Nokia Lumia 800 Battery Fix Software Updates In the Works

The iPhone 4S isn’t the only smartphone suffering from battery life problems, the other day we heard that Nokia’s first Windows Phone smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 800 was having battery problems.

Nokia has now released a statement on their support forums, which you can see below, regarding the battery problems on the Lumia 800, and they intend to fix this by releasing two software updates.

A software update in early December will make some improvements to power efficiency, while a second update in early January introduces high voltage charging, increasing the Nokia Lumia 800’s battery power from 1300mAh to 1450mAh. These are scheduled improvements and will enhance the overall experience, but are not designed to address any issues that may be occurring with individual products

So it looks like the first update will land next month, followed by a second one in January, as soon as we get some details on when exactly these updates will be available we will let you guys know.

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Google Starts Future Proofing Gmail Security

Google has this week announced via a blog post that it is enabling, forward secrecy by default on its Gmail service. Which will make sure that any emails you have written today will stay as safe in the future when faster and more powerful machines will become available that might be able to decrypt the security.

Google explains that initially, only Chrome and Firefox will use the new forward secrecy by default, when using Google services, as at the moment Microsoft’s Internet Explorer doesn’t support the combination of ECDHE and RC4. But Google do hope to be able to support Internet Explorer in the future.

Google explains:

“Most major sites supporting HTTPS operate in a non-forward secret fashion, which runs the risk of retrospective decryption. In other words, an encrypted, unreadable email could be recorded while being delivered to your computer today,” he wrote. “In ten years time, when computers are much faster, an adversary could break the server private key and retrospectively decrypt today’s email traffic.”

For reference Perfect Secrecy as explained on Wikipedia:

“Perfect forward secrecy (or PFS) is the property that ensures that a session key derived from a set of long-term public and private keys will not be compromised if one of the (long-term) private keys is compromised in the future”

For more information jump over to the Google Blog post.

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RIM Announces BlackBerry Playbook OS Update

RIM has announced a new software update for their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and the udpate will bring a range of bug fixes to the device, as well as some new features which include Adobe Air 3.1 and Adobe Flash 11.

A new version of the BlackBerry® PlayBook OS is now available to all BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet users – BlackBerry PlayBook OS v1.0.8.4985. This free update can be downloaded over-the-air from your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

You can find out full details of what is new in the update over at RIM, and it is available as an over the air update.

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Siri Used To Control iPad App (Video)

On Monday we showed you a video of Apple’s Siri being used to control a home heating system, this was done by developer @plamoni who had managed to create a proxy server for Siri.

Now another developer has come up with a way to control an iPad app using an iPhone 4S and Siri, he used the code which was created by @plamoni, and the video below shows an app on the iPad being controlled by Siri.

Very interesting, it gives us an idea of what sort of functions Siri could possibly have in the future, and we wonder if Apple will open up Siri to developers so that it can be integrated into their applications.

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Google TV Apps Update Brings New Features

Google has announced on the Google TV Blog, that a number of their Google TV applications have been updates, these include the YouTube and Photo apps, this comes just a few weeks after Google released a major software update for Google TV connected devices.

Google has also said that they plan to update many of their other apps for Google TV, and we will also see updates from many of the third party application developers who also develop apps for the platform.

The video above shows the new YouTube features for Google TV in action, and you can also find out more details on the changes to this, and the photo app over at the Google Blog.

It will be interesting to see how Google develops their Google TV platform, and we have heard that manufacturers like Samsung and LG intend to join the likes of Sony next year.

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BenQ Joybee GP2 Projector For iPhone And iPod Touch Unveiled

Benq has unveiled and very neat and portable projector its created, in the form of the BenQ Joybee GP2. Which has been designed to be used with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, but can also be used with USB flash drives or SD Cards if required.





The new BenQ Joybee GP2 projector is capable of projecting movies and media at 720p resolution, and is equipped with a mini HDMI port and even includes 2 GB of internal memory to store your media files.

The BenQ Joybee GP2 projector is capable id fitted with a 100 ANSI Lumen brightness, using 3LED illumination and DLP projection, and is now available to purchase for $549.

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