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It wasn't long ago that HTC bootloader unlock utility was released, to unlock the company's locked phones. Now, continuing its commitment to mod-lovers and those who appreciate freedom, HTC has announced that its latest lineup of Android phones can now be unlocked in similar way. The company has released an updated bootloader unlock tool that supports all Android devices released after September 2011. This includes handsets as the HTC EVO Design 4G, Rezound, Rhyme and Vivid etc... However, no updated list of supported devices has been released, but they hope to do it soon. Also, as of today HTC has announced on its HTCDev website that all of its Android products released after September 2011 are now unlockable, but not all devices will show up on HTC's unlock list right away, but the company says that its site will be updated to reflect the changes in the coming weeks. As for pre-September products? They that it's still working on it, but didn't provide any detai...

No doubt, Apple's Siri is quite a hit among iPhone users, whether for it's general voice assistant capabilities or funny sense of humor, Youtube videos etc... You can not only use it to control your iPhone 4S (or jailbroken iPhone), it can also tell jokes ,  sing a song ,  start your car , queue up Plex,  play the piano , tell you a story ,  set the thermostat , answer riddles  and some even claiming to control whole room . Currently, Macs are left out of all the voice control fun. Not anymore, Thanks to  Air Dictate . [Screenshots: Air Dictate from the Apple App Store]   Air Dictate from developer Avatron has found a way to use a Siri-enabled iPhone to dictate to Macs on your network using your voice.  For now it's limited to text input — there's no voice control of other applications just yet — but considering there's no public API for Siri, this is still impressive.  By use of Siri's technology, the app allows y...

Great! News for older iPhone users trying to get some Siri love on their phones can finally rejoice. Thanks to hackers  Grant Paul  (aka chpwn),  Steve Troughton-Smith  and Ryan Petrich. After months of work, they have developed an installer called Spire .  With Spire you can install Siri legally on your iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch, iPad (all iOS 5) devices. The creators claim that their is no copyright infringement issues unlike previous Siri hacks. To achieve this they are using Proxy servers to connect to Apple's servers. Once installed it will connect to Apple servers to initiate official Siri download of about 100MB. Although, some limitations still exist for you before you can have Siri up and running on your device. To begin with, Your iDevice must be jailbroken in order to install Spire. Then you need to have some technical knowledge to set up the proxy servers, to identify your device as iPhone 4S.(Check back for official step-by...

  Now your latest iPhone 4 can be carrier unlocked which works now on iOS 4.3.5/5 firmware. With it you are can unlock iPhone 4 (and iPhone 3Gs running 4.3.5/5) and use it on any compatible GSM network. Head on to www.BestUnlockiPhone.com to unlock you iPhone. Their site states that it will work, not only to unlock the iPhone 4 running the latest iOS version but it will work with any iPhone model and any firmware or baseband version. If you still own the iPhone 2G/3G/3GS then it is probably the best unlock for you. Remember that unlocking the iPhone can only be performed once you have jailbroken the device. By unlocking your iPhone you unlock your iPhone to thousands of new features that will your make your iPhone experience a more pleasurable experience. Like the ability to install free games, free themes, free wallpapers, use Bluetooth to its full potential (read transfer and receive files) and many many other things that will make yo...

RIM recently launched a new  device named Blackberry Curve 9380. RIM as of lately is trying to break away from  the image of a staid, business phone and this  device is being marketed as the first consumer oriented , mass market full touch Blackberry device.  The 9380 looks almost identical to the 9350 from the back with only difference being the placement of USB port.  The front of the Curve 9380 is dominated by a 3.2 inches (~188 ppi) TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 360x480. The touchscreen is generally bright and responsive.  The bottom of the device has four backlit buttons separated by an optical trackpad in the middle.  Smooth fingerprint-prone plastic is flanked by high quality matte black plastics on both sides.  The camera remains a 5MP unit with LED flash capable of  2592х1944 pixels still resolution and  VGA recording. The video quality disappointed us but it might be a limitation with 800Mhz si...

Lava Mobile has launched a music phone with MTV India, called the Lava A16 MTV Phone  with a unique combination of style and superior value that is specially designed for MTV generation  . The device is available on retail shelves right now, priced between Rs. 4,000 and Rs. 4,500. The Lava A16 features  a fashionable Diamond cut back cover with soft contours for easy handling,  SRS WOW HD audio via its bundled earphones, which also has dedicated audio controls and has a Yamaha PA system for an enhanced loudspeaker experience. The device has a 2.6-inch IPS gorgeous display, a 3.2MP camera with "LOMO effects",     Privacy Protection and Facebook application,  and a 900 mAh battery. Also including auto call recording, video player, mobile tracker, live wallpapers, multiple themes, as well as SMS and image locks. The phone is built to withstand impacts of up to 120 kg making it very durable and solid.

T he next version of Android OS and successor to Honeycomb and Gingerbread has been released by Google. Known as Ice Cream Sandwich.  The release ushers in the biggest changes the software has seen since the launch of  Froyo  in 2010 -- maybe even  Eclair  back in 2009. Nearly every facet of the OS has been made over, and the very core of the  Android  user experience has been completely re-imagined. Like every time Google releases a new version of Android, each and every Android user gets curious will their current handset get the latest and greatest from Android. Here is a list of all handsets expected to receive Ice Cream Sandwich love:- Note - This list will be updated as we get new announcements from OEMs. Archos The French tablet maker expects to upgrade Archos 80 and 101 G9 tablets to the Android 4.0 operating system in the first ‘trimester’ of 2012. ASUS Asus...

Untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is on the way, according to Chronic Dev Team . They have already found several exploits that could possibly be used in a future iOS 5 jailbreak. At the same time, Apple quickly patched these exploits before the public release of the firmware. One of Apple's weapons in the arsenal against jailbreaking is the log of crash reports, sent automatically from iTunes that serves to identify possible exploits. Chronic Dev Team is trying to stop Apple from finding out about these potential jailbreak opportunities by circumventing the automatic crash reports from iOS. Now the Chronic Dev Team is hard at work collecting submissions from iPhone users everywhere. As per the report, these will be 10 million in one week to be exact, which will help the team identify possible exploits for a new iOS 5 jailbreak. The Chronic Dev Team recently released an app that collects iOS crash reports in iTunes and sends them to the team’s private servers to help...

In past few months, Linux Mint is on a road to surpass Ubuntu as the most popular Linux operating. According to an open source ranking website DistroWatch, Linux Mint has already topped Ubuntu as the top Linux distro. Why, ? The reason is because the Mint is giving users a choice between old and new interfaces. According to Clem(Maintainer of Linux Mint) Mint is one of the last distro to support Gnome 2.32 which has been abandoned by major top distros like Ubuntu, Fedora etc.. The new interfaces on those systems have mostly focused on mobile metaphor instead of the traditional desktop metaphor. The Ubuntu's answer is controversial Unity which has been rejected by most users as is the Gnome Shell which is used by other distros. Linux Mint here took a very unique turn, they have rejected implementing Unity and have focused on Gnome Shell and MATE. The Gnome Shell is modified by Mint developers with MGSE(Mint Gnome Shell Extensions) to make Gnome Shell lo...

Nokia last year announced that it will ditch its rusting Symbian OS and embrace Windows Phone 7 on their next generation phones. After nearly an year Nokia revealed Lumia range of phones featuring Windows Phone Mango. The result is a mixed bag one side you have possibly the most fluid OS on the phone ever with no lags, no frame skipping etc... The animations and transitions are very smooth, pinch to zoom, rotation are really smooth. The home screen is really attractive and very different, overall the whole OS is very minimal and has almost no chrome. The build quality of Nokia Lumia 800 and 900 are top notch, clear Black AMOLED screen is vey bright. While on the other hand it is just like Apple a walled garden by Microsoft. You cannot change much look or feel of the OS like Android, Bluetooth file transfer is prohibited(really??? Whats the use of of putting a Bluetooth inside), the apps are too far too few, official apps like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube are missing...

First of all Kindle Fire exceeded everyone’s expectations. The Fire is a tablet for all; its form factor makes the iPad seem a bit odd in comparison –- and you can even get two Kindle Fires for the price of one iPad. Also, Amazon Prime customers can watch streaming movies and TV shows for free, the app marketplace isn’t censored the way that Apple’s is, and it’s also terrific for kids. The Fire is more sturdy and durable than the iPad, it can easily survive being dropped off a table and is scratch resistant. Contrary, customers will want a Fire in addition to their iPad, but opposite won't be true. It’s the best bang for bucks. The Fire is a Kindle with benefits. Amazon’s App store is also far more friendly to developers than Apple’s, so the Fire is only going to get more exciting from here on out. On the other hand The iPad is the current king of the hill over the tablet market for the past two years, despite a steady stream of challengers trying to knock it off...

After a massive spam attacks hit Facebook, a new phishing scam has reportedly hit the social networking site. Security firm Sophos Naked Security in its blog claims that the Facebook users are receiving phishing mails, threatening to delete users' account unless they submit valid account details within 24 hours. They further add that the phishing messages accuse the users of breaching Facebook's policy guidelines by irking other Facebook users. The messages then seek personal and financial information including credit card numbers from the users of the social networking site. The phishing e-mails read like this: “LAST WARNING : Your account is reported to have violated the policies that are considered annoying or insulting Facebook users. Until we system will disable your account within 24 hours if you do not do the reconfirmation. Please confirm your account below: [Link Removed] Thanks. The Facebook Team Copyright facebook © 2011 Inc. All rights reserved.” ...

Finally, Skype lovers out there Skype iPad app released on Apple’s App Store, available for download now for free. This version of Skype is built specifically for iPad, able to call, video call, on instant message anyone back and forth using Skype’s easy to use interface yet. Skype Credit will work as well, allowing users to call mobile devices as well as landlines for what Skype Software notes are “really low rates.” You can join Skype from your iPad or sign straight into your account, whichever applies to you. If a user already has a Skype account, their Skype contacts will already be synced when they first sign in on the iPad app. If instead they’ve got a Skype account with no contacts (or if they’ve got any amount of contacts, of course,) they can add new contacts with a few taps of the screen. One touch call, video call, or messaging is set up instantly, and moving through recent calls and instant messages in one’s Skype for iPad history is simple as well. This version o...