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Strong iPhone 4S Sales Narrows Market Gap between iOS, Android

The battle for smartphone supremacy can be seen as a handicap match of sorts. Apple’s iOS platform has only one representative, the iPhone, while on the other hand, there are several Android phones making up the market share of Google’s operating system.

According to a survey from Nielsen, the iPhone 4S, again the lone bearer of the iOS flag, is becoming the smartphone of choice for more and more consumers.

The figures revealed by Nielsen last Wednesday were culled from 2011 numbers, and it was evident in these numbers that the iPhone kept gaining ground steadily as months went on. This was especially true in the two months following the iPhone 4S’ October 2011 release. That said, close to 50 percent of all respondents still favored Android phones based on the survey results.

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Unlock and Jailbreak iPhone 4/4S iOS 5.0.1: Did Siri for cars fail

Having been launched in Q3 of 2011, along with the iPhone 4S unlock and jailbreak iPhone 4/4s iOS 5.0.1 called EasyRa1n, hacking Siri seems to be on many a mind. Demos have already seen Siri being hooked up to a Viper car remote with the user turning to voice commands to turn the vehicle on and off.

Known as Brandon, the hacker did reveal a part of his approach to hack in. The “Siri Proxy” plugin I wrote handles interaction with a php script that runs on my web server. The php script, which I developed months ago for personal use, allows me to send commands to my car which has a Viper SmartStart module installed.” Commands accepted are Vehicle Arm, Vehicle Disarm, Vehicle Start, Vehicle Stop, Vehicle Pop Trunk, and Vehicle Panic.

The EasyRan untethered jailbreak and Unlock utility for iPhone 4/4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1 has been updated to version 0.2, and now includes a Windows release alongside the Mac OS X version and it’s available on www.EasyRa1n.com.

In addition to bringing the unlock and jailbreak iPhone 4/4S ios 5.0.1 untethered to Windows PC’s and Mac, the new version of EasyRa1n aims to resolve some of the earlier database problems, white screen errors, and white icon errors that some users encountered during the process. If you had problems with the first version of EasyRa1n and gave up on jailbreaking, try again with this new version,It’s very easy to use and professional. If you want to unlock your iPhone 4/4s iOS 5.0.1, now is possible thanks to the EasyRa1n Team.

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