Recently, Research I Motion (RIM) announced in a developer conference that BlackBerry 10, as well as a new BlackBerry smartphone, would be released in early 2013. Speaking about BlackBerry 10, RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins said that this operating system (OS) packs the powers of a laptop.
Recently, Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt put a hole in the hopes of iPhone 5 users when he said that Google was not working on a Maps app for iOS 6. After the abysmal performance of Apple’s Maps, many had hoped that Google may ship out a Google Maps app soon. But, Google’s Executive Chairman has turned down any possibility. However, reports hint that Google may release a Maps app for iOS 6 by Christmas, despite Schmidt’s denial.
Barnes & Noble has brought two new Nook tablets – a 7-inch NOOK HD and a 9-inch NOOK HD+. The tablets are lighter and brighter. NOOK HD features the world’s highest-resolution display for a 7-inch tablet, and NOOK HD+ is the lightest 9-inch tablet in its class. And, the price of the tablets are just awesome. They won’t just take on Kindle Fire HD or Nexus 7, but ready to take down Apple iPad.
Internet users are increasingly using the web to access multimedia content using online streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. Keeping this in view, networking equipment maker NETGEAR has unveiled three new NeoTV streaming players which can connect with a multitude of online streaming services. And, these players are smarter than most smart TVs in the market.
The iTunes store is taking pre-orders of the block-buster movie – The Avengers. Both SD and HD versions of the movie will be available for in iTunes users. The HD version comes in 720p and 1080p, with Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo and in three different languages – English, French and Spanish.
It is confirmed that Verizon iPhone 5 is indeed unlocked. The iPhone 5 works on Verizon’s LTE networks fine, besides the nano-SIM slot also supports other GSM carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile. It has been tested that the Verizon iPhone 5 is fully compatible with AT&T’s and T-Mobile’s 3G networks. Because of different LTE bands, you probably can not get high speed connectivity.
Verizon Wireless officially unveiled its “Share Everything Plans” on June 12, Tuesday that allowed (still allows) customers to share data plans with up to 10 different mobile devices. Verizon’s Share Everything Plans start from 1 GB internet with unlimited shared minutes and shared messages for $50. As the new plans have attracted customers, so they are moving (changing their plan) to Verizon Wireless’ “Share Everything Plan”. Recently, on September 20, Verizon Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Fran Shammo told attendees (a lot of customers) at a Goldman Sachs investor conference in New York that ‘Unlimited is just a word, it doesn’t really mean anything.’
Within one day, Apple sixth-generation iPhone has been jailbroken. Hackers already successfully jailbroke other iOS 6 devices then they found security holes for iPhone 5 too. It seems that hacker used the founded security holes on iPhone 5 to run custom code. Famous iPhone hacker chpwn has posted an image of jailbroken iPhone 5.