Recently released Apple’s iPhone 4 that made the previous 3Gs looks cheap and feels too big.  Besides the updated look, the new phone features a 1Ghz processor compared to the 3Gs’ 600Mhz.  New 5mp camera and a front cam for video calling via FaceTime.  Multitask is one of the biggest upgrade for the new iOS 4, making switching between apps a breeze.  The best reason to get the iPhone 4 would be for its “Retina Display”.  960 x 640 IPS, colors are rich and deep, viewing pictures and videos are crispy clear.

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BEIJING (AFP) –

Chinese high-tech giant Lenovo on Wednesday unveiled the OPhone in partnership with China Mobile, which they hope will rival Apple‘s widely popular iPhone.

“We hope OPhone will take at least 50 percent of China’s smartphone market in three to five years,” Huang Xiaoqing, president of China Mobile‘s Institute of Research, said at a ceremony.

The OPhone will run on an operating system developed by China Mobile and will work on the carrier’s homegrown TD-SCDMA third-generation wireless technology platform.

Lv Yan, president of Lenovo Mobile, said each OPhone handset would cost more than 200 dollars to make, but the retail price would vary according to subscription plans with China Mobile.

“OPhone is China Mobile’s strategy,” he said.

Lenovo hopes to start selling the OPhone next month in the world’s largest mobile market of more than 700 million subscribers.

China Unicom last month announced a multi-year deal to sell the iPhone starting in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Unicom, which had 141 million mobile subscribers at the end of July, expects to attract high-end users with the iPhone to turn around weak performance in competition with China Mobile, which had nearly 498 million subscribers at the end of July.

But China Mobile president Wang Jianzhou said last week the carrier remained in talks with Apple over selling iPhones in China, Dow Jones Newswires reported.

Apple’s deal with Unicom is “absolutely not exclusive,” and China Mobile still hopes to offer iPhones in China, chairman Wang said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Dalian last week.

A stumbling block, however, is that Apple would need to modify the iPhone to work on China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA platform. If not, the iPhone would only be able to run on China Mobile’s slower 2G platform.

“We are still in talks” with Apple, Wang said. “We still hope to reach an agreement, so I can’t say anything else.”

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The fresh version of the Sidekick LX ($200 in on a two-year contract, as of 5/1/09), T-Mobile’s popular messaging phone generally aimed at teenagers, sports grown-up characteristics this as 3G support, GPS, and an improved, a greater number of sophisticated design. But unfortunately the Sidekick LX that much has a few quirks.
For example, the mailbox stores one and only 6MB of memory, contrary the occurence who the Sidekick LX now has Exchange Active Sync support. That on-board storage is a paltry total sum wanting to the likely information capacity of right now multimedia messaging phone. Additionally, the Sidekick LX much has the same awkward-design problems as we saw on the 2007 version.

The hardware, made by Sharp, retains the iconic swivel design and faintly slimmer dimensions. The 3.2-inch (0.2 inch large as opposed to the 2007 model), 854 by 480, F-WVGA rating is gorgeous–one of the highest quality I’ve observed on a handset, particularly a midrange messaging device. The paints are bright, things are crisp, and animations render smoothly.

The keyboard, as expected, is excellent. The keys are nicely spaced and tactile, and properties hold the exemplary extent of clickiness. But I was disappointed to see so T-Mobile kept the sum keys at the top of the keyboard. On the 2007 example we at last found the current design selection awkward and counterintuitive, and I suffer to say it is the same story now. T-Mobile looks as if it’s to suffer put so significantly gas to the messaging capabilities of the phone the present it did not ponder the encounters of bringing about a hire through right now design. The level keys are virtually directly underneath the display’s hinge, and you ought to swivel the keyboard out to dial and coming back in yet again to talk, that can get annoying.

The majority of navigation on the device is finished investing in the BlackBerry-esque trackball. For the the majority of part, it functions rather far investing in the UI, clearly gliding in the a multitude of menu choices. In particular instances, however, the UI a bit slow but sure to respond regardless of repeated finger flicks through the trackball.

Call top notch for the duration of T-Mobile’s 3G network was good, but I heard a faint hiss on my end–something we have have had to deal with amid T-Mobile phones in the past, this kind of as the Shadow. Parties on the supplementary end of the string claimed this my voice sounded obvious provided extensive volume. A few noticed a hiss but stated it was not distracting.

The Sidekick LX’s OS, the Danger OS, is able to use a refresh. Though it is easy sufficient to navigate, it feels a bit out-of-date. It just now does not undergo a massive lot of aesthetic appeal, that is unfortunate on the a lovely display. The Sidekick LX comes preloaded through Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter apps. The Facebook app is truly good: You can view your News feed (which informs all of your friends’ activity), update your status, search engine for new friends and send messages–almost all of it you can do on your PC. The Twitter app is not as full-featured as a great deal more mobile Twitter apps, but it becomes the job done. You can, obviously, update your status, reply to your friends’ tweets, supply and mimic new users, and view a friend’s timeline.

Another new feature, the on-device Download Catalog, is regrettably a bit sparse at this moment time, but it has potential. You can download themes, ring tones, games, and a few productivity, social, and entertainment apps.

The Sidekick LX’s camera has been heard upgraded on a measly 1 megapixel to 3.2 megapixels in on an LED flash. And unlike providing the original, you can now store video–a must-have for a messaging phone. Image grade was rather clever overall, even though a couple of of my indoor pictures looked a bit grainy. Video quality, unfortunately disappointed. My videos came out basically pixelated and motions appeared choppy and delayed.

The Sidekick LX is very much an improvement for the duration of the 2007 version, but I feel similar to such upgrade would own arrive a bit earlier. Sure, 3G validation and a 3.2-megapixel camera are desired additions, but a good amount messaging phones out there are way down the road of the Sidekick LX. The Samsung Impression, for example, has an AMOLED display and a smartphone-like user interface. Sidekick fans would with out a doubt know such upgrade, and regardless of its sophisticated enhancements, I can see it making remarkably popular among the teenage demographic.

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The Palm Pre is newly drafted in a line of offerings to take a swipe at the iPhone, available on the Sprint network and running for $199 provided a contract. The Pre adds some terrific features to this hi tech rich gadget. One of the most impressive is the Activity Cards which allow you to switch from application to application quickly and easily, much like you are able to on your home computer system. There is no need to shut downward a software and open one more up.

Combined messaging lets you group conversations in on the same person in an easy to emulate format. So now you can easily track conversations in IM, email or text on one simple screen. You will also be able to see who is available online and can quickly and create up a new conversation properly in the same group.

The Layered Calendar and Linked Contacts pull together your Outlook, Google and Facebook calendars into one cohesive view. And there is no difficulty to worry if your contacts be spread through distinct areas, Pre serves to pull them to one place as well. With the added Intuitive Notifications feature you can see when your appointments are, new and updated email and text messages at the bottom screen notification so it is a reduced number of meddling than great deal more competing products.

Such like the iPhone, applications will be a big part of the Pre, but then it may take time for the Pre to become inhabited with apps like the iPhone. But as time goes more and a greater amount of developers will see the strength of the Pre and strength of the Palm brand and develop on this platform as well.

The Pre is sleek, sexy, and sturdy and comes with a slide out keypad that really adds functionality that isn’t accessible amidst the iPhone. Just fancy the iPhone you can turn the system and view from widescreen or hold it in average view. Quality of pictures are vibrant and really stands out and the camera produces stunning photos.

It’s too early to notify how much competition the Pre will be to the iPhone, but it is a great substitue for Sprint users who want (or have) to continue with the service. But all signs say that amid the power of Palm and the functionality provided in the Pre, the current phone is the newly drafted in a for a long while line of hi tech gadgets available to us.

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The hack requires downgrading your firmware to either the RC27 or RC9 images and connecting to the handset with telnet. The course is basically quite simple, especially if you are the kind of person who’ll get any software out of root entrance on Android. Instructions from XDA:

If you have RC30/RC8 or later, you must FIRST flash your phone to RC29/RC7 or lower to be able to exploit root access using the following steps. RC29 and lower users can skip this section.
Format the SD card to FAT32 mode (this is sometimes needed. The image is not always found if other files are on the sd card).
2. Unzip the RC29 or RC7 image file DREAMIMG.nbh to the SD card. (RC29 for US, RC7 is for UK)
3. Turn the device power off and insert SD card.
4. Hold Camera button, and press Power button to entry bootloader mode.
5. Press Power button to start upgrade procedure.
6. After finish, perform the soft reset to reboot.
Follow these steps once you have RC29 or lower:
On your G1, anything you type into your keyboard is also being run in a hidden console with root permissions. More information regarding that at the bottom of this post. But, to get root access, do the following:

Instructions:

. Restart your phone
2. Type telnetd and press enter – Yes, it will start up a Contact search, do not worry about this, just type telnetd and press enter (the enter button on the keypad).
3. Download an Android Telnet client (I have one on the Market) and connect to localhost.
4. you now have root!
[via  xda develpoers forum]

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Here it is boys and girls  iPhone Dev-Team’s Ultrasn0w unlock for legacy iPhone 3G owners is ready. The unlock works with the original iPhone as well but not the iPhone 3GS; for that you’ll have to be patient. Just follow the easy steps below to get your iphone 3g 3.0 to unlock your iphone.

Here is how to install ultrasn0w:

1. Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
2. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy)
3. Run Cydia or Icy
4. Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia or Icy. That last “o” is actually the number zero “0”! If you use the letter “o” you’ll get an error.
5. Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or icy and install ultrasn0w
6. Reboot your iPhone 3G
7. T-Mobile USA users should disable 3G before using ultrasn0w
8. Enjoy

[via : iphone dev-team blog]

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T-Mobile annouced its much anticipated second Android phone officially called myTouch 3g with Google.  Succeeding the G1, myTouch is much sleeker, slimmer, and boasting a wide array of new features.   Touch screen display with a virtual keyboard will replace the old physical keypad.  Just in time to compete with Apple’s new iPhone 3G S.

Running on the Android platform means you get all the Google services including Google maps, Gmail, Picasa, Stree View, Youtube, ect.  All your instant messaging needs are included as it supports AOL, Windows Live, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messaging.

The phone itself is the same as the HTC launched in Europe earlier this year under the name HTC Magic.  Available in three colors white, red, and black.  It’ll come with updated Android OS 1.5.  It’ll feature a 3.2-inch display (320 by 480 pixels),  3.15 mega pixel camera, 3G radio, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and 192MB RAM / 256MB ROM.

myTouch 3g can be preordered on July 8th with a price tag of $199 with a two year contract.

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