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Significant Progress Made By iPhone Dev Team For Unlocking iPhone 3G

iPhone 3G UnlockingThe iPhone cracker group iPhone Dev Team have made a significant progress in hacking into Apple iPhone 3G baseband required for unlocking of iPhone 3G, the group posted pictures and videos demonstrating their success, Apple iPhone earlier version can be jailbroken and unlocked using group's PwNage utility.

Video Demonstrating iPhone 3G BaseBand Hack

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Nokia's much hyped Symbian Series 60 5th Edition OS based touch-screen mobile phone - Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be available in seven countries initially including India, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Spain, Taiwan, and Russia.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (Tube) phone features an impressive 3.2-megapixel camera having Carl Zeiss lens, 8GB memory, built-in surround sound stereo speakers, GPS, 3.5mm jack, support for all major digital music formats, easy to use touch-based UI dubbed 'human interface' and access to online Nokia Music store.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is expected to be priced under Rs. 20,000/- (Approx. $400) in India without any contract, with all these killer features and almost half the price of Apple iPhone in India the phone has potential to be the iPhone Killer.

Google Android Mobile Phone India Launch Dates Announced

After trying Google Android Online Emulator, I am almost decided to buy this phone, and the good news is the Google Android (also known as The Google Phone) powered HTC phones will be available in India by end of this year in December, The company is in-talks with major mobile operator's for launching the product.

Google Android

However, don't expect the prices similar to US markets which is around Rs 8,200 ($179), Ajay Sharma, country manager, HTC (India) hinted this saying : "the Indian market does not work on the handset subsidy model".

Try Out Google Android Online Using T-Mobile G1 Emulator

Want to see how Google's much anticipated open-source mobile platform Google Android works, try the platform online from comfort of your home using T-Mobile G1 Emulator, the flash based phone emulator lets you try all the phone functions, use the third option to start the emulator as shown below, don't forget to try cool side scrolling interface from the home screen.

Google Android Emulator

Airtel Digital TV DTH Service Launched

Airtel DTHReliance recently launched their BIGTV DTH service providing another competitive option to Indian TV subscribers, now Indian telecom major Airtel has also came up with their own direct-to-home (DTH) service dubbed - 'Digital TV' making it the sixth DTH service provider in India after Dish TV, Tata Sky, Sun Direct, DD Direct Plus and Reliance Big TV, initially the service will be available in 62 towns across the country offering 175 channels.

Airtel Digital TV

One the most interesting feature of Airtel Digital TV is the inclusion of programmable universal remote allowing users to manage TV and Set-top Box with a single remote, the service uses superior MPEG4 standard with DVB S2 technology making it HD ready like Big TV.

How To Create And Use iPhone Ringtones For Free

Apple iPhone now officially supports ringtones but require you to pay and purchase them from iTunes Store, However, you can easily create and use custom iPhone ringtones from your existing MP3 music library for free, there exist several different tricks and utilities to create iPhone compatible ringtones with ease.

Ring Ring would be the most easy to use free utility for creating custom iPhone ringtones, to convert any MP3 file into iPhone compatible ringtone format all you need to do is to simply Drag-and-drop it into the application and choose start and stop timings, details of the full procedure are as follows:

  1. Download and Extract Ring Ring - iPhone Ringtone Maker.
  2. Double-click "RingRing.exe" to launch application.
  3. Ring-Ring iPhone Ringtone Maker
  4. Drag-and-drop or Double-click and browse desired MP3 file from the Drop-target as shown above.

Downloading And Installing iPod Themes

iPWApple iPod officially does not offer any means to use skins or themes to customize its looks, but with a little bit of tweaking you can get hundreds of different user community created themes on your iPod for a refreshingly new look, and to help make things easier we will be using free iPod skinning utility - "iPodWizard", the simple to use community supported utility lets you install iPod themes on your device with minimal risks without altering its functionality.

iPod Themes

Symbian OS v 9.4 With Touch Input Functionality Released To Compete With Apple iPhone And Google Android

Symbian Series60 5th EditionSymbian OS v 9.4 (Developer Platform - Series60 5th Edition)is finally released and will be coming with upcoming Nokia 5800 Express touch-screen mobile phone, the new mobile operating system will have support for touch screen control, higher screen resolutions and widescreen mode of viewing, Addition of touch screen capability with support for accelerometers, latest WebKit version, Flash Lite 3 and enhanced multimedia functionality the Symbian OS is once again in race with Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms.

Symbian OS 9.4 GUI

SanDisk Introduces slotMusic™ : High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 Music on microSD Cards

slotMusicBacked by major record labels like Universal Music, SONY BMG, Warner Music, and EMI Music Sandisk announced a new physical music format dubbed “slotMusic”, which is an MicroSD memory card pre-loaded with high quality, DRM-free MP3 music.

Free Alternatives For Managing iPod And iPhone Without iTunes

iTunes 8 is here and is still a memory hogger like previous versions, instead of decreasing the bloat Apple seems to be adding more and more supporting services to the player further increasing the memory consumption.

iTunes Memory Consumption

Today, I will be sharing two free iTunes alternative's for managing your Apple devices with ease without consuming resources like iTunes.

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