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Verizon Wireless finally announces HTC Thunderbolt for March 17
Big Red has finally put an end to the mystery which was getting a little too annoying. Yes people, the much anticipated HTC Thunderbolt has finally been announced for a March 17 arrival. Wirefly already listed its HTC Thunderbolt pre-order page today and we were hoping VZW will break the silence soon, and gladly it did. There were predictions about the Thunderbolt arriving on March 17 and for once the predictions have also come true. The contracted version of HTC Thunderbolt with VZW will cost $249 where the subscribers will require a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan and a 4G LTE data plan. Voice plans will start at $39.99 per month, and the unlimited 4G data plan will cost a reasonable $29.99 per month. What is more is that the mobile hotspot feature will be offered for free until May 15, after which the VZW subscribers will have to pay $20 per month for the service.
Via: CNet
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.