apple gets slapped aging

as we all know apple failing big time there problems keep coming apple had ok stuff never really great stuff
there iPhone are like iPod touch but make for ppl that can't use a regular smartphone
Apple get hurt good http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/11/07/u-s-court-orders-apple-to-pay-368-million-damages-for-facetime-patent-infringement/

Is Apple fragmenting the iPhone?

iPhone 4 won't get the new turn-by-turn features in iOS 6, just like it didn't get Siri. But it's still for sale, and so is the iPhone 3GS. Is Apple committing the Android sin of fragmentation, and will users rebel?

Well, it will take some iPhones and iPads to entirely new directions.

Way down in the fine print about Apple's upcoming iOS 6, you'll find a little note that says new features like Flyover and turn-by-turn directions are only available on the iPhone 4S, or the iPad2 or higher.

A note immediately below that says Siri is only available on the iPhone 4S or third-generation iPad.

Since the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad 2 are all actively for sale and still being marketed by Apple, I have to wonder: is Apple on the road to fragmenting the iOS experience? Could there come a future when not only do certain Apple apps and services run on some devices and not on others, but when this problem will start to plague third-party developers, as well? And even if app incompatibilities don't result, is Apple risking Android levels of user confusion as it continues to withhold features from its legacy -- but still for sale -- hardware?

This latest slight, keeping turn-by-turn directions off iPhone 4, is especially enraging. It was bad that the iPhone 4 didn't get Siri, much worse that it got no speech to text at all -- not even the little microphone on the keyboard that all Android phones, even the most basic, have. But to withhold turn-by-turn from the iPhone 4 isn't just fragmentation: it's deliberate, aggressive, and abusive forced upgrade behavior.

Sure, the original iPhone 4 is fully two years old -- the 4GB GSM version. You could argue it's just time for folks to upgrade (I'm not a fan of that argument, personally, since it's wasteful if the device works fine, and financially unfeasible for many). But that phone didn't become available on CDMA carriers until February 2011, so some Verizon owners have had it for less than 18 months. The white model didn't come out until April 2011, so fashionistas have had it for barely over a year. And the 8GB model came out in October 2011. That device is less than a year old, and in Apple's OS terms, it's so obsolete it doesn't get speech to text or turn by turn navigation, which have, for the past few years, been the two strongest arguments for getting an Android phone over an iPhone.

Stare lovingly at these helpful directions, iPhone 4 owners. It's Apple's way or the lost highway.

To address, up front, the inevitable argument that the iPhone 4 may not be "capable" of handling turn-by-turn directions (or speech-to-text functionality, for that matter), I will point you not only to any number of midrange Android smart phones (like the same era LG Enlighten) that support both features. I will also point you to any number of iPhone GPS navigation apps that provide turn-by-turn, including the now free MapQuest and the very robust TomTom app, which has been around since the iPhone 3G. And then I will point you to a similar number of voice control apps, like Vlingo. (And in so doing, will solve your problems, too, but that's not the point!)

I'm quite certain the iPhone 4 can handle turn-by-turn and speech functionality. I'm equally certain that Apple kept it out on purpose, and it's not to help out app developers, it's to sell more newer phones, at a clip so fast it makes your head spin. It's a cycle that far outpaces most users' mobile contracts and certainly their wallets. An iPhone is a premium device, and users have a right to expect its features to keep pace with the competition for longer than eight months (in the case of the 8GB iPhone 4).

And Apple now has three versions of the iPhone for sale, each with a different feature set, not to mention three versions of the iPad, each with its own selection of omissions. That's an unusually complicated product scheme for Apple, and customers getting a free 3GS offer or now discounted iPhone 4 are in for a rude surprise when they find that their legacy Apple hardware can't do things that have been baked into every Android phone for years.

Three phones, three different sets of features. How un-Apple of them!

I've written about Android fragmentation before, and many of you know I consider it the biggest threat to that platform's ongoing success. And Android's OS upgrade issues are probably worse than what Apple is currently doing with iOS 6 -- it's closer to differentiation than fragmentation, at least for the moment. And, as one commenter pointed out in a lengthy Google Plus discussionon the topic, you can upgrade your Apple hardware, but you can't force a carrier or Google to upgrade your version of Android.

But a developer writing for iPhone 4S and its processor capabilities could certainly run into problems with the same app on a legacy 3GS, or integrating with mapping features available only on a 4S. Depending on how many versions of the iPhone Apple keeps around after the next version is launched, you can imagine things starting to get awfully messy.

Even if true fragmentation never occurs, leaving the iPhone 4--a perfectly capable and powerful device--in the dust this soon is both unnecessary and inconsiderate. Apple has always pushed a rapid upgrade agenda, but not while continuing the sell the older versions. It's a bad trend, and could backfire as Android and even Windows 8 competition starts to grow. Simplicity works, Apple. Stick with it.

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this great app most have andriod users 

after using this app in two days i love it when you have something on your phone you can now share it it takes a pic of your screen you seen so facebook,twitter and so on can now share it this was used on lg optimus by tmobile 

Description

You can take a snapshot for android device.

Screenshot app for Android device(Phone/Tablet).

May require a rooted phone.
Phone list that follows does not require the roots.
- Gallaxy series (S,S2,...)
- HTC phones (Sensation, ...)
- Motorola (Atrix, ...).
- LG Optimus series (G2X, ...)
* Rooting may be needed depending model. Test your phone.

Features:
- Analyzing possible capture method.
- Intuitive Topmost button to screen shot.
- Shake to screen shot.
- Status bar to screen shot.
- Intuitive Countdown feedback UI before screenshot.
- Edit(Crop, Draw/Undo/Redo, ...).
- Share menu integration for Email, MMS, ...
- Choose custom save folder
- Fast start shortcut (Long tab empty home screen > Shortcuts > Select ScreenshotUX icon).

* IF YOUR DEVICE NEEDS ROOT and NOT ROOTED(and not support preloaded capture method),
You have to initialize screenshot service with your desktop.
(There is no other way due to Android security model).
Simply, Attach your phone to your desktop, and execute desktop app(You can download Liveov website, http://goo.gl/oV7vB).
More detail instruction guide is embedded this app.

* You can take 14 screenshot in trial

Used permissioins:
- INTERNET: for connect to localhost screenshot server for rooted phone.
- SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW: for topmost camera button.
- VIBRATE: for vibrate feedback.
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: to save the screenshot.
- GET_TASKS: for detect foreground Develoment setting activity for non rooted&non preloaded capture method.
- RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: for boot on start option on ICS.

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T-Mobile adds 187,000 subscribers in Q1

T-Mobile today announced its first-quarter 2012 earnings, adding 187,000 net subscribers in the first three months of the year, compared to a loss of 99,000 a year ago. Money-wise, TMoUS saw operating income rise $7.2 percent to $1.27 billion, and average revenue per user jump a couple bucks to $58. The big talk from T-Mobile this week at CTIA, however, is life after the failed AT&T acquisition. And to that end, it's continuing to upgrade its network with an announced $4 billion modernization plan that will pave the way for LTE service in 2013.

Total customers now stand at 33.4 million -- up a couple hundred thousand from the end of 2011, but still 200,000 below Q1 2011.

More: T-Mobile

Hype, expectation and the Samsung Galaxy S III

It’s been a week or so since I first laid eyes on Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III. On the night in London, the barrage of information was relentless -- brand new hardware, a new design language, a redesigned TouchWiz and countless other software additions. And over the past few days, all of us in the tech world have slowly been able to form some opinion on the latest high-end smartphone from the Korean electronics giant.

But this article isn’t just a reaction to the Galaxy S III -- we’ve presented plenty of coverage on that (maybe more than enough) already. Instead it’s more a dissection of how we came to know the S III, and how that in itself has colored popular opinion of the device. We’ll also take a look at some common criticisms of the phone, and see just how valid they are. Join us after the break as we examine the world of hype and expectation surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S III.

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Verizon LTE spreading to more cities on the eastern seaboard

Verizon has pushed out a handful of press releases about LTE expansion, and if you live or play along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. you'll like the news. The LTE network is being expanded up and down the coast, from North Carolina to Cape Cod, and it's coming just in time for Memorial Day. Here's the new cities and dates:

Maryland (in service)

• Ocean City (from Fenwick Island to South Ocean City)
• Queen Anne’s
• Kent
• Talbot County
• Chestertown
• Queenstown
• Easton 

New York (in service)

• Nassau County
• Huntington
• Suffolk County (eastern end)

Virginia (in service)

• Virginia Beach (from Fort Story to Sandbridge)

Delaware (May 17)

• Rehoboth Beach
• Bethany Beach
• Lewes
• Seaford

Pennsylvania (May 17)

• Lancaster
• York

New Jersey (May 17)

• Sea Bright
• Monmouth Beach
• Belmar
• Point Pleasant
• Toms River
• Atlantic City
• Cape May County

Massachusetts (May 17)

• Barnstable
• Bourne
• Dennis
• Falmouth
• Mashpee
• Sandwich
• Yarmouth

North Carolina (coming by Memorial Day)

• The Outer Banks (from Corolla to Hatteras)

It certainly looks to be fun in the sun for Verizon LTE subscribers. Keep your Android phones dry!

Source: Verizon

Leaked Samsung device possibly headed to Sprint

Here we see an image of what is claimed to be the Samsung SPH-L300 which, based on its product code, appears to be destined for Sprint in the near future and the folks over at BriefMobile got the first look at this rumored device.  If it hadn't already struck you as looking familiar with it's big silver chin, the HTC Nexus One comes to mind for us but the internals are a definite departure from that original Nexus phone.

Rumored to sport a Qualcomm MSM8960 processor (the Snapdragon S4 chip) which is the same unit as in the LTE enabled HTC One X and Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE, this phone should pack quite the punch should it come to fruition.  Other features and specs this device is reported to have include 1 GB of RAM along with 4 GB of ROM, 4G LTE, NFC, and Bluetooth 4.0 all underneath Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich.  However, the display resolution is quite disappointing at only 480x800.  With all that hardware inside, we'd hope to see a 720p resolution display or at least a qHD display, but keep in mind this is still an unconfirmed device and that means things are subject to change.  We'll bring you more info on this as it rolls in.

Source: BriefMobile

AT&T Mobility CEO: Family data plan coming soon (scoop)

The head of AT&T's mobility, Ralph de la Vega, at the CTIA conference two years ago.

(Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET)

NEW ORLEANS--AT&T's version of the family data plan may be coming sooner than you think.

The company has a firm hold on what type of plan it will offer and intends to offer one soon, said Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T's mobile business, in an interview with CNET here yesterday. A family data plan would allow consumers to buy one bucket of data, which can be used by multiple devices, a move industry observers believe could spur the sale of non-traditional cellular devices like connected tablets.

"I'm very comfortable with the plan that will be offered to our customers," de la Vega said on the sidelines of his company's home security and automation event at the CTIA Wireless trade show.

The comments mark a reversal of de la Vega's uncertainty over the implementation of family data plans just a few months ago. At the time, he told CNET that the company had run into complications over IT and billing issues. Other complications include how the carrier would subsidize devices and get a decent return despite the shared data bucket.

"We want to make sure we get it right," he said in January.

But de la Vega was far more confident yesterday. He said the company knows how the plan would be structured. He, however, declined to provide any specific details on timing, and wouldn't comment on whether it would be out in the next few months or if AT&T would beat Verizon Wireless to the punch.

MasterCard aims to bring wireless payments to all with PayPass Wallet

While the show down here at CTIA doesn't officially open until tomorrow, the folks at MasterCard held an event this evening to let us in on some of their big news that they have coming. It has become very obvious that people want to be able to quickly and easily pay for things, they want a one click payment and a quick in store experience and that is exactly what they have landed here. PayPass from MasterCard brings quick and easy mobile payments both in the form of using NFC while out and about, as well as a simple one click payment while shopping online.

While it won't be in our hands just yet, the folks at MasterCard are aiming to have this out there for the public in Q3 of 2012, which isn't all that far off. Beyond the development that they have done, they are also opening up the API for this, allowing third party developers to integrate these great new features into their applications as well. From a simple tap and go payment in a cab or at the store, to a one click order of a plane ticket or anything else, this is definitely something many will enjoy. Don't worry, if you don't have a MasterCard you won't be left out of all the features, they are working with other card companies and manufacturers to ensure that they people are taking full advantage of the powerful technology that they are bringing to the table. Full release after the break.

Be More Productive For About A Buck, TinyList For Android

Joe’s my name and productivity is my game, so they say.  All kidding aside though, Im always on the hunt for good and effective productivity applications for my Android device so when I come across one I like, I always feel compelled to share it with you guys.  Latest to catch my eye is an app calledTinyList, which is a basic and simple to do list packing a big punch in the feature department.  Create a check list, to do list, grocery list or anything else you’d like to keep track of in seconds and then share it with whoever you want, whenever you want, however you want.  The UI is intuitive while still promoting style and smooth navigation.  Check out the quick demo below along with the screen shots of the app in action.  The app will run you about 99¢ on the Google Play Store but that’s a small price to pay to make your life a little more organized.  After all, you know what they say right?  ”Organization relieves stress”.  So check it out via the QR code or Play Store link below and don’t forget to let us know what you think.

Gestures : 

• Single tap to check/uncheck item
• Slide to the left to delete list/task
• Slide to the right to edit list/task
• Slide right/down to duplicate list/task
• Touch and hold to move list/task
• Pinch to go back
• Pinch outwards to create an item in the middle of two items
• Slide down from the top to create an item at the top
• Tap on numbers to modify it using the built in number incrementer
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LG Will Launch a Google TV in the U.S. Later This Month

I have long thought that this would be the year that Google TV made its push into the market as a strong contender for internet television products. Google has made it abundantly clear that it wants to be our home entertainment system and as companies continue to develop internet-enabled TVs with Google’s TV platform that may very well be the case. Well LG, the second largest tv maker in the world, has decided to throw its hat into the ring. Today it announced that it is launching a Google TV starting in the week of May 21st. Ro Seogho, Executive Vice President of LG’s TV Business Unit had this to say:

“Production of Google TVs will start from May 17 from our factory in Mexico and U.S. consumers will be able to buy the product from the week of May 21.”

This move appears to be an aggressive push by the company to get into the market early before Apple releases its rumored full-fledge Apple Television product later this year. Europe and Asia could see an LG Google television too depending on how well they sell in the U.S. Given Google TV’s ability to access many Google services such as YouTube and the ability to search right from your television screen it could do well if properly executed.

Google’s first attempt at marketing Google TV did not take off as fast as they had hoped and Google looked to rectify that with its second version. This lack of success stems partly from a lack of motivation from hardware manufacturers in combination with a lack of web content. However this appears to be no longer the case as LG and Samsung are looking to push their own Internet-enabled TV platforms as well as the Google TV platform. Given that research firm IHS iSuppli estimates that the market for Internet-enabled TVs will grow 60 percent to 95 million sets this year it appears that hardware manufacturers are actually quite motivated to push this newer technology.

As an owner of an HDTV from LG I can say that I would be interested in seeing what LG is offering, however LG has yet to give word on shipment targets or details in regards to pricing and screen sizes. So like the rest of you, I am just as much in the dark.  We will certainly keep you folks out there apprised of LG’s Google TV as we find out more. Stay tuned!

iPhone 5 Release Date Scheduled for June?

The iPhone 5 could be launching at this year's WorldWide Developers Conference, set to take place in June, according to a report received by tech blog YouMobile yesterday.

The report also revealed that the handset will be 20 percent thinner than the current iPhone and will feature a 4-inch display with a higher DPI resolution.

WWDC takes place from June 11-15 in San Francisco, California.

In 2010, Apple launched the iPhone 4 during the event and the device went on to become one of the most popular Apple handsets to date.

The iPhone 5's unveiling taking place at WWDC 2012 is still just a rumor since Apple has not confirmed any news regarding the device.

Other rumors that have surfaced about its release date have said that is could launch much later in the year. The iPhone 4S came out during an event hosted by Apple in October named "Let's Talk About iPhone."Some insiders are reporting that Apple will launch the next generation iPhone in the fall of 2012.

The October release was backed by Qualcomm, a company that manufactures parts for the iPhone who issued a report stating that there were issues with producing chips that would be needed to power the next-generation of LTE devices.

The iPhone 5 will most likely be an LTE device since the new iPad launched back in March and is compatible with the network.

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster commented on the issue at Qualcomm stating that it points to the iPhone's launch getting pushed back until October.

"QCOM will likely support an Apple iPhone launch in October. Based on our checks, we believe the design win momentum of QCOM's 28nm products has been exceptionally strong and a 28nm LTE baseband is likely designed to the next iPhone," said Munster.

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Jawbone Era 

The Aliph Jawbone Era knocks it out of the park with high-end features, amazing audio quality, and innovative design.

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Plantronics Voyager Pro UC Headset 

The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC combines a perennial favorite design with cutting-edge technology that results in a modern yet reliable headset.

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Motorola Finiti

The Motorola Finiti is a definite improvement over its predecessor, with lots of high-end features and amazing audio quality.

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The BlueAnt Q2 is yet another BlueAnt winner, with new Bing-411 features and fantastic call quality even in windy situations.

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Jawbone Icon HD + The Nerd (Denim)

The Jawbone Icon HD is perfect for those who want an easy-to-pair headset that will work on any Bluetooth-enabled PC or phone.

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