Sony and Simon Cowell have introduced the MDR-X05, packing 40MM drivers (down from 50) and available in a few colour options (red/black, red/red, white/silver, red/silver and black/silver) .
The press release gives some long winded marketing spiel on how Sony and Simon joined forces to make these amazing high quality cans. What they are are a bass heavy headphone of average quality with an endorsement.
Are you sold on them ?
It seems Apple has been updating its Apple Maps with 3D vector maps for Vancouver.
I just wish it addressed the basic data too and get more accurate POI’s.
I was always opposed to jail breaking. It seemed to much effort and then having to wait longer before you could update your device, as each ios update broke the jailbreak.
However we know don’t get snazzy new features with ios so I decided to try the latest jailbreak. It really is easy, so easy you are ready to rock and roll in less than 10 minutes.
So what is the net gain of JB. Being honest the impact is small but the feel is so much better.
On my iPhone 5 I know when I have the phone on mute as I have a little silent icon in the status bar. The same for notifications from other apps. These appear in the statusbar. I have setup the ones that I know that I have some messages for example. I also have changed the operator icon just for fun. Saving space on the statusbar I have showing the battery % but there is no need for the battery icon as well. So I removed the battery icon. When the phone is charging a lightning bolt appears. The other really useful tweak is making Google Maps app open instead of Apple Maps. Such as godsend. Then there is the adding of one column of apps on the home screen and an extra line of apps in each folder. This makes a world of difference in enabling me to have all my apps on one page and games on the other. With my iPad Mini I have done the same but adding more columns. My Mini also has the tweaks mentioned above. Both devices have a better youtube app that allows for high quality downloads. Finally on both the screen whiteness changes to a lighter orange warmer feel during the evening. Hard to explain but makes reading so much better on the eyes at night. I used sbsettings to have system toggles in the notification centre. I have also bought octupus keyboard but prefer the default iphone keyboard. So I just have a tweak now that changes the colour. I can tether my ipad to my iphone for free as well.
The iPad had a few more tweaks. Full screen safari and retina iphone apps automatically showing at 2x mode.
There are a few visual tweaks but nothing major. Whilst the above sounds a lot, there is only 9 tweaks installed on my iPhone and 11 on my iPad.
MWC has finished and when you reflect back there were a number of tablets and phones released. Some of the tablets just focused on a low price and the phones competed with larger screen sizes.
Nokia introducing 2 budget phones and low cost windows 8 handsets was a smart move. There was a few software announcements but nothing that blew me away.
So we can only hope that the Samsung Galaxy S4 reveals something special. And later in the year maybe Apple will reveal something magical. If neither of these deliver I am certain the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with its Wacom stylus will be the gadget geek masterpiece.
Maybe 2014 will be the year when we get more significant hardware leaps with flexible screen technology.
You can now buy Photoshop Touch for the iPhone and Android, and it pretty much does everything you can do on the iPad version.
It’ll costs $5, and features filters, to layers (and super-easy layer styles), scribble select tool to the Camera Fill feature (insert camera images straight into your document), which is even more useful on the portable iPhone.
You can also use the app in any orientation, even upside-down in portrait.
At least this is a lot less than the desktop version.
Microsoft has left some bitterness with Windows Phone 7 owners when it revealed the handsets could not be upgraded.
However, Microsoft have confirmed recently that Windows 8 is upgrade able. Lets hope so because if not any traction gained will be lost with bad feeling
NPD Display Search has come up with the following graphic to illustrate just how much more popular the Mini is compared to the full size iPad
It makes you wonder what could have happened if Apple had released the Mini first and later released a 10 inch tablet. Would Google, Amazon and others even stood a change of gaining market share.
Apple Inc. in February reversed its stance on a corporate-governance measure related to executive compensation, implementing a new rule that executive officers must hold triple their base salary in company stock.
The move, which hasn’t previously been reported, came even though a month earlier Apple’s board had urged shareholders to oppose a very similar corporate-governance measure proposed by a shareholder.
Doesn’t sound too painful.
The Galaxy S IV features an Exynos Octa 5410 CPU clocked at 1.8GHz, PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU, 2GB of RAM, 4.99″ Full HD (1920×1080) display and a 13 Megapixel Camera. The device also runs Android 4.2 out of the box. The Galaxy S IV retains the menu, back and home buttons, like its predecessors.
The device supports GSM/WCDMA/LTE networks with an Exynos processor on-board meaning its called the GT-I9500 and only therefore one variant. The Galaxy S IV will be a world phone.
And it appears it still will be made of plastic. I really hope not!
Security and caching service CloudFlare has been offline for more than 50 minutes due to a DNS issue. You may not have heard of CloudFlare but they add a layer between 785,000 websites and their users, all of those websites are currently affected. That’s a large number.
CloudFlare generates so many pageviews that it would be the tenth website in world. Websites affected include Wikileaks and 4Chan.
