Still searching iPhone 5 release date? new iPhone 4S is Here.

The long-awaited new iPhone was announced on Tuesday, 4 October 2011. However, unexpectedly it was not an iPhone 5. Those thrilled for a new eye catching iPhone legacy design changes are raising eyebrows because the shape and outlook dimensions of the new iPhone are identical to its predecessor.
One of the executives at Apple explained “You don’t want to oversell what you’re doing so you hurt your credibility”

Tim cook, in his first public appearance after becoming CEO of Apple announced the new iPhone 4S which has the A5 dual core processor from the iPad 2, upgraded 1 GB internal memory, an 8 megapixel camera and enhanced graphics with a 7x increase in graphics capability.

In addition to reinforcing the new phone with more powerful hardware and the new 64 GB option, the phone comes up with innovative new features including an intuitive AI voice activated personal assistant called Siri along with new Dictation feature.
The technology was demonstrated by asking an iPhone, “Do I need a raincoat today?” with Siri capable of drawing online sources of information including local business reviews and weather feeds; the device responded back by, “It sure looks like rain today.”
Siri also empowers a question-and-answer search engine WolframAplha. It is able to search restaurants in reaction to a query such as “Find me a great Greek restaurant in Palo Alto,” and even offers to book a table. It can render requests like “How many dollars is 75 euros?”.
Dictation is a new feature in iPhone 4s that allows composing text messages or emails using speech recognition; its already available for users of Android based devices however.

The handheld becomes a powerful and intuitive voice-activated mobile assistant to schedule appointments and performing other tasks without requiring bringing it out of the pocket, like it sets alarms or meeting reminders in response to commands like “wake me up at 7 a.m. in the morning”

Keeping in view the rising competition in smartphone business with Android based devices selling double to those of Apple, hopes are high at Apple that the more sophisticated capabilities of Siri will make it stand out.

With preorders starting Friday, the iPhone 4S will start selling on Oct. 14

Project Spartan; Facebook’s Secret Project for Mobile Platform

TechCrunch has revealed that Facebook is carrying out a hidden project named Project Spartan, an HTML5 browser-based cloud platform to target millions of mobile users. To be more specific, initially for iPhone running HTML5 enabled Safari, and later for android. The platform obviously will have many powerful apps.

The motivation behind this for Facebook is to get control of their apps running on iPhone by directly challenging Apple’s App Store and sidestepping their mobile app distribution mechanism.

Currently, If you want to deploy a game or an App for iPhone; you need to develop it in Xcode using C, C++ or Objective-C and push it to Apple Store. Apple provides APIs for developers. You have to purchase a developer account costing $99 per year and your app/game is required to be in compliance with Apple's guidelines. It also involves a long approval process in case of updates/fixes to existing Apps/games further requiring the end users to download that update.

Instead of this process, an alternate is to build the app/game using HTML5. Although you may have limited functionality and features of the target device in comparison to the former process, however this gives great power and control to the developer without depending on Apple and avoiding the cost involved for apple store account.

It’s said to be a team of 80 developers according to TechCrunch, working with Facebook in collaboration of Zynga and Huffington Post on this platform which is expected to launch in next few weeks.(Unsurprisingly, Facebook haven’t commented on this stuff).

Completely Secure Erase your iPhone/Android Mobile before Resale

It is very common that we are compelled to upgrade our phones by getting attracted towards the new fascinating look and feel, new exciting features and applications claimed by the upcoming versions of mobile devices; we give away our older phones to the family members or sell em to our peers or bringing up on eBay followed by an upgrade.

Cell phones are now more like wallets and before giving them away, we need to be sure that after taking one last backup on a separate location, all the private information including contacts, text messages, images, emails and other personal information has been securely and permanently removed from the device.

Following Links provide enough guidelines to help securely erase your personal information form your iPhone or Android mobile device.
Clean Sweep iPhone.
Clean Sweep Android.