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We know your pain, Vuzix users. You hop on the subway just trying to enjoy a little in-your-face action before the workday begins, and within minutes the accusations and stereotypes start flying. “Look, it’s Geordi La Forge!” “LeVar Burton, what’s good?!” “Can I try my Zune on that?” Depressing, really. Unfortunately for you, Vuzix’s latest cable will not make any of that any more sufferable, though it will enable you to use your existing eyewear with Apple’s iPhone and enjoy the spoils of side-by-side, interlaced and anaglyph 3D content. Said cable will be bundled in with the company’s iWear AV230XL, though existing customers will definitely want to snag the standalone version for $39.95. The full release is after the break.

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Apple’s releasing some hot new features in iPhone 3.0 this summer, but will it be better than Google’s Android? Let’s take a look.

You already know what you get in iPhone 2.0, you’ve heard about what you get in iPhone 3.0. Let’s see how those features stack up against Android’s current release and its upcoming update (called “Cupcake”) feature by feature.

The Breakdown

There’s a whole lot of green in the iPhone 3.0 column of that chart above, and some red and yellow in the Android side. That’s mostly because we’re comparing Android to the feature set Apple unveiled yesterday; it doesn’t mean that new smartphone buyers stuck between iPhone and Android should automatically wait for iPhone 3.0. It all depends on what you need.

The phone features that actually matter to you: While much has been made of cut/copy and paste coming to iPhone 3.0, many smartphone users say they haven’t run into many situations where they needed it. The feature that’s getting less press but may add more usefulness to iPhone 3.0 is search: with Spotlight, and within Mail, Contacts, and Calendar.

Personally, besides its Gmail client, the feature I love most about Android that the iPhone doesn’t come close to is Android’s pull-down “window shade” notification area, that lists multiple alerts. So if you’ve gotten an SMS, new email, a Twitter reply, a missed call, you can drag and drop the window shade down to see them all. (See screenshot.) The iPhone still pops up a box you have to dismiss to do anything else (include hang up a call!), which is simply an inferior way to handle alerts.

Background processes versus push notifications: While it’s wonderful in theory that Android runs background processes, Apple’s point about how it kills your battery life is absolutely true in my experience. It remains to be seen how well iPhone 3.0′s push notifications will work when they actually do come out (hence the yellow coloring in the table), but right now, the battery life point is not just a bunch of marketing hooha (which is why it got the yellow coloring in the table, too). Besides, Apple has promised and not delivered push notifications before, so we’ll believe this one when we see it.

iPhone 3.0′s application potential: The other big “remains to be seen” part of iPhone 3.0 is where developers will take the new functionality available to them in iPhone 3.0. Voice over IP, maps integration, peer-to-peer Bluetooth, media access, accessory-specific apps—these are really exciting options for application developers that will surely bloom into a million great apps and functionality that haven’t been born yet.

When you’re in control of the hardware: When two different pieces of software are competing, it’s pretty easy to for one to respond to another feature by feature, and we expect Android will offer similar features as iPhone 3.0 eventually. But when you’re in control of the hardware like Apple is, you can do things like enable accessory support—which means, for example, that diabetics can plug their glucose meter into the iPhone and download readings. Since Google’s Android is just the operating system that will run on various handsets with different hardware configurations, that sort of software-to-hardware control will not be as easy.

But given what we know now… As a former iPhone user who switched to Android, I can say: iPhone 3.0 hasn’t made me regret my decision. Yet. Right now, Android’s killer Gmail client, proper MMS support (available now), background processes (even though they kill the battery), window shade, and general Google product integration makes me a happy camper. In fact, on the chart above, the top five items are the features most important to me, and Android—right now, not this summer—hits on almost all of them.

That said, given the potential of iPhone 3.0, gamers, audiophiles, and others may disagree. What about you?

Source: Lifehacker

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Por si el Dev Team no fuera suficiente pesadilla para Apple, ahora acaba de lanzarse la beta de Crackulous, una aplicación que se descarga desde Cydia y que asegura acabar con la protección de todos los programas, o dicho de otra manera, los libera sin pasar por caja.

Por descontado, necesitarás un iPhone liberado para instalarlo y viendo lo fácil que es usa la Pwnage Tool no nos queda ninguna duda que Crackulous será la sensación del momento.

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Intentamos no publicar mucho sobre fundas para el iPhone, sin embargo en este caso no podíamos evitar hacerlo. Mophie dice que su Juice Pack Air es la batería recargable externa más delgada del mundo, y funciona además como funda protectora para el teléfono de Apple. En su interior puede guardar hasta 1.200mAh, que “virtualmente duplica el tiempo que tienes para hablar, navegar y enviar mensajes”. Se venderán en colores negro, púrpura y blanco, y estarán disponibles en varias tiendas de Apple en unos meses (aunque los más impacientes pueden pedir la suya desde ahora). Si tienes un iPhone debes admitir que nunca se tiene batería suficiente durante un día ocupado, y esto podría hacerte la vida un poquito más fácil.

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Los chicos de Apple son expertos en ofrecer productos y aplicaciones cerradas tal es el caso de iPod, iPhone e iTunes que dan a esta empresa una posición dominante en el mercado obligando a los usuarios de iPhone e iPod a usar exclusivamente iTunes para sincronizar y administrar sus datos.

Gracias a miles de desarrolladores podemos disfrutar de alternativas para administrar un iPod en cualquier sistema operativo sin necesidad de usar iTunes. solo disponible para Windows y Mac. En el caso de iPhone tendremos que esperar unos cuantos meses.

En SimpleHelp han elaborado una lista con diez alternativas a iTunes:

• Amarok.
• Banshee.
• Floola.
• gtkpod.
• MediaMonkey.
• Rhythmbox.
• SharePod.
• Songbird.
• Winamp.
• YamiPod.

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