Samsung Galaxy S3 vs iPhone 4S Drop Test

If you have about $1700 to throw away and do not know how to waste them in a less constructive as possible, you can always choose to buy an iPhone 4s and a Galaxy S3 and try to see which of the two is destroyed first falling to the ground in various ways. 

The "fashion" of the Drop Test is certainly a bizarre practice, which has no real purpose seen that the result is highly predictable. For the strong of stomach, however, here is how to destroy the two best smartphones of the moment (or at least among the best at the moment).

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A new infographic compares the costs of the components between Nokia Lumia 900 and iPhone 4S

In agreement with what had been reported by iSuppli , according to which the construction of the Nokia  Lumia 900 would cost $209 to Nokia, iSuppli proposed an interesting infographic that compares the economic value of the components of Lumia 900 and iPhone 4S .

As we previously reported, despite the Lumia has higher costs than the iPhone 4S, Windows Phone from Nokia is selling at about $ 200 less than the Apple smartphone. Moreover, among the various components, is very interesting that the cost of the Apple processor (Dual Core) are less than Qualcomm (Single Core) used by Nokia.

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NPD - Android has 61% of U.S. smartphone market, iOS declining since the beginning of the year

NPD Group has published the latest data on the distribution of current operating systems for smartphones for the U.S. market and the report shows a system Android still in the midst of its growth at the expense of his arch rival iPhone OS since the beginning of the year shown a continuous decline, yielding market share to the Google platform.

The first quarter of 2012 saw a net gain by Android, which has risen from 49% to 61%, but iPhone has had the opposite effect down from 41% to 29%, percentage shares virtually ceded to the Android platform. With regard to systems of Microsoft and RIM have been recorded changes and both have maintained the same percentage stable.

Much more substantial changes we will have them in the second half of the year, with the announcement by Apple's new iPhone 5 , the launch of Galaxy S3 in the US and the arrival of all the other high-end handsets that are not available currently in USA,like the LG Optimus 4X, the Huawei Ascend or Sony Xperia GX. 

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Facebook for iOS with retinal support and many improvements

Today is an update to the official Facebook app on Apple App Store appeared, bringing along with some bug fixes, new features and support for high-resolution retinal display of the new iPad.

The version 4.1.1 is now bringing the following features and enhancements:

- You can go offline in chat

- The right profile picture appears for everyone
- Your list of friends always includes all your friends
- In sets of photos, your name is displayed correctly
- Photos of people who like Facebook Pages load correctly
- Your friend-request notification only lights up if you have a request
- You can change your language to Czech, Danish, Greek, Indonesian, Malaysian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Portuguese (Portugal) or Thai
- If you've got a new Retina iPad, you'll see a crisp, high resolution interface

The app can now be downloaded from the App Store and is free as always.

Angry Birds Space finally arrives in the App Store

I really expected a lot from a few hours and was made ​​available in the App Store, talking about the new chapter of the famous game where the birds are angry war of piglets thieves:  Angry Birds Space.The battle, until the last egg, this time will be fought in space thanks to the many new environments present in 60 levels of interstellar planets in zero gravity, can give you a gaming experience new, unique, with puzzles and slow-motion destruction at the speed of light.

The purchase of the game gives us months and months of fun thanks to the many updates that will come with time - all free - that will add to possibilities to expand the gameplay thanks to the in-app purchases: new birds, new superpowers and more . If you love like that you should not miss this new episode available for just $0.99

Angry Birds Space can be found here in AppStore

Siri on iPhone 3G, iPhone and iPad 4 through i4Siri

Siri is the name of the assistant speech given by Apple and launched last year with the 'iPhone 4S. Many consider it useless, while others need. We expected to see it announced for the new iPad to the presentation of a few days ago but who has been waiting undoubtedly disappointed, it seems that Apple has decided to keep it as exclusive iPhone 4S and the upcoming iPhone 5.

Several developers have done their utmost to bring this important feature of other iDevice and the assistant voice can become a reality thanks to the project i4Siri . Pending implementation of the age-old Italian, we can install it now also on iPhone 3G, iPhone and iPad 4 of the first and second generation . It 'important to have Jailbreak and iPhone OS 5.0, 5.0.1 or 5.1. This is the procedure as reported by the official website of the project i4Siri

• For the tethered Jailbreak your iDevice read here with IOS 5.1
• Compatible Devices: iPad 2, 1 iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3Gs, iPod Touch 4G
• Go to Cydia and add the repository http://i4siri.com/repo
• Install i4Siri
• Go into Device Settings and find the entry i4Siri
• Install the certificate

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iOSOpenDev: Tool to develop Cydia app available for download

iOSOpenDev is a tool that facilitates the development of applications to achieve the Cydia store was finally released. iOSOpenDev is aimed at developers who want to tweak to make iOS possession of a Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.

As mentioned previously, provides the user interface iOSOpenDev Xcode to build the app, and includes various templates Xocde allows you to send directly to Cydia for publication. Deb file created.

iOSOpenDev 1.0 was released on February 4 and after one day, the developer has already begun to make the first improvements in version 1.0.1. The tool is still in beta phase and is therefore to preempt the presence of some bugs.

To download the tool simply connect to this address,while for further information on installation and use may be useful to consult this page.

IDC: Apple exceeds LG and becomes the world's third largest handset maker

According to recent analysis from IDC, Apple , thanks to the results obtained in the second part of 2011 ,  Apple was able to overcome LG occupying the third position in the world ranking of smartphone manufacturers.To subtract the absolute leadership is once again the couple Nokia-Samsung firmly in command.

Apple started to narrow the gap in first half of 2011, but the final passing took place in the second half of 2011 thanks to the success of the iPhone 4S that allowed Apple to occupy the third position in the standings, putting the behind another major manufacturer like ZTE.

In absolute terms, Nokia and Samsung have delivered, respectively 113.5 and 97.6 million in Q4 2011 device compared to 37 million and Apple 17.7 million from LG. It 'interesting but also highlight the trend. Apple, in fact, over the same period last year, has registered a growth of 128.4% compared with 20.9% of Samsung and contraction of 8 .2% 42.2% Nokia and LG. To summarize the data, we emphasize the fact that Apple was the company with the highest rate of growth in the last quarter of 2011.

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Untethered jailbreak of the iPhone with iPhone OS 5.0.1 4S shown on video!

As announced, the work to make the tools to unlock the iPhone and the iPad 2 4S proceeds and last week seems to have reached an important turning point . In the past few hours the Chronic Dev Team has posted a video showing the untethered jailbreak iPhone 4S further confirmation that the release of the tool is getting closer.

The video has unequivocally leading to an iPhone 4S (just pay attention to the structure of external antennas) and shows clearly that the jailbreak is retained after rebooting the machine: it is, therefore, untethered jailbreak . Even Siri, the iPhone 4S vocal assistant works correctly.