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[iDynamic]

Did the jaibkrek yesterday on the iPhone 4s and iPad 2 ... Everything went mostly well the iPad gave a couple errors so it took me 2 attempts ...after jailbreak edge and wifi was working fine until I install the miwifi 5.0 package from cydia ... It screwed up my data plan also my wifi on my iPad ...I had to remove the package (which did not help) then factory reset all network settings (this is the solution).

you mean reset network settings
dont think u want to reset all (some people confuse that with erase and reset all settings) and we all know what what happens >.>

correct my bad , it's reset network settings I pressed lol ...I have a friend that screwed up his 3GS by pressing reset all

[M_2NR]

i have a friend who did that too.
i did it on my 2G back in the day as well. Once you are jailbroken its a no no

[mojosodope]

why does the network name randomly switch from bmobile to bmobile TSTT and back?

[M_2NR]

^possibly the cell site. Sometimes it used to change from DIGICEL to the carrier id (34.... number) for me on iOS 4.

[firstchoicett]

Factory unlock FTW I'm not jailbreaking my 4S nah some apps I use I can't installed them on a jailbreak phone .

[RapToR]

Canadian iTunes cards in stock for those who requested it

CA$15 - $120

buy 4pcs for $400

[ray d saint]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/a ... abour.html

Interesting....

[crazychinee]

Picked up a 4s, and getting ready to cut the sim card for digicel but!...
The metal area on my digicel vs tstt card is alot wider, and it looks like I will be cutting into the metal!!

Are the newer digicel sim cards slimmer with regard to the metal sim card surface?

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ yes check earlier in this thread - both Digicel and Bmobile cards are the same, the contacts on the older ones are wider and the newer ones are narrower.

just cut on the border of the metal parts and you should be good

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SIRI now has a competitor... EVI
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evi/id463296609?mt=8

When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S I thought to myself, who else could do this? It would need to be a search engine with natural language processing, but also behave in the manner of artificial intelligence and respond to voice recognition. One company that sprung to mind was True Knowledge. I pinged them. Are you working on a Siri type application, I asked? Interesting question, was their response. And then they went quiet.

Now they can reveal what they’ve been building. Evi is a new iPhone (iTunes link) and Android app in Beta (link) which might just give Apple’s Siri a run for her money. She – we’ll call this Artificial Intelligence a she – returns amazing results when consulted. Given that Siri is just not very good at giving answers which aren’t about the US, Evi might just be the Siri for the rest of the world, especially since Evi wil run on any Andoid or iPhone, and not just the 4S. I’ve seen her in action and Evi is very, very smart.

Based on very deep, patented technology around language and knowledge understanding, the iPhone app couples a licensing of Nuance’s voice recognition technology (the small charge is to cover this license) and True Knowledge’s engine.

Taking speech and turning it into text is tough, so is natural language text and understanding what the user means, as well as their intent. Evi does all three of these together so is often imperfect, but I’m told it’s improving all the time, despite being in Beta.

Evi has an ontology of tens of thousands of classes into which everything that can be talked about falls. She also knows almost a billion ‘facts’ (machine understandable bits of knowledge) and, says True Knowledge, she can infer trillions more when needed.

She also integrates lots of other sources, such as Yelp for local searches, external mobile friendly websites, APIs, traditional search etc.

Yes, Evi can’t do Siri’s trick of adding things to your iPhone Calendar or hook into reminders. However, it probably only a matter of time before it can.

Install Evi on an iPhone 4S and compare it to Evi. Ask “How do I make apple pie?”. Siri is unable to provide a direct answer and so asks whether you want to search the web. Evi provides a list of recipes with web links.

Ask “Who was President when Queen Elizabeth II was born”. Siri is unable to provide an answer and suggests performing a web search. Evi determines who Queen Elizabeth II is, when she was born, the dates when she will have been a teenager and then compares this against which US presidents were in office over that time, delivering the results of both serving US presidents during those years. Not bad huh.

Obviously Evi is a mobile ap right now. But she could be integrated into television, the web, games consoles, you name it.

I’m excited by Evi, and frankly, I think Siri has new competition in town for the boys’ attention…

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

ok I just installed Evi on an iPhone 4
it wasn't free it was 99c in the appstore

its not working very well, it can never seem to connect to its own server until about 2 minutes later even though I'm on Wifi with a 25Mb connection

even when it does connect SIRI is leaps above this with better integration to your entire phone

either way it's a sign that "A/I" personal assistants will only get better

[dredman1]

Curious - seeing as it's an iPhone app, would it work on an iPad2 as well?

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

It should work on the iPad 2 but may be at iPhone res

The app is pretty useless so far
ROFL @ waiting till next week to find out if I need an umbrella tomorrow

[casper]

Hhahha....FAIL!!!

[mojosodope]

I would 'report a problem' with the purchase and get my 99cents back

[Bezman]

they didnt expect the buzz and millions of simultaneous hits, but with the sales and buzz they will definitely get some investors and lots of servers to run it.. win win win

[SRASC]

Mashable has published a chart detailing some of the alternatives to iBooks Author.

Apple sparked controversy with its new e-book creator when users discovered that the EULA for iBooks Author specifies that paid content created with the software can only be distributed through the iBookstore.



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Virgin America has named one of its Airbus A320 planes, 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish' in honor of a quote made popular by Steve Jobs.

The company told MacRumors that the name was chosen as part of an internal competition to name the plane. Virgin America is based in Silicon Valley and has 46 planes in its fleet.

During his 2005 commencement address for Stanford University, Steve Jobs says he spotted the phrase in The Whole Earth Catalog in the 1970's:

On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.



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From an advance copy of Adam Lashinsky's upcoming Inside Apple book, NetworkWorld notes an interesting bit of information about how Apple approaches retail packaging.

Perhaps it should be no surprise, given the elegance of some of Apple's product packages, but Apple is said to have a secretive packaging room where a package designer goes through hundreds of iterations to find the right combination:

One after another, the designer created and tested an endless series of arrows, colors, and tapes for a tiny tab designed to show the consumer where to pull back the invisible, full-bleed sticker adhered to the top of the clear iPod box. Getting it just right was this particular designer's obsession.

What's more, it wasn't just about one box. The tabs were placed so that when Apple's factory packed multiple boxes for shipping to retail stores, there was a natural negative space between the boxes that protected and preserved the tab.

NetworkWorld also points back to an old internal video created by Microsoft's own packaging team as a humorous look at branding and packaging issues for marketers. The video imagines if Microsoft were to redesign the iPod retail packaging:



Apple's obsession with even the product packaging is a reflection on Steve Jobs' views of the matter. Both Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive are known to have spent time on the packaging of their products. From Walter Issacson's Steve Jobs biography:

Steve and I spend a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. "I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.

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Here’s a quick breakdown of how many A5 owners have jailbroken their devices since Friday morning. The numbers as of Monday afternoon are:

491,325 new iPhone4,1 devices
308,967 new iPad2 devices
152,940 previously jailbroken (at 4.x) iPad2 devices
Total: 953,232 new A5 jailbreaks in a little over 3 days

The reason these numbers can be so precise is that one of the housekeeping activities that happens when you launch Cydia is a query to @saurik’s server for the list of available SHSH blobs. (Even if you have none on file, the query is still made).

Welcome to the jailbreak family!

P.S. Remember the cardinal rule of jailbreaking: never update your firmware until a new jailbreak is available. This is especially true for A5 owners, who currently have no way of restoring to 5.0.1 once the 5.0.1 SHSH blob signing window is closed.

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A new survey of recent iPhone customers found that 21 percent of iPhone 4S buyers chose Apple's highest capacity 64-gigabyte model, while 36 percent of users migrated from another platform like Android, BlackBerry or Palm.

Consumer Intelligence Research Partners released a report on Monday, revealing new details about users who bought an iPhone following the launch of the new iPhone 4S last October. Among those surveyed, 21 percent of iPhone 4S buyers opted for the high-end 64GB model, Apple's highest-ever capacity for a smartphone model.

The latest figures are slightly higher than a different poll conducted by investment firm Piper Jaffray last October on the first day of iPhone 4S availability. That poll of customers waiting in line found that 19 percent chose the 64GB model.

CIRP previously found that 18 percent of iPhone buyers at the iPhone 4S launch were switching from other platforms, like Android, BlackBerry or Palm. But that number only grew as 2011 drew to a close, with 36 percent of buyers coming from competing platforms.

The data comes from a survey of customers that purchased an iPhone in October, November and December of 2011. From an initial response of 6,316 subjects, CIRP surveyed 365 qualified people for its analysis.

The survey also found that AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have maintained their market shares consistently among iPhone owners. But the availability of the iPhone has also helped the three largest wireless providers in the U.S. take customers from other carriers that do not over the iPhone, most notably T-Mobile.

CIRP also discovered that online sales of the iPhone decreased as Apple filled preorders and met market demand. While online sales represented 43 percent of Apple's total handset sales during the iPhone 4S launch, that dropped to 33 percent as 2011 drew to a close.

The same research group revealed in a separate study last week that resales of iPhones are good for both Apple and carriers. It found that 49 percent of new iPhone owners sold a previous model from Apple on the secondary market.

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He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography,” said biographer Walter Isaacson in an interview following the release of his biography on Steve Jobs. Part one, television, is already underway with reports claiming that Apple is set to unveil an advanced television set with Siri voice-recognition software by 2013. More recent reports even suggested that Apple is already planning its assault on the television market by meeting with television show networks.

Part two of the Apple cofounder’s three-part plan of reinvention was completed just last week with the release of the iBooks 2 platform and iBooks Author, which are two Apple products designed to replace the old, paper textbooks in students’ backpacks with just one iPad. However, part three, photography, is certainly still amidst reinvention. Some claim that Apple’s iPhone 4S —which allows for facial recognition, almost-instant photo captures, HDR-photo taking, 1080P video recording, and on device photo editing, all through a high-quality Sony 8-megapixel sensor— is mobile photography at its finest, but Steve Jobs thought way beyond that.

In his final months, as the upcoming book “Inside Apple” by Adam Lashinsky explained, Jobs made an effort to meet with Ren Ng, a Stanford graduate and the CEO of a photography company Lytro. After it became known to Ng that Jobs wanted to meet, Ng rushed to Jobs’ Palo Alto home to discuss product design and photography. According to “Inside Apple”:

The company’s CEO, Ren Ng, a brilliant computer scientist with a PhD from Stanford, immediately called Jobs, who picked up the phone and quickly said, “if you’re free this afternoon maybe we would could get together.” Ng, who is thirty-two, hurried to Palo Alto, showed Jobs a demo of Lytro’s technology, discussed cameras and product design with him, and, at Jobs’s request, agreed to send him an email outlining three things he’d like Lytro to do with Apple.

Jobs actively pursued his goal of reinventing photography, asking the CEO of Lytro to outline three specific things that the company would want to work on with Apple. As Lytro explained on its official website, the company’s technology is extremely unique and fits the build of reinventing something as apparently simple as capturing a photograph. Apple made a point to explain how much light the new iPhone 4S camera can take in with its new sensor and its newly designed 5-lens optics system. Instead of working in a single-pane fashion —like most cameras today— Lytro’s technology is actually able to intake an entire light-field at one time.

Lytro said this means its sensor can take in ”all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space.” Of course, this incredibly advanced and seemingly futuristic camera technology would be perfect in a thin and light mobile device for the mass-market consumer. It would push this future into millions of customer’s hands. While the iPhone 4S camera is incredibly speedy, in comparison to competing smartphone camera systems, Lytro’s technology would make picture taking instant. The company claims this instant photo taking makes the Lytro system like no-other.

The other headline feature of the Lytro camera system is its ability to take photos without focusing on a particular object. The images that the Lytro camera takes can be focused after the fact. In terms of integration in a product like an iPhone, a user can instantly snap a photo with the lens, then use the iPhone’s (hypothetical) built-in software to choose a focus on particular objects in the frame. With Steve Jobs just meeting Lytro’s CEO this past summer, it is difficult to tell if we will see this breakthrough photography technology in upcoming Apple products. It is nearly certain, though, that we will see part three of Steve Jobs’ plans for reinvention to follow Apple’s work on textbooks and the television.

[scruff76]

heard step by step navi TT works in trinidad any details cost ??? does it really work location

it works fine. the interface cud use some work and ah lil more work on the app itself. its tt$300

[scruff76]

hey if there is anyone having trouble getting the imessage and facetime workin, particularly folks using gevey unlock, holla at me. i managed to get it working but i need someone else to test the method to make sure it works b4 i post it

[Strauss]

Needed to separate this from the clutter.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=418647

[M_2NR]

I would 'report a problem' with the purchase and get my 99cents back

according to Apple Policy, devs cant refund apparently.

[SRASC]

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Microsoft is planning to bring more Xbox Live gaming to Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, as well as Google’s Android platform.

“While the Xbox Live experiences and games always work best on the Windows platform, we understand that some Xbox fans may be using other types of devices. To satisfy that need, we are working to extend a few of our Xbox experiences and titles to other platforms.”
All of Microsoft’s current XBox efforts have done well on iOS and Microsoft isn’t exactly a company to leave to money on the table or avoid recognition, it’s another avenue for both of those things if Microsoft puts the effort into it. No mention was made of when we could expect to see these efforts put into to place but if we had to wager a guess, we’d bet it’s not all that far off.

Given that Microsoft’s Windows Phone is still — as some would say — ‘ramping up’, it only seems logical that Microsoft would target iOS and Android users as well, especially considering the market share Apple and Google have in the mobile space.

Microsoft has already made a small foray on iOS with the release of My XBox Live and Kinectimals, but who knows what could be next. Halo, anyone?

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

So i just read thru the entire half of this thread just for tuner info and review on the iphone 4s. This is cause im considering an iphone 4s 32gb and someone i know as well. But i'm trying to compare bringing one in vs one from bmobile.

Here's my logistics:

bmobile is $1,549 (for the handset) + $863
Pro-rate the monthy charges for on the 12 month contract (based on the assumption the preson doesnt exceed the mins and sms lol) brings it to a total of ($10,350) Grand total spending of $11,899 in 1 year behind bmobile.

Now if i minus the average price of a factory unlocked iphone 4s 32gb. Which is around what?? $5836. (on the assumption that its brought in by someone..not shipped) Brings the total to $6062. Now working out the bmobile plan rates (which are $250 in minutes and $195 data.) Thats $445. Multiple that by 12 months is $5340. Which leaves around $5010 for the phone plus the initial $1549 bringing a total for the phone to $6559.

Which is what?? $723 mark up? For getting a phone which is locked to bmobile, with service, warranty, and a payment plan.

share some thoughts.

AND with the bmobile iPhone you also get the Blink MySpot 4G WiMax device free plus no charge per month to use the 4G service.

[DJames]

Anyone knows if bmobile still have the iphone 4s in stock

West mall is out of stock

All bmobile stores are out of stock. Don't know if any authorized dealers still have. They should be restocking by month end

FYI, bmobile dsm plaza (chaguanas) has the 32GB. As of the 25th the sales clerk told me that they have 11 more in stock; 4 white and 7 black.

[M_2NR]

i find the 4S feels so hot to touch... anyone else 4S really hot? n its all the people i know have the same issue

[Aaron 2NR]

mine get hot once im playing a game or been using it continuously for 10-15mins

[crazychinee]

i find the 4S feels so hot to touch... anyone else 4S really hot? n its all the people i know have the same issue

Mines does, but Ihave this really thick SPECK case on it..dont know if that could be the problem.

[blacklight]

i find the 4S feels so hot to touch... anyone else 4S really hot? n its all the people i know have the same issue

Mines does, but Ihave this really thick SPECK case on it..dont know if that could be the problem.

i got a 32gig 4s in Trincity mall, yup mine gets hot whilst playing a game or using facetime for long periods.

[Parvin]

mine get hot once im playing a game or been using it continuously for 10-15mins

Whew ... thought was me alone yes ...

[Trinifieds]

Hey guys, I got my iPad 2 case today! Genuine leather with over 700+ reviews on Amazon. I inadvertently ordered two So if anyone needs a great iPad 2 case I'll sell the extra one for the cost price $300TT (minus shipping which I will absorb). It has some really great reviews here

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... pad+2+case

I also took some pics of mine (yeah that installous on there ) What cases do you guys use? I like how sleek this one looks and its genuine leather making it look nice and executive.

[Lucian-2nr]

Hey guys thinking of getting a 4 or 4S (factory unlocked) ...... to those who have owned both is there a major difference in the feel and operation of the two that would justify the price difference?