SubscribeElsewhere on GearShrine: iPhone | MacBook | Handheld projector | Amazon Kindle | T-Mobile G1 | Palm Pre | iPod Touch | Zune |
# 2 News Source
PMP Today
PMP Today (www.pmptoday.com) has great Apple iPod news, photos, videos and more
Today
8GB Meizu M8 Phone Only € 199.00
We never thought we could get one this cheap. The Meizu M8 for only 199 euros? The original iPhone clone and erstwhile iPhone killer for only $295 unlocked. Why, that’s at least $100 cheaper than the original price. This is the same 3.2-inch touchscreen phone with a 720 x 480 screen resolution. T...
Apple Tablet release postponed to 2H of 2010; 9.7-inch OLED, 10.6-inch LCD tablet in the works
Here’s an update on those long-rumored Apple tablet units in production. Its release, currently pegged in March of 2010, has apparently been moved to the second half of next year. This is in respect to the prevailing prices of the LG OLED touchscreen panels which now stands at $500 and will b...
Yesterday
Samsung R0 PMP Available Now
The touchscreen Samsung YP-R0 has now made it to Korean retail stores. As we noticed before, this PMP doesn’t really stand out. Samsung has had some nice Yepp PMPs, and for a time we have even put them side by side with the iPod Touch for comparison. Not anymore. I’m sure the UI is pretty [...]
Google GPhone is a VoIP PMP?
OK, let me undesrtand Techcrunch. Google may not be making a Google GPhone phone, because that will compete with all the Android phones already in existence. Just as Google’s Andy Rubin said, Google is not making hardware but they’re enabling other manufacturers to build them. Google will...
Tuesday, Nov 17
iPhone Korea in Two Weeks
LG and Samsung have smartphones that are technologically competitive with the iPhone and selling at significantly lower prices. The Korean iPhone at KT will be priced between 750,000 won (about $642) and 850,000 won (about $727). The Telecoms regulator in the country has given the go sig...
Monday, Nov 16
Happenings in the iPhone Jailbreak Front
For those who wan to unlock their iPhones, you can to try the blacksn0w iPhone unlock, the only unlock that works with iPhone 3.1.2 firmware complete with baseband 05.11.07. For jailbreaking, you can either use Geohot’s blackra1n iPhone jailbreak or the iPhone Dev Team’s iPhone 3.1.2 jailbrea...
Netbooks + Apple iPhone = Fight!
Of course, many people already know that (the original contenders were iPhone and Asus Eee PC). I know a friend who said he would never buy a never because he had already bought an iPod Touch. But most people would say this, I don’t need a netbook, I have an iPod Touch (or an iPhone). No one ever sai...
Sunday, Nov 15
SciPhone N21 Android Phone Unboxing
SciPhone brings us one of the first Android dual-SIM phones available at the moment. (For a real quick unboxing video in French, scroll to the end of this post.) The SciPhone N21 has been available for a month now but we have yet to come across a video of the Android-based SciPhone. Beareyes, ha...
Saturday, Nov 14
Palm Pre webOS 1.3.1 update hits the scene, No iTunes sync fix included
Palm has just released webOS 1.3.1 update for the Palm Pre, but unlike their webOS 1.2.1, doesn’t come with a fix to address the Apple disabled iTunes syncing. Have they given up the fight? We don’t exactly know, but what we’re certain of is that webOS 1.3.1 does come with a lot of goodies in [...] Palm ha...
Friday, Nov 13
Apple, RIM posts significant growth in Global Smartphone market share
Aside from HTC, they are the only two other phone makers who managed to improve on their performance last year and by a significant margin at that. With a better featured iPhone 3G S and more affordable iPhone 3G to offer their fans, Apple now owns close to a fifth of new smartphones in the mark...
Wednesday, Nov 11
Ultrasn0w iPhone Unlock v0.92 released to fix missing carrier logo issue
Listen up ultrasn0w aficionados. The iPhone Dev Team has just released an update version of their ultrasn0w iPhone unlock to address an issue concerning iPhones running firmware 3.1.x and baseband 04.26. That lethal combination results in the carrier logo not being displayed. It might seem...
Meizu M8 Phone Now Runs Android Thanks to Fans
Honestly, the Meizu M8 is not holding up as our famous iPhone clone, and even earlier reports that the M8 may run Google’s Android in the near future did little to attract more interest to the Cinese mobile brand. For the time being, Meizu CEO Jack Wong still has to officially announce Androi...
iPhone/Privacy.A Worm, Data Hack for Jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches
The second iPhone worm of the week carries with it a lot more risk than the first one. According to Intego Security, this new iPhone worm that is known as iPhone/Privacy.A uses the same hole that ikeeex found a few days ago to change the hacked iPhones’ background image into Rick Astley’s phot...
Apple iPhone Beats all Nokia Phones in Profitability
Apple’s operating profit during Q3 2009 is at 1.6 billion surpassing Nokia’s $1.1 billion for the same quarter. Please note that operating profits are different from sales volume, and sales from the iTunes App Store may have spiked the revenues for the iPhone. Nevertheless, the iPhone’s pr...
Tuesday, Nov 10
Motorola Droid’s 100K First Weekend
Bloomberg is reporting that the Motorola Droid didn’t do too badly during its launching weekend. The “iPhone killer” with Android 2.0 OS and real GPS and turn-by-turn voice navigation may have sold as many as 100,000 units. That’s only a tenth of the iPhone sales two years ago when the first-...
Monday, Nov 9
Orange iPhone Launched Today in U.K.
The Apple iPhone in the U.K. has officially stopped being exclusive to O2 starting today. Orange is offering subsidized iPhones and pay-as-you go but will not compete with fees that O2 is currently offering. So it’s a level game there in Britain for both iPhone providers. Forecast from Mediac...
Motorola Droid Navigation Map: More DroidDoes
All i can say is Wow. Droiddoes beat the iPhone in Navigation. Droiddoes beat the iPhone in Google apps and Droiddoes in manliness… err, well, you know what I mean. A lot of money is being spent marketing the Droid. But of course, it has three big companies backing it: Verizon, Motorola and Googl...
APhone A6 is an Android iPhone Clone
Cool phones don’t have to flaunt their coolness. The APhone is not like the Motorola Droid. It doesn’t go about falling from the sky like some big apocalyptic catastrophe, and it doesn’t brag about killing the iPhone. The APhone A6 is a quiet phone with obvious attractions (it’s obviously an...
Sunday, Nov 8
Unboxing the Gemei HD 8800
If you’ve been wondering about all these HD PMPs coming out in China, we have an unboxing video for you. Notice the meticulous detail of the packaging, the iPod-like form factor of the remote control, the manual and the connectors wrapped in plastic, then finally the Gemei HD 8800 PMP itsel...
AT&T Sues Verizon Over Anti-iPhone Ads
Verizon’s iDon’t commerical was not about the Motorola Droid after all. It has always been about iPhone–specifically, iPhone on the AT&T network, as we clearly see in the wireless giant’s new commercials. They’ve added several more anti-iPhone and anti-AT&T ads to complement...
Jailbroken iPhones RickRoll’d by “ikeeex”
What’s clear is that if you have jailbroken your iPhone or iPod Touch, and installed SSH, then you must always change your root user password to something different than the default, “alpine”. In fact, it would be a good idea if you didn’t use a dictionary word at all.
Creative ZEN X-Fi2 PMP Now on Sale
If you’re on the lookout for an unassuming PMP from a well-known brand, you might want to take a look at the ZEN X-Fi2. It’s a 3-inch touchscreen player that doesn’t stray too far from previous Creative models. For the short list of features, go to our previous X-Fi2 post. Creative has three ver...
Saturday, Nov 7
UMTS/CDMA iPhone Slated for Verizon Q3 2010? The Nano Phone?
Apple Insider has yet another Verizon iPhone rumor. Now they’re saying they have information that a worldphone iPhone that will sport a smaller form factor. So is the Verizon get the iPhone Nano? Apple Insider’s sources are from Taiwan and is involved in the iPhone supply chain. This rumor m...
iFan O2 Cool Hands-free Cooling
Ok, this is not a portable media player. It’s not even an iPod or iPhone Clone–technically, it’s something analysis will not ever penetrate. The tagline goes like this… iFan O2 Cooling is hands-free cooling. Yep, hands-free, which means, good-bye flapping your hand in front of your face, i...
Verizon iPhone Still on for 2010
One interesting and very possible snag. What if the iPhone 4G we’ve heard about is none other than the CDMA Verizon iPhone? It’s been over two years since the iPhone was officially announce and we’ve gotten little or no indication that Apple is designing a new hardware.
Motorola Droid, not iPhone, is the Best Smartphone
That the Motorola Droid is exclusive to Verizon puts it in a very good position to dominate the iPhone, at least, in the U.S. market. Never mind that currently, the iTunes App Store boasts 10 times more appas than the Google. Soon, Google Android developers will catch up.
Friday, Nov 6
$99 iPhone 3GS 8GB for Christmas?
How would you like to give yourself a cheapskate’s Christmas tech gift? Boy Genius Report is saying they have unconfirmed reports that the 8GB iPhone 3GS will be sold by AT&T at the cut-rate price of $99. If AT&T and Apple confirms this early, it might stave off a Droid invasion in th...
Thursday, Nov 5
COWON iAudio 9 PMP at JetMall
It looks like the iAudio 9 has followed the E2 to JetMall. The COWON iAudio 9 is your basic PMP that would only have been able to compete with the iPod Nano for your attention if you were especially averse to camera functionality (hey, some people hate these cellphone and PMP cameras). For $169....
Wednesday, Nov 4
(F518) HiPod Duet Mobile Phone Breaks Out
It’s… the… Hi-Pod! And it’s a sleek little phone from Chinagrabber. We’re not entirely sure whose brainchild this phone is. It could probably be the same people that have brought us the HiPhone. Though the HiPod is the HiPhone’s cousin by name, the aesthetic between two phone brands are plan...
Tuesday, Nov 3
SAFA XING LED MP3 Player has Built-In Game of Dots
The Korean MP3 player maker SAFA has always been keen on design innovation. The first SAFA XING was one of the cutest DAPs we’ve written about. Though the XING didn’t exactly achieve an iPod-like popularity it didn’t stop SAFA from continuing the model. The SAFA XING LED looks like a departur...
Wednesday, Oct 14
iPhone 3.1.2 jailbreak PwnageTool released, iPhone 3G S compatible
As usual, this PwnageTool is only available for the Mac OS X. Windows users will just have to content themselves with blackra1n or you can ask their Mac using jailbreaking buddies for a custom IPSW file which you can use to restore their iPhone/iPod Touch to.
Monday, Sep 28
New Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS 3.1 OS Unlock Software Released
The actual iPhone 3G/3GS unlock here at iPhone Unlocking Solutions. The current generation phone, iPhone, has the features of a PC, an iPod, a digital camera and a mobile phone. It is one of the most preferred phones having features of networking and browsing. But it gets expensive to buy an i...
Sunday, Sep 7
Real Photo of iPod Nano 4G?
MacNN has first dibs on a live shot of the real Nano 4G hardware. It’s got rounded edges and it’s orange. Some commenters have pointed out that it had similar form factor to the Macbook remote and it may just be able to control the iTunes on your laptop. Who knows, it would be great if it did. The new d...
Logoless iPod Nano 4G Leaked
Well, here we go, a real live iPod Nano 4G hardware without the Apple logo and perhaps non-Apple software inside - in other words, a clone. But this is a step up the renderings and mockups we’ve been posting in the last couple of days. Another photo after the break.
Monday, Aug 25
Patch: iPhone 2.0.2 Jailbreak PwnageTool 2.0.3 from iPhone Dev Team
It’s here, the iPhone Dev Team’s jailbreak for the iPhone 2.0.2 firmware. Dubbed PwnageTool 2.0.3 “is now available as a Sparkle update, or a direct download here. This version provides support for iPhone/iPod firmware 2.0.2 5C1, it has an updated Installer.app beta (b6)… ” PwnageTool 2.0.3 shou...
Monday, Jan 21
iPhone and iPod Touch get a virtual guitar
Guitar freak iPhone/iPod Touch owners might want to get their calloused fingertips on this one. PocketGuitar is a Google Code project by a guy called Shinya Kasatani that allows you to play not just boring, virtual-guitar chord progressions on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application w...
