Tethered jailbreak already available for iOS 5 beta 4

redsn0w 0.9.8b4

  The iPhone Dev Team has released a software update which you can use to jailbreak an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 5 beta 4. Apple released the latest beta version of its upcoming mobile operating system to developers yesterday. Redsn0w 0.9.8b4 is available for Mac or Windows. In order to jailbreak your device you’ll need to connect your iPhone or iPod to a… Read more »

SPB Migration Tool helps Windows Mobile, Symbian users switch to Android

So you want to buy a Google Android phone, but you’ve spent the last 10 years loading all of your personal data info onto a Windows Mobile or Symbian device. SPB Software has a simple solution, called SPB Migration Tool. It’s a $10 app which you can use to copy your data from Windows Mobile or Symbian and export it to an Android device. There… Read more »

Nokia Ovi Suite 3.0 for Symbian phone synchronization now available

Nokia has released version 3.0 of its Nokia Ovi Suite desktop software. Like Apple’s iTunes or Microsoft’s Zune Desktop, the Ovi Suite provides smartphone users with a way to download music, synchronize media between a computer and phone, backup a phone’s data, and update software on a phone. Nokia Ovi Suite 3.0 features faster installation, downloadable street maps and voice guidance files, full-screen mode for… Read more »

Nokia Situations app for Symbian adjusts phone settings by… situation

Most smartphones have silent and airplane modes, which let you turn off the ringer and system sounds or disable all wireless communications, respectively. But what if you want to create deeper profiles, for instance telling your phone to vibrate when you’re in a meeting, send an auto-reply SMS when you’re asleep, or perform other context-appropriate actions. Nokia Situations is a new app for Nokia Symbian… Read more »