Sony Ericsson’s latest multimedia-centric phone seems to be a serious iPhone contender with its HD-capable, 8.1 Megapixel camera which can shoot 720p video. It also flaunts 8GBs of storage, a 3.2” screen, out of the box Facebook and Twitter integration, and a plethora of other bells and whistles, which most likely will make it popular.
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Sony Ericsson Vivaz
Adding fuel to the already blazing bonfire of excited anticipation surrounding the tablet-sized product Apple is expected to announce on Wednesday, CEO Steve Jobs has being quoted as saying, “This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”
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Steve Jobs: Apple tablet "the most important thing I’ve ever done"
Despite a howl of complaints and even lawsuits filed by some disgruntled iPhone users, Apple reiterated that it supports AT&T as a great mobile partner, despite rumored moves to expand its iPhone partnerships in the U.S.
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Apple defends AT&T, downplays talk of multi-carrier inevitability
The first quarter of Apple’s 2010 fiscal year was another record breaking three-month frame for the company, which sold more Macs and iPhones than ever before. Monday, the company conducted a financial conference call with analysts and the press, and notes of interest follow.
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Notes of interest from Apple’s Q1 2010 conference call
Apple said Monday that first-quarter profits shot up more than 50 percent to $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per diluted share, on record sales of $15.68 billion for the three-month period ended December 26, 2009.
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Apple profits soar 50% on record sales of 3.36M Macs, 8.7M iPhones
Happy Sunday everyone! Like every Sunday, I take the day off and give you a summary of all the articles that were posted on the iPhone Download Blog this past week. InfiniDock adds unlimited icons to your iPhone dock iPhone Download Blog custom theme How to use multiple Exchange accounts on your iPhone RedSn0w 0.9 beta 3 Tutorial: jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 with RedSn0w 0.9 beta 3 Create your own custom iPhone theme with iPhone Theme Simulator Your iPhone can hurt you Tutorial: jailbreak your iPhone 3.1.2 with Sn0wBreeze Please make sure to share them on Twitter or Facebook if you find any of those interesting ” Wrapup of This Week’s iPhone Articles ” is an article by the iPhone Download Blog sponsored by the iPhone Store
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Wrapup of This Week’s iPhone Articles
I had heard several times about Sn0wBreeze but I never really paid attention to it because it seemed to be one of these tools that would never get out of beta. I was wrong! Today I received a couple emails from readers of the blog with more info about Sn0wBreeze, and Thomas even sent me a pretty detailed tutorial (thanks Thomas)
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Jailbreak Your iPhone 3.1.2 Using Sn0wBreeze
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) is bringing their Ovi Maps Navigation service to the Nokia N97 (along with a slew of other Nokia smartphones) on January 28th , but you don’t have to wait for the official update to start playing with free GPS navigation on your N97. Nokia N97 Blog has posted instructions for getting Nokia’s Ovi Maps installed on your N97 in a couple of easy-peasy steps.
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Get free Ovi Maps Navigation on your Nokia N97 now (because waiting isn’t fun)
If you don’t like our iPhone Download Blog theme , then you might be able to create your own custom iPhone theme with iPhone Theme Simulator . iPhone Theme Simulator is a new tool that lets anyone easily create and test WinterBoard themes for iPhone and iPod Touch right from your PC. This neat little software easily lets you customize most parts of the UI, including the lockscreen, springboard, wifi and carrier logos, apps icons, and much more
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Create Your Own Custom Theme With iPhone Theme Simulator
Brain Dump of Real Time Web and WebSocket — long primer on the different technology for real-time web apps. Conclusion is that there’s no silver bullet yet, so more development work is needed. This and more in today’s Four Short Links.
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Four short links: 21 January 2010 – Wireless Hacks, Real Time Web, 3D Christmas, Mac Sync
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been keeping tabs on Sony Ericsson ( NYSE: SNE )’s Kurara, which has promised to be a reasonably impressive Symbian device with an 8 megapixel camera and 3.2” WVGA touchscreen. Little had been said about an official launch before today, but a press release has been issued and quickly retracted, possibly a slip-up in preparation for the Mobile World Congress next month
Mobimouse allows you to control the Windows cursor with your BlackBerry trackball or the touchpad on your BlackBerry Storm .Mobimouse supports full use of the BlackBerry keyboard . You can type on your Blackberry it will show up in whatever Windows application your are currently using
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MobiMouse – Remotely Control a Windows PC with your BlackBerry
The latest mobile phone from HTC is named HTC Smart, ironically the ’smartness’ is limited to only the name as this is actually an affordable phone with smartphone features and hence it is stripped of some of HTC’s legendary groundbreaking features. The HTC Smart uses Qualcomm Brew platform along with HTC Sense UI. It will be probably running on a 300MHz processor with 256MB ROM and 256MB RAM.
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HTC Smart: Affordable Smartphone
Samsung has released another pico projecting device Samsung W9600, which is said to be the successor to last year’s W7900. We have not much info about this new W9600 but then it is said to use the Texas Instruments’ WVGA chip for projection, and will feature a 5-megapixel camera, large touch sensitive AMOLED screen display, and also capability to project videos, photos and even W9600’s interface.
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Samsung W9600
The Krusell Orbit Flex Multidapt Leather Case for Samsung Omnia II is a high quality leather case with elegant over-stitching that features a removable lid and the Krusell Multidapt Clip System so it stays secure by your side. Buy Now: Only $39.99
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Krusell Orbit Flex Multidapt Leather Case for Samsung Omnia II
Yeah, the N900’s native browser is badass enough to actually load the real Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Maps front page, but it take forever to load and isn’t what you’d call “mobile friendly”. Luckily, YoDude from HowardForums has put together a nice little solution that will definitely do the trick. Download and install Oleg Romashin’s Geolocation extension .
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How to Get Google Maps on your Nokia N900
Scott Weiss, the User Interface Technology Manager at the Symbian Foundation who I interviewed before back in July of 2009, has just posted the user interface proposal Nokia has given to the Symbian Foundation for Symbian^4 .
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Nokia presents their UI concept for Symbian^4 to the Symbian Foundation [It still looks old]
Using repligo reader 2.0 App you can read PDF files that have been saved to your blackberry smartphones.includes page recognition technology that reformats text, graphics and tables into a single column, making it easy to read documents by eliminating horizontal scrolling. BlackBerry devices with OS 4.5 and higher include a new “Download Attachment” feature which allows for downloading and storing PDF attachments to the device.
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RepliGo Reader – PDF Viewer For BlackBerry
This past week T-Mobile officially announced that it will be releasing the HTC HD2 in the spring. In this column we’ll also look ahead to the coming of Windows Mobile 7 — and the sad fact that it may be too late, given the Android surge. Plus, I’ll point you to an unboxing and hardware tour of the new Nexus One Android phone from Google.
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It’s Official — HD2 from T-Mobile; WM 7 Announcement Expected
China is getting more and more smartphones nowadays and the latest of them all is the Samsung i899. This new smartphone from Samsung comes with CDMA/EV-DO connectivity, 800MHz processor, a 3.2-inch AMOLED resistive touch sensitive display, a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and integrated flash, Wi-Fi/WAPI, GPS , DivX support, 3.5mm headset jack, 512MB of internal memory and expandable microSD card slot.
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Samsung i899 For China
Some of them do have the opinion that most of the new-gen gadgets looks cool in black and now, we’re quite happy to see that Porsche Design is of the same opinion too as they have introduced their new P’9522 Black Edition. Apart from the color there is actually nothing new or fresh here, with the phone featuring the same spec list of the original P’9522 with fingerprint reader, OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and other standard ones.
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Porsche Design P’9522 Black Edition
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) Beta Labs is out with a new S60 app called Gig Finder. As you can guess from the app’s name, it’s made to help users find live music events based on their current location (in case you live in USA, Canada, UK and Ireland) and music tastes (Smart Recommendations). However, it’s not just the finding of concerts and other gigs you can do while on the go — you can also buy tickets directly from your Symbian 60 smartphone, as well as get directions to the venue.
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Nokia Beta Labs launches Gig Finder, an S60 app that helps users discover live music events