We showed your our favourite iOS 5 secrets at launch of the iPhone 4S last month, but this week, clever hackers have found two incredible new features lurking within the code that can be turned on with a bit of jiggery pokery. And the best thing? No iPhone jailbreak required. Read on to find out how you can power up your iPhone’s camera and keyboard right now.
November, 2011
What would you say to a free Honeycomb Android tablet? Yes? Of course you would, and you can have one: we’ve got a Lenovo IdeaPad Tablet K1 to give away to one lucky reader. All you have to do is tell us your best tablet joke. Read on for the juicy details and Ts and Cs.
The news that RIM is going to continue supporting Flash on the BlackBerry PlayBook in order to offer “an uncompromised web browsing experience” has already caused widespread bafflement this morning. Add that to the fact that phones using the new BBX operating system will have the same screen resolution as the PlayBook, meaning apps for the slate will lack any kind of cache, and the reasons to buy one of RIM’s tablets are looking more thin on the ground than ever.
Amazon’s clearly not happy simply taking on Apple with its Kindle Fire tablet and slew of content services. The online retail colossus has snapped up a voice recognition company called Yap, with rumours flying that this could be the company’s first step towards taking on Apple’s Siri app, found on the iPhone 4S.
Sure, mobiles phones are advanced right now, but the Nokia Gem shows we’re still trapped in the confindes old fashioned design paradigms. Who says a phone has to have a screen? Why not make all of a phone the screen? That’s exactly what the stargazing ideas peeps at the Nokia Research Centre have cooked up: read on to see the video.
Asus and Acer have slashed their ultrabook orders by a whacking 40 per cent, just weeks after the superslim laptop range was officially rolled out. Word is that high prices are to blame, with first month sales well below expectation. The question is, can the Ultrabook, billed by Intel as a laptop saviour, survive? Read on to get all the details.
Adobe might have decided to kill off its Flash Player for mobile. But it seems RIM just isn’t willing to let go of the software so easily. It’s confirmed that it’s going to keep Flash going on its ailing BlackBerry PlayBook, claiming it does not want to sully the web experience of the small number who own its tablet. Read on to see just what RIM has to say.
The first 4G LTE networks are live in America, and phone obsessives over on our side of the pond have been ogling them with envy while we amble along with patchy 3G. We’re next, surely? Nope: according to Ericsson, countries in southern Africa could see the first commercial 4G networks as soon as next year.