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Verizon Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Detailed by FCC
It was in the beginning of March this year that the non CDMA version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play was cleared by the FCC. Interestingly, at that point in time, we started believing that the Xperia Play CDMA version rumors were baseless. Now with FCC publishing details of a Verizon version Xperia Play, there is a lot we need to talk about. For starters, it is clear that both CDMA and unlocked versions of the Xperia Play will be available in the US, thanks to FCC again. You already know a great deal about the Xperia Play feature set so there is no point talking about it. Hence, we will talk about the real attraction which is the CDMA version of the Xperia Play running on Verizon bands. The phone detailed by FCC for Big Red will be preloaded with Bing for Mobile, Verizon’s V CAST Media Manager, V CAST Music with Rhapsody, and VZ Navigator. Skype Mobile for the Play is also available for d-load just in case you cannot do without VoIP services. It is a 19 page document so the entirety of it cannot be discussed here, but of course, Big Red subscribers can rejoice for the fact that the Play is coming to them soon.
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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.