the ios 5 death-tap!!

Steve: just don’t tap it that way.

So the other day my friend showed me a neat little glitch on my iPod touch…that’s seemingly harmless. All it does is crash the Springboard and force it to reload...and it’s repeatable on the iPhone too.

How to solve the EA games “server error 5002” wtf [UPDATED with download link]

So I thought I’d load up Need For Speed Hot Pursuit one day, after having finished configuring my new HTC One X. But then “server error 5002” happened! After a brief conversation with EA technical support (there is no official Android support section but I was redirected after a live chat with the PC tech support for NFS:HP), here’s what I found:

What the Samsung Galaxy S3 needs to stay ahead of the competition

We’re now so close to Samsung announcing the oft-rumoured Galaxy S3. Sadly my excitement has greatly diminished ever since I purchased the gorgeous HTC One X.

And it is exactly that. The HTC One X having done a great job at kicking off the quad core smartphone era is now arguably leading both on the performance and the design front.

HTC One X’s Menu button fail? [updated 21120416]

 

[There is now an unofficial fix/mod for this on xda developers!]

Considering the amount of customization HTC has made to the phone, it is somewhat hard to understand why it stuck to Android ICS’s default navigation bar buttons convention when it designed its own physical touch buttons on the device. The reason why this is one of the biggest design issues is because by giving the device BACK, HOME and MULTITASK buttons, the most essential MENU button is left out.