Archive for May 4th, 2010

iPhone OS 4 beta 3 brings iPod widgets to the dock

Apple may have pulled iPhone OS 4 beta 3 soon after it went live, but we’re living recklessly — and hey, is that a set of iPod controls and a screen orientation lock hiding out in the app switcher? The control is accessed by swiping to the far left, and it all does pretty much what you’d expect. That’s good news, since we were missing the old pop-up iPod controls pretty badly. We’re hunting around for more new stuff, we’ll let you know if we find anything.

iPhone OS 4 beta 3 brings iPod widgets to the dock originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 18:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple takes down iPhone OS 4 Beta 3 two hours after its release

The details are still by no means clear, but sure enough: Apple has pulled iPhone OS Beta 3 from the iPhone Dev Center, just two hours after it was first released.

While a link to iPhone OS 4 is still available, the page now only offers up the iPhone OS Beta 2 that was released last week. Did Apple leave something in the Beta that they meant to hide away? Or did some crippling bug go undetected, only to reveal itself as it began to roll out onto thousands of developer devices? Or did someone accidentally just save an old copy of the iPhone dev center’s index file? Who knows!

We’ll let you know the second we hear anything.

Update: One reason it could have been pulled, from early reports we’re seeing: the SDK installer wipes out anything in the default Xcode /Developer directory, even if you tell it to use a custom directory. Many developers prefer to keep their Beta SDK installs as far from possible from their finalized SDK installs, which this bug prevents.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Coming to Vodafone

It seems that the XPERIA X10 Mini has somehow reached the “Receiver” magazine, advertised as coming soon to Vodafone. This “cute and compact” handset is not quite the Nexus One you’re looking for, but still a decent Android phone, for a reasonable price.

XPERIA X10 Mini features a 16mm waistline, a 2.55 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display, the Timescape UI, 128MB of internal memory, a microSD card slot, HSDPA connectivity, a 5MP camera with geotagging and a 600 MHz CPU.

[via Phandroid]

A Hot Coffee Hand Grenade [Coffee]

The Mocca Pearl looks like a hand grenade, when it’s all covered up. But it makes coffee. More »

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Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel?

Up until now, we’d heard and believed that Windows Phone 7 would be based on Microsoft’s time-tested Windows CE 6 kernel — aging, yes, but still considerably newer and more technically modern than the CE 5 upon which Windows Mobile 6.x operates. Thing is, Windows Embedded evangelist Olivier Bloch just dropped the knowledge this week that the company’s all-new phone platform will actually be “based on the Windows Embedded Compact 7 core,” which sounds a lot to us like Redmond skipped right over CE 6 and went straight for the latest and greatest (and still unavailable to the general public) stuff.

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Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 17:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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