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iOS 4.2 getting closer to an iPhone near you Apple files a new pen for advanced gaming between users and skyfire finally brings flash to our iPhones but in a very non flashy manner all this and more coming up right now hello everybody I'm high metal iveta and welcome to the pocket now I review the show we go through all this week school and they're not so cool inside the world of Apple's iOS devices as always I start this week off with the cool well iOS 4.2 is finally reached gold master candidate which means it will be in our handsets very soon it's still in developers hands right now but gold master candidate releases and vinyl releases are probably a week or two apart so most of us are assuming it will be here on november seventh with a couple of support documents out there from Apple that are stating something close to that but given it has to do with DST we're not going to confuse the fact that BST ends in the United States by that date us iphone users aren't going to get much we're only going to get airplay airprint and a couple of other things but what really has is on the edge of our seats is the fact that the dev team has confirmed that we will get a jailbreak and even a carrier unlock as soon as a couple of days after the release so we hope it really happens by next week I know a lot of us are on the edge of our seats because of this well Google Instant searches finally made it to our iPhones and Android devices as of this week it's a really cool service that you enable in your browser say the Safari browser or the Android browser on your handset and while you type any search it'll actually give you suggestions and even search results while you haven't even finished typing it's really cool google claims it'll save you time in your life I don't feel any younger but it's you know it's a cool service it's new it's currently on a beta sore anything could go wrong but as of yet we've been testing it and everything's going really cool let's hope this product evolves into even better things eventually will a police file the new pen called interactive gaming with co-located Network direction and location-aware devices I wonder where they get these names it's really long but what it's really cool or what's cool about it is the fact that it will use all the sensors in the iphone meaning the proximity sensor the accelerometer the gyro the front-facing video camera the backward camera and anything that the iphone has like the GPS and even the networking services to actually know where you are how you're sitting what you're doing at the moment and it can do the same thing for any other opponent or user or friend that you have close to you that's playing a game against you so yeah you can imagine you can actually use this to play laser tag in the future between users and actually have motion detection and I don't know if this is really going to look like connect or something but you never know this is something very new and innovative for mobile devices something we've never seen so really don't know what to expect or when to expect it let's see what happens another really cool release that happened recently is tech track an application that allow you to locate or fine you're lost or stolen iPhone within this cool user interface in the web it's actually a five dollar application it's not free but it doesn't cost $99 like mobile being the Find My iPhone application it's not as cool as mobile me there are things that are missing like for example the fact that on mobile me if you want to find your iPhone you can actually make it ring even if the phone is on vibrate you can't do this on tech track but it's a first release again for a five dollar one-time fee which is currently on sale I'd call it a bargain again nothing perfect but it's something better than ninety nine dollars a year alright so that does it for the cool let's continue on with the not so cool t-mobile has just released an ad which makes fun of the iPhone because according to t-mobile they have the fastest and Broadus 4G network right and they make fun of the iPhone because they say they have to carry around the slow AT&T network which is not so reliable in many places and it could be correct in some cases but the funny part is when you have the t-mobile CEO stating that there are low sales and low results this year have a lot to do with the fact that they don't have an iPhone kind of ironic don't you think well skyfire 2 point 0 finally made it to iOS devices as of this weekend you'd ask why is it in the not so cool well sadly it didn't deliver first of all skyfire is free for Windows Mobile in for Android but we have to pay three books on the iPhone two starters the other uncool thing was the fact that we were expecting really good flash-based browsing on the device and it just didn't deliver it was really bad really choppy really slow a lot of bugs a lot of sluggishness on the application and aside from that it only plays flash video doesn't play flash games or it doesn't bring you flash interactive content on your browser and when a place flash video it's not the fact that it detaches the video from the browser for you to see it in full screen really cool but video was really choppy was really ugly now one of the ugliest parts about all this releases that we consider the lamest release ever because in the end skyfire ended up pulling the application from the app store because well they said they had problems with their servers they can handle as much traffic other people were saying that they pulled the you know release because apparently they oversold the amount that they could sell software we really don't believe that so again we really don't know what to expect I mean I feel the application is not finished there's more to do for it and then afterwards if you want to charge for it then fine but don't charge for something that really looks at an alpha close to a beta release and not really a final product in the end 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