Apple Files Patent Lawsuit To Ban Samsung Galaxy S3 US Sale

Apple has filed a patent lawsuit against the South Korean company in an attempt to ban Samsung Galaxy S3 sale on the territory of United States.

But this new legal action hasn’t intimidated the South Korea-based smartphone maker, as the company’s officials said that the launch of Samsung Galaxy S3 will go as planned, writes Wall Street Journal.

It’s not the first time when the two companies meet in a court, as there are more than ten suits involving the two smartphone manufacturers, filed in several countries of the globe.

The Cupertino-based company filed the suit on Thursday, in a Californian court, accusing Samsung thatthe user interface of their flagship smartphone is infringing two Apple patents.

New iPhone 5 Video Confirms Bigger Display And Longer, Unibody Case

Today we get to see a new video with the alleged iPhone 5 back case. ETradeSupply have uploaded a video on Youtube where one of their team members is holding the case of an Apple smartphone.


This could be back the new iPhone 5, the iOS smartphone that might see the light of day this fall. The guy in the video makes a detailed presentation of the new iPhone 5 case and he insists that the new smartphone will sport a 4-inch display, 0.5-inch bigger than the one installed in the iPhone 4S.

The new video have unveiled that Apple has changed the design of the iPhone 5, now with a bigger hole for the camera, probably an 8 megapixel unit, a HDMI out, a new dock connector and a repositioned audio jack.

If the case is the real deal, then the new iPhone 5 would be thinner than its successor, just like we’ve told you in some previous articles. The new Apple gadget seems to be about 20% thinner and definitely taller than the iPhone 4S.

Google Warns You When The Government Is Spying On You

Google just launched a program that warns, us, the users about the “state-sponsored attacks.” Therefore, each time a user is trying to access an account that is under the thread of a state-sponsored or phishing attack a message will appear saying “We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer” or “Warning: Phishing (web forgery) suspected.”

The new warning system introduced by Google is capable of detecting certain types of government-tied attacks, displaying a notification banner that contains a link that will redirect you to a webpage where you will be taught how to improve the security of your personal data.

Three UK now selling HTC Desire C

If you are one of the Android faithful over here in the United Kingdom, and prefer HTC handsets to Samsung, and have been awaiting the arrival of the HTC Desire C to be offered by Three UK, you just might like to know that Three UK has now made the Android packing HTC Desire C available to purchase.

The HTC Desire C according to the guys over at 3g, is available on Three UK in both black andwhite as a free smartphone when signing up with Three UK with tariff pricing starting off at £13 per month on the Unlimited Internet 100 plan for which you get 100 minutes, 5000 texts, and all you can eat data over a period of 24 months with an estimated delivery date of the 7th of June.

Droid RAZR ICS 4.0.4 update arriving possibly on 12th

If you are over in the good old US of A and happen to own theMotorola Droid RAZR on Verizon, and have been patiently awaiting the arrival of the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update to hit your Droid RAZR, then you might like to know that the word is the Android 4.0.4 update could arrive in a few days time.

According to the guys over at Ubergizmo, the word is a source within the Big red has told the guys over at Cnet that the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Verizon Motorola DroidRAZR will finally arrive as of the 12th of this month.

However, of course one must realise that at time these unnamed insider sources can be somewhat unreliable, and word has come down before that the ICS update would hit the VerizonMotorola Droid RAZR soon in the past, but as yet hasn’t become a reality, so with that in mind there could be a possibility that the 12th of June is the date, but for now this should be treated as pure rumour.

Apparently according to said unnamed sources, the reason behind the delay in delivering the Android 4.0.4 update to the Verizon Droid RAZR is because they decided to bump up the update from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4, still as the 12th if roughly only a week away it wont be too long before we know for sure if the Verizon Droid RAZR will finally see the update. Are any of our Verizon Droid RAZR owning readers fed up with waiting for this update, if so feel free to express your annoyance to our comments area below.

HTC One smartphones to be PlayStation Mobile certified

During the E3 conference in L.A, Sony has confirmed that they have signed HTC to their PlayStation certified program, a program that will mean some PlayStation games will come to the HTC One range of smartphones so theirAndroid handset owners can get their gaming action on with such PlayStation games as Crash Bandicoot.

According to the guys over at Pocket-lint, the lineup of HTC devices that will gain PlayStation certification includes the HTC One X, HTC One S and HTC One V, although Sony nor HTC have stated on whether other HTC smartphone will also benefit from PlayStation certification.

Windows Phone 8 Apollo Preview Release Date Is June 20th

The time has come for Microsoft to officially announce that Windows Phone 8 Apollo is ready for preview release, which will be unveiled on June 20th, at an official Microsoft event.

Two weeks from now the Redmond-based company will reveal its new mobile operating system, confirming or dismissing all the Windows Phone 8 Apollo rumors that surfaced on the web lately.

We are expecting a platform that will allow Nokia, Microsoft’s biggest partner on the smartphonemarket, to finally develop a dual-core handset, probably sporting a 720p display. It will be interesting to see what terminals will be showcased along with with the Windows Phone 8 preview and Nokia, HTC and Samsung will certainly be the first companies to demo such smartphones.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Release Date Is October, Sports 5.5-inch Display

Rumor has it that Samsung Galaxy Note 2 release date was already scheduled for October. It seems that the popularity of Samsung Galaxy Note convinced the South Korea-based company to start working on a new gadget centered on the same audience.

A couple of days ago Samsung unveiled the official figures regarding the sales of their Galaxy line-up and Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 were leading the pack with a total of 50 million units shipped so far, while Samsung Galaxy Note ended up in the hands of 7 million users

ASUS Transformer Book With Windows 8 Officially Unveiled At Computex 2012

ASUS Transformer Book is one of the gadgets that was intensely teased by the Taiwanese company a few days ago. The device is a notebook-tablet hybrid that will be available in three size versions, 11.6-inch, 13-inch or 14-inch.

Computex 2012 event is on-going in Taiwan, the homeland of ASUS where the computer manufacturer brought new products that aim to stimulate the public’s reaction. ASUS Transformer Book stays design line launched with by the company with Transformer and Transformer Prime: a tablet with a dock-in keyboard transforming the gadget into a netbook in no-time.

Jailbreak 5.1.1 Untethered Using RedSn0w 0.9.12b1 Released

Jailbreak 5.1.1 Untethered Using RedSn0w 0.9.12b1  by using the below easy jailbreak. The new RedSnow 0.9.12b1 now does not require to enter the DFU mode, instead you will just press jailbreak button and the 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak will complete within few minutes like in Absinthe jailbreak tool.

As mentioned on the official blog, the latest redsn0w 0.9.12b1 allows owners of A4+earlier devices to install rocky-racoon two different ways:

• backup/restore method similar to Absinthe and cinject
• its traditional limera1n-based ramdisk install.  If you have a lot of media on your A4 device (music, movies, TV shows, etc), then the ramdisk method is preferrred because it avoids any possibility of later problems related to syncing to iCloud (including Photo Stream and Music Match).  The ramdisk method is not available for A5 devices or later because limera1n can’t be used.  If you’d like to use redsn0w’s ramdisk method, just be sure to put the A4 device in DFU or Recovery mode before starting redsn0w (otherwise it will immediately start to use the backup/restore method).

Cydia Tweak – SpotLock

SpotLock Cydia Tweak allows you to lock your device when you swipe to the spotlight page in your homescreen. Now you can lock your device without pressing the power button.

Check the video review after the break.

There are no options to configure and no icon is added on the springboard. To disable the tweak simply uninstall it. If you don’t use spotlight page you may find this tweak very useful.

SpotLock jailbreak tweak is available in Cydia under the BigBoss repo for free.

Paid Apps For Free Downloader Installous 5 Released

For many of you who don’t know about the Installous, Installous is an excellent place where you can find tons of paid apps for free. If you are not willing to pay for any app which you need then you can use a Cydia app called Installous. Before installing and downloading paid apps for free you have to understand that this is unethical and to a certain level illegal also because the server providing  paid apps for free is violating the copyright law. I am only mentioning the software here for learning purposes so that if someone still wants to download paid apps for free he can use this software.

Some of the new features include BitTorrent downloading support, support for the new iOS notification system, and several improvements for filehost compatibility

How to install Installous 5 on iOS 5.1 iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch

Note: To install Installous Cydia App you need to jailbreak your iphone, iPod or iPad, click here to go to the tutorila onHow to jailbreak iOS 5.1 and iOS 5.1.1.

You can follow my guide on How to add sources to Cydia and give the source address http://cydia.hackulo.us when asked and install as mentioned in that tutorial after adding the source you will find Installous 4 or Installous 5 in the sources just tap and install it. Now you can download paid apps for free of any value if available at the server.

New Telecom Policy approved, Roaming charges to be abolished

The Cabinet has approved New Telecom Policy 2012 that would let telecom users avail free roaming across the country. It would also offer Full Mobile Number Portability (MNP) that would let the customers retain their number even if they shift from one circle to another, anywhere in the country without any extra charges.

This would introduce single license across India under a new unified licence regime and the operators doesn’t need separate license. Under this licensing regime, licence has been delinked from spectrum to reduce different licenses.

The new policy would separate licences and airwaves, allowing carriers to share airwaves. There is no time frame when the new policy would be implemented. Pricing and spectrum allocation would be announced later.

Google Maps event scheduled before WWDC, Expected to reveal new 3D mapping features

t is widely believed that Apple will dump Google Maps and announce an in-house solution at their annual WWDC event later this month.

RIM wins lawsuit over BBM Trademark

Research in Motion (RIM) has won the law suit that lets them to continue using the BBM name for itsBlackBerry Messenger service. Last December, BBM Canada, a broadcasting company filed a lawsuit against RIM to stop RIM from advertising the service using the shortened name. RIM lost it’s BBX trademark last year and changed it to BlackBerry 10.

BBM Canada was started as Bureau of Broadcast Measurement in 1944, which changed the name to BBM in 1960s, later to BBM Canada in the 1990s. RIM launched the BlackBerry Messenger in 2005 and started using shortened form BBM since 2010.

The federal court has ruled in favour of RIM, stating that BBM Canada is in broadcasting industry and RIM is in wireless telecom industry, which are in different industries.

HTC One X receives v1.29 firmware update

The One X has received a new firmware update via OTA with the version number 1.29. We are not exactly sure what this firmware update brings to the table but the update is around 31 MB in size. HTC calls it anecessary System Upgrade.Updating over WiFi is recommended unless you don’t mind using your 3G data. The update is expected to improve the HDR Camera function , power management and volumecontrol in DLNA mode according to this tweet

Looks like this update has been rolling out in Europe for quite sometime and it has finally hit India. Any one else got this update on their One X ?

iOS 6 move to Facebook integration at WWDC 2012

Back in early May we posted an article about new features that may come to Apple’s iOS 6 and one of the aspects we discussed wasFacebook integration. This has featured in beta versions of iOS before but has never come to the final release and so it didn’t look too likely. However news today is that iOS 6 will move to Facebook integration and that we will be hearing more about it at WWDC 2012, starting on June 11.
This would be a hugely popular move demonstrated by the fact that since Twitter was integrated in iOS 5 people have used it more. A similar integration for Facebook makes perfect sense then and a report says that Apple and Facebook are indeed in talks and on the edge of a deal that would bring this to fruition. The deal would mean that Facebook assets would come to future iOS devices with iOS 6 integration and the same report also says that this is expected to be announced at WWDC.

Beautiful HTC One XXL concept to take on Galaxy Note

Quite often with many forms of technology clever designers come up with some stunning concept ideas especially for smartphones and cars, and today we have the beautiful HTC One XXL concept for you that could quite easily take on the Samsung Galaxy Note.

Samsung has had quite a success with the Galaxy Note since it was released with millions of consumers making the device their smartphone of choice, and while Samsung and HTC battle it out for Android supremacy, an article over at Android Pit has a HTC concept of what the company’s answer to the Note could look like.

Samsung Galaxy S3 blitzes iPhone 4S already

This year Samsung changed tact with regards to showcasing its latest Galaxy S smartphone by giving the handset an unveiling all of its own in London, while in previous years the company revealed the new model at the annual MWC event. It seems that all the hype and publicity has helped the Samsung Galaxy S3 to blitz the iPhone 4S already when it comes to a chart complied in the UK.
According to uSwitch the Galaxy S3 soared to the top of its Mobile Tracker chart and ending the white version of the iPhone 4S brief stay at the top of the tree. The chart is compiled by combining actual sales and web searches and comes only a couple of days after the Samsungsmartphone being released.

Next generation iPhone front panel on video

Over the past few days we’ve seen pictures of what are supposed to be next generation iPhone parts and schematics of the front panel. Today we have a video posted by Japanese blog Macotakara showing off alleged front panel for the next-generation iPhone. Check the video after the break.