A little-known feature in iOS 5 is the new option to create free, custom ringtones and text message alert tones.
The iTunes store is flooding with tones for $0.99 to $1.29, prices that are high enough to make you stick with the iPhone ‘s default tones. But now, with a few easy steps, you can make unique tones that set your phone apart from the many others who share the same standard tones.
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Screenshot by Sharon Vaknin/CNET.)
Although Apple made most of the new features in iOS 5 public, a few unexpected features have cropped up in the new operating system.
As MacRumors discovered, you can now purchase alert tones in iTunes to use as your default text message or alert tone, or as a custom alert for a specific contact who texts you.
To access these new tones, head to iTunes on your (more…)
Yesterday, out of the blue, I received this text message on my iPhone :
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Screenshot by Rick Broida)
Annoying, right? Obviously my first instinct was to answer “NO,” but just like clicking “unsubscribe” in an unsolicited e-mail, that’s a surefire way to prove to spammers that I exist–and open the floodgates to even more spam.
What’s more, I have a limited allotment of text messages every month, and (more…)
, before it was unveiled at
.
Couple of weeks back, folks at
had published a screenshot from an Apple iPhone test unit, which indicates that the feature will be called
. They have published another screenshot from iOS 5 with a microphone in the standard keyboard.
As you can see, it is quite simple. Just click the microphone icon next to the space key and start talking. Once the key is clicked, a new microphone overlay will appear as (more…)
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Folks over at Gear Live have come across a some interesting information that they say has been leaked from retailer Best Buy’s internal training documents.
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look an overall better choice and making it a far more attractive proposition for Best Buy consumers with its new text messaging plans. Let’s now delve in to the details of these plans.
According to the first report, AT&T will offer simpler text messaging plans starting January 23. (more…)
and also includes some improvements. Google had released
last month.
iPad and iPod Touch users will be able to send and receive free text messages except, of course, make cellular calls with the
. However, Google Voice app comes with a feature called Click2Call that will allow iPad and iPod Touch users to initiate Google Voice calls from their phones.
Marcus Foster, Product Manager at Google explains how the Click2Call feature works:
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According to the Italian website,
.2 beta 3 includes number of bug fixes. They also found it faster and more responsive.
They are reporting that iOS 4.2 includes the following new features:
iPad: Enable/Disable alert sounds for New Mail, Sent Mail, Calendar Alerts, Lock Sounds, Keyboard Clicks
, we were excited to find out that we will be able to stream content from apps likes of YouTube, Netflix, etc over AirPlay to
. But MacStories has (more…)
Now in iOS 4.2 beta 1 you just use the regular old search field (still confusingly labeled Google by default) and start typing the text you want to find.
Where previously you only got suggested search terms, now you get a second list at the bottom for words you can search on the page. Tap one and the first match on the page is highlighted in yellow and a set of buttons slide up on the bottom for “Next” and “Done”, as well as a counter for (more…)
In order to tackle these issues, the patent filing calls for the ”
” of multimedia data by the sender's device followed by the transfer of this data over a voice channel to the destination device. This is in contrast to the use of data channel for conventional text messaging. The filing notes that the technology can enable any textual data on the display screen, like contact numbers, to be vocalized before being sent over a voice channel.
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