new customer research suggests it should probably put a little more focus on its iPhone services. The company was rated the lowest in terms of customer satisfaction for iPhone users, with 15 per cent planning to move to a different network, according to YouGov’s iPhone …
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Santa might as well make his elves redundant: kids would rather Steve Jobs fill their stockings with expensive Apple gear. The iPhone 4, iPod touch and iPad were the three most wanted gifts among children aged 5 to 16, according to the Duracell Toy Report, the Telegraph reports. Nearly four in ten children questioned wanted something from the Apple cave …
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Apple’s imperial march to smart phone domination is smoothly proceeding, with the company now selling more handsets than BlackBerry makers RIM and closing in on Nokia. The launch of the iPhone 4 in June resulted in a huge Q3 (July to September) in terms of global smart phone shipments, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Apple stormed into second place, …
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HP’s first attempt at a Windows 7 tablet, the HP Slate 500, is squarely aimed at the business world, and it doesn’t quite look like the iPad competition we were looking for. it will run on Windows 7 Professional and boasts an 8.9-inch LED-backlit multitouch display, 1.86GHz Atom Z540 processor, 2GB of RAM and a 64GB solid-state drive. Also on …
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Dastardly game developer Rovio is trick or treating the App Store, releasing a Halloween-themed version of Angry Birds for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The spooky app can be bought for 59p and has already catapulted to the number one spot in the app charts. You launch your suicidal feathered friends against Halloween-themed backgrounds, complete with pumpkins, ghosts and …
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Nokia is bringing forward user interface updates planned for Symbian 4, which it has effectively scrapped as a separate future product. “You can buy a Nokia smart phone confident that any improvements introduced later to the Symbian platform, such as the user interface, can be made available to download on your device as well,” the company said in a statement. …
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