The official application Skype to iOS finally got the chance to make video calls between phones as well as between phone and PC. Supports data transfer via Wi-Fi and 3G. Site Engadget has already tested the new features in action, and noted that all works well, except that calls from phone to phone over 3G. In this case, the connection is poor, although much depends on the quality of the connection.

Video chat will work not only on the iPhone 4, but also on the iPhone 3GS (rear camera) and iPod touch last generation. On your computer will run clients for Windows, Linux and Mac. Specialized ASUS Videophone is also supported. Resource notes that the camera gives the computer the image a bit better quality than the phone.

With regard to energy consumption, then 10 minutes of charge indicator went down from 66% to 61%.

When will Skype on Android, officially unknown, but Skype says that at the CES show would be "much more" ads, so anything is possible.

The Sony reported that soon will come the official application PlayStation for the iPhone and Android. According to the official blog of the PlayStation, for it will require iOS 4 and above, or Android 1.6 and above. The program will be free.

Application will perform a variety of information operations: communicating with friends, check the status online PlayStation Network, find out news about new games and consoles, models, share photos and news with friends on Facebook and Twitter, or just send them by mail.

Software version 1.0 will be available in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Holland. Over time, the developers promise to expand the list of countries and languages. Also will be able to leave comments on my blog PlayStation.Blog.

The first smartphone that will support LTE-network Verizon, can become iPhone. MacDailyNews wrote that Verizon managers were instructed to begin preparations iPhone release immediately after the Christmas holidays. According to the source, the smartphone will also support CDMA-network of the operator.

However, not all experts share the expectations of such an early appearance LTE-model iPhone . "It seems that Apple just started working on LTE-version – says analyst Rob Enderle (Rob Enderle). – This means that testing will need another six months. " He notes that Apple would be highly unusual to represent half of the updated model in the middle between cycles. Usually, Apple introduced a new model of the iPhone strictly once a year and always during the summer.

"For Apple version 4.5 is as unusual as the possibility of an agreement with Verizon, – adds Enderle. – Verizon categorically insists that its aim – to supervise the consumer, not the phone manufacturer. In view of such cooperation is not really justified. "

Analysts also point out that this would be a breach of an agreement with AT & T an exclusive right to sell the iPhone in the next three years.

However, MacDailyNews fairly confidently asserts, referring to an anonymous but reliable source that the iPhone will not only be a first, but for a long time the only LTE-smartphone from Verizon. It will only be available through Verizon and will not be available in retail stores. Since LTE-network while Verizon only works in 38 U.S. cities will get the phone CDMA-chip for use in traditional 3G-networks.

The Apple and Verizon have not confirmed these rumors, but information on the imminent appearance at the Verizon LTE-models completely official: the vice-president Tony Malone (Tony Melone) said that the first LTE-phones will be presented in February. Network LTE from Verizon delivers data download speeds from 5 to 12 Mbps.

Opera Mini, the new browser for the iPhone, is known for its speed, but with an accuracy of your pages are displaying his obvious problems. Browser accurately conveys the structure of the text and tables, which is why many elements of the page are not visible. For example, a screenshot from the site NYTimes.com.

Leaves its mark and run pages through your own server Opera. All fonts are replaced with Helvetica, images lose much as the code page translation of HTML into the internal language Opera OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language). As a result, significantly worse functionality JavaScript, and SSL encryption generally become unusable. These results clearly contrasted with the desktop version of Opera, which reflects the page quite accurately. Yes, downloading is much faster, but do we need a speed of such a price, that is the question.

Opera Mini for iPhone poorly managed and with the test Acid3, check compliance with the browser standards HTTP, HTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Unicode, SVG and SMIL. Of the 100 points Opera Mini scored only 74, which is considered unimportant result. Safari Mobile, which Opera is planning to compete, gaining 100 points out of 100.

Via AppleInsider

Opera Mini, the new browser for the iPhone, is known for its speed, but with an accuracy of your pages are displaying his obvious problems. Browser accurately conveys the structure of the text and tables, which is why many elements of the page are not visible. For example, a screenshot from the site NYTimes.com.

Leaves its mark and run pages through your own server Opera. All fonts are replaced with Helvetica, images lose much as the code page translation of HTML into the internal language Opera OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language). As a result, significantly worse functionality JavaScript, and SSL encryption generally become unusable. These results clearly contrasted with the desktop version of Opera, which reflects the page quite accurately. Yes, downloading is much faster, but do we need a speed of such a price, that is the question.

Opera Mini for iPhone poorly managed and with the test Acid3, check compliance with the browser standards HTTP, HTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Unicode, SVG and SMIL. Of the 100 points Opera Mini scored only 74, which is considered unimportant result. Safari Mobile, which Opera is planning to compete, gaining 100 points out of 100.

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Opera Mini for iPhone: Only in expediting happiness

Opera has announced that Apple has finally approved the browser Mini for sale in the App Store. It should appear there today. Importantly, the browser will be completely free of charge. It supports iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (in classic mode with twice the pixels).

Opera Mini was filed before March 23. Not everyone believed that Apple would approve it, because it is capable of a serious competitor to Safari, especially given free of charge. It is interesting that Mozilla is so convinced that Apple would not approve of Firefox for the iPhone, which did not even submit it for consideration. Perhaps now in Mozilla reconsider their position.

Opera Mini is interesting in that it does not use the engine WebKit, but the compression scheme used remote: all the requested user page first processed at the server, Opera, and compressed to 90% in size. In Opera, argue that the Mini is six times faster than Safari when working in 3G-networks. In Opera Mini is a search on the page, which is not in Safari.

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Particularly curious comrades who bought iPad last weekend, have already noticed that the file system, there are indications that Apple has prepared for us in the near future. These are: two new models of iPhone (iPhone3, 2 and iPhone3, 3), the new iPod Touch (iPod4, 1) and a iProd2, 1, which can be iPad second generation. Model iPhone3, 2 – is probably the one that appears in June .

Via PMPToday

The company nCircle interviewed security professionals, some smart, they are most vulnerable for use in the enterprise. 57% of respondents named the iPhone, 39% – the device on Android, 28% – BlackBerry, 13% – Symbian.

Leadership iPhone in this list is especially strange, given that Apple is constantly working on the corporate appeal of his brainchild. In the iPhone 3GS been added hardware encryption, and various administrative functions, including remote. However, according to COO nCircle Andrew Storms (Andrew Storms), all this is ineffective and insufficient.

"Many agree that Apple is still doing only the bare minimum in matters of corporate security … Hardware encryption is almost immediately was broken. This is not a course of action that security professionals expect from the suppliers.

In the camp Android Not everything is in order. Signing the application is not necessarily, often they can provide access to the file system. As for BlackBerry, these smart phones are quite safe, thanks largely to a robust hardware encryption.

Many companies in the U.S. do not advise their employees bring to the work of iPhone , and some specifically prohibit doing it.

Via Electronista

Flurry Analytics analyst firm has published a new study of the American market of console video games. The volume of this market games in the past year fell from $ 11 to $ 9.9 billion, but Apple, whose devays long compete with portable consoles, yet increased in this area.

So, iPhone OS share in the common market of video games – in relation to consoles incl. – over the past year increased from 1% to 5%.

Apple Earnings from sales of games from the App Store grew by as much as 500%, so that the market is portable gaming Apple gets 19% of revenues from total sales, ahead of Sony PSP.

"Our research has shown that such indicators platform iPhone / iPod touch will cause other players in the market to reckon with it. Obtain your 5% 10-billion industry in just a year and a half – this is serious progress "- wrote in his report Flurry Analytics.

Via AppleInsider