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Garmin bids farewell to the smartphone industry
With disappointing handphone sales in their last quarter, the discouraged GPS company decided to part ways with Asus because their phones just didn’t sell. After going solo, people were wondering who would be next to partner up with the GPS giant. It seems that the answer has been decided- nobody will be partnering Garmin to make smartphones because Garmin has decided to leave the smartphone business. Clearly a case of running away while they still can, Garmin have decided to cut their losses and continue focusing on other areas that they are good at- standalone GPS devices and aviation and maritime equipment. But with smartphones replacing the need for standalone GPS devices, Garmin has got to find a way to fight back by providing features that can’t be used on smartphones or completely embrace it by developing Garmin GPS apps on multiple operating systems. How many of you still use standalone navigators instead of your phones?
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.