Apple's iOS 5 update changed quite a few design elements and introduced new ones like the Notification Center.
While some changes like the redesigned alerts and the rounded switches were noticeable, other tweaks might have escaped your eye.
Embedded below are a few of the subtle design changes that Apple made to iOS 5. You might have spotted some, while others wouldn't have really caught your attention.
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Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry provides a long-awaited design jolt, compensates for a lot
Remember that downright futuristic BlackBerry we spied back in September? Say hello, all over again. RIM and Porsche (of all companies) have just taken the official wraps off of the Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry, a frighteningly beautiful new slab that offers up a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and "crystal clear touch display." It'll ship with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience, not to mention the "premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P'9981 smartphone user." Fancy. As for specs, it's boasting a 1.2GHz processor, HD video recording capabilities, 8GB of onboard memory, Liquid Graphics technology, a microSD expansion slot, an inbuilt NFC module and BlackBerry OS 7. We're told that it'll be available from Porsche Design stores later this year, but mum's the word on the (presumably stratospheric) price. Head past the ump for T-break's hands-on vid.
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Introducing the Porsche Design P'9981 Smartphone from BlackBerry
Engineered Luxury Meets High-Powered Performance
STUTTGART, GERMANY and WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 27, 2011) -
Today, Porsche Design and Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) announced the elite new Porsche Design P'9981 smartphone from BlackBerry®. Designed by Porsche Design, in collaboration with RIM, the luxury brand's first smartphone delivers engineered luxury and performance.
The Porsche Design P'9981 smartphone from BlackBerry is instantly identifiable as a Porsche Design product. The exclusive material choices for this unique smartphone include a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and crystal clear touch display. This customized Porsche Design P'9981 comes with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience. It also includes premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P'9981 smartphone user.
"Since 1972 Porsche Design has presented milestone products with iconic style, and the P'9981 smartphone from BlackBerry will be our next landmark," said Dr. Juergen Gessler, CEO Porsche Design Remember that downright futuristic BlackBerry we spied back in September? Say hello, all over again. RIM and Porsche (of all companies) have just taken the official wraps off of the Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry, a frighteningly beautiful new slab that offers up a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and "crystal clear touch display." It'll ship with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience, not to mention the "premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P'9981 smartphone user." Fancy. As for specs, it's boasting a 1.2GHz processor, HD video recording capabilities, 8GB of onboard memory, Liquid Graphics technology, a microSD expansion slot, an inbuilt NFC module and BlackBerry OS 7. We're told that it'll be available from Porsche Design stores later this year, but mum's the word on the (presumably stratospheric) price. Head past the ump for T-break's hands-on vid.
Update: MobileSyrup reports that the device shown here will sell for "around $2,000," and they'll be (unsurprisingly) limited in quantity.
There have been six smartphone distribution updates since Android was released: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and most recently, Ice Cream Sandwich. One man, Michael DeGusta, decided to map out every release and every Android smartphone launched in the United States before July 2010. He then compared the revision updates to the iPhone. The results are a bit surprising, even if you’re aware the Android market is fragmented. For example, DeGusta discovered that 7 of the 18 smartphones in his chart never ran a current version of Android. 12 of the devices only ran a current version of Android for a “matter of weeks or less” before a new distribution was released. Here are several other compelling facts discovered by DeGusta:
10 of 18 were at least two major versions behind well within their two year contract period.
11 of 18 stopped getting any support updates less than a year after release.
13 of 18 stopped getting any support updates before they even stopped selling the device or very shortly thereafter.
15 of 18 don’t run Gingerbread, which shipped in December 2010.
In a few weeks, when Ice Cream Sandwich comes out, every device on here will be another major version behind.
At least 16 of 18 will almost certainly never get Ice Cream Sandwich.
“It only gets worse for people who bought their phone late in its sales period.”
As a result of the fragmentation, DeGusta argues that consumers get “screwed,” developers are constrained and security risks increase when support updates aren’t applied to earlier devices. Read on for a link to DeGusta’s research and a full infographic.
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Angry Birds Rio Scam
Angry Birds Rio Update – 1.3.3 w/ The Mighty Eagle- Rigged
In Carnival Upheavel level 8-5 version 1.3.2, to obtain 3 stars you need 70,000+ which is challenging and not impossible to score.
The most recent update of 1.3.3 today, Rovio added the Mighty Eagle to the game. Now, they’ve stripped 2 stars from Carnival Upheavel level 8-5 and boosted the points much higher for users to obtain 3 stars. I’ve scored 74,140 and that alone only earned me one star now, the screenshot bellow which shows proof they’ve rigged the update to sell more Mighty Eagle in-app purchases.
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
I don't think you've noticed what I've been doing for almost the past two years here? I haven't been jailbreaking and moding my device much anymore. In fact, I've been trying to convert ppl to stay stock and learn why Apple has made certain things the way it is and to get things to working when problems occur.
Challenge accepted. For every person you try to convince to stay stock I'm going to convince to jailbreak.
All I have to do is show them biteSMS, Winterboard, Dreamboard, and SBSettings, done deal.
What can say to convince anyone? "hey look, its stock, isnt it great. I mean no, you cant have a custom theme, or little tweaks that make the phone better. But you can do everything a stock phone can do"
Prometheus Xex
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Originally posted by Brennen
Challenge accepted. For every person you try to convince to stay stock I'm going to convince to jailbreak.
All I have to do is show them biteSMS, Winterboard, Dreamboard, and SBSettings, done deal.
What can say to convince anyone? "hey look, its stock, isnt it great. I mean no, you cant have a custom theme, or little tweaks that make the phone better. But you can do everything a stock phone can do"
If the jailbreaking finally stopped, what would Apple do for upcoming IOS feature ideas? LOL.
malek
I completely stopped playing angry bird when the might eagle concept was introduced... it smelled scam. My initial hunch is now proven :-)
E2EK1EL
quote:
Originally posted by Brennen
Challenge accepted. For every person you try to convince to stay stock I'm going to convince to jailbreak.
All I have to do is show them biteSMS, Winterboard, Dreamboard, and SBSettings, done deal.
What can say to convince anyone? "hey look, its stock, isnt it great. I mean no, you cant have a custom theme, or little tweaks that make the phone better. But you can do everything a stock phone can do"
Sure all the above jailbreaking apps increases percentage of slowdowns, due to the mobilesubstrate ext being clogged over time.
BiteSMS - bites big balls, slide to unlock the "icon" on the lockscreen brings you straight into the messaging app now and everything else.
Dreamboard & Winterboard - Always been a memory hog; theming has always been retarded on all platforms. Nobody is gonna make an app icon package for 500,000 apps, therefore your icons will not look unified to your theme.
Sbsettings & BBsettings - Multitasking dock app does pretty much the same thing and now BT auto on / off is one of the most ingenious ideas ever made.
Now, it's gonna take a while to find a untether jailbreak working. Yes, the Chronic Dev Team has found 5 exploits in iOS5 during the GM build ... but nothing is released for beta testers and etc.
Even if they do release it, you totally forgot that Apple made iOS 5 impossible to downgrade now ... due to the random boot token and you know they will patch the update with a new feature added to iOS5. You're not gonna sit there on that iOS ver forever and you'll need to restore due to Mobilesubstrate clogging up. Even stock iOS cloggs up after a while and needs a restore from time to time.
Speaking of restore; you very well know, every update and jailbreak you need to do a Clean Restore. Restoring and reloading a back up will only cause more trouble down the road since it leaves random system files in your phone and backups. Setting everything up from scratch is a pain in the ass. Plus Apple will reject your OTA update if your phone is jailbroken.
Only feature in the jailbreaking scene that is useful is Intelliscreen X and 3G Unrestrictor, they are very slick ... but it's not really worth it.
PS:
There is no challenge, I'm light years a head of you dude :p
jester
Anyone ask Siri about how she feels about Skynet?
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iPhone 4S Goes On Sale In 22 New Countries Today; Greeted With Long Lines
The iPhone 4S goes on sale in 22 new countries starting today.
iPhone 4S comes with a number of new features and improvements, which includes Apple's faster dual-core A5 processor, improvement 8-megapixel camera, Siri - Apple's revolutionary intelligent personal assistant, slightly improved battery life, world phone, faster network speeds and lots more.
The countries in this round include Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Apple had started accepting pre-orders in these countries from last Friday, October 21st.
iPhone 4S first went on sale in US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and UK two weeks back on October 14th.
We're hearing reports of long lines for the iPhone 4S launch in countries like Singapore with people waiting for as much as 12 hours. Straits Times of Singapore reports:
At the stroke of midnight, the three telcos here started selling the coveted phone, and were staying open through the night. Before midnight, about 700 people were queueing at M1's Paragon store.
StarHub was accepting only a few hundred invited customers, each with a specified time slot, so as to avoid overcrowding.
SingTel, however, expected a larger turnout. The telco had booked the entire convention hall at Suntec, and had already taken more than 10,000 pre-orders.
Some photos of the long queues in Singapore courtesy Strait Times:
(Very impressive for a non-redesigned iPhone, most of these regions are allowed to HUP yearly. I predict the longest line for any iPhone launch will be Hong Kong. Apple placed that store @ the most perfect location in the world)
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From HoFo:
Rogers - EARLY HUP CHAOS!
"So, I had a customer who came into the store to do an upgrade to an iphone 4s 64GB. I told him about all the fees $369 + $35 admin fee + $120 early hup fee. He doesn't mind pay for the phone + admin fee but refuses to pay the early upgrade fee. He spends about $400 per month. Sometimes higher depending if he roams or not. One month was $1200+ due to roaming. So, I told the customer that there is no way for us to waive any fees in store. I sugested cx to call ret since he has a good chance of getting that waived.
So, we got ret on the line and they refuse to waive the fee because the iphone is a high demand phone. He even threatened to cancel if the fee is not waived. And ret still didn't budge. Checked the contract expiry date and it turns out that it only costs him about $250 to cancel his contract. So, to cancel and get an iphone from a different carrier would cost him $250 + $159 (he wanted a 16GB iphone anyways) = $318 vs paying $524 (64GB was the only one we have in stock) with us.
At the end he ported out to another carrier. Good job retentions!"
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Found another IP4 for sale today, bought it for a very good price and it's going to the GF's father.
Dude is dying for a IP4 since last year I got mine on launch date, I'll be seeing a 55 yr old man doing some kart wheels this weekend.
For those who are planning to get a IP4, this is a very good time to hunt them down.
