Engadget got their hands on internal documents and photos by Dell describing their upcoming slate product line. They’re gonna be Android based with 7″ and 10″ display sizes.
Dell’s slate line leaked on Engadget…
The jailbreak the iPhone Dev Team released a couple of days ago is in no way intended to be used by end-users rather than developers. It is a jailbreak-only, that allows Cydia based developers to make their apps compatible to iPhone OS 4.0.
The jailbreak still requires a legal activation via iTunes and a valid subscription. Means: the redsn0w tool will not hacktivate or sim-unlock your devices. If you ain’t a dev, you are strongly advised not to update, got me?
Details on the iPhone Dev Team’s site…
The Inquirer reports, that Apple’s latest gadget has been rejected from using on networks of George Washington University and Princeton University. The iPad seems to have massive issues with network stability.
Read more on The Inquirer…
Engadget reports they got hands on pictures of the upcoming iPhone 4G. They seem to be from an inside testlab of Apple.
Readmore on Engadget.com…
Notorious hacker Marc Maiffre said in an interview with CNet.com that OS X is less secure than Windows. The reason why Windows is more attacked anyway is Windows’ market penetration.
Read more on CNet.com…
According to “Apple Insider” Apple is in talks with AMD. Rumors say Apple will be design their own x86 CPUs and AMD might be the company to manufacture them.
Read more on Apple Insider…
Berlin based Company Neofonie now presented their latest high-tech gadget called WePad. The We Pad will be cheaper than the iPad. The WePad will be Adobe Flash enabled.
Tech Specs
The operating system will be a multitouch adjusted Linux. Software can be installed as widgets. Open Office will be available. It is compatible to
Versions
The WePad will be released in two flavors.
Releasedate
The WePad will be released in Germany in July. Pre-Orders can be submitted from April 27th, 2010.
via: Golem.de (german only)…
As of version 1.4 it seems Palm has managed to get WebOS out of beta status. Anyway there are still some things that could be a tiny bit better. We therefore compiled an (incomplete) list ;-) of packages, we are currently using on our Pre’s.
The Requirements
These packages require a Palm Pre put into developer mode and an installed Preware installer.
Both steps are easy as saying “1, 2, Pre”…
The Incomplete Preware Packages List
Done and happy? Ok then, here we go:
| Package | Description | PreWare Folder |
| Battery Saver | Turns on airplane mode each night at a defined time | Application |
| Brightness Unlinked | Brightness of Keyboard and Brightness of Screen can now separately be adjusted | Applications |
| MyTether | Turns your Pre into a WiFi to 3G router. Extremely helpful on vacation. | Not on PreWare, get here only… |
| Terminal | Allows Accessing the Linux Terminal from within the Pre | Applications |
| 4×4 icons v4 No Arrows Plus More | 4 Icons on Launcher Screen per line | Patch |
| Ad Blocker | Being on GRPS/Edge sometimes, you definitely don’t want to spend bandwidth on ads | Patch |
| Capture with Volume Keys | Shoot Images with the Volume Keys | Patch |
| Confirm Delete | Confirm Deleting an Email | Patch |
| Fullscreen Mode Browser | No Urlbar, No Application Frame, No Notification when scrolled down. Extends the browser to the full screen size | Patch |
| Reduce Minimum Brightness | Changes Minimum from 10 to 0 | Patch |
| Fullscreen Mode Browser | No Urlbar, No Application Frame, No Notification when scrolled down. Extends the browser to the full screen size | Patch |
| Send All Contacts via Email | Creates a vCard containing ALL contacts and attaches it to an Email | Patch |
Shouts fly out to the WebOS-Internals team and the guys at the Precentral Forums. That’s awesome work you’re doing.
What happened so far?
GeoHot has had a reverse-engineerer’s look into Sony’s high tech gadget and Sony immediately declared war.
Obviously in panic, Sony announced to deactivate Linux (Other-OS) support with their latest firmware 3.21. This was the time when people were wondering how long it would take until GeoHot would reenable it.
The magic PUP files
So it did not take too long. That notorious hacking genious did it. He says he’s using a custom PUP file. A PUP file basically is an update file for the PS3. The interesting point is usually PUP files are signed by Sony.
Speculations
Could that mean there is a major flaw in Sony’s implementation of checking the authenticity of update files (at least until firmware 3.15, which GeoHot mentions is the latest that allows to install his custom PUP).
Anyway, the next weeks will be very interesting.
Leaked vid showing multi-tasking on iPhone 3GS
It seems someone has got his hands on a developer beta of iPhone OS 4.0. The vid below shows how multi-tasking is gonna be implemented on the iPhone. We say: yes eventually multi-tasking, but no: Palm’s webOS approach to multi-tasking is unbeaten at the moment. Apple should consider buying Palm. They are cheap and half the staff is former leading elite Apple people anyway ;-)
Apple’s golden rule: product lifecycles are two years, amigos
Sadly although Cydia users know that multi-tasking is possible even on first gen iPhones, Apple will not enable multi-tasking on devices older than iPhone 3GS.
iPhone 2G users already made a bitter experience when MMS was not enabled on their devices with the 3.0 update.