Morning is broken with the Pure Twilight, a digital radio that simulates the soft caress of natural morning light, easing you from the land of nod back to life, ready to face the day. Nothing to do with pasty emo vampires, the Twilight is a radio alarm clock with a big light-up dome on the …
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Apple Just as I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.2.1 this morning, MacStories reported that a “reliable source” claims iOS 4.3 will be available in mid-December, adding support for the Apple/News Corp. joint, iPad-only app, The Daily. This source tells MacStories: “Apple was already planning to release a new build of iOS 4.x in mid-December. Most specifically, they were …
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limera1n runs on Apple iOS devices. Cult of Mac With Apple’s recent release of the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.2.1, still warm on everyone’s plate, the iPhone Dev Team has successfully jailbroken the update. Thanks to a combination of past hacks (pwnage2, arm7_go, 24kpwn, and limera1n), the iPhone Dev Team was able to crack through the …
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Angry Birds developer Rovio has clearly hinted at a Christmas edition of the game, which could be heading to the iPhone and possibly Android handsets soon. On Rovio’s Facebook and Twitter pages, the developer has replaced the usual Angry Birds image with a picture of the annoyed red bird above, complete with a Santa hat. The Finns also tweeted on …
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An anonymous tipster leaked a pair of images of what is being called the Motorola Olympus. The giant Android smartphone should feature a Tegra 2 processor, a front-facing camera, and a screen in the vicinity of 4 inches or larger. Like the recently outed LG Star, the handset could be Motorola’s first dual-core handset when it arrives, presumably in early …
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iPhone 3G owners have been suffering since the iOS 4.0 update, which made the phone brain-meltingly slow. The pain continued with iOS 4.1, but now iOS 4.2 is finally here, and there’s a wee chink of light at the end of the tunnel. The iOS 4.2 update does bump up the speed of the iPhone 3G, according to our tests. You …
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Virgin Media is planning its own Wi-Fi network. The supplier of the UK’s fastest cable broadband network is exploring the possibility of installing wireless access points across the country. The Telegraph reports the Virgin Media Wi-Fi network would consist of routers wired into green kerbside cabinets, offering 5Mbps speed. The idea is to plug gaps in 3G coverage with Wi-Fi …
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Using Twitter is all about being able to say what’s on your mind — or read what’s on other people’s — whenever and wherever you want. As such, a good Twitter client is just as much about accessibility as it is quantity of features. Whether you’re a casual user or a self-confessed tweetaholic, we’ve picked our five favourite iPhone Twitter …
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At a press conference this morning in New York, Acer introduced a number of new touch devices, including a very eye-catching Android smartphone that’s due out in April 2011. According to Acer, the yet-unnamed device has the “soul of a tablet” but the capabilities of a smartphone, with one of the hallmark features being its 4.8-inch, 1,024×480-pixel touch screen. The …
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Dig out the white USB cables, Apple fans — the iOS 4.2.1 update for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch drops in your iTunes today. The update brings a whole heap of features that were already on the iPhone to the iPad, including marvellous multitasking. In our hands-on review of iOS 4.2 on the iPad, we thought being able to switch between …
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The C3-01 Touch and Type first showed its face at Nokia World a few months ago, and is now officially for sale on the Nokia Online Shop, SIM-free for £159. It’s a cute little stainless steel device that offers a numeric keyboard and basic touchscreen functionality. It runs on Symbian Series 40, so it’s likely to be very basic, but …
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Dell is now rolling out version 2.2 of Google’s Android operating system to its Streak enormophones in an over the air update, and we’ve had a go with a Streak running the upgrade. The most important benefit Streak owners will enjoy as a result of the upgrade is support for Flash Player 10, which will let Streakers cruise all manner …
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Infinity Blade, an upcoming iOS game with incredible graphics, has created a lot of buzz lately with its Unreal Engine. Now it looks like the first Android game built on the same engine will be out before Christmas. Dungeon Defenders: First Wave is a graphically advanced RPG/tower-defence game running on the Unreal Engine 3. An iOS version is definitely in …
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An Android update on the Google Nexus One caused a frenzy of excitement on Twitter, with people believing the first batch of Gingerbread had been baked. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, with the update that people thought to be Android 2.3 turning out to be Android 2.2.1 — a simple Froyo bug fix available …
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The other day I had to drag my kids along for some furniture shopping. Rather than endure whining and interruptions for half an hour, I handed over my iPhone–with the condition that the only apps they could use were e-books. We didn’t hear a peep from them the whole time. As I said in Five amazing e-books for kids and …
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