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It seems that both Apple and Palm consumers have something to be dissatisfied about with regards to recently rolled out updates for their devices.

In Apple’s corner, the iOS 4.0.1 update was intended to somewhat fix the iPhone 4’s prevalent antenna issue. Since Apple has been insisting that the reception difficulties the iPhone 4 has been experiencing may be attributed to a simple miscalculation in their signal formulas, there was a ray of hope when they proclaimed an upcoming software update.

However, it seems that the iOS 4.0.1 update did little to progress the signal issue. Instead, it just made the sign bars showed on the iPhone 4’s screen look a little bigger.

Well, in terms of the code, Apple did modify the algorithm slightly so that the signal bars displayed will be a little less optimistic. This does not progress anything when you accidentally block the iPhone 4’s lower left portion.

If that is not enough, some of those who have tried to install this update early have been met with problems, particularly when trying to install using their desktop computers. This has resulted in a few bricked iPhone units. As shown by their recent actions, Apple seems to treat the mobile industry as a joke. The once inexorable giant is now torment blows left and right from disappointed users and competition that they happened to pull into their mess (like RIM).

In the Palm corner, the newest WebOS update has also been released to the public. Version 1.4.5 for the Pre and the Pixi (along with the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus units, of course) has resulted in an irritating issue for developers.

In its place of helping Palm units turn into decent mobile gaming units, a software trouble ensures just the opposite. It prevents any app from having access to the mobile handset’s internal data, resulting in a number of crashes.

Last week, Google received its last consignment of the ill destined Nexus One gadget. When this batch sells out, the gadget will no longer be accessible from Google.

The web giant closed its online retail store for the Nexus One earlier this year, when the shop front did less commerce than expected. But Google’s first raid into the own branded phone space has been something of a dreary experience from start to finish as the first ‘Google phone’ was quickly eclipsed by better Android-based gadgets.

That’s not to say this is the end of the Nexus One however. With the absence of another Google-backed inventiveness to take its place Google will still be offering the gadget to developers via the Android Market, while operator partners including Vodafone in Europe and KT in Korea will continue to offer the gadget “based on local market conditions”. There was no mention of T-Mobile USA, the first carrier to back the gadget.

Last week, during the company’s second quarter results meeting call, Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management for Google, revealed that search grew 300 per cent on Android handsets through the first half of 2010, with related advertising giving the firm an important return on its investment.

If you’re hankering over a white iPhone 4, you might need to yearn for a small while longer, with reports suggesting that Apple is having difficulties with the manufacturing process.

According to Engadget, the difficulty comes from Lens Technology, a provider in China that’s liable for milling the glass covers. The company is supposedly having trouble getting the paint thickness and opacity levels correct. As such the white iPhone 4s are not as white as they should be, which would not go down well with the design purists at Apple, namely Messrs Jobs and Ive.

This means that Steve Jobs’ claim at last week’s infamous Friday press conference that the white iPhone 4 will ship before the end of July could turn out to be, well, something of a white lie.

What’s more, reports propose that Lens Technology is only able to create half of the demand for the black version, which supposedly accounts for its current three week shipping delay.

Are you part of a pair that won’t upgrade until you can get your iPhone 4s in a ‘his-and-hers’ pair, or are you in its place going for a phone that doesn’t need a case to receive calls?

The Motorola i1 was discharged under the Boost mobile nickname a little months ago, giving novel Android life to the pre paid division of Sprints iDen network. So the Motorola i1 making its official post paid debut under the Sprint logo is not too astonishing.  But adding a novel Android to their lineup is positively a good call on behalf of Sprint.

The Motorola i1 discharged to Boost mobile on June 20th, with the authority of shove to talk and Android it seemingly made a large splash in the pre paid world. Now the i1 is not the most powerful gadget in the world, not by a long shot. But its rugged specs make it one of the most durable lower end smart phones on the market. The Motorola i1 sports a 3.1 HVGA screen, a military grade housing that resist wind, dust and any shock that may come from drops or heavy use. Other specs of the Motorola i1 include its, 5 mega pixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS, external memory can be enlarged to GPS, external memory can be enlarged to 32GB and ships with a 2GB.

The Motorola i1 comes standard with the Android OS and has a little perks; coming pre installed with Swype texting, and also comes equipped with the famed browser Mini opera in totalling to the native browser found on Androids. The initial Android to run on the iDen network is impressive to say the least, as its design and form function is surely a win to anybody that gets their hands on it.

Although authoritatively Froyo has not yet been made obtainable for the HTC Desire and many other android handsets. Press release from ARM has stated that the newest edition of Android 2.2 brings numerous performance updates for the handset as the operating system exploits the ARM architecture.

While the Snapdragon Processor has comparable architecture to that of the Cortex A8 we can anticipate analogous or more performance from the Snapdragon processor installed in the HTC Desire.

In Android 2.2 Google’s recent compiler Dalvik JIT Compiler generates native Thumb 2 code which can enhance performance to the Java application framework and perk up application performance resulting in greater battery life.

Moreover the hottest version enabled data processing parallelization to accelerate various functions like multi-media playback and graphics rendering. This will allow developers to produce performance intensive applications which can be 3D gaming and VoIP clients.

Also users can expect improved JavaScript performance and page rendering speeds in the latest version of Android Operating System for mobile devices.

This upgrade will be actually worth for HTC handset customers who loved the handset but had been disillusioned with the battery life of the phone.

Nokia Dual SIM mobile is shortly going to smack Indian mobile market, the initial of its brand in India from Nokia; Nokia C2 will feature a dual SIM support. However Nokia evaded dual SIM notion for a long time, Nokia has no choice left except to appear with a dual handset mobile to sustain their share in the Market.

Nokia C series is going to be one of the superior mobile series from Nokia ever. Nokia C series has some fine handsets at cheaper prices. Nokia C2 would be an entry level mobile handset in this section with nice features and dual SIM support

Nokia C2 features

• 1.8 color screen with 65K colors
• VGA camera
• Expandable memory up to 32GB
• Media player
• S40 platform

• Bluetooth, USB 2.0
• 3.5 mm Jack
• EDGE/GPRS
• Internet and Email
• Apps and games
• Four nice colors and shades

Nokia C2 price in India, not yet known but it would be somewhere placed in mid segment.

Nokia C2 has some promising traits! If its cost can contend with some of the local made dual SIMmobiles; then it would do great business in India. Seems an enormous handset, and hope Nokia keeps Nokia C2 price logical.

Apple alleged a press conference today to address troubles with the iPhone 4’s antenna.

Admitting that neither he nor his flagship mobile handsets are surefire, Steve Jobs made a 15-minute presentation to the press before fielding questions.

The CEO made a point to show video of other handsets (including the Blackberry Bold 9700 and HTC Droid Eris) revealing the same drop in bars that iPhone consumers have faced.

Citing 22 days of “working our butts off,” Jobs settled that Apple’s topical change in the algorithm that gauges signal strength was part of their solution.

One slide on the presentation read “phones aren’t perfect.” He reported that only 0.55% of iPhone consumers called Apple to report the crisis, and that only 1.7% of patrons returned early units to AT&T, as compared to the iPhone 3GS’s 6.0%.

Apple is remedying the state of affairs by providing a free case to all iPhone clients through September 30. iPhone holders will be able to pertain for a case on Apple’s website. These comprise both Apple’s bumper cases in addition to a few others, which were not exposed. Those who are still unhappy can return their iPhone 4 for a full refund in the next 30 days.

Steve Jobs has confessed Apple’s latest phones are dropping more calls than its forerunner.

At an impromptu press conference, Apple has taken the astonishing step to tender free cases to all customers to assuage the reception issues plaguing the iPhone 4.

Nonetheless, during the course of his presentation, Jobs admitted that the iPhone 4 dropped more calls than the 3GS, although less than 1 per 100 more.

“This is hard data… the iPhone 4 drops less than one additional call per 100 than the 3GS. Less than one.”

“Even though we think the iPhone 4 is superior to the 3GS antenna… it drops more calls per 100 than the 3GS. We’re being transparent. So how many more does it drop than the 3GS?

“This is hard data… the iPhone 4 drops less than one additional call per 100 than the 3GS. Less than one.”

Still, it’s peculiar that issue has appear to light now – reassess of the iPhone 4 have exposed that the gadget appears to drop fewer calls, so Apple coming out to say it’s being ‘transparent’ is uncanny.

But given the foreseeable media fallout regarding the case issue, this is possibly the least of Jobs’ worries, so Apple might as well mention it now.

No, that’s not a new generic MP3 player waiting to be hawked on eBay. What you are looking at is the Modu phone, and it is undeniably a cell phone that alleges to be the world’s lightest yet.

It doesn’t actually have access to a enormous app store, and it possibly isn’t your best bet for checking email on the go, but this is concerning as compact as it gets in the world of mobile handsets. As it stands, the Modu handset has already launched in Israel and it has just now been released in the UK too.

The specs are justifiably anemic. It can take calls, send messages, and play music from its 2GB of internal memory. There is no touchscreen, no stretchy memory, and no camera. You can, conversely, throw on some of the obtainable “jackets” for additional functionality. The night jacket has a 3.2MP cam and the sport jacket has a pedometer.  A photo album doubles as a dock and can display JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG while playing music.

You can find the Modu phone available through the solely Gadgets online store for 130 quid, tossing in extra 50 pounds or so for the different cases and jackets. If you want more, you might want to wait for the rumoured Modu 2 with its touchscreen, 3G, and maybe even a QWERTY keyboard.

HTC EVO Android phone liberate date:

The information came from a leaked Radio Shack advertisement for the HTC EVO which declares that pre-orders for the Android powered HTC EVO will be permitted by the end of the month (today is May 6th).

HTC EVO Android Phone specs:

4.3-inch, 800×480 TFT touchscreen (current iPhone 3GS is 3.5 inch 320×480)
1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
Dual 3G/4G WiMAX connectivity
MicroSD card slot (up to 32GB), USB
Forward-facing 1.3 megapixel camera
Rear-facing 8 megapixel camera with auto-focus and 720p HD video recording
HDMI out
Built-in mobile hotspot functionality for up to 8 devices
Custom web browser with Flash support

4G Android Phone

One of the more thrilling characteristics of the forthcoming Android powered HTC EVO is that is will lug 4G WiMAX connectivity for surfing the web from your handset.

4G is the subsequently big thing in mobile internet connectivity. Apple is broadly expected to proclaim a 4G iPhone on June 7th at their WWDC2010 conference.

Nevertheless, that’s on June 7th, and as you can see there are 4G handsets powered by Android that are beating Apple to the market place.

According to the revealed ad, the 4G HTC EVO will be sold by Sprint via Radio Shack…? Am I reading that right?