It’s official. In about two weeks time, RIM will start shipping the BlackBerry Bold 9700. Yes, the very same BlackBerry Onyx you saw here it’s ready for prime time. Email junkies and white collars get ready for a higher resolution screen, optical trackpad, 3G speedy downloads, WiFi, a 3.2 megapixel AF camera with flash and the brand new BlackBerry OS 5.0 for fun over AT&T and T-Mobile networks.
Alright, Nokia or Apple playing dirty here but it’s up to the Delaware District Court to decide who’s Mr Bad. What we take for granted though is Nokia suing Apple for infringement of Nokia GSM, UMTS and WLAN patents. Pretty bold claim from the Finns. According to the press release,
“The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007″.
Read all the PR and legal stuff after the jump. Interesting times we live.
Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in Delaware, alleging that Apple’s iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.
As a leading innovator in wireless communications, Nokia has created one of the strongest and broadest patent portfolios in the industry, investing more than EUR 40 billion in R&D during the last two decades. Much of this intellectual property, including the patents in suit, has been declared essential to industry standards. Nokia has already successfully entered into license agreements including these patents with approximately 40 companies, including virtually all the leading mobile device vendors, allowing the industry to benefit from Nokia’s innovation.
The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.
“The basic principle in the mobile industry is that those companies who contribute in technology development to establish standards create intellectual property, which others then need to compensate for,” said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, Legal & Intellectual Property at Nokia. “Apple is also expected to follow this principle. By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia’s intellectual property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation.”
During the last two decades, Nokia has invested approximately EUR 40 billion in research and development and built one of the wireless industry’s strongest and broadest IPR portfolios, with over 10,000 patent families. Nokia is a world leader in the development of GSM technologies and its evolution to UMTS / 3G WCDMA as well as wireless LAN, which is also demonstrated by Nokia’s strong patent position in these technologies.
The release date of one of the most hyped and coolest Nokia phones, the Maemo 5 powered N900, is pushed back again in the UK. Stores won’t see any of the beloved 3.5 touch screen inches till mid November. According to an email from an official partner with Nokia Retail,
“Delivery of Nokia N900 stock into our Nokia stores has unfortunately been delayed by two weeks to w/c 16th November. The delivery when it arrives will be the first N900 stock in the UK and orders will be dispatched on a first ordered, first serve, basis directly from our Nokia stores”
iPhone app: 3G Unrestrictor allows you to use WIFI apps on 3G / Edge network
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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3G Unrestrictor for the iPhone allows you to go around the iPhone’s limitations and restrictions like not being able to use Skype or SlingPlayer while on a mobile internet connection like 3G or EDGE as well as many other things. It allows those things by tricking applications into believing they are on WiFi, even though they are on 3G or EDGE.
Features:
- It allows you for example while on 3G/EDGE/GRPS:
- Make free calls using VoIP software like Skype, iSip, Truphone and other applications
- Watch TV with SlingPlayer
- Watch high quality YouTube videos, just like on WiFi
- Download apps bigger than 10MB from the AppStore
- Download music, TV shows and podcasts bigger than 10MB from the iTunes Store
Developers were forced to put those restrictions in by Apple, but 3G Unrestrictor makes those apps “think” they are on a WiFi connection so that you can do all those things.
It works on all iPhone models: The iPhone 2G, the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS. You need firmware 3.0 or higher to be able to install 3G Unrestrictor.
Changelog:
- Fixes a problem caused the crash of some applications (such as iFile)
- Adding an icon in the Settings
This Twitter application written in Java works with almost all the phones that are available today. The simplest way to install is to open your Java-enabled phone’s web (or WAP) browser and type the following URL: tw.j1ck.com
Features:
- All standard functionality: timeline, @mentions, DMs, favorites, following/followers, follow/unfollow, profiles… and of course tweeting!
- Simple, no-nonsense interface. Up/Down/Click and using a menu is all you need to know.
- Quick Reply / Retweet / Favorite in each tweet
- Trending Topics / Saved searches support
- Multiple-account support.
- Twitpic support: you’ll see the picture without having to navigate over there
- Camera support! Take a snapshot from the tweeting form itself and have it automatically uploaded to Twitpic. Great to share where you are in a moment.
- Pretty good support for touch-screen phones (we’re testing mainly on Nokia 5800 and Samsung F480)
- Support for QWERTY keyboard phones (Nokia E71 is currently our main testing device for this)
Here is an (incomplete) list of phones that this application works with
Nokia N70, Nokia N73, Nokia N80, Nokia N81, Nokia N95, Nokia E50, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6288, Nokia 6500, Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, Nokia 5220 XpressMusic, Nokia 2630, Nokia 3109c, Nokia 3120 Classic, Nokia 5800, Sony-Ericssson W880i, Sony-Ericssson K610i, Sony-Ericssson Z610i, Sony-Ericssson K800i, Samsung SGH-U700, Samsung SGH-J800, Samsung SGH-i560, Samsung SGH-L760, Samsung SGH-F480 (touch-screen), LG KU-380, LG KU-800, Motorola RAZR V3, Motorola VE 538
[Thx Daniel, Via]
On to the review now. A relatively small download at ~530kb, the program runs instantly without any sort of installation. At first (and quite annoyingly), you are always presented with a screen where you have accept a license. It would have been better if it was possible to only have to come across this type of screen only at on the first boot.
After accepting the licence, you are presented with a screen displaying all the available backups that are currently present in the default folder in which iTunes saves the backups.
This Screen takes quite some time to show up since the program has to connect with its servers to check for update(which are quite regular) and to also to check for the available backups currently in your PC
After having chosen your desired backup, the program analyses it. The analyzing time varies anywhere between <15>
After the analysis is over, you are presented with 2 types of restores. With the first type you can restore all your Photos, Contacts, SMS history, Call History, Notes and Calendar entries. In the second type of restore you will be presented with the following screen:
As you can see, with file restore type 2 (also known as manual restore), you can choose whichever files you want.
Restoring about 800 files can take up to about 1 minute.
Once restored, all that is left to do is close the program and view all the restored files.
Once restored, you will find them in the folder where you had chosen earlier. As you can see, all the folders can be opened using excel.
Note: Once the extraction is done, the extracted backup will still be available on iTunes thus you don’t actually lose any data.
All In all, the Iphone backup extractor is an ingenious idea and is already very stable with stability releases coming out pratically every week. Available as free download with a 1 file extract limit, one can always try the program tho it might be a little steep at $25 but this is a great solution for saving all your data on non-jailbroken iphones.
Verdict: 5/5(Highly Recommended)
