‘Signal’ jailbreak app for iPhone maps out your towers, turns death gripping into a pastime
If you're familiar with Android apps like CellFinder, you've got a good idea for what this is -- and the name "Signal" is a pretty accurate representation, too. Basically, iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing has thrown together a neat little app that shows you signal strengths of your phone's connections to nearby cell towers along with their position relative to you (if the positions can be determined), an especially welcome utility considering that you can't access Apple's old "field test mode" in iOS 4.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: accurate, apple, apps, cydia, death grip, engadget, engadget-mobile, iphone, over-the-signal, phone, pretty-accurate, result, Tower, towers
Mysterious HTC Windows Phone 7 device breaks cover at FCC, swears it was invited
It's one of the most barebones filings we've seen in recent memory, but there's no mistaking that at least one Windows Phone 7 device from HTC is going to make a stateside debut. If we had to guess, we'd say that this is the first official look at whatever phone we spotted late last month , but the only identifying mark anywhere is a PD26100 model number. Based on the test reports, we know for sure that it'll boast Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and support for GSM 850 / UMTS I and II, but it's obviously still up in the air as to what carrier this will be headed for.
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: apple, cover-at-fcc, gsm, htc, htc spark, leak, result, rumor, states, stateside, whatever-phone, windows
iPhone’s App Store ‘Try Before You Buy’ section isn’t exactly what you’re hoping for
We love Android 's 24-hour app return policy, so when we heard about Apple opening a "Try Before You Buy" section in the App Store , we grabbed the closest iDevice in our proximity to see what exactly was up. Only, it isn't exactly what we expected given the name. Located under Features -> Free on the App Store, the new section serves only to highlight the free / "lite" edition of apps with premium older siblings
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: app, apple, appstore, closest, engadget, expected-given, given-the-name, iphone, ipod-touch, personal, result, store, wishlist
Samsung Galaxy S coming in white?
It looks like Samsung might be getting ready to do something that Apple's having an awful time with : produce a white version of its latest, greatest smartphone. GSMArena happened across a tiny, blurry image of a particularly pale Galaxy S on the website of Spain's The Phone House -- a Carphone Warehouse company -- where it's identified as an exclusive
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, carphonewarehouse, engadget-mobile, mobile, phone-house, result, samsung-galaxy, spain
PlayOn’s web app brings Hulu and Netflix to iPod touch, iPhone
Tired of waiting around for Apple's "review process" to complete? So was PlayOn .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apps, hard-at-work, html5, mobile, netflix, playon, stream, streaming
Clearwire’s 4G iSpot brings wireless broadband to Apple devices… and anything else with a WiFi pulse
Check it out, Clearwire has decided to do up an Apple-centric version of its Spot 4G hotspot , so it's quite naturally fashioned it in the shape of a Magic Mouse and stuck an i prefix to the front of the device. Really, there's nothing new or Apple-exclusive that we can see here -- up to eight devices can hook up to this portable 4G emitter via WiFi and the only authentication required is a password.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 4ghotspot, apple, apple-exclusive, check-it-out, clear, clearwire, hotspot, kids, mobile, mobilehotspot, mouse, peripheral, products-before, wifi
FaceTime 3G data consumption tested: about 3MB per minute
The folks over at 9to5Mac have kept up their investigation of FaceTime over 3G with a quick and dirty data usage analysis. Lest you've forgotten, jailbreaking Apple's Quattro permits walled garden escapees to FaceTime each other using dusty old 3G, and now we've got some numbers to show how much of an impact doing so will have on your bandwidth allowance
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: allowance, apple, bandwidth, consumption, data rate, iphone, streaming, your-bandwidth
iOS 4.1 beta 3 breaks loose (update: Game Center killed on iPhone 3G and second gen iPod touches)
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Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, being-granted, beta 3, illustrious, ios 4.1, iphone developer program, ipod, legacy, mass, the-illustrious
JailbreakMe using PDF exploit to hack your iPhone, so could the baddies; Apple looking into reports
As with any jailbreak or rooting of a handset, "hacking" a phone OS is usually exactly that: exploiting a weakness to get unsigned code onto a device. That means that any other hacker, be they sufficiently nefarious, could use that same exploit to mess with your phone in the bad, not-installing-emulators-off-of-Cydia sense.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, exploit, iphone, iphone devteam, mainstream, pdf, phone, until-apple
Visualized: iPhone 4 jailbreak makes itself at home
Sorry folks, we don't think this one falls under "fair use." Nice try though. Visualized: iPhone 4 jailbreak makes itself at home originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple-store, applestore, engadget, iphone, iphone 4, itself-at-home, jailbreak, jailbreak-makes, jailbreaking, jailbroken, one-falls, originally-appeared, result