Posted by iPhone Addict on Nov 13, 2009 in
iPhone News As I was playing around my iPhone settings a couple of days ago, I discovered a few options I had never seen before. I might be a little late and maybe you guys already know about that but I’d like to share these findings with you anyway.
These hidden features are in Settings > General > Accessibility. While they would appear useless to most iPhone users, they are very helpful for people with hearing or vision disabilities. I know for sure I had been in this area of the settings before but for some reason I didn’t notice them all.
Note that these features may be available for iPhone 3GS users only. Also note that when
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Posted by iPhone Addict on Nov 13, 2009 in
iPhone News CyDialer is a new application by Saurik, the developer of Cydia, that aims to bring coverflow-like contact management to your iPhone lockscreen. Instead of launching your phone.app and going to the contacts, you can directly flick through your contacts on your lockscreen.
FSM gives a pretty good description of how CyDialer works:
Installing from Cydia, the preferences are accessed from the settings app and you select from them just like Winterboard (another Saurik creation). When exiting, it resprings and you are presented with your favorites (from the phone app) on the lockscreen. You can choose to have your wallpaper showing and a click of the home button, the favorite are there, scrollable just like cover flow
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Posted by iPhone Addict on Nov 13, 2009 in
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It looks like not only is Apple’s iPhone profit share soaring, but its market share has shot up to 17.1% (up 4.2% for the year) as well — if you believe Gartner. That still places Apple behind Nokia with a still-dominant 39.3% (down 3%) and BlackBerry maker RIM at 20.8% (up 4.9%), but well ahead of the next biggest group “others” (which must include Palm?) at 13.1% (down 7.8%).
Smartphones in general remained strong, growing 12.8% compared to a dismal 0.1% growth for the mobile phone market in general.
Gartner has previously predicted that Android will overtake the iPhone by 2012, however, so we’re fairly certain Apple’s focus on margins
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