TrackR helps you find anything

Wallet TrackR is a ultra thin device that can easily slip inside a wallet or be attached to any commonly misplaced item. The device wirelessly connects to the user's iPhone or Android via the TrackR app. The TrackR app monitors the location of the user's items and enables users to find any item in 3 swipes or less.

The TrackR device has been designed specifically to comfortably fit inside any wallet and withstand being sat on continuously. The ultra thin design has been engineered to last up to 2 years using slim coin sized batteries allowing users to not have to worry about charging the device. The TrackR technology is the only technology that enables users to not only monitor the location of their items but also the phone using unique two way tracking.

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Pebble Smart watch.

Pebble Smartwatch 2013 video from Pebble Technology on Vimeo.

The Pebble is a smartwatch developed by Pebble Technology and released in 2013 that was funded by raising money via the crowd funding platform Kickstarter. The watch has a 1.26-inch 144 × 168 pixel black and white ultra low power "transflective LCD" made by Sharp ("ePaper") with backlight, a vibrating motor, a magnetometer, ambient light sensors and a three-axis accelerometer

Pebble can help with vibrating notifications, messages and alerts. Dismiss a notification with a shake of your wrist. It will communicate with an Android or iOS device using Bluetooth 2.1 but includes support for Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Low Energy) which brings notifications from your phones like

Incoming Caller ID
Email (Gmail or any IMAP email account)
SMS on both Android and iPhones
iMessage (iOS only)
Calendar Alerts
Facebook Messages
Twitter
Weather Alerts
Silent vibrating alarm and timer
and its customizable, with beautiful downloadable watchfaces and useful internet-connected app through pebble SDK.

Compatibility

IPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, 5 or any iPod Touch with iOS 5 or iOS 6. (iOS 5 and iPhone 3GS have restricted feature sets). Android devices running OS 2.3 and up. Works great with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Pebble does not work with Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, or Palm phones at this time.

Official price is 150$ you can order it from their website  And if you like to purchase it in dubai their are some private listing in dubizzle for Aed 750 - $203 (as of 26-9-13).

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Nexus One vs iPhone 3GS vs Droid vs Pre: The Comparison

Google has released it’s own OS called Android. The google's phone is known as Nexus One. BillShrink has put together a handy comparison chart that breaks the devices down on all key features.

And here is the video camparison
Nexus One





Iphone 3GS




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well well well there are a few obvious differences — iPhone still lacks multitasking while the Android devices have fewer apps — but for the most part, these devices are fairly similar on paper. Still my favorite is iPhone just because the user interface design and all the amazing applications.

iPhone beats BlackBerry in radiation emission survey

The latest report from the US Environmental Working Group (EWG) contains radiation rankings for top brand mobile phones, including those from Motorola, BlackBerry and iPhone. And the report makes grim reading for RIM, with handsets from that firm joining those from Motorola and T-Mobile (US) in the top ten worst phones in terms of radiation exposure.

All models tested are within current international limits, but the EWG warns that consumers should try to buy phones with the lowest level of radiation emission, to be on the safe side.

The test measures the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for different handsets. SAR is a means by which the amount of radiation passed from a device to a human body is assessed. The internationally-accepted safe limit of exposure to the head and trunk of a body is SAR 2W/Kg. Some say this should be set lower.

the iPhone 3G secured a maximum score of 1.19 W/kg, putting the device outside the top ten least ‘radiating’ phones. However, news is worse for the competition: the ten devices with the highest radiation levels are:

1. Motorola MOTO VU204 - 1.55 W/kg

2. T-Mobile myTouch 3G - 1.55 W/kg

3. Kyocera Jax S1300 - 1.55 W/kg

4. Blackberry Curve 8330 - 1.54 W/kg

5. Motorola W385 - 1.54 W/kg

6. T-Mobile Shadow - 1.53 W/kg

7. Motorola C290 - 1.53 W/kg

8. Motorola i335 - 1.53 W/kg

9. Motorola MOTO VE240 - 1.52 W/kg

10. Blackberry Bold 9000 - 1.51 W/kg

And the ten devices with the lowest radiation levels are:

1. Samsung Impression (SGH-a877) - 0.35 W/kg

2. Motorola RAZR V8 - 0.36 W/kg

3. Samsung SGH-t229 - 0.38 W/kg

4. Samsung Rugby (SGH-a837) - 0.46 W/kg

5. Samsung Propel Pro (SGH-i627) - 0.47 W/kg

6. Samsung Gravity (SGH-t459) - 0.48 W/kg

7. T-Mobile Sidekick - 0.50 W/kg

8. LG Xenon (GR500) - 0.52 W/kg

9. Motorola Karma QA1 - 0.55 W/kg

10. Sanyo Katana II - 0.55 W/kg

source Via: The Ecologist

Dev Team Release PwnageTool 3.1 to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1

The dependable iPhone Dev team have released updated version of their PwnageTool to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.

PwnageTool 3.1 supports iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 1G, it does not support iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 2G or iPod Touch 3G.The iPhone dev team has published the following details on their blog about jailbreaking iPhone OS 3.1 Read more

Windows 95 Running on iPhone

Guys at Russian site GooDiPhone have demoed Windows 95 running on an iPhone 3G via an emulator.Developers of iSoft team have managed to run Windows 95 on a jailbroken iPhone with the help of Bochs emulator and a standard Windows 95 image.

You can checkout the video of Windows 95 running on iPhone 3G below:

They also plan to figure out a way to get Windows XP to run on the iPhone and also try running Windows on the faster iPhone 3GS.

[GooDiPhone]

Iphone price reduced by Etisalat

As per the new price plans by Etisalat, The iPhone 3G 8GB device will be available in black color for AED 2,680, while the 16GB device will be available in both white and black colors for AED 3,055 without any additional monthly fee. Etisalat is also offering free 250 MB monthly data package for six months and one free Wasel SIM Card with every device, effectively bringing down the device cost to a little over AED 600. Read more

Game grip for iphone

Game grip is for some serious iphone gamers specially with bulky hands, I think this is something very useful for playing games like call of duty on your iphone/ipod touch. It makes it easier to play action-intense games that rely on the device’s motion sensors and the bright blue silicon grips are sweat-proof and can be pulled off allowing you to hide away the charging cable and still use a set of headphones. looks similar to PS3 SIXAXIS joystick but it comes for a hefty price for 51$


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Make Iphone Apps dont worry about programming

If you have an idea for a new Iphone app but worried about the programming side .
Don't worry anymore, just think of a killer app idea and go to IphoneAppsQoutes.com and get a free quote from up to 3 iPhone development companies, and from there you’ll be able to pick which one you like and make that killer app for iphones.
This is a very goood idea because now can make your own custom app for yourself. No idea regarding the quotes or how much they are charging and how can we trust the company like if you give your idea and then can't afford to make one but instead your idea is out open.
[iPhone App Quotes]

iPhone 3.0 Jailbroken

3.0 is already jailbroken, so say the Dev Team on a recent blog post.

And for those wondering, yes the 3.0 OS is jailbreakable on all devices. It’s just those using 3G yellowsn0w that have to show some restraint and wait for PwnageTool to create a custom IPSW that avoids the baseband update.

Will keep you guys updated when a version of PwnageTool which works with 3.0 is out.

Cydia's Appstore for Iphone 3g

Cydia, a software installer for jailbroken iPhones and iPods touch, today opened their version of the App Store to allow the more underground developers apps.Their will be more apps specially the ones which are rejected from apple's app store .
Cydia's founder, 27-year-old Californian grad student Jay Freeman, will apparently charge about the same commission as Apple does to developers wanting to list their apps in the new Cydia Applications.
Is it good or bad ?

Iphone 3g launched in U.A.E by etisalat

On 21st feb etisalat launched iphone 3g with expensive and confusing data plan it came after a very long time and almost all the Apple fans who has already purchased unlocked iphones in dubai (as they cannot resist).

the plan has no unlimited usage unlike blackberry.<-- that's not good Iphone 3g 8bg for 2646 dhs Iphone 3g 16gb for 3090 dhs

Check out the Data plans Provided by etisalat

Saudi received a very nice response about 25000 iphone 3g subscribers in few hours of launch I think this is due to saudi started booking online well before the launch date and etisalat over here rushed everything up, I think etisalat won't get that kind of response because everyone knows that dubai was flooded with unlocked iphones since a week later after it launched in (iphone 2g) in U.S.
There is a dealer i know who is selling unlocked iphones and he nearly sold 5200 pieces in dubai and a guy who used to unlock Iphone 2g has unlocked nearly 1500-1700 iphones till date and even before the etisalat's launch every small shops in malls and souq started selling iphones and now the shops who used to sell iphone 3g in low price as compared to etisalat even they have increased their prices but many apps installed.
this is really funny

Regarding the Arabic support it will be sooon approx 2-3 months.

Now talibans started using Iphones

(Photo via Al Jazeera English)

I was suprised when i was this, Mullah Zaeef the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan says he's addicted to Iphone when interviewed by Al Jazeera correspondent Hamish McDonald during a visit in Kabul.

I asked Zaeef about his gadget. His response was pretty much the same as everyone who owns an iPhone.

"I'm addicted," he said, "the internet is great on this, very fast."

He proceeded to show myself and our film crew his favourite websites. I half expected him to log on and show us 'Taliban Twitter'.

Years before Taliban had restricted to use any new modern techies even tv's in aghanistan.

So what rules can be changed a bit when it comes to Apple, Soon you will find Apps for talibans (1000 ways to hide in mountains ) or talibook. Apple has a new market now wonder when ATRA (Afghan telecom) signs a deal with Apple maybe 2040 ?. A proud switcher from Motorola 1000 'Autotelefon'.

Iphone gps -Turn-By-Turn Voice Navigation by XGPS

Xwaves is planning to release the latest version of xGPS (v1.2) which will turn your iPhone into a True GPS device by bringing turn-by-turn voice navigation.
xGPS (v1.1.0-1) is already available via Cydia which provides real-time GPS navigation, but it does not have voice instructions.
xGPS v1.2 is expected to be released at the end of the month (and maybe as early as Feb 20) and you should be able to install it via Cydia on a jailbroken iPhone.

Read more

Check out the videos (by Modmyi)


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Can you paint with your voice?

VoicePainter [app store]This iPhone allows you to speak, sing, play or put any other sounds into your iPhone while the software creates colorful abstract art.
The louder the sound, the bolder the stroke.It includes three unique paintings modes. To start over again just shake the iPhone and the screen goes blank , images can be saved in iphone lib and then share it.
So Sing Away
VoicePainter is US $0.99.

iphone bluetooth file transfer now possible

iBluetooth team announced that it had succeeded in allowing the iPhone to transfer files over Bluetooth. This technology, which has not yet been released, will let jailbroken iPhone users leverage Bluetooth to move files via OBEX, the object exchange protocol. They're working on an iPhone Bluetooth API to allow simple phone-to-phone communications and peripheral add-ons. The development API should allow iPhone applications to network with each other, providing a basis for multi-phone gaming and information exchange such as vCard distribution. The peripheral support will allow iPhones to pair with Bluetooth devices, such as keyboards, to allow wireless connectivity and communication with these peripherals.The iPhone application will be making its way onto the usual jailbroken app distribution systems (Cydia, installer) but right now its in limited release to people who have donated to the project.
The video demonstrates file transfer between an iPhone and a Mac, and between an iPhone and a Sony Ericsson handset.

Apple Patent filing to Adjust iPhone Volume automatically.

The US Patent Office published an Apple patent filing that reveals the company having developed a new system to auto adjust sound volumes. As we know ringtones have to be adjusted everytime depending upon noisier or quieter environments. Apple has come up with a system that uses the sound sensor to determine an ambient sound level for the environment in the proximity of the device. The system then adjusts a volume setting for the device adaptively based on the determined ambient sound level. Apple suggests that a sound sensor like a mic can be used to determine the ambient noise level on startup or over time and change the base volume to be audible based on nearby conditions. Credited to Peter Mahowald


The company already uses ambient sensors to detect light for the displays on the iPhone, iPod touch and most Macs and also to illuminate MacBook keyboards.

iTunes App Store Reaches 500 million Downloads

iTunes App Store , 500 million apps had been downloaded and the number of apps available had reached 15,000. This growth include 200,000 downloads in just the last 6 weeks, reflecting the huge surge in iPhone and iPod touch sales over the holidays. The figures released include both free and paid apps, so it is yet unknown what the total figures in sales are for the App Store.


Update : break down of apps by gizmodo

HP iPrint Photo brings wireless printing to iPhone

iPhone App, HP's iPrint Photo allows for hassle free printing of 4x6 images on any HP network enabled inkjet printer. The app is free and uses Bonjour networking to sleuth out any compatible printers connected to the local network. It'll work on most HP inkjet printers connected to an Apple Airport via USB as well. It's simple to use and requires no configuration. The app is available now for free.

US Army Uses iPod Touch for Translation,

This week on the Pentagon Channel, a soldier demonstrates the Army's cutting-edge new translation tool: an iPod touch.

The demo iPod looks to have the stock Apple OS, running a custom translation application. It allows the user to select a language, then a situation, and finally a command or question, like "Get down!" in Arabic,it's very helpfull. The app will also show a video of a CGI soldier saying the selection



[The Pentagon Channel]