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PlayStation Phone knockoff gets a video
The long-awaited PlayStation Phone from Sony Ericsson hasn’t even been officially unveiled to the public, but some manufacturers in China have already been inspired to come up with a clone of the phone. The Lightake Q5 is a dual-SIM card packing phone designed with the image of the PlayStation phone in mind. But besides the slide-out gamepad (which doesn’t work in the video demo), this phone is a poor excuse for a copy. Not many specs are available on the manufacturer’s website, but from what we know, the device has a 3.5″ TFT touch screen, supports 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM bands, a VGA camera, Bluetooth, GPS, and it’s supposed to support PSP and NES games. Talk about an unholy union. Well, in the event that you are interested in getting your hands on one, you can head over to the lightake website to find out more and purchase one. Video of the phone in action after the break:
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.