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Yesterday, we got a look at some tutorial videos for the upcoming BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930 which were extracted from an OS 6.1 leak, and to join those clips are a few of the BlackBerry Touch “Monaco” (not to be confused with the lower-end Curve Touch). The key layout is similar to the Bold Touch…
Apple is reportedly mulling putting multiple cameras on the back of the iPhone 5 to enable users to shoot videos and pictures in 3D. The news comes from a patent filing dug up by AppleInsider and it shows that Apple is approaching stereoscopic 3D cameras in a different way. The company is trying to patent…
With a working jailbreak exploit for iOS 4.3.1 delivered to the hackers on the iPhone Dev Team last week, it really was only a matter of time before the latest version of iOS got an official jailbreak via PwnageTool and redsn0w. Today, the Dev Team released the new PwnageTool 4.3 and redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 to help…
Chris Walsh of Chevron WP7 fame has developed a new method that lets any Windows Phone user install the latest NoDo update to his or her handset. Microsoft released a support tool for Windows Phone that can be modified to force a handset to update to the pre-NoDo (#7008) and NoDo updates all in a…
Google appears to be on the cusp of purchasing more than 6,000 telecom patents from Nortal and the move will only cost the search giant about $900 million. The telecom patents will give Google legal cover for patent infringement cases – it won’t stop the existing lawsuits but it gives Google ammunition to counter-sue those…
Let’s get one thing straight about Apple’s iOS. For all the wonderful applications that you can get, and for the awesome browser it has built in, the multitasking and notification system is ancient and frankly lacking in elegance. According to a new Apple patent however, things are going to change. In Mac…
Apple has posted a first iPad 2 commercial on YouTube and on its website. The point here is simple – it’s not just about the specs, it’s about how easy and delightful it is to use the iPad 2. The full text goes like this: This is what we believe: Technology alone is not enough.…
Motorola engineer Martin Cooper will go down in the history books as the first person to place a public cellular call on April 3rd, 1973. This historic event was arranged by Motorola to show off its new cellular calling technology to the FCC. At that time, Motorola has a vision for the cellular future and…
Google is apparently working on a facial recognition app that would pull up personal information (within careful privacy controls, of course). The software has already been used in their Picasa web photo service to tag friends and family in various albums, and may eventually find its way into Goggles to link to Profiles. Now, this…
At the same time the first update for Windows Phone is landing on handsets, the next version of Windows Phone known as Mango is making the rounds of the rumor mill – first in a video spotted on YouTube and then in a recent presentation by Microsoft. A recent YouTube video showed off the features…