Nokia has officially unveiled the N9 as the "first-ever pure touch smartphone" back in June (now, four months after, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus can say it's "pure-touch" phone too) and it doesn't runSymbian nor Windows Phone but MeeGo.
With a 3.9-inch curved glass AMOLED display of FWVGA resolution (854 x 480 pixels), the N9 is powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP3630 1GHz CPU aided but a PowerVR SGX530 GPU. There's 1GB RAM on board as well as either 16GB in the model which we are currently unboxing.
Nokia threw in a microUSB syncing and charging cable, a wall charger, a pair of headphones, a silicone case which snaps on the back of the phone for protection as well as the usual literature. Check it out below:
Like it was the case with previous iPhone models, the latest iPhone 4S is not carried by T-Mobile. After news that regional carrier C Spire will indeed have the iPhone 4S, T-Mobile said that the phone does still not support its 3G and 4G frequencies, answering questions as per why it was missing from the line-up.
Senior Vice President of Marketing for T-Mobile, Andrew Sherrard, said that "T-Mobile thinks theiPhone is a good device and we've expressed our interest to Apple to offer it to our customers. Ultimately, it is Apple's decision". In reality, like with the case of previous iPhone models, the current Apple-phone does not pack a technology that works on T-Mobile's 1,700MHz frequency. While T-Mobile believes "a capable version of the iPhone for our 3G and 4G networks would offer an additional compelling option for our customers on a fast 4G network", "the iPhone is not the only option to experience the benefit that smartphones offer".
Research firm Research2Guidance has made a study public which shows that Google's AndroidMarket has surpassed the 500,000 published apps mark as of last month. As a comparison, Apple made the numbers official for the same amount of software back at the end of May.
While Apple's iTunes App Store is now beyond 600,000 titles, the study shows that more than 37% of the applications published to the AndroidMarket were removed at a later time because of various reasons. In contrast, Apple App Store titles were only removed in amount of 24% from the total published. Of course, numbers are great to see regardless of the platform of your choice but the real battle comes down to usable and useful apps. At 500K+, chances are you'll pretty much find anything you're looking for, just ignore the "uninteresting" ones. If you are interested in further details, hit up the source link.
For now, only users of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play are really getting anything resembling a traditional video gaming experience on their smartphones (unless your idea of classic gaming involves rubbing your thumbs on your TV or picking it up and tilting it from side-to-side), but it looks like that's all about to change. Google's Romain Guy just announced that Android 4.0 Ice CreamSandwich will support USB gamepads, letting the rest of us get in on the action.
Guy notes the support is in Ice Cream Sandwich, and confirms it will definitely work on the Galaxy Nexus. You'll obviously need an adapter to get the full-sized USB connector on your gamepad plugged into your phone's Micro USB port, but that's a small price to pay for having access to some solid, responsive gaming controls.
We've heard about efforts similar to this before, letting wireless PlayStation controllers work on your Android phone, and Honeycomb has been able to pull this kind of thing off on tablets, but this will mark its arrival as a feature built-in to Android for smartphones.
Jailbreaks for iOS 5 are getting better and better, with the latest redsn0w now able to work its magic on your iPhone over twice as quickly. Don't let your expectations run away with you though, as we're still in tethered jailbreak land, with no ETA on an untethered option. That's not stopping unscrupulous souls from fleecing a little cash off the gullible, causing the iPhone Dev Team'sMuscleNerd to speak out in warning against one such scam tool.
MuscleNerd sent out a tweet in regards to claims that FastRa1n can install an untethered jailbreak on iOS 5 devices. Anyone paying for access to the supposed tool is just wasting their money, according to him, and the iPhone Dev Team will be confirming the presence of an actual iOS 5 untethered jailbreak if and when one arises. They're obviously working hard on such an effort, and all us non-devs should just relax and enjoy our tethered jailbreak for the time being.
