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Unknown Acer Android phone surfaces
Some pictures of an unknown Acer smartphone have surfaced on the internet. The sleek looking device will run on an unknown, version of Android that features Acer’s very own customized UI. From the screenshots so far, it looks promising, though people will no doubt complain about the lack of stock Android. Full of sleek curves in a shiny, classy-looking casing, the unknown Acer phone is touted to have some sweet specs: a 4.8″ display with a 1024 x 480 resolution that features LED edge lighting, a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, paired with an 8 megapixel camera on the back that is capable of recording 720p HD videos. The device also has a 6-axis motion sensor, as to what it will be used for, we’ll find out in due time. The unnamed device doesn’t have a price attached to it yet, but it should be on the shelves in the first half of 2011. Color me interested. Who’s stoked?
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.