After the release of the new iPad, everyone’s now chomping at the bit for rumours of the new iPhone (who knows if it will be called the iPhone 5 or “the new iPhone”), so fans, like they have done in the past have resorted to designing what they want themselves. And this concept design makes me wish this was the next incarnation of the popular smart phone!
Designed by Antonio De Rosa with an edge-to-edge capacitive screen on a thin all-glass body, surrounded by a lightweight polycarbonate band where the antenna would be on the current iPhone 4S model. To increase the wow factor of this mock-up, De Rosa even included a 10 megapixel rear camera and an A6 processor, whilst doesn’t exist, should eventually have quite the processing wallop. The SJ designation Antonio uses for his version of the iPhone stands for the late “Steve Jobs.”
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Here at Mobile Sacrifice we love Dropbox for its seamless ability to sync all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere across most platforms and devices. If like us however, your on the low side of your available free space for Dropbox storage, there is now a great and free way to gain extra GB’s of space – just by using your smart phone and the latest build of the Dropbox computer software.
Dropbox are, for a special beta period, testing their automatic photo and video uploading feature when you plug your smart phone into your computer that has the latest version of their software installed. In return for trying their experimental build, you can get up to 4.5GB of extra space for free. This experimental Dropbox build 1.3.12 imports photos and videos automatically from cameras, phones, and SD cards and batch uploads and downloads files. The forum post on Dropbox says:
During this beta period, we are also offering additional free space to test automatic uploading of photos and videos. For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you’ll receive another 500MB space bonus, up to 4.5GB total.
The downloads for Windows, Mac and Linux are only available from the forum post. Note that you are STRONGLY advised to make a backup of what’s in your Dropbox before upgrading to this build, and give the linked forum post a read through as there have been some issues with Linux and Mac.
After I installed the new client and plugged in my iPhone 4, the Windows 7 Autoplay option appeared in which I selected to import my media using Dropbox, which it put it all (over 4.5GB’s worth of videos and pictures that I had on my iPhone) into a new “Camera Uploads” folder and after uploading to my account had the extra 4.5GB automatically credited. Super easy!
Let us know how this works for you and any issues you might have in the comments below, as well any other great ways to generate extra Dropbox space you might know.
Via Get Up to 4.5GB of Extra Space on Dropbox for Uploading Photos and Videos / How-to-Geek.
According to BGR, despite analyst’s predictions, Nokia’s Lumia 800 has sold out in the UK. The handset, which runs on Window Phone 7, was predicted by Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette to have an initial sales of 2 million units for the fourth quarter, which he then cut to 500,000 citing early checks indicating lower than expected sell-through. Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu also chimed in, writing this week that Nokia’s new phones offer no “breakthrough innovation” or price advantage that might draw attention away from the competition. However the day after Faucette shared his new estimates, Nokia confirmed that its hotly anticipated Lumia 800 smartphone was sold out across the United Kingdom.
Lumia 800 sales in the U.K. are off to an excellent start,” Nokia said in a statement. “Based on earliest data the sales start of the Lumia 800 is the best ever first week of Nokia smartphone sales in the U.K. in recent history. By our measures, we have gained significant smartphone sell-out share in the channels in which we are operating in the U.K
There’s no initial sales figures for the new handset, as Nokia tends not disclose these outside of quarterly reports, though there is more on the statement made by Nokia over at BGR.
Want a protective case for your new iPhone, but want something a bit unique? Design studio, Purl Soho might have what you’re looking for, that is if you’re a dab hand with a needle and thread. On their site, they are selling a iPhone 4 & 4S Cross Stitch Case that you can cross-stitch yourself, enabling you to show off how geeky and unique you truly are with your own custom design. Heres their description:
Technology and craft meet in this ingenious kit! This cross stitch kit comes with a 33 by 69 grid cross stitch case, three colors of thread, a needle, and a booklet of designs. Get creative – we love the idea of making this with a vintage cross-stitch pattern for a wonderful juxtaposition of the new and old! Fits both the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S.
There’s some great examples on their design blog, and this phone case seems like a great idea for those who want to combine tech with crafting and home-made gifts. If you have purchased this case, or know of other unique phone protection, let us know in the comments!
via Hello Brit - Cross-Stitch Your Own iPhone Case
Over on the BBC News website, technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has a report on various UK mobile networks testing 4G, including O2 and Everything Everywhere. In the report he manages to download an episode of David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet on iPlayer in about a minute and viewed YouTube videos in the middle of London without buffering or lag. In one of the videos he even tested a live broadcast using nothing but a laptop connected to a mobile phone network. All done using a 4G connection – a technology which is already being rolled out in many parts of the world including Sweden, Germany and the USA but won’t be widely available in the UK until 2013 at the earliest.
Two big 4G trials are now underway. In London, O2 has launched a test network covering various parts of the centre of the city, and soon out to Canary Wharf and the Docklands. And in Cornwall, BT and Everything Everywhere – formerly known as Orange and T-Mobile – have begun testing 4G under very different conditions. The aim there, is to work out whether part of the spectrum which is being auctioned late next year will give a mobile broadband alternative for people who struggle to get a decent service down a fixed line.
Check out the interesting report on the BBC site, including eBays’ Angus McCarey take on the UK’s slow expansion in mobile infrastructure.
So your itching to try iOS 5 on your iPhone or other iOS device, but you don’t want to wait till October 12th and you don’t have a developer’s account. Have no fear, we can tell you how (we’ve tried it on an iPhone 4 GSM and it works) without developer’s access and for free. A couple of point before we start;
- Back up your device first (just in case).
- Make sure you do this when you have a bit of free time. When I tried this process it completely wiped my device and reinstalled everything including backups, photos, mp3′s etc, so if you have a lot of those then it will take a while!
- You do this at your own risk – its highly unlikely anything will go wrong, but we’re just covering our asses. Also its unlikely Apple will do anything about this process, considering the official launch is only a week away, but you never know – they can be touchy sometimes.
Now that you’ve read the above warning’s, let’s get on with it!
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by Roraz on October 5, 2011 ·
in iPhone
So last night Apple finally had their WWDC keynote which was about this years new iPhone – the 4S. Whilst I was not blown away about the actual iPhone announcement itself (that might change once I get my hands on the actual device), my main reason for following the live coverage was to see any updates about the release of iOS 5. Again disappointment; But that’s because I was hoping that iOS 5 would be released yesterday. Instead the new update to the mobile operating system will be released to the public on October 12th through Apple’s update systems, that is if you don’t have a developers account with access to the Gold Master release!
Lifehacker have a great article covering how to get iOS 5′s best features now through jailbreaking, that is, if you can’t wait the 8 days till release?
If you have followed us on Twitter, or seen some of the screenshots featured on the site, you know we are a big fan of iOS Twitter app Tweetbot by Tapbots. It’s a great Twitter app that has every feature you could need with a sweet user interface (they don’t pay me to write that, I’m an honest fan of the app), that recently got even better with the much sought after addition of customisable push notifications, which it had been sorely lacking for so long. Well yesterday iTunes approved their new 1.4.3 update for the app which has added the following:
- Added sleep time for push notifications (notification quiet hours)
- Option to receive push mentions only from people you follow
- When emailing a link, the subject is the page title if sent from a web view
- Blocking/Reporting for spam now deletes associated tweets from the timeline
The added customisation abilities for Push notification are a nice touch to whittle down when and who from you receive your notifications, which you don’t see a lot in app’s. The Tapbots blog also states that since they instituted push notifications, it has gone pretty smoothly, so they have opened it up for everyone (check the settings for each of your Twitter accounts in Tweetbot to enable them if you haven’t already done so). Lastly they state that they are working hard on v1.5 which will have a much requested feature (that’s not twitlonger or an iPad version), which is interesting. Considering how often Tapbots updates come for the app, we shouldn’t have to wait long.
If you have an idea about what the new feature might be, or what you would like to see, let us know in the comments below.
via Tweetbot 1.4.3 — Tapbots Blog.
Have you ever been in your favourite twitter app, Facebook, Instagram or even contacts list and found that you wanted to get back to the top of the list of information really quickly, but instead had to scroll for ages using your index finger like an idiot!? Well that was me. There is a way that is app universal, and it’s stupidly easy.
This probably isn’t news to most people, but it was to me, so I thought I would share what I found out. Basically when you’re in app and you want to get to the top of a list quickly, just press the iPhone status bar where the clock is featured. This will zoom you right to the top of the page quick as a flash, saving you all those finger miles scrolling. Handy when you’ve missed a few Twitter updates in a while!
I’m a bit late to the party with this one, but its pretty cool so I figured I would post about it. Swype has been available as a keyboard alternative for Android phones for some time now, but only recently has development started on an iOS version for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, called iSwipe (formerly known as Swype for iOS) currently in its third beta version.
The beta 3 version of iSwipe has a lot more of the features that make the Android Swype keyboard so appealing (that weren’t present in earlier iOS releases), including the blue tracer line to show your text input, third-party app keyboard compatibility, as well as an alternate word suggestions bar that appears after finishing a word for when the word iSwipe “guesses” is not the correct one.
Click here to read how to try iSwipe (Swype) for iPhones
