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Samsung Infuse 4G SGH-i997     Did you mess up your phone while rooting it, installing third-party apps or playing with the settings? I rooted my phone and decided to install some stuff on it. I installed some third party apps which messed up my phone. It wouldn’t go past the Samsung and AT&T logo.

Motorola’s popular Droid 3 smartphone has finally received an easy rooting method and we’ll be guiding our readers on how to go about the procedure in this guide today.   For the uninitiated, ‘rooting’ is a process by which users can get privileged access to their smartphone. The term is specific for Android devices and

    Nokia at its Singapore event unveiled its most anticipated phone in years through the N9. The just-leaked design is the first MeeGo smartphone and centers on a rare, truly buttonless design: swipe gestures control switching apps from a pane-based interface and even include an iOS 5-style swipe to launch apps from individual notifications.

        Windows Mobile may be horrible to those who prefer choices. Well the HD2 gives us many choices. You install WindowsPhone 7, MeeGo, Android, WindowsDOS, Windows 95, and Ubuntu all on ONE phone! In this tutorial, I will teach you how to install Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread to your HD2. First please go to THIS ARTICLE and follow

Hackers may have stolen details of up to 120,000 mobile phone users by infecting applications (apps) sold to users of Google’s Android operating system, security researchers have said.   The researchers claim that hackers used malware, which is maliciously coded software, to infect more than 30 apps that users may have downloaded. “This weekend, multiple

Android phones face public WiFi security threat Users of Google’s Android based smartphones are being warned to avoid using public WiFi networks due to a data security issue which could allow hackers access to immense personal data.       Researchers at Ulm University in Germany discovered a flaw in the software could allow hackers

    http://en.eyeka.net/  a crowdsourcing company that specializes in “online co-creation” of products, has published some intriguing concepts for future smartphones. eYeka’s community came up with the following list of requirements for a next generation smartphone: a minimalistic, non-complicated design; more features (which may clash with the previous requirement); a design which feels like an

The Price is right         Do you have relatives worldwide that you would love to call, but the pricing is a killer nowadays? Does your cell phone carrier charge you an arm and a leg just for one minute? I have a solution that can get you calls to many countries for

    It seems T-Mobile USA isn’t backing away from Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA). I questioned company’s commitment to this technology, which gives them a unique leg-up over their rivals in terms of network coverage. In mid-September, a spokesman categorically told me that the company didn’t have any plans for UMA on Android. Fast forward to today,

Lantern II Hmm, interesting software. I bet if you change the root password on the iPhone though it might stop this attack. Kev Everyone knows the cops have tools to get inside your phone. But what do they do? They suck your iPhone’s entire soul in 15 minutes. With one single click. This is what

    I have hacked a few things. But a Cell Network? Nothing money cant cure This is a nice hack, for the people. Kev _______   The Wall Street Journal today brings us an amazing story of a few smart engineers, a couple of big-money backers, and one enormous hardware hack. But today’s tale

News Analysis: T-Mobile customers have expressed anxiety and outrage that AT&T plans to acquire their wireless carrier for $39 billion. However, they will have few palatable alternatives if regulators approve the AT&T-T-Mobile merger.   T-Mobile customers do not appear to be happy about the company’s proposed sale to AT&T. In statements to me here at

Well there goes my jailbreaking and unlocking Service to get tmobile on iphones (grin) Lukly it will take a year or so before anything really happens. Hopefully it will improve AT&Ts service and dropped calls I keep getting. Kev Q&A: More Information About AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile USA Bellevue, Wash. — Mar. 20, 2011 PDT

    No one ever plans on losing their phone, but when it inevitably happens, panic quickly sets in. As someone whose iPhone sat on the bottom of a pond for over half an hour, believe me, I know the feeling. But now I’m on Android (and yes, the pond incident had something to do

NEW YORK — As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers – those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country over the last decade. Now the wireless industry is planning a future without them, or at least without many more of them. Instead, it’s looking

Ahead of Verizon’s big sales push for the iPhone, a bounty of related deals are popping up. The Associated Press, for instance, reports that eBay’s electronics buyback service will purchase several smartphone models for a guaranteed $200 over the next two weeks. Under the promotion, eBay’s Instant Sale feature will pay $200 for a functional

The Verizon iPhone 4, after years of speculation, goes on sale Feb. 10. Here, eWEEK rounded up just the facts, ma’am, to help you decide if it’s right for you. The hope of an Apple iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network has been fueling the rumor mill for years, but come Feb. 10 America’s most-pined-for

More jailbreaks of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 are apparently underway. Windows Phone developer Julien Schapman is reportedly refining a way to unlock Windows Phone 7 smartphones so they can download applications outside of Microsoft’s applications Marketplace. “My unlock method is similar to that of ChevronWP7 in the way they both use a fake registration sever,

As expected Verizon Wireless is going full throttle with consumer plans for its next generation 4G LTE network. The company unveiled a suite of 10 consumer-oriented LTE (Long Term Evolution) devices at a CES press conference, including smartphones from HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung, two tablets from Motorola and Samsung and two mobile pocket hotspots

Amazon.com Widgets As a member of the media, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Nexus S running Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” a few weeks ago. It’s great, easily the best version of Android yet. I hope one day soon you all get to try it out. But the likelihood of that is pathetically small.

Sure, you like all the great benefits of having your phone know where you are. Looking up directions or local weather information becomes that much faster. But outside companies and agencies are equally delighted to have access to your location information–and not just to send you coupons. Increasingly, they’re going to be using that information

We’ve been down this road before: a new iOS version is released that undoes all of the nasty stuff hackers did to the previous version. A week later those same hackers blow out a jailbreak and then a few days later they release a full unlock (the latest iOS unlock is only for 3G and

By Steven Troughton-Smith www.steventroughtonsmith.com In late 2009 a rumor floated that Microsoft were going to start from scratch with their Windows Mobile OS. At the time, I thought about how cool it could be, but it didn’t sound like something Microsoft would ever do. Well they did it; in about 18 months they started from

This is just wrong (Grin)  But what a heat test!!! Android, WinPhone7, iPhone4 Heat test !!!  Lets grill them, I want my Iphone well done Image by Patrick Hoesly via Flickr Related articles iPhone 4 Not So Great At Grilling Contest (macstories.net) Is the iPhone 4 better than the iPad (wiki.answers.com) When would you say

Admit it. You were waiting for a jailbreak for your WP7 Phone for the sake of ‘freedom’ and whatever it is that gets you going through the day with a phone that can run apps with access to private APIs. Rafael Rivera, Long Zheng and Chris Walsh have come up with ChevronWP7 which lets you

Image via Wikipedia I for one am for any technology that makes girls horny !!!! (Grin) Admin: ATLANTA — Teens who text 120 times a day or more — and there seems to be a lot of them — are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don’t

In a report that is raising eyebrows this morning, UK-based market research firm Canalys estimates that total shipments of Android phones in the U.S. during the third quarter were nearly twice as large as iPhone shipments. Out of 20.9 million smartphones shipped in the U.S., about 44 percent, or 9.1 million, are running the Android

Been wanting to upgrade my PSP. This should do the trick. Hope it comes out soon. Kev _______________ Sony’s PlayStation Phone strategy takes shape as prototype picture leaks out. Back in August, rumors of a PlayStation Phone leaked out. Now the Engadget tech blog has a photo of the device and some of its specifications.

Just in time for the Holidays. Some say its better than the Android. Neat commercials, it so true, a lot of places I go everybody is staring at their phones, doing their thing. Funny thing is, I’m one of them Microsoft has launched its latest effort to stay relevant in the smartphone wars with the

I had an idea for a video I thought you might be interested in. With the rise of the Samsung Galaxy S (particually in the UK & Europe, where it is outselling the iPhone with a lot of the networks providing it), I thought it would be good to do a comparison video between the