Google yesterday stunned the world with free GPS navigation services (app) on the Android 2.0 OS . This debuts with the Motorola Droid which is getting good reviews and a warm welcome as Verizons answer to the iPhone.

Google Navigator brings Maps, ability to search for a business by its name, traffic data, voice-assisted turn-by-turn navigation, integrated data from Satellite and Street View, and the ability to lookup gas stations, (more…)

Foxconn has reportedly received increased orders for manufacturing the iPhone 3Gs in Q4 to meet the growing demand. The increase in order is said to be roughly 17% – 20%. Even OmniVision (which manufacturers sensors for the iPhone) has reportedly informed its customers that there would be supply constraints in order to meet Apple’s increased demands.

This shouldn’t really be a big scoop as it is being portraied as. Holiday season (more…)

After jailbreaking your device to 3.1.x, you might’ve noticed that your Carrier name is not coming up , you only see the signal bars. Carrier Logo Fixer fixes this, it automatically fetches your mobile carrier name and displays on your iPhone screen. After installing Carrier Logo Fixer you phone will respring and after that you will your carrier name.

Well there is another way too, most of you might be already aware (more…)

We just got a little tip from a reader leaving us a comment that Airtel India is actually unlocking the iPhone 3G after the 12month contract ends ( just as we heard before ). We also have a little screenshot of the unlock screen here. So while we wait for number portability and the iPhone 3GS to arrive in India, old iPhone owners can enjoy the freedom for now.

(A look at the iPhone 3G terms by Airtel (more…)

Unwired View is reporting that the iTunes appstore has crossed the 1lac mark for live apps already. No official press release on announcement from Apple is seen though.

For most of 2009, iPhone competitors have been shot down by the great AppStore advantage that Apple has. With over 2bln app downloads, by far this is an eyeopener for the industry. Going ahead we are sure that other platforms will catchup on the Games + Apps (more…)

Suing Apple for patent infringement is not all that Nokia is doing these days, instead they have this new multi touch technology for which a patent has been files. Fillings reveal the use touchscreens to measure how much pressure the user is applying to the display to suggest different actions. So a hard press on the capacitive screen might be taken as a double click while or simply to zoom into an image. The possible (more…)

So after we heard a few murmurs ourselves, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega actually hinted pretty clearly to analysts over a conference call that the iPhone would no longer be exclusive in the coming days. To quote the exact words …

“legacy of having a great portfolio…that will continue after the iPhone is no longer exclusive to us,”  / “even if we lose exclusivity”

ATT has handled more iPhones on a single network (more…)

Whoever has jailbreaked his iDevice, must be aware RIPDEV, they have given us some cool apps like Installer, KATE, ICYand many more.

Recently they update on their site that they are going leave those projects, that means that they are not going to provide support for those apps, Though they have not disclosed the reason why they are shutting down.

They also said that – “We will, of course, transfer (more…)

Nokia has filed a complaint against Apple alleging that Apple’s iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards (and we always thought that it would be Apple vs Palm ). The suit concerns all iPhone models produced by Apple. While the original iPhone launched back in 2007 and since then has sold more than 50million iPhones and iPod touch combined.

According to Nokia some 40 companies license these (more…)

Update Another update to Ultrasn0w is out . This unlocks the iPhone 4 as well as 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04. Easiest jailbreak and unlock!

Update: Steps to Jailbreak & unlock iPhone 3G/3GS OS 3.1.2 with blackra1n

Pwnage Tool released by devteam which creates custom firmware (without updating the latest baseband 5.xx) can be build only on a MAC. We’ve created a custom firmware (more…)