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May

22

2010

iPhone 4G Field Testing Unit Confirms Video-Calling Feature

Jonne Eilimö | May 22, 2010 20:03 UTC | 0 comments | source

BGR has gotten a few screen shots taken from an Apple iPhone 4G/4/HD Field Test Unit. In the images above you can see a ‘Video Calls Debugging’ option in the settings application on the iPhone. This is most probably to test video-call functionality on the AT&T network in USA.

This basically confirms a front-facing camera and video-call support on the iPhone 4G/HD/4 or whatever the name will be.

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May

22

2010

Nexus One Users Receiving Android 2.2 Froyo

Jonne Eilimö | May 22, 2010 15:45 UTC | 0 comments | source

No wonder that the first phone to receive the awaited Android 2.2 update is Google’s own wonder-child Nexus One. Current Nexus Ones are being updated as I write, and if you still haven’t received your Froyo update it should be coming in the next few hours.

Nice more from Google to first serve their own folks, a little VIP treatment is never a bad thing :)

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May

22

2010

HTC Vision – Basically a Desire with a QWERTY-keyboard

Jonne Eilimö | May 22, 2010 13:58 UTC | 0 comments | source

Wouldn’t a Nexus One with a full QWERTY keyboard be cool? The HTC Vision could be just that. The image above shows a UAP(User Agent Profile) from an unknown source, but it shows a device called HTC Vision, and clearly states that it will come with a QWERTY keyboard and have a 480×800 resolution.

Would be cool to finally have a powerful Android phone with a full QWERTY keyboard.

Hit View Post to see a mockup of this phone.

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2010

Nokia N8 Launching August 24th – Pre-orders in Finland 465€

Jonne Eilimö | May 22, 2010 09:05 UTC | 4 comments | source

Verkkokauppa.com, a Finnish e-commerce, is currently taking pre-orders on the Nokia N8. With the Finnish VAT of 22% the phone is currently priced 569.90€, which roughly translates into 465€ before taxes and subsidies.

According to a “trusted” Engadget tipster, the phone will be available on August 24.

Nokia Music Store 2nd Largest Mobile Music Store in Europe

Jonne Eilimö | May 21, 2010 17:31 UTC | 0 comments | source

In a study conducted by comScore, Nokia Music Store is currently the second largest mobile music download service in Europe.

The study was conducted in five European countries(United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain). iTunes is currently the largest store, with 1.2 million users(28%), Nokia’s Music Store with 0.94 million(22%) users comes in at seconds place. Vodafones Music Store comes in third with a share of 13%.

1,000 Posts!

Jonne Eilimö | May 21, 2010 14:16 UTC | 0 comments |

Hello everyone!

Would just like to let you know that this is our 1,001st post!

Thank you everyone for reading, and please continue doing so :)

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May

21

2010

iDroid for iPhone 3G Now Available – How To

Jonne Eilimö | May 21, 2010 12:59 UTC | 0 comments | source

A working iDroid version for the iPhone 3G was released today! It has previously worked only on the original iPhone (2G), but now it’s also possible to install Android on your iPhone 3G.

David Wang, the guy behind this hack, has posted a thorough how to over at PCWorld. Here is a take from their How To article.

What You Need

1. A first-generation iPhone or an iPhone 3G with firmware versions between 2.0 and 3.1.2, jailbroken with Redsn0w, Blacksn0w, or PwnageTool. If you already updated your handset to 3.1.3 or to a 4.0 beta, you must use PwnageTool to create a jailbroken 3.1.2 .ipsw file to restore down to.

Note that I am explicitly excluding the iPhone 3GS, all iPod Touch models, and the iPad. This hack will not work with those devices (yet). I am also explicitly excluding iPhone OS 3.1.3 and all of the 4.0 betas. It will not work with the Spirit jailbreak, either.

If you haven’t yet jailbroken your iPhone, don’t worry–it’s a simple process that consists mainly of pressing buttons on the device when prompted and clicking the next button in a wizard. I humbly recommend Redsn0w, since I wrote much of the code for that program.

Read the full How to article: PCWorld

Video: Nokia Qt SDK – Cross-Platform Development Made Easy

Jonne Eilimö | May 21, 2010 11:26 UTC | 5 comments | source

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39D-a3OU1Nk

Video from Nokia Conversations.

Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt, you can write web-enabled applications once and deploy them across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.