iOS 5 Firmware Download for For iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 2, 1, And iPod touch (DIRECT LINKS)

The much awaited iOS5 update for Apple iDevices. Make sure to install the iOS5 Firmware update using the latest version of iTunes(v10.5).

iOS 5 is a major upgrade to Apple’s iDevices which is compatible for all of iOS series of devices; iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch. It has got new awesome features which will make your iOS experience more exciting.

iOS 5 comes with some awesome features like Notifications which is somewhat Androidized version of showing notification update. It has also got Location based reminders which will not let you forget a single thing. Twitter is not integrated to you iOS device to to the core – you will not have to login to twitter every now and then, you need to do it once and you are done.

For jailbreakers and unlockers, we recommend you stay away from that update until we update our post with useful guides of jailbreak tools. It’s most probably going to be tethered iOS 5 jailbreak then will be followed by untethered jailbreak soon. Hold on!

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Links for iOS 5 (Official from Apple)
Before downloading the iOS5 IPSW file, users should make sure that they are on a fast and stable internet connection since each IPSW file is >700MB in size.

• Download iOS 5 iPhone 4 (GSM)
• Download iOS 5 iPhone 4 (Verizon)
• Download iOS 5 iPhone 3GS
• Download iOS 5 iPad 2 WiFi
• Download iOS 5 iPad 2 GSM
• Download iOS 5 iPad 2 CDMA
• Download iOS 5 iPad
• Download iOS 5 iPod touch 3G
• Download iOS 5 iPod touch 4G

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Pinoy Tech Blog’s Linksys E4200 Wireless Router Giveaway

Do you know what the sweet-looking thing at the photo below is? It’s not a speaker nor an external storage, although that would be cool. It’s the Linksys E4200 wireless N, dual-channel router, and guess what? They're giving it away!

Interested? It’s going to be a raffle so the winner is randomly drawn. No need to take a photo or create a video, just answer a simple question:

“What is your ideal home network like and how can the Linksys E4200 help you achieve it?”


It may be using your PS3 to wirelessly stream movies to your HDTV. Or having a NAS drive that the whole family can access. Whatever it is, place your answer as a comment below and that will entitle you to a raffle entry.

Now to give you more chances of winning, if you have Facebook and/or Twitter, you can do the following:

• Share this contest in Facebook, don’t forget to tag @officialPTB
• Share this contest in Twitter, again tag @officialPTB

Sharing the contest in Facebook/Twitter will net you an additional raffle entry each. Don’t forget to leave a comment that you’ve shared the contest so they can verify it.

Just a few more important notes:

• Only those with a Metro Manila delivery address may join.
• Deadline of submitting your entry is on October 15.
• We will randomly draw the winner on October 16.
• Like us in Facebook or Follow us on Twitter so you won’t miss out on the latest local tech news or more contests.

So who needs a new badass wireless router? This giveaway is made possible by Cisco.

The Linksys E4200 wireless router has a minimalist design but packs some powerful features. It operates on the regular 2.4GHz band or the 5GHz band for high-speed transfers around your home. And it also has a USB port where you can attach your external storage or flash drives or even a network printer.


Source: PinoyTechBlog



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Amazon Kindle Fire, An iPad Competitor?

Amazon's new tablet, the Kindle Fire, is out as the world's biggest e-retailer taps into a burgeoning market now dominated by Apple's iPad. The new tablet is being pitched as a complete handheld entertainment platform.

Seattle-based Amazon will price it from $199, $200 below iPad2, and offer key entertainment features including Netflix. It's also trimming prices of its regular Kindles to $79 and introducing a new $99 Kindle Touch that will offer cell phone connectivity for $149.

The seven-inch tablet from Taiwan's Quanta will somewhat resemble Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook but will work better, offer more entertainment and have a downloadable Amazon app for e-mail.

The Kindle Fire will ship Nov. 15, in plenty of time for holiday sales but unlikely to shave much off Apple iPad sales for the year. Market researchers IHSiSuppli estimate the iPad will account for about 75 percent of global tablet sales in 2011.

The Amazon Kindle Fire will contain a dual-core OMAP chip from Texas Instruments, like other Android products. It will not be based on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Lab 126 tablet patent, which may be used for a future tablet. But the tablet will use an Amazon-tweaked version of Google's Android OS

For entertainment, the product will offer wide varieties of content, including movies and shows from News Corp.'s Fox and other publishers including Hearst and Conde Nast as well as Amazon's current MP3 services and others. It offers Amazon Prime streaming media free for a month, with charges thereafter. In content, that will be a major challenge to the iPad.

A major shortcoming to RIM's PlayBook, which sold only about 200,000 units in the most recent quarter, was that it lacked e-mail capability, which frustrated RIM users familiar with the BlackBerry. Apparently, Bezos made sure his product won't miss out on this vital app.

Pricing starts at $199.

Apple, which makes a huge mark-up on each iPad, could counter Amazon's move by lowering iPad prices or, for the first time, keep selling an older version of a popular product.

The company may announce the iPad3 as early as next week at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Apple has indicated it may introduce iPhone4 then. Rather than stop selling the iPad2, it might chop the price well below the current $499 list. Engineers at IHSiSuppli who reversed-engineered it believe the product only costs $368.

Amazon shares rose 2.4 percent to $229.50 as Apple shares fell $2.34 to $396.92 on Wednesday.

Credit: IBTimes

	Amazon Kindle Fire	Apple iPad 2
Display:	7-inch IPS multitouch display (limited to two fingers at once) at 1024 x 600 pixels 169 ppi	9.7-inch IPS multitouch display at 1024×768 pixels 132 ppi
Processor:	1GHz OMAP4 dual-core CPU	1GHz dual-core Apple A5 processor
Memory:	8GB internal storage (expandable to 32GB via microSD) RAM TBC	16GB, 32GB or 64GB internal storage 512MB of RAM
Dimensions & Weight:	190 x 120 x 11.4mm14.6 ounces	241.2 x 185.7 x 8.8mm21.3 ounces
Battery:	8 hours reading, 7.5 hours video playback — with Wi-Fi off.	10 hours of W-Fi web browsing, video or music
Camera:	None	0.7-megapixel rear-facing camera 0.2 megapixel front-facing camera
Operating System:	Android with Amazon’s own UI	iOS
Connectivity:	Wi-Fi only	3G Bluetooth 2.1 Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
Price:	$199	From $499

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