Remember those banned iPhone and iPad videos we posted a month ago? Well, the guys who made it are back with another iPhone 4 video, this time focusing on the iPhone 4 antenna issue.
Also check out the other two: iPad Parody, iPhone 4 Parody
RIM today went on and introduced a location service that works without a real (or assisted) GPS chip. Their Location Service is network based, and will provide application developers with location data based on what towers the phone is connected to. This is much more power efficient than what a real GPS chip would be, but doesn’t give you an accurate fix on your position.
Here is what RIM had to say about this:
Users can be indoors with no GPS coverage, but your app will still be able to guide them to restaurants or points of interest (POI) around them. Although the accuracy of the fixes obtained from the Geolocation service may not always be as high as with GPS, it has use cases for apps that require highly accurate GPS fixes as well as apps that do not. Apps that require high accuracy can use this service to quickly show the user an approximate location while it waits for a more accurate location fix using GPS. This can offer a huge user experience improvement. For applications that do not require high accuracy, this service can be leveraged as a simple yet effective mechanism to provide location information.
This is how for instance also Nokia uses network based location services, they just don’t give it to devices without GPS chips (as far as I know).
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Nokia Siemens Networks today announced that they have bought Motorola’s wireless network business for 1.2 billion USD.
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The brand new Nokia C6-00 got it’s first official firmware update today.
Depending on where you live, the update version is different. The Chinese version got update to version 10.2.24, North-American version to v10.0.24 and the European to version 10.0.21. Can’t actually verify these versions, since I don’t know anyone with a Nokia C6.
The update should be available via NSU, and as an OTA update in the coming few days.
As of writing this post, there is no official changelog available. Will update the post when/if I find one.
Verizon Wireless has started to push out a new firmware for Droid Eris owners. This new update is called Maintenance Release 4 (MR4), and started rolling out on July 16th. It will take up to a few weeks before every Droid Eris owner has received the udpate.
Here is what dEris86 wrote on Verizon’s forums:
The update released on July 16th has fixed my “Silent Call” issue thus far. So please be patient as you will get the OTA MR4 soon. It may take a week before the whole customer base has the update but you WILL get it.
I installed the update the day they started rolling out the update (July 16th) and as of today (July 18), I have had no issues with silent calls yet. So I will keep my fingers crossed and hope this will fix it for good.
Cheers,
David
If you can’t wait for the OTA update to hit your phone, you can download it via this link.
billyripkin, a Mac Forums reader, posted an interesting image from the set of Transformers 3. The director, Michael Bay, uses his iPad 3G to show Patrick Dempsey how the scene should look like.
Verizon is currently pushing an OTA update for the DROID Incredible. The update will not bring Android 2.2 on board, but for instance Skype, 720p video recording, mobile hotspot functionality and a new boot-up animation is added by this update, so you could actually call it a big update.
