Gad-O-Tech: August 2011

The HTC Thunderbolt is getting Gingerbread by the end of Q3. After many dates about when the Thunderbolt will get Gingerbread that the Thunderbolt should get it by end of June and now that day has pass and nothing happens. Leaks of Gingerbread for the Thunderbolt has some issue that brock some phone and due to this HTC is holding and fixing the Gingerbread Although it's not a solid date, still it's about 8 weeks before the day arrives

Pegatron Ships 5 Million iPhone 5 While Foxconn Ships 10 Million GSM Variants Of iPhone 5

Yesterday, the iPhone is rumour now is in testing mode by carrier and now today Pegatron is giving 5 million iPhone 5 shipment to Apple. Also Foxconn will ship about 10 million iPhone 5 GSM variants to Apple, and the launch date is rumour to be push to October rather then September. Save your money geek and Apple users as it'll be about 2 months left to gather all your money.

iReplay Apples Own Netflix Rival

Apple has launch many things to complete its own ecosystem where Google lead the way now having a very huge domain for all its service, recently with Google + as its main center and also as its social network application to improve its service.

Apple not falling behind is going to release another competitive service that rival Netflix and Hulu, calling it iReplay is a service that provide movie available for rent in iTunes but not like Netflix with one subscription price but one movie per price. Yes it's a huge difference but things could get better once it's launch and changes happen here and there.

And according to AppAdvice:
In a nutshell, iTunes Replay is an extension to what Apple is already doing with iCloud and free re-downloads of previously purchased content. As Apple secures the remaining rights, TV Shows as well as Movies in iTunes will be given little arrow indicating whether they’re “iTunes Replay eligible”, that is, available to be downloaded subsequent times. Note that some content will unfortunately only be available to download five times and we don’t know how streaming will count towards that limit.

T-Mobile seals the date for in-store updates to Gingerbread | Android and Me

Toshiba Thrive Update Promise Fix Sleeping Issue

The Toshiba Thrive has an issue that some users reported that their tablet won't wake up after sleeping. Even factory reset, hard reset won't do the trick so the suspect is the firmware. Now Toshiba recently release an update as they promise.

Toshiba released the following statement regarding the software update:

A limited number of Thrive Tablet users have experienced a Resume issue when in Sleep mode. Toshiba has released a software update to resolve this issue, improving the sleep-and-resume performance, as well as enhancing the multimedia playback capabilities of the device. The software update can be downloaded through the Toshiba Service Station utility app found on the Thrive Tablet.

Above is the screenshot of what the update should looks like when checking for it.

Kyocera Echo Sprint Gingerbread Update Suspended

The Kyocera Echo recently get its Gingerbread and now Sprint users are wondering when will they get the update. It turns out that the update as of right now is on hold due to an ongoing fix as the update brick some phone and due to this the roll out has been suspended.

Samsung Hold Off Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Launch In Australia

Samsung despite the injunction made to its Galaxy Tab 10.1 by Apple, Samsung insist to sell it in Australia down under the globe as they said that it only affects their US variants and not outside the US. But now Samsung hold off the launch of the 10.1 Tab in Australia as rumour says something is going on behind the scene, like a tug of war game that never ends

04/08/2011

PS Vita Launch In Japan By End Of 2011, Other Country Wait For Early 2012 " Global Rollout"

A two different story about the PS Vita about its launch. The PS Vita will miss the 2011 launch this year and instead it's push to early next year. According to Sony VP Kazuo Hirai, only Japan will see the Vita arrive in time for Christmas, with the rest of the “phased global rollout” taking place in early 2012. Rather than a delay, Hirai said the scheduling was intended to give Sony time to prepare “solid” game offerings.

And the PS Vita just pass FCC today so yes, a very big dissapaoinment for those in the US and other countries as they have to wait for the global roll out.

iCloud Enable Find My iPhone And iMac In The Cloud

iCloud recently launch to developers making them access the iCloud service available on the web so they can check what do they have in the cloud. Now the features is being tested and today the feature activated are the find my iPhone and iMac in the cloud. The devices show up on the map as a blue dot. You can then pick the device and choose to remote lock it, remote wipe it or send it a message or sound. Amazing feature indeed and more are coming

Sensation Having Some Touchscreen Issue

HTC Sensation is one of the best Android smartphone from HTC and it really pars with the SGS II. But now a new problem emerge, although it hit only a small number of users. It deals with the touchscreen of the Sensation, reports says that the phone become unresponsive and respond less to swipe gestures which most of the application depend on and when it's unresponsive then it's like having an old phone. Although the problem still need to be clarify and whether it's a hardware damage or system failure though factory reset didn't solve the problem.

Google Reject Offer To Join Consortium Consist Of Apple And Microsoft For Nortel Patent, Microsoft Proof It By Email

Above is an email claim by Microsoft that before the Nortel patent bid, Google was offer to join the consortium of Apple, Microsoft and the like that win the Nortel patents back. The email is a proof that Google rejected to join the consortium and this shows that Google did have a chance to win the patents but simply refuse to join with all other giants to make it a one sided bid. But Google says that email can be easily faked and this email is certainly a fake email made by Microsoft to frame up Google.

Apple Provide iPhone 5/S And iPhone 4 Cheap Variants To China Telecom

Sohu.com is reporting that China Telecom and Apple have worked out a preliminary agreement, the Cupertino based firm will provide the world's largest mobile carrier with not one, but two Apple iPhone models this fall.

One model will be the brand new Apple iPhone 5 and the second will be a cheaper "re-tooled" version of the current Apple iPhone 4. So the iPhone 4 cheap version is real but only in China and maybe expand to other countries which many people want an affordable iPhone and the iPhone 5/S is also available.

Galaxy Tab 10.1 OTA Update Brings In Samsung Touch UX On 5th August, Hit The UK Today, While Baby Brother 8.9 Hit On The 12th

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will receive the Samsung Touch UX update OTA on 5th of August. This will be the first Android Customize experience design for Honeycomb. Samsung has add some pretty nice feature including “Mini Mode Tray” that offers quick access to paneled apps like the Task Manager, Calendar, World Clock, Pen Memo, Calculator, and Music Player.

Meanwhile the UK just got their Galaxy Tab release today while the 8.9 baby brother release date is on the 12th August both 3G and WiFi variants. While the 10.1 3G version will hit the stores on the 23rd August.

The WiFi-only Tab is £399 for the 16GB WiFi version, £479 for the 32GB and £559 for the 64GB, all available in black or white. Meanwhile, the WiFi + 3G model is £499, £579 or £659 for the three capacity variants respectively, all SIM-free.

As for the smaller model, the 8.9-inch Honeycomb tablet is being listed for pre-order at several online stores – Expansys has it for £584.99 - but recently an Amazon marketplace seller suggested it would drop on August 12. That date seems changeable, however; Engadget spotted the same seller listing the Tab 8.9 for release on August 11 just a few hours ago.

HTC Unlock Procedure Reveal, Giving Away Your Warranty

HTC finally tells you how the unlocking procedure will work. All you need to do is give your smartphone serial number to HTC and they will create a unique unlock code via email. Then you have just unlock your phone, the price? Its free provided that with this unlocking, you give away your warranty. Yes no warranty so the phone responsibility is all your, not a big deal if you're a developer or have any experience in brick and bringing and playing around with the phone system but for general user it's kind of cruel that your carriers or the place where you bought your phone will still repair your phone at full retail price if anything ever happens to it. It's a big gamble but that's the price you have to pay

Windows Phone 7 Finally Got Custom ROM Treatment

Custom Rom is what makes Android so popular, the reason for doing it? To be able to test out new ROM either the leak of the official upcoming update and also to maximize the ability of the smartphone and the ability to remove carriers bloatware or carriers application which we doesn't really need.

Windows Phone 7 ROM is nice, they didn't have any big problem that makes people want to replace it. But people over at XDA has release a Custom ROM, the first ever for Windows Phone 7 and the first one to get it is the HD7. The ability of this custom ROM is not much different from the official ROM like the ability to remove and uninstall apps especially the bloatware. However this custom ROM has the ability to let user switch carriers, in other means it unlock your HD7 and also make the device easily upgradable to Mango Beta 2 by tuning to Zune

03/08/2011

Apple to Discount and Discontinue iPad 2 as iPad 3 Debuts in Fall

iPhone 5 Already on Sale in China!

Blackberry Playbook will run Android apps by 'late fall,' later than expected -- Engadget

AT&T: New 4G BlackBerry Line: Torch 9810, Bold 9900, Torch 9860

BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, Torch 9850/9860, Torch 9810 Introduced

Apple's Next iPhone Already In Testing With Carriers?

Sprint Suspends Kyocera Echo Gingerbread Update

Nokia’s Windows Phone reveal won’t be this month, tips insider - SlashGear

iPhone 5 tipped for October 1 Canada launch - SlashGear

Not so fast Apple and Microsoft: Feds will probe Nortel patent purchase.

Nokia Planning Meego-based iPad 2 Rival? | ITProPortal.com

PlayStation Vita Will Double As PS3 Controller, Sony Says | ITProPortal.com

Google+ App for Windows Phone 7 Emerges Online | ITProPortal.com

Verizon announces Android 3.2 update for Motorola Xoom 3G, available today? -- Engadget

Huawei Vision smartphone: Android 2.3, 1GHz CPU, unibody construction -- Engadget

UK set to legalize CD and DVD copying for personal use -- Engadget

ASUS' next gen Eee Pad Transformer to pack NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El, launch this October? -- Engadget

Samsung will release Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia despite Apple complaint -- Engadget

Google may annoint Texas Instruments as official silicon partner for Android Ice Cream Sandwich - Phone Arena

Sony S1 and S2 Honeycomb tablets to be launched within a month, 3G and SD cards in tow - Phone Arena

LG Revolution About To Get Bugfix Update

Samsung Stratosphere on Verizon: Could This Be The Galaxy S2?

Sprint's Galaxy S2 To Be Samsung Epic Touch 4G?

Motorola Reveals Full Droid Bionic Specs?

No Quad-Core NVIDIA Chips In Smartphones Until 2012

WIMM Smartwatch Runs Android, Has 667MHz Processor

Samsung Galaxy 3D Might Skip The UK?

Introducing the New Windows Phone Logo

Android Malware Now Capable of Recording Your Phone Calls?

Sony Xperia Play, Neo, and Arch Getting CyanogenMod Custom ROM

02/08/2011

Anonymous Launches A New Social Network Called Anon+ | Redmond Pie

Sony's TV reform to begin 'immediately,' could involve partnering with other firms -- Engadget

Sony S1 And S2 Tablet Details Leak - SlashGear

Apple To Release 3 HDTV Models In 2012 [REPORT] | Redmond Pie

Sony Ericsson planning 4.7-inch 3D device; how big is too big? | Android and Me

iCloud.com beta with Mail, Contacts and Calendar web apps, now available to all - TNW Apple

Apple Takes Samsung Fight to the Land Down Under (Phone Scoop)

Leak mentions August 31st launch date for T-Mobile's BlackBerry Bold 9900 - Phone Arena

Apple gets judicial reprieve, damage limited by Judge to $8 million payment in infringement case - Phone Arena

Nokia changes its naming system again: goes back to pure numbers - Phone Arena

Samsung prepping 7" Super AMOLED Plus display for tablets with increased resolution - Phone Arena

Nokia Team Up With Microsoft, Hold A Gaming Convection In Cologne, Germany

Remember the 17th August, mark it and put it somewhere, in your diary or anything so you won't forget about it. Use days left widget haha because on that day Nokia and Microsoft holding an event, a gaming event in Cologne in Germany. Expect surprises, yes and many of us take it as Windows Phone 7 reveal by Nokia, the prototype or a beta product. Although it is really weird to unveil a phone in a gaming expo except your unveiling a gaming phone or a gaming product and something like that. What could Nokia and Microsoft surprises is?

Motorola MB865 Is AT&T First LTE Smartphone

All the phone numbers assigned to MB865s are for area codes that will be a part of AT&T's initial LTE deployment. Additionally, AT&T has set up a tracking code for LTE devices in its payment infrastructure, and the MB865 has the appropriate notations for an LTE smartphone. Also the MB865 is a Motorola phone, so will Motorola will be the first AT&T LTE smartphone? And by the looks of the phone, this looks like the Atrix 4G successor, so we could be looking at the Atrix 2

Kyocera Echo Update Just Confrim, NFC?

Last week the Kyocera Echo gets Gingerbread and today Sprint and Kyocera confirm the update and also made some announcement, a WiFi call and NFC reader support.

The WiFi calling is really nice but the NFC support not so much. The porblem is that the Echo hardware doesn't really support NFC, it does have the chip but not the antenna in order for the NFC to properly working. Could the Echo have an improve hardware or just an accessory for the NFC or a new brother with proper NFC?

Amazon Stop receiving Application From Germany

Amazon stop accepting app from German developers due to the case ongoing between Amazon and Apple in the lawsuit of the term appstore that Apple claim to be theirs only and not anyone else. Below is what German developers get from Amazon

Subject: Important Notice for Germany Based Developers

Dear Amazon Appstore Developer,

Thank you for your participation in the Amazon Appstore for Android. We wanted to notify you of a recent change to your Developer Portal account; for the time being, we are not accepting new app submissions from developers located in Germany. We have been forced to impose this restriction due to a legal action filed by Apple in Germany seeking to prevent us from using the term “appstore.” We believe Apple’s claim is without merit and are actively contesting it.

When you log into your Developer Portal account, you will notice that the options to add new apps have been removed. We hope to begin accepting new apps from German developers again soon and will notify you as soon as we are able to do so.

We appreciate your patience and your continued interest in the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Thank you,

Amazon Appstore Account Team

If this happen to all European country, then most online store is force to change the appstore to something else.

SeaGate GoFlex Satellite WiFi Enable Hard Drive now Available To Both IOS And Android

Before this, the SeaGate GoFlex Satellite WiFi Enable Hard Drive is made available to the iPhone and other IOS device which expand the memory to about 500GB more memory and whats more? You can carry this Hard Drive anywhere ans it has a power of its own, stand by time of 25 hours and 5 hours worth of streaming time. To help save on battery life, the app has a setting to temporarily download files to your smartphone if you have the space; that way, you can enjoy a large file like a movie without the drive needing to be at full power the whole time. And with the availability of an Android App, surely this Hard Drive is one of a must have thing for Android users that stores a lot of data, particularly picture, music and games

New Xperia Launcher Leak

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray recently launch and their version of the arc launcher is different from all other Xperia phone except for the newer Xperia. According to report, the launcher has a new setting call themes and this is not yet available to be used though, also if you shake the phone, all the apps and widget fly.

iPhone 5/S Launch In October?

And the rumour continues about the latest iPhone 5/S, this time is the rumour date of launch. First the iPhone will be release in September and international in October. Now is all different, the next iPhone 5/S will launch in October, still under rumour untill Apple comes out with something officially

Foxconn Using Robots In Years To Come, 1 Million Robots By Next 3 Years

Nokia and Apple is going to replace workers with one million robots in the year to come. For now Foxconn workers who manufacture the phone for many industry including the iPhone and Nokia phones, they have about 1.2 billion workers and about 10,000 robots working with them. And now Foxconn is going to increase the workers with a million robots by the next 3 years. Robots didn't complaint about wages, didn't kill themselves so Foxconn sees this to solve their problem

HTC Desire Gingerbread Update Release As Development ROM Only

Remember the Gingerbread update for the original HTC Desire? Looks like it's having a really though time and now the Gingerbread update is available with a very long info about the update that only people dare to use it can update and not for public use yet. This update exclude the US, Japanese, Germany and South Korean Desire, so if you dare to use it then head over to this link and comment there if there is any problem you encounter

Asus Slider 16GB Delayed, Both 16GB And 32GB Launch Simultaneously

Asus Slider, a honeycomb tablet with a slide out keyboard. Yes it looks nice and hoping a Windows 8 tablet to have models like these too. Anyway the 16GB model WiFi variants is now on delay again until Autumn or by the end of this year, the delay rumour suggest it has something to do with the software, particularly the new USB accessory support.

Also due to this delay, the 32GB model WiFi variant is catching up, by the time both 16GB and the 32GB will launch simultaneously. Both model with 3G will be launch by Q1 of 2012

The PS Vita processor is said to be manufacture by Samsung according to a Japanese website. The processor will use Samsung’s 45nm fabrication process and going by the official spec sheet, the CPU will be a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 chip along with SGX543MP4+ GPU.

PlayStation Vita is expected to release before end of this year and the UK this 28th October. Meanwhile the games that is to be release for the PS Vita is reveal by IGN.

Nokia 500 Officially Reveal

It features some mid-range specs for a Nokia phone, features are

3.2 Inch screen, a 360 x 480 screen resolution of capacitive touch screen
1GHz processor
5 megapixel with no flash back camera
WiFi
GPS
FM Radio
2GB of internal memory
Symbian Anna

The good news is that the smartphone will be priced at the affordable €150 (roughly $215), and is expected to hit the shelves in the third quarter of 2011, just as the rumors have suggested

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