Monthly Archives: May 2010
Skype quietly delays charges for iPhone app calling
People were rather agitated about Skype deciding to charge for what
App Review: Weber’s On the Grill
It’s Memorial Day, and hopefully that means you’re celebrating the onset of summer by putting some meat on a hot grill until it tastes amazing.
If you need a little help, though, Weber’s official iPhone app (or the iPad version) can be there — it’s got references, recipes, tips, grilling timers, and even a shopping list feature (although if you’re planning to grill today, hopefully you’ve been marinating since last night!).
The app is excellent, with big, colorful pictures, a host of options for
Skype 2.0 Finally Allows VoIP Calls Over 3G But Skype To Charge Monthly Fee From 2011
Skype finally released a new version of Skype (Skype 2.0) that will allow users to make and receive VoIP calls over 3G.
Skype 2.0 also brings near CD-quality sound for Skype-to-Skype calls using wideband audio (SILK codec) to iPhone 3GS and 2nd generation iPod touch.
AT&T had lifted its restrictions on apps consuming extensive 3G bandwidth in January and ever since a flurry of VoIP iPhone apps including Fring, TruPhone and iCall have updated their iPhone app to work over 3G.
David Ponsford of the Skype iPhone team had announced in February that Skype’s VoIP over 3G will be coming to the iPhone “real soon“.
But since it wasn’t released for quite sometime, it was speculated that an exclusive Verizon-Skype deal could heavily dent the chances of Skype releasing an updated version of their VoIP iPhone application that works over 3G.
Here are some of the enhancements in Skype 2.0:
iPhone HD to Feature Highest Resolution Screen Yet Seen on any Phone
Some folks over at a Czech Republic site have closely examined the screen of one of the leaked prototype models of the next-iPhone under microscope and they have found it to be much denser than the current-gen iPhone 3GS model.
This close examination of the screen has also confirmed the IPS panel screen (like iPad) for the next iPhone, with a high-resolution of 960×640 pixels.
The difference in screens between iPhone 3GS and the next iPhone can be clearly seen in the images attached below:
Sn0wbreeze V1.6 to Jailbreak iPhone OS 4.0
The iPhone hacker behind sn0wbreeze, f0recast and BlackBreeze today accidently put up a picture on his twitter account, showing version 1.6 of sn0wbreeze which promises to jailbreak iPod touch 2G on iPhone OS 4.
The picture in question was removed quickly but the folks at The Technopath were quick enough to grab the image for everyone to see:
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