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SignalRefresh Promises To Boost Your iPhone's Weak Network Signal [Jailbreak]
Full signal a rare sight on your iPhone? Try SignalRefresh. Struggling to get a decent signal on your iPhone? If you’ve jailbroken your handset with the latest Absinthe 2.0 release, then you may be in luck. SignalRefresh is a new, $0.99 iPhone tweak that promises to boost your signal streng...
iTranslate Voice: Like Siri Hooked Up With Google Translate
iTranslate Voice is voice translation on the iPhone executed perfectly. One of my favorite jailbreak tweaks for the iPhone 4S (before I updated to iOS 5.1 and lost my jailbreak) was called Lingual, which enabled Siri to connect to Microsoft’s Bing Translate API and immediately translate wor...
Straight Talk SIM: The BFF of a Galaxy Nexus or iPhone
Now that Google is selling an unlocked, no-contract version of the Galaxy Nexus for $399, will it change the U.S. mindset on subsidized smartphones? Probably not in any meaningful way, but for those who want to regain some control from their carrier, or actually choose which carrier to use their ...
Why You Might Sound Like a Smurf on Venus [Space]
Ever wondered what natural sounds you would hear on another planet? Although some spacecraft have carried microphones, sound has never been reliably recorded in an alien atmosphere. But now, thanks to simulations created by Tim Leighton from the University of Southampton, UK, and his team, you ca...
87% Of iPhone 4S Owners Are Still Using Siri At Least Once A Month [Report]
Siri is still popular among many iPhone 4S owners, but not everyone uses it to its full potential. For some iPhone 4S users, Siri is a novelty that quickly wears off within a week or two of unwrapping the handset. But believe it or not, 87% of iPhone 4S users are still using the intelligent assis...
Siri gets a HAL 9000 theme
“Good evening, Dave.”Yes, the inevitable has finally happened, we’re just curious why it took so long.Indeed, Siri has finally been laced with a classic HAL 9000 theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.It’s all possible thanks to a WinterBoard theme, and a handful of UISounds tha...
Siri vs. Android: Which Is Better at Understanding Voice Commands? [Video]
Motorola created a bit of a stir yesterday when it released a video compared Android's Voice Actions on the Atrix 2 with iOS's Siri on an iPhone 4S. Fanboys screamed foul in the comments, so we decided to test it out for ourselves. And yes, there's a very clear winner.More »
'SpeakEvents' makes boring push notifications come alive with voice
SpeakEvents is a jailbreak tweak that audibly speaks the contents of new messages, tweets, emails, etc.I like to look at it as the opposite of Siri; actually it’s the perfect complement to Siri, because instead of you talking to the iPhone, it’s talking to you.I know this sounds like ...
Is Google TV Getting a Siri Clone? [Google TV]
Google's got a patent application out there for a Siri-like UI for Google TV. What does that mean for Google TV owners? Not much just yet, but it's a sign you're not totally abandoned.More »
Vonage Mobile for iOS offers free calling and texting to other Vonage users
If you’re a Vonage user and you have an iPhone, great news — Vonage has launched a new mobile app that allows you to send text messages and make calls with other Vonage users around the world. For free. The Vonage app pulls in your iPhone’s native address book for quick access ...
