Plenty of us use the WiFi hotspot capabilities of our smartphones on a daily basis, helping us get online with laptops, gaming systems, or other devices without their own cellular radios. Like setting up any WiFi network, part of using hotspots involves setting up a password, keeping your little impromptu network secure. Unfortunately, it seems that the default password generation behavior in iOS has some serious flaws, and as currently implemented in iOS 6 (presumably, this is still an issue with the 7 beta), creates passwords that can be cracked in about 50 seconds. Normally, iOS ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Apple's release of iOS 6.1.4 and why nobody is excited about it. Then we go through HTC's Q1 results, which prove to be extremely bad for the company. Microsoft is next as we've got credible reports that a second-generation Surface tablet will be smaller and launched in June. Nokia is next as a new patent points to smartphone cameras with adjustable aperture. We end today's show talking about a Google Smartwatch patent that brings a touch-sensitive wristband. It's still hard to tell if any of these patents will ever happen, but we can't deny a ...

Not all of us have read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so not all of us were exactly qualified to make the lame joke that kicks off this week's podcast. But we made it, and we stand behind it. Because as hundreds of fifth-rate "manufacturers" well know, sometimes you just have to fake it. But we're not talking about secondhand knockoff products in this episode of the Weekly. Rather, we get serious about octa-core comparisons, the till-recently-mythical HTC M4, the insanely cheap new Lumia out of Finland, and just how tired we are or aren't of the Samsung Galaxy S 4. In between, we ...

Stuff comes up, folks. Sometimes you've got a pressing appointment in Romania, or a meeting scheduled in Media, PA. Sometimes you're at the day job, other times you're off the grid somewhere in the country. Other times you're buying a car. These things happen. Fortunately for us, these things don't usually happen all at once, which means the Pocketnow Weekly podcast usually features more than two people on the air. But today, listeners, Lady Luck was not with us. Today, Sam the Scheduler was out sick, because every member of the Pocketnow team was otherwise engaged when it came time to ...

After taking so very long to arrive, the most recent iOS jailbreak's time in the sun was cut short by the release of iOS 6.1.3 (at least for iOS hardware running recent chips), patching exploits used by the tool. All told, we got just under six of free-and-clear jailbreak time before having to decide between keeping our jailbreaks or updating to the latest iOS. Considering all the effort that went into producing the evasi0n jailbreak, some Apple fans have been wondering if we'd once again be looking at a lengthy wait before the next jailbreak arrives. Well, it might be here sooner than you ...

We've already talked about how iOS 6.1.3 fails to fully secure the iPhone from attacks against its lock screen, but when it comes to unresolved issues, that's apparently just the tip of the iceberg. Users have reported a slew of additional problems which iOS 6.1.3 either introduces, or fails to properly remedy. Earlier iOS 6 releases attempted to fix a bug when connecting to Exchange servers, and while things are a lot better than they used to be, apparently the situation isn't quite resolved 100%, and some abnormal behavior has been reported under iOS 6.1.3. Other previous issues we ...

For those of you that really believed that Apple was launching iOS 6.1.3 just to fix the screen lock bypass, well, it turned out to fix a lot more than just that since the Jailbreak community is again stuck with an operating system they can't hack. Now even more proof that Apple wasn't really out to fix the lock screen issues are the fact that there is now proof that the problem still exists. As reported by AllThingsD and as shown on the video bellow, you can still bypass the lock screen by doing a similar command. In this case, even though the video only shows access to the dialer, it ...

Apple wants in on the buzz, which has been pretty much hijacked recently by HTC, MWC, and now, Samsung, or, they really just want to put their alternative out there: the iPhone 5. The Cupertino-based company has published two new iPhone 5 commercials, dubbed "Brilliant" and "Discover". There's nothing special about the ads per se, as they are showing off either apps running on the device or the Passbook feature in action. Some gaming action is also in as well as Apple's own take on maps. Check them both out below (but we'll understand if you won't, with just two days away from the new ...