5 Steps To Upgrade iPhone Firmware

Firmware, a computer program, is designed for embedding inside a specific hardware device. The main advantage of firmware in is the capability to be updated even after the distribution to customers in manufactured devices. Apple issues updates to the iPhone firmware, correcting bugs and making it simple for further upgrades.

Follow these 5 steps to upgrade your iPhone firmware:

Back up all the important data you have stored on iPhone before the upgrade prodedure. You may save the information to your PC’s hard drive, flash memory, DVR or other memory storage drive. The iPhone may remove some files while updating the system, so you’d better follow the backup.

Restore your iPhone’s original settings in case you have installed some unauthorized software. The firmware update might not install properly in case you have hacked to jailbreak your iPhone. So it would be very important to completely restore the basic iPhone settings. Just plug it in your PC, launch iTunes and click on “Restore” button in the main menu to automatically reset to iPhone’s default settings and clean its memory.

After the connection to the computer launch iTunes. There will be the notification that a firmware upgrade is available. Via a pop-up message click the install button for the upgrade. Or you may click on “Don’t Install” to cancel the installation for better times

Let iTunes install the firmware upgrade and do not use your iPhone or any other programs on your PC before the procedure is accomplished. No calls or messages will be recieved during the upgrade.

When the installation is finished and iTunes sends the notification that it is safe to unplug your iPhone from the computer, disconnect it. Check out your iPhone’s firmware upgrade by tapping “Settings” - “General” - “About” to see the latest firmware version number and date.

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iPhone Hacks & Tricks: Fast Insertion of Accented Letters

Don’t you think that the possibility to put accents over letter on the iPhone could save a great deal of your time? In fact, everything is perfectly OK when it is English, but when it comes to, for instance, German – the case gets worse. Those umlauts cannot do not occur in the keyboard, and still they are to be marked somehow.

So, here you are, I found a solution to this sophisticated problem. When the keyboard mode is activated on the iPhone you see a standard qwerty keyboard, SHIFT, Space and delete bars. There is a button that pops up additional symbols. BUT there are no accents among the additional symbols.

But there is a way to type accents. In order to type an accent you have to hold your finger over the button with the letter you want to be accented and wait for a second. Then you will see a pop-up menu with all the possible accents. Then you drag your finger to the one you need and let it go. After these operations you will have an accented letter.

If you want to accentuate a capital letter you need to do exactly the same operations with the only difference: before hold the finger over the letter you need to hold SHIFT button.

Moreover, this trick works not only with letters, you can use it for numbers and other symbols. It can be used if you want to get exclamation points and question marks upside down.

If you want my opinion about this feature I think it is a great feature. It saves a lot of time. You don’t have to dive into various menus all the time to find the symbols you need. Furthermore, the feature can be expanded. For instance, to each button there should be an alternative choice like SHIFT button in the standard PC keyboard.

I don’t know for sure, but the same option can be enabled on iPod Touch. In fact, it is not that useful on this device as it doesn’t have text messaging capabilities, but nevertheless, it can be used for organizing the media library and making notes.

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5 Reasons iPhone is Not What I Wanted - Exposure

Yesterday I was as always browsing the Internet is search of new ideas and concepts to write about my beloved iPhone. Then my eyes caught the title: “5 Reasons iPhone is Not What I Wanted.”

To tell you the truth, I was shocked at such a title. In fact, out there I’m always finding awkward (to put it mildly) titles. But this one is simply astonishing.

Getting interested I decided to read the post. And the 5 facts which as provided there are:

No flexibility of Office suite syncing, editing, formatting
No tap-hold cut/paste function
No selection of multiple emails/texts
It doesn’t do JAVA or FLASH
Security on the iPhone is practically nonexistent

To my mind none of these points can stand its ground. Why? I’ll tell you why

In fact, I’m a Mac user and MS Office seems a strange name to me (of course I know what’s that). It’s been a long time I’ve given up using MS products as they SIMPLY DON’T WORK
Well, after all the iPhone is a phone but not a computer
Old habits die hard, wait for the new generation and all the features you can imaging will be present there
Though a lot of devices have flash and Java, I cannot say that I really need it. I don’t think that I would get happier if you could use these technologies in the iPhone
Security? I just don’t understand that word in connection to the iPhone. Security is something relevant for MS, and as long as iPhone is Apple it is totally secure. All you need to do in order not to ruin that fact is not install applications by unreliable third-party developers. That’s it!

The fact that the iPhone does not the functionality of a PC makes the iPhone an iPhone. A multi-functional mobile device. Moreover, all the lacks and shortcomings of the current version are likely to be corrected in the new version which is to arrive quite soon.

The only thing I’m left to wonder about is the price of the new device. If it is as awesome as everyone expects it might cost a fortune. But if the price is reasonable I will definitely want to have one.

Apple Gives 3G iPhone Full IM Functionality

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Fake Nude Celebs: iPhone Clones

Apple declares a war on iPhone clones

The inevitable has happened. I expected this sooner or later. Apple’s declaration didn’t take anyone by surprise…wait…in fact it did! Apple was ready to take legal actions against the UK retailer Digital Playground, but fortunately for everybody the affair ended up peacefully.

Let me start from the beginning. It seems that Apple’s legal team is planning to decrease the increasing influx of iPhone fakes (especially the ones coming from the Chinese market via black and grey channels).

Apple has learned its previous mistakes and has covered the iPhone with patents “from top to toe”. This aggressive strategy in general does pay off. The copying of a great number of features beyond the touchscreen seems limited.

Nevertheless, the copyright is here for the Western world, and as we know China is not the Western world, so you see that copyright has rather vague borders there. The country has flooded the US market with hundreds of iPhone fake’s models. Some of there fakes even bare Apple’s logo, which is in its substance simply incredible.
Some of the stores sell these fakes all right. But recently they’ve had lots to think about. The other day Apple came with “all guns blazing” and “big bully boy tactics” against the UK retailer Digital Playground. Apple sent the company a letter saying that unless clones are eliminated from sales Apple will take legal action against the company. Apple accused the clones of having “the same overall impression as Apple’s registered design.”

The companies came to an agreement before the case went to court. Apple not only wanted iPhone fakes out of sales but also all of them sent to it (as well as the prices, suppliers and all the additional information Apple might need during the investigation). In fact, Digital Playground didn’t have choice!

So, fake iPhone manufacturers fear Apple otherwise they’ll come to you! =)

iPhone Software Downloads: How to Choose Best?

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Cell Phone Classifications: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem, Sony Ericsson

Recently I’ve got very interested in comparing iPhone to its probable (or better to put it like this – potential) competitors. In order to find which devices can compete with my all-time favorite I decided to learn the classification of phones by the major manufacturers: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem and Sony Ericsson.

I’m sure that you are aware of the fact that all phones fall into different categories or classes: from simple devices to highly sophisticated smartphones. So what is the classification of phones?

Alcatel

Initially the classification of this manufacturer featured 5 classes:

A – budget phones (are real rear phones)
A+B – youth-oriented phones of the series 30x and 31x
B+ - middle-class phones of the series 50x and 51x
C – expensive 70x series phones
G – image phones which planned for production

From 2005 the company introduced the new system which features 3 classes:

OT-E – budget phones
OT-C – middle class
OT-S – image class

Siemens

A – budget models
C - consumer-level devices
E – economical devices
M – Active lifestyle phones
S - Business class
SL – Image phones
SV – smartphones and multifunctional devices

Benq –Siemens

The scheme of giving names to phones of the young brand Benq–Siemens has been left unchanged: the indexes of phones are named by letters and digits, but the meaning of the symbols proper have changed and t he digital sequence has been violated:

The new names:

P – Smartphones with qwerty keyboard
E – Under the letter the company released a number of devices which fall into different classes, so iti s hard to say anything certain
S- it is the only letter that was left unchanged; these are still business-class devices

The devices are classified according to one feature and it is possible to encounter phones of different price category in the same class