Phone-stuff

    Things I am discovering about mobile phones

    Browsing Posts published on October 14, 2010

    UK wireless provider Orange appears to be planning on offering their San Francisco phone on a subsidized monthly contract. The news comes via the advert posted above (read the fine print), and may be a viable option for customers who can’t or don’t want to shell out £99 for the device. Orange has not issued [...]

    Yesterday, we reported the wonderful news that Samsung had released the official Froyo source code for their line of Galaxy S devices. Now, however, it appears that Samsung has pulled the source code from their site, so if you weren’t able to get your hands on it yesterday, you’re either going to have to wait [...]

    Motorola has officially acknowledged a series of issues related to the semi-recent Droid X Android 2.2 update. Users have been reporting these issues for weeks, so there are no real surprises here. Below is the post made on the official Motorola support forums. Stuck on Moto logo after reboot – this was tough on a [...]

    What’s that? Opera Mobile is already available? – check again, that is Opera “Mini”, this is Opera “Mobile”.  I’m sure it’s quite similar to its sister app, but this new version of the mobile Opera browser packs a few new features.  One that’s been missing is the coveted pinch-to-zoom action.  It’s about time too, as [...]

    If you’ve been into the ‘jailbreaking’ scene you probably heard about Geohot’s limera1n release for PC. His tool circumvented the announcement made by the Chronic Dev Team to release their greenpois0n tool, which contained a different exploit. Eventually, the CDT released their tool with Geohot’s exploit. If you’re waiting for PwnageTool, it’s coming Sunday. Click [...]