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Do the NDS and PSP stand a chance against smartphones?
According to a recent report published by Interpret LLC, a cross-media market research firm, they have made some surprising findings regarding the usage of handheld consoles such as the NDS and PSP versus smartphones. Their research shows that 43.8% of the phone/DS/PSP market comes from phones- a significant 53.2% increase over the past year. And the percentage of who still play games on their DS/PSP devices has fallen by 13%. And 27.2% of consumers who only play games on their phones own a DS or PSP but don’t use them anymore. Quite a shocker don’t you think? Especially when smartphone gaming hasn’t been very big until recently. Maybe this is why Sony Ericsson decided to go ahead with the PlayStation Phone in hopes of taking advantage of this trend. This shows that handheld console makers really have to turn it up more than a notch if they intend on sticking around in the market. What do you think Nintendo will do in response to this information? I’m putting my bets on an NDS phone, or a new handheld console so revolutionary that the gaming experience can’t be replicated on a smartphone.
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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.