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Microsoft will push Windows Phone 7 directly to users
It looks like Microsoft has learnt a lesson or two from their competitors. When asked about how Windows Phone 7 updates will be delivered, they answered,”Microsoft will push Windows Phone 7 software updates to end users and all Windows Phone 7 devices will be eligible for updates.” This confirms that updates for WP7 will come directly from them, and not the carriers. Following the method of how Apple has been releasing their updates- this will ensure that all users will get updates for their phones at the same time, and they will all be on the same version as well. Sounds like they are future-proofing themselves from fragmentation that Android is famous for. With Microsoft disallowing carriers or manufacturers to modify Windows Phone 7, yet allowing different manufacturers to make phones with the same operating system, they seem to have picked the right balance between iOS and Android. But entering the market a tad too late with WP7, Microsoft still need to show that their mobile OS is something worth switching to. How many of you have converted to WP7 users?
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.