Awaz Apni

Awaz Apni: I’m here to praise Apple again. Sorry. I have to do it. It’s not in my contract nor am I paid to do it – imagine if we were! We’d be rich! – but after manhandling the iPhone 6S Plus it’s abundantly clear that Apple has discovered another breakthrough. And they are surprisingly nonchalant about it. Apple’s first interface breakthrough happened when it unleashed real multitouch on the world. Until the original iPhone, screens reacted to one single point and often required a stylus to operate. There were exceptions, but even after the iPhone launched competitors couldn’t keep up and had to release resistive screen phones until they could join in the multi-touch game. This next interface trick is far more subtle. By sensing pressure applied on the surface of the Apple Watch, the new MacBook trackpad, and the new iPhones, Apple has added a new layer to the touchscreen experience. In short, they have gone deep, allowing us to move past surfaces and into more dyn...

Awaz Apni: This week will see early adopters receive their new iPod touch 5th generation, which were shipped last week, so these users and others might be wondering how good it’s going to be? If you’re not hands-on yet with the iPod touch 5G then you should see the two videos below on this page, which include a full review for almost 17 minutes and also an extreme drop/scratch test. The first video features the iPod touch 5G review and takes a look at almost every aspect of the new portable media player, which includes highlighting the external design first and focusing on what different parts do. The display is obviously pretty similar to the iPhone 5 at first glance, although on the iPod touch 5G you’ll see some notable differences to the design and feel. Apple’s refresh for the iPod touch delivers a small, thin, and light device but allows for the slightly bigger display. You’ll see a black area at the top of the iPod touch 5G back, which is for your antenna window ...

Looking for an open parking spot? There's an Android app for that. No, there's no iPhone app, only an Android one; sorry, for once Android has a leg up on the iPhone. Indeed, it's called Open Spot , and it could prove really useful to folks in parking spot limited locales. It's a Google Labs app, which means it's experimental, so keep that in mind. Users of the app let folks know when they are leaving a spot. Google marks the open spots on the map with red pins for newly opened spots, orange pin for spots that have been open for more than five minutes and yellow pins after ten minutes. After 20 minutes, the spot is removed from the map. Those living in San Francisco might think 20 minutes is a little generous, and Google acknowledges it on their Open Spot FAQ page . For those who are competitive, or just like a pat on the back for their good deed, you can earn “karma points” for broadcasting your open spots. Your karma points are displayed in the app (as show...

Looking for an open parking spot? There's an Android app for that. No, there's no iPhone app, only an Android one; sorry, for once Android has a leg up on the iPhone. Indeed, it's called Open Spot , and it could prove really useful to folks in parking spot limited locales. It's a Google Labs app, which means it's experimental, so keep that in mind. Users of the app let folks know when they are leaving a spot. Google marks the open spots on the map with red pins for newly opened spots, orange pin for spots that have been open for more than five minutes and yellow pins after ten minutes. After 20 minutes, the spot is removed from the map. Those living in San Francisco might think 20 minutes is a little generous, and Google acknowledges it on their Open Spot FAQ page . For those who are competitive, or just like a pat on the back for their good deed, you can earn “karma points” for broadcasting your open spots. Your karma points are displayed in the app (as show...

What's the bad thing about Apple's new iPhone 4 video chat feature, FaceTime? Well, aside from the fact that it can only be used via wi-fi, it also needs to be done iPhone 4 to iPhone 4. Both of those restrictions are not an issue with the new version of Fring for the iPhone. The new version of Fring will allow device-agnostic video chats, which means now Fring users can video chat with any Skype or Fring user, regardless of device, and even to PCs. Additionally, it works over 3G, though certainly not as well (OK, with lags and jitters). At any rate, given the new version of Fring, we can now have video chats between Android and iPhone users, arguing about which device platform is best. Apple's FaceTime is an openn standard, Apple says, though it remains to be seen if any others will adopt it. It's also a fact that while the impression that many have gotten is that Apple invented video chats via cell phones, that's not the case.

What's the bad thing about Apple's new iPhone 4 video chat feature, FaceTime? Well, aside from the fact that it can only be used via wi-fi, it also needs to be done iPhone 4 to iPhone 4. Both of those restrictions are not an issue with the new version of Fring for the iPhone. The new version of Fring will allow device-agnostic video chats, which means now Fring users can video chat with any Skype or Fring user, regardless of device, and even to PCs. Additionally, it works over 3G, though certainly not as well (OK, with lags and jitters). At any rate, given the new version of Fring, we can now have video chats between Android and iPhone users, arguing about which device platform is best. Apple's FaceTime is an openn standard, Apple says, though it remains to be seen if any others will adopt it. It's also a fact that while the impression that many have gotten is that Apple invented video chats via cell phones, that's not the case.

It's a long and storied tradition: not just Apple products catching fire in one way or another , but of portable devices in general . Now we have the first iPhone 4 incident, with the new iDevice igniting while hooked up to a PC with a USB cable. For one it doesn't seem to be a battery issue. From the image acquired by BGR (above) it's clear that the device isn't going to be repaired. It also appears the owner was using the official Apple USB cable that shipped with the device. The customer took the device into an AT&T store in hopes of replacement. According to BGR's AT&T source, an Apple Store indicated that it appears there was a defective iPhone 4 USB port involved. The source added that the customer's hand was slightly burned. Interestingly, a commenter at the BGR post said he plugged in his iPhone 4, and a few minutes later saw his first ever “excess temperature” warning, and the iPhone entered safe mode as well. Later, when he plugged it ...

It's a long and storied tradition: not just Apple products catching fire in one way or another , but of portable devices in general . Now we have the first iPhone 4 incident, with the new iDevice igniting while hooked up to a PC with a USB cable. For one it doesn't seem to be a battery issue. From the image acquired by BGR (above) it's clear that the device isn't going to be repaired. It also appears the owner was using the official Apple USB cable that shipped with the device. The customer took the device into an AT&T store in hopes of replacement. According to BGR's AT&T source, an Apple Store indicated that it appears there was a defective iPhone 4 USB port involved. The source added that the customer's hand was slightly burned. Interestingly, a commenter at the BGR post said he plugged in his iPhone 4, and a few minutes later saw his first ever “excess temperature” warning, and the iPhone entered safe mode as well. Later, when he plugged it ...

comScore has released its latest report on smartphone market share for the three months of March through May. Unsurprisingly, the trend continues from previous months: Android is rapidly climbing among smartphone platforms. It should be noted, however, that these numbers obviously don't include the iPhone 4, which did not launch until late June. Android continued to climb, and while it still "only" has 13 percent of smartphone market share, what's more important is that rise is from 9 percent in the last report. That rise, therefore, comes to 44.4 percent over a three month period. Meanwhile, during that time, all the other smartphone platforms took dives. RIM still has a 41.7 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers (a drop of 0.4 percent), while Apple had a 24.4 percent share (a drop of 1 percent). Microsoft saw a drop of 1.9 percent to 13.2, while Palm dropped rounded out the top five out with a 4.8 percent share, a drop of 0.6 percent. In terms of manufact...

comScore has released its latest report on smartphone market share for the three months of March through May. Unsurprisingly, the trend continues from previous months: Android is rapidly climbing among smartphone platforms. It should be noted, however, that these numbers obviously don't include the iPhone 4, which did not launch until late June. Android continued to climb, and while it still "only" has 13 percent of smartphone market share, what's more important is that rise is from 9 percent in the last report. That rise, therefore, comes to 44.4 percent over a three month period. Meanwhile, during that time, all the other smartphone platforms took dives. RIM still has a 41.7 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers (a drop of 0.4 percent), while Apple had a 24.4 percent share (a drop of 1 percent). Microsoft saw a drop of 1.9 percent to 13.2, while Palm dropped rounded out the top five out with a 4.8 percent share, a drop of 0.6 percent. In terms of manufact...

Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, ditched his iPhone for a Motorola Droid in March. Though he's still using that device, in an interview with CNN over the state of the cell phone industry, it was his last sentence of the interview that was the real bonus for Android lovers. Cooper noted how he gave his iPhone to his grandson. As he said, "Kids are really caught up in that." The final sentence was the zinger (emphasis ours): "But I think that the Android phones are catching up now, and the latest version of the Android phones are every bit as good, if not better , than the iPhone ." The Droid was a huge success for Motorola, and for Android. It's still being sold, and is fact expected to get a Froyo update very soon, as early as July 13th, it is rumored. Other tidbits from the interview: They knew the cell phone would become popular, but they never imagined it would happen so fast. "Well, we knew that someday everybody would have a ( c...

Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, ditched his iPhone for a Motorola Droid in March. Though he's still using that device, in an interview with CNN over the state of the cell phone industry, it was his last sentence of the interview that was the real bonus for Android lovers. Cooper noted how he gave his iPhone to his grandson. As he said, "Kids are really caught up in that." The final sentence was the zinger (emphasis ours): "But I think that the Android phones are catching up now, and the latest version of the Android phones are every bit as good, if not better , than the iPhone ." The Droid was a huge success for Motorola, and for Android. It's still being sold, and is fact expected to get a Froyo update very soon, as early as July 13th, it is rumored. Other tidbits from the interview: They knew the cell phone would become popular, but they never imagined it would happen so fast. "Well, we knew that someday everybody would have a ( c...

Particularly on iOS, where they have seen themselves frozen out of the App Store at times (Google Voice comes to mind), Google has pushed the idea of web apps. They can be modified without an app store or market, and the results made public with a flick of a switch. On Wednesday, a switch was flicked with regards to the mobile YouTube site ( http://m.youtube.com/ ) and a new mobile YouTube site hit the Internet. As you can expect, the new site is HTML5, and thus can be viewed on an iOS device, as well as on browsers on newer platforms such as Android. YouTube product manager Andrey Doronichev during a briefing Wednesday morning at YouTube's headquarters, emphasized that the idea was to bring the desktop experience, as much as possible, to mobile browsers. Additionally, the video quality of the new mobile site, as demonstrated, was far better than the iPhone app. As Doronichev explained that the native iOS app is built by Apple, with YouTube not having anything to do with its ...

Particularly on iOS, where they have seen themselves frozen out of the App Store at times (Google Voice comes to mind), Google has pushed the idea of web apps. They can be modified without an app store or market, and the results made public with a flick of a switch. On Wednesday, a switch was flicked with regards to the mobile YouTube site ( http://m.youtube.com/ ) and a new mobile YouTube site hit the Internet. As you can expect, the new site is HTML5, and thus can be viewed on an iOS device, as well as on browsers on newer platforms such as Android. YouTube product manager Andrey Doronichev during a briefing Wednesday morning at YouTube's headquarters, emphasized that the idea was to bring the desktop experience, as much as possible, to mobile browsers. Additionally, the video quality of the new mobile site, as demonstrated, was far better than the iPhone app. As Doronichev explained that the native iOS app is built by Apple, with YouTube not having anything to do with its ...

We already knew that Froyo (Android 2.2) offered some awesome performance improvements . How does it compare against the iPhone 4, Apple's lefty-hating smartphone? It blows it away. Ars did a recent review of Froyo, and now has taken the time to compare the iPhone 4 with the Nexus One running Froyo in terms of two JavaScript benchmarks, SunSpider and V8. As you can see above, in SunSpider (lower is better), Froyo scored 5,795.2 vs. 10,902.1, close to a 2 to 1 difference.. In V8 (higher is better), Froyo scored 287 vs. 67, a more than 4 to 1 advantage. Granted, this tests are focused on JavaScript, and are synthetic tests to boot. What matters to most people is that both phones are capable devices (except, in the case of an iPhone 4, if you want to make a call using your left hand and no case). It also uses top of the line hardware on the Android side, the Nexus One (which is the only Android device to get Froyo so far, so there wasn't really a choice). However, while the...

As we surmised, the issues folks were seeing in terms of uploads on the AT&T wireless network were not a newly instituted upload cap, but rather a problem on their network. In this case, AT&T made sure to point the finger at a bug in Alcatel-Lucent's 3G base station hardware that slowed uploads for any device that supports HSUPA. Unfortunately, however, AT&T noted that a fix isn't here yet. The issue is reducing upload speeds from the normally expected about 1Mbps to around 100kbps or less, a factor of 10. However, it appears to be regional in nature, not affecting the entire country. Here's what AT&T said: “AT&T and Alcatel-Lucent jointly identified a software defect — triggered under certain conditions – that impacted uplink performance for Laptop Connect and smartphone customers using 3G HSUPA-capable wireless devices in markets with Alcatel-Lucent equipment. This impacts less than two percent of our wireless customer base. While Alcatel-Lucent d...

Yesterday on 1st July 2010 the famous free video streaming service Hulu Plus is announced for Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The Hulu Plus service is providing a paid subscription plan according to which users will have to pay $10 every month to use the Hulu Plus service. Hulu Plus service is available on many devices such as Desktop PC, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and common TV. soon in the future Hulu Plus will provide it service to more devices.  Hulu Plus service for Xbox 360 is going to be launched in start on 2011. I hope that my post was useful for all the readers.

An Famous Blog Appadvice daily has claimed that iOS 4 on Apple iPad is coming in the month of November along with Multitasking. iAd platform will also be with iOS 4 and it will be coming in November. Apple has also hinted to launch iOS 4 in November. iAds will be a program for advertisers. So lets wait until November for the arrival of iOS 4 on iPad. I hope that my post was useful for all the readers.

Apple sold more than 1.7 million new iPhones in the product's first three days on the market, the California gadget maker said Monday after its most successful launch ever. The iPhone 4, which features video calling, a crisper resolution screen and the ability to shoot and edit high-definition quality video, went on sale in Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the United States on Thursday. Apple said it sold over 1.7 million of the devices through Saturday. "This is the most successful product launch in Apple?s history," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in a statement. "Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply." Apple said the iPhone 4 will be available in an additional 18 countries by the end of July: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerla...

The News of the hour is that the Kindle Apps by Amazon for Apple iPhone, iPhone Touch & iPad has got the Audio and Video Support yesterday. those who not know what Kindle App is? it is an E-books related App. First of all with help of this new Technology "Together We Cannot Fail" book got the advantage. Although its an tiny improvement but a really interesting one. The thing to remember is that Kindle app is owned by Amazon which is interested in selling the books not the devices. I hope that my post was useful for everyone.