A couple of week ago HTC announced that they would be releasing their bootloader unlock tool for a number of HTC devices this month, and now HTC has released the bootloader unlock tool for the HTC Sensation.
The bootloader unlock tool is available for the European HTC
Sensation, and they also have other devices listed on the website, which
include the HTC EVO 3D and the HTC Sensation 4G, these devices will also get the bootloader unlock tool shortly.
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Apparently achievements like revolutionizing how people read and a secret 10,000 year clock
haven’t sated Jeff’s appetite for greatness. So according to a reliable
news source the Amazon founder has successfully filed a patent for
smartphone air cushions. What? Yes, the medication wasn’t doing tricks
on your mind: smartphone air cushions.
Turns out Mr. Bezos is sharing inventor credit with Amazon VP Greg
Heart. The application was filed on February and seems to have gone
through without a hitch. As for the purpose of such a strange feature on
smartphones, it’s going to be a sort of air
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It looks like Samsung has just added a new Android device it its
Galaxy range, with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Xcover which is
designed to be a rugged Android smartphone.
The Samsung Galaxy Xcover is certified by the iP7 standard, which
means it is protected from dust, water up to one meter and drops and
knocks, and it will come with Android Gingerbread.
The Galaxy Xcover features a 3.65 inch touchscreen display that is
covered in scratch resistant and tempered glass, it also features a 3.2
megapixel camera with and LED flash which can also be used as a
flashlight.
The Samsung Galaxy Xcover will go on sale in Germany in October,
there are no details on pricing, and no information on when it will be
available in the rest of Europe and the US.
We have featured quite a few devices powered and controlled by
smartphones, the latest one is the Android Powered Robot Tank, which as
the name suggests is powered by an Android smartphone.
The video below shows how the tank works, and it was made using a
remote controlled tank, an Android smartphone and an IOIO board which
connects the smartphone to the tank via USB, have a look at the video of
it in action.
Microsoft recently released Windows Phone 7 Mango to their
manufacturing partners, and we have already seen one Windows Phone Mango
smartphone announced, and now according to the guys over at ZDnet
Microsoft is working on Windows Phone Tango.
According to the report Windows Phone Tango, won’t be a follow up to
Windows Phone Mango instead it will be more like Windows Phone 7.1, and
it will introduce a new range of cheaper Windows Phone 7 smartphones.
One of my contacts who asked to remain anonymous said he believed
there would be at least one and maybe two Tango releases hitting before
the Windows Phone 8 Apollo release. He said Tango was "all about Nokia”
and focused on hitting the lower-price point for Windows Phones that
Microsoft and Nokia execs have been promising.
We have no details as yet on what sort of specifications we will see
in Windows Phone Tango smart
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Using your iPhone or smartphone whilst driving your car isn’t exactly
the best idea, and is illegal in a lot of places, the latest iPhone
accessory doesn’t exactly seem like the best idea, and we don’t think it
would be the safest thing to use whilst you are driving, the Steer
Safe.
The Steer Safe is an attachment for your steering wheel that is
designed to house your iPhone 4, and let you use it on your steering
wheel, and the designers of the device say that it should only be used
when you vehicle is parked or stationary, although in the video they
seem to be using it whilst driving.
Should you want one of these devices, the Steer Safe is a Kickstarter project, and it will cost around $30 if it actually goes into production.
We have seen quite a few different design concepts for the iPhone
5, the latest one comes from the guys over at Mac Rumors, and the
design is based on a case from Chinese manufacturers which was
reportedly designed on the iPhone 5 specifications.
As you can see from the photos below, the design from the guys as Mac Rumors has many of the features that we have been hearing about over the last few months.
We are not sure if the iPhone 5 will look exactly like this one from
Mac Rumors, when it launches in September or October, what do you guys
think, leave a comment and let us know.
Yesterday we heard that Nokia would not be selling the new Nokia N9 MeeGo smartphone in the US, and now it looks like Nokia will be putting an end to sales of all Symbian devices as well, instead they will be concentrating their efforts on Windows Phone 7 devices.
Chris Weber, President of Nokia Inc, which is Nokia’s US subsidiary,
has been talking to All Things D, and has told them that Nokia will be
concentrating all their efforts in the US on Windows Phone 7.
"When we launch Windows Phones
we will essentially be out of the Symbian business, the S40 business,
etc., ” Nokia Inc. President Chris Weber said in an interview. "It will
be Windows Phone and the accessories around that. The reality is if we
are not successful with Windows Phone, it doesn’t matter what we do
(elsewhere).”
Nokia intends to develop their smartphones for North America, and then sell them
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The last thing we heard about the new Nokia N9 MeeGo smartphone was that it would launch around the 23rd of September, this was after Nokia put up a countdown page on their site for the Nokia N9.
The countdown page has since been removed from Nokia’s website, and
the guys over at Engadget reached out to Nokia to find out when then N9
would land in the US, unfortunately it doesn’t look like it will be
headed to the US at all as Engadget received the following response from
Nokia.
"After the very positive reception to the launch of the Nokia N9,
the product is now being rolled out in countries around the world. At
this time we will not be making it available in the US. Nokia takes a
market by market approach to product rollout, and each country makes its
own decisions about which products to introduce from those available.
Decisions are based on an assessment of existing and upcoming pr
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We have featured quite a few different accessories for the iPhone, iPad and iPod here at Geeky Gadgets,
the latest one is one of the more useful ones we have seen and
definitely a great idea, it is called MySaver and is currently a
Kickstarter project.
One of the major problems with the standard Apple cables that come
with the iPhone, iPad and iPod is that they tend to break after a
certain amount of time, this is where MySaver comes in as it is designed
to stop the cables from breaking.
MySaver will be available in teow different versions, MySaver DIY,
which will let you add the MySaver on to your existing Apple cable, and
MySaver Pro, which is the device and the cable, have a look at the video
below.
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