The Absinthe 2.0 errors should come to an end for users who are having trouble jailbreaking the iPhone 4S. The Chronic Dev Team has just released Absinthe 2.0.1 to fix a collection of bugs that frustrated jailbreakers most of the morning. One member of the team, @pimskeks says that the update addresses bugs that could [...]
Apple recently made a few changes to the iOS App Store, including a free “App of the Week” program. According to Gamezebo, Apple now has “Editor’s Choice” apps in the App Store as opposed to “App of the Week” and “Game of the Week.” The store still highlights apps and games with “Editor’s Choice,” but [...]
EA’s annual Memorial Day app sale is back, with the publisher cutting prices on “nearly 49″ iPhone and iPad games for the holiday weekend. The sale puts close to half of EA’s iOS games on sale, with most games dropping down a dollar or two, though EA says it cut some prices by up to 90 [...]
In an effort to make it up to HTC EVO 4G LTE users who were met with a delay beyond the announced May 18th release date, Sprint has been loading pre-orders up with a free phone cover. According to The Verge, Sprint has been sending free gel covers to those who pre-ordered but had to [...]
A jailbreak for Apple’s new iPad has finally been released. After a long wait, pod2g and The Chronic Dev Team have released Absinthe 2.0, an untethered jailbreak that will work for the new iPad and other devices that are running Apple’s latest mobile software, iOS 5.1.1. The jailbreak is indeed available for Apple’s previous version [...]
The iPhone 4S jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 is available for Mac, Windows and Linux as a free download. If you have questions about the iPhone 4S jailbreak, this is where to start. The GottaBeMobile iPhone 4S Jailbreak Guide will show you how to jailbreak, how to fix numerous Absinthe 2.0 errors, how to get started [...]
While Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich won’t be rolling out to the Sony Xperia Play, it will be rolling out to other Xperia devices next week. Sony has confirmed that the software will be arriving for owners of seven Xperia branded devices next week and it will be arriving in the form of Android 4.0.4 [...]
An image from a Lumia 800 running WP Bench shows four Nokia code names that could hint at future Nokia Windows Phone handsets. The image was first shared on My Nokia Blog, and it shows four Nokia smartphones with Greek names that we haven’t seen before. Those names include Nokia Phi, Nokia Pure Phi, Nokia [...]
While Samsung has yet to confirm anything and the device still appears to be available at retailers, the pebble blue colored Samsung Galaxy S III has apparently been delayed because of a production error. The report comes from a Dutch site called Tweakers.net, courtesy of Reddit, which says that Samsung has had to destroy 600,000 [...]
Just a short time after its Wi-Fi was released to the public, the 4G LTE enabled version of the Asus Transformer Pad 300 has cleared the government’s hands at the FCC which means its release should have just gotten a little closer. The filing, first dug up by Liliputing, reveals the device as the Asus [...]
New HTC EVO 4G LTE owners who want to root their device can now do so as a root method has become available just a day after the phone started arriving on the doorsteps of customers. The process, which has been posted by zedomax over at XDA-Developers, is an easy one click root that is [...]
We’ve seen a few photos from Google’s Project Glass already, and now we finally have a video from the glasses as well. A Google employee put the first video shot from the Google Glasses to Google+ along with a few photos from a “Google Glass Walk” earlier this week. The video is 720p, lasts about 15 [...]
Sony has confirmed the bad news. The Sony Xperia Play, the company’s PlayStation phone, will not be getting the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In a blog post, the company updated its customers on the Android 4.0 roll out process and in it, Sony announced that the Xperia Play would not be getting [...]
One analyst now thinks we’ll see new Macs with Retina Displays sometime in the near future, probably this summer. According to The Wall Street Journal, one analyst is now predicting a new lineup of Macs with Retina Display, including new MacBook Air models in the next few months. The analyst, Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital, believes [...]
The Cipher is a credit card shaped stylus for your touch screen device like the iPad or iPhone or Android tablet or smartphone. Quirky wants users to let them know if this product deserves to show up in their store and how much you’d spend. Its part of their new Quirky Evaluation beta program. Quirky [...]
Ahead of Google’s summer I/O developer conference this year, we’re hearing more about Google’s efforts on the hardware side surrounding its Nexus franchise. On the tablet front, we’re getting a clearer picture of the rumored Google Nexus Tablet that’s been speculated to be made by Asus. The device has been rumored to come in at [...]
The iPhone 4S jailbreak on iOS 5.1.1 is finally available for the masses, but despite a new streamlined process that doesn’t require fancy button pressing to enter DFU mode, the tool is failing for a number of users. The Chronic Dev Team claims the Absinthe 2.0 iPhone 4S jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 is, “so easy your grandma [...]
The iPhone 4S jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 untethered is finally available to download. The new Absinthe 2.0 iPhone 4S jailbreak tool jailbreaks the iPhone 4S and other Apple devices running iOS 5.1.1, the latest version of Apple software. The new iPhone 4s Jailbreak tool provides an untethered iPhone 4s jailbreak which means users do not [...]
In a blog post to developers, Google announced that the Android platform now supports in-app subscription, which will allow developers to more easily monetize additional content and services to users. This would allow developers to continue to build and expand existing apps and automatically charge users for new features. Google says that developers can set [...]
Though employees can still bring their iPhone smartphones to work, IBM’s recently issue policy bars employees from using Apple’s Siri voice assistant feature at work. According to IBM, the reasoning for the ban is due to Siri sending user’s spoken queries to Siri to a remote data server to process speech to text and then [...]
NVIDIA is looking to double the number of smartphone models running on its Tegra ARM-based chipset from 15 models launched in 2011 with Tegra 2 to 30 models launching this year with the quad-core Tegra 3 CPU. At its investor meeting, the company says that the phones will also be less expensive at launch than [...]
After the launch of the Latitude ST tablet running Windows 7, there has been high hopes that Dell would launch a Windows 8 slate in the form of the Latitude 10. The company isn’t disappointing and in a leaked presentation slide, it appears that the company is working on one with Intel’s dual-core Atom processor [...]
After much speculation that Research in Motion may open up and give iOS and Android access to its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, RIM’s new chief Thorstein Heins had put the idea to rest by saying that BBM appearing on external platforms is not an option. BBM allows BlackBerry users to communicate freely with each [...]
It looks like the second of two Huawei-made Android smartphones for T-Mobile USA’s myTouch consumer line is now ready for FCC approval. The smartphone, model Huawei Ascend G312, comes with a physical hardware QWERTY keyboard and is expected to launch as the T-Mobile myTouch Q. The consumer smartphone will launch with a 4-inch WVGA display, [...]
Following the failed sail of T-Mobile USA to AT&T last year, T-Mobile’s parent Deutsche Telekom AG revealed that the company is now open to a merger of its U.S. operations to another company rather than a complete sale. As T-Mobile is the fourth largest national carrier in the U.S., any sale of the company would [...]
Nokia has ambitious plans for its Nokia 808 PureView and other successors in the line. With a 41-megapixel camera sensor, the Nokia 808 PureView–a highly anticipated successor to the Nokia N8, is the camera phone king and is arguably one of the best camera phones to arrive on the market when it goes on sale. [...]
Yesterday, we learned that HTC EVO 4G LTE pre-orders were shipping out for arrival and it looks like the device, as expected, has made its way onto the doorsteps of lucky consumers today. We’ve received a couple of tips from people who have received their device from Sprint but it appears as though folks have [...]
Sprint has gone ahead and killed its exclusive Nexus smartphone, the Nexus S 4G. According to The Verge, Sprint has confirmed the news and the device has vanished from the company’s website, never to be seen again. This means that consumers who want to get a hold of Sprint’s WiMax-powered Nexus must now do so [...]
On April 26th, Rockstar Games announced that Max Payne for Android, which was originally supposed that day, had been delayed. It then said that the game would be made available in the next week or so. Since then, the company has been silent about a release date leaving many Android owners in the dark as [...]
Nokia’s budget Lumia device, the Nokia Lumia 610, will be hitting shelves in the United Kingdom at some point in the near future. Vodafone UK, a carrier based in the United Kingdom, has the device listed as coming soon although it has not revealed a specific date for the Windows Phone device’s release. The timing [...]
From now until June 1, hundreds of independent games across iOS, Android, Mac, and PC are on sale as part of the Because We May event. The Because We May event lasts about a week and has many developers taking part. There’s no bundle or special reason for event (except maybe Memorial Day), aside from [...]
While we’re still waiting for a Samsung Galaxy S III release date for the United States, it appears that the highly anticipated smartphone might have a June 20th release date in Canada. According to a leaked document procured by Mobile Syrup, several Canadian carriers appear to be gearing up for a June 20th Samsung Galaxy [...]
One of the drawbacks of AT&T’s HTC One X has been the fact that its bootloader is locked down. HTC has not yet released a bootloader unlock tool leaving some to wonder whether an “official” method would ever arrive. Well, it hasn’t arrived yet but it seems that there is an HTC One X bootloader [...]
Tweetbot, arguably the best Twitter client on iOS, received an update today, making it even better. The version 2.4 update to Tweetbot brings along a number of new features, including the ability to favorite tweets and save links for later when offline. With the new update, favoriting a tweet or saving a link to read [...]
Toshiba has announced a new tablet dubbed the AT300 which comes packed with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and a Tegra 3 quad-core processor to boot. The tablet is going to feature a 10.1-inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution which supports 10-finger multitouch. It packs NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 2 megapixel front-facing [...]
Enter your email address to subscribe to GottaBeMobile updates
Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
As exciting as it has been to talk, postulate, and speculate about the Galaxy S III’s hardware and specs before the third-generation Galaxy flagship smartphone was announced on May 3rd in London, once the device was announced one thing became apparent: Samsung is now a software company. That doesn’t mean that Samsung is shying away [...]
Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
With its large touchscreen, the iPad seems like the perfect platform for Real Time Strategy games, and Autumn Dynasty proves it, mostly. Autumn Dynasty is an RTS iPad game with art that looks like tradition Chinese painting. The story involves quelling a rebellion while solving a mystery of shady noblemen. The story though, just serves [...]
Griffin GuitarConnect Pro Review: Record Your Jams with Ease
The Griffin GuitarConnect Pro interfaces with your Guitar and your iPad or iPhone so you can record your music easily using apps like Apple’s GarageBand. My son Daniel, who’s learning to play guitar, helped me test it out and he loved it. When he gets as good as Jimi Hendrix, I’m sure he’ll steal my [...]
Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
