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United States wireless operator AT&T has started unlocking the iPhones of some customers whose two-year contracts have expired, allowing them to continue to use their hardware under any other GSM carrier. Some customers have been able to unlock their devices in minutes, while others are being told to wait for several... |
9 April 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Prosecutors in Chenzhou, China have arrested five people involved with “intentional injury” for organizing and contributing to the removal and transplant of a kidney from a 17-year-old high-school student craving for Apple devices.Reported by the official Xinhua News Agency late Friday (via CBS News)... |
7 April 2012
10:00 GMT |
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Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley is telling clients that the iPhone is currently outselling “all other smartphones” at AT&T and Sprint, adding that Verizon is selling about as many iPhones as all Android phones combined.
AllThingsD publishes an excerpt from Walkley’s note to investors this we... |
3 April 2012
03:35 GMT |
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A recruiter for Foxconn Technology Group has spilled the beans on the potential release date of the iPhone 5, telling TV Tokyo reporters that the company’s recent hiring spree is directly tied to the fifth-generation Apple smartphone.
Earlier this month, reports from The China Morning News and M.I.C. Gadget re... |
3 April 2012
02:44 GMT |
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The Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has given its approval for iPads and iPhones to be used by government officials to store and communicate classified information.
According to Herald Sun, DSD representatives are confident that Apple devices running iOS 5 are secure enough to perform sensitive tasks.
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30 March 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Have you ever seen a robotic dog with an expressive face? Neither have I, and they most likely are still a few years away. But you can console yourself with the machine shown in the video above, provided that you have an iPhone. Engineers at the Japanese company that created Tamagotchi – Bandai – have re... |
28 March 2012
09:43 GMT |
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Micro Systemation, a Stockholm, Sweden-based firm that sells law enforcement hacking tools, has published a video in which it demonstrates how easy it is to crack an iPhone’s four-digit passcode.
Micro Systemation makes it its business to find holes in iOS and Android software so that law enforcement and the m... |
28 March 2012
08:23 GMT |
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A fairly believable iPhone 5 leak has emerged mentioning 4G LTE radio, a similar (if not identical) screen size / form factor, and a micro dock connector.iMore‘s Rene Ritchie has some well connected sources who are telling him that the iPhone 5,1, as it is being referred to in iOS betas, will have: "similar if ... |
25 March 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Krishna Sagar talking to the people at iDownload Blog is offering an interesting look at some code inside iOS 5.1, indicating that Apple’s next iPhone should be LTE capable. Using a jailbroken iPhone, the latest iOS 5.1 build, and a file exploring app (iFile), Krishna was able to find code strings indicating 4... |
23 March 2012
04:31 GMT |
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A woman from Colorado claims she woke up to a strange smell and “sizzling” and “popping” noises at about 6:30 a.m. one morning to find that her iPhone 4 had combusted inches away from her head.
She described the incident as “not quite an explosion, but an immense crackling,” and s... |
22 March 2012
04:18 GMT |
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A simple email sent to Apple’s CEO has resulted in a one-time exception to have a customer’s AT&T iPhone unlocked for use in Canada.
A reader and trusted tipster of 9to5mac shared his story with the Apple-centric site saying he had been reassigned to Canada for work.
He had one problem. His iPhone 3GS, ... |
20 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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For the seventh consecutive time, J.D. Power and Associates is ranking Apple the top dog among smartphone manufacturers in customer satisfaction. Apple has achieved a score of 839 on a 1,000-point scale performing well in all factors, particularly in ease of use and features, said J.D. Power and Associates. HTC is j... |
19 March 2012
06:22 GMT |
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It looks like Sprint plans to launch an exciting promotional offer for customers who are eligible for upgrades. Those who are currently looking to upgrade their device may want to hold on to that for a bit longer as the upcoming deal is really interesting. The folks over at SprintFeed have just got their hands on ... |
16 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Shaquille O’Neal, former NBA star and now an analyst for TNT, reveals in an interview with Fast Company that Steve Jobs denied him the luxury to be one of the first people to own the iPhone. Shaq suggests he literally begged Steve Jobs to give him the first iPhone handset, but Apple’s co-founder vehement... |
14 March 2012
15:41 GMT |
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After selling Apple’s iPhone for quite some time now, Sprint has been left out when it comes to the company’s recent new iPad tablet. However, the move doesn’t come as a surprise given the fact that Sprint has yet to roll out its own 4G LTE network.
We already know that the new iPad will be exclusi... |
13 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Taiwan-based smartphone makers are estimating a boom in sales, as well as increased competition from Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc., whose LTE iPhone 5 is expected to drop in the second half of this year, DigiTimes reports.
Dealing with Apple rumors on a regular basis, but rarely scoring an accurate report, Digi... |
12 March 2012
10:16 GMT |
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In announcing the winner of its 25 billion downloads competition, Apple also confirmed some new figures today, regarding the iDevice install-base, and the sheer number of apps available on iTunes. Apple issued a press release today announcing that “more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolu... |
5 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Dr. Robert Sigal, a plastic surgeon from the Washington DC area, says he specializes in making people look good when video chatting on their iPhones.
No joke! Dr. Sigal says, “Patients come in with their iPhones and show me how they look on [Apple's video calling application] FaceTime.”
He explains... |
28 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Giving a whole new meaning to the term “pathetic,” Chinese customers of the social network QQ have resorted to buying fake “Sent from my iPhone” taglines to add a coolness factor to their gadget status symbol. The hack even displays an iPhone logo to better highlight the who’s-who of sub... |
28 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Word on the web is that Apple is preparing to make the iPhone 5’s dock connector smaller so that the handset has room for LTE radios and a bigger battery inside.
While the dock connector is hardly a part that takes up a lot of room inside Apple’s handsets, anything that can be shrunk leads to a bigger so... |
24 February 2012
07:41 GMT |
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The latest research conducted by IHS iSuppli reveals that Apple is fighting itself, rather than competitors, in the tablet marketplace.
IHS reveals that Apple’s own iPhone 4S "proved to be the strongest competitor for the iPad during the final three months of 2011.”
According to the IHS iSuppli Display ... |
20 February 2012
13:11 GMT |
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There's been a lot of talk lately about iPhone apps uploading phone contacts, sometimes without the user knowing and most of the time without their explicit consent. It started out with Path, which bore the brunt of the criticism, after which companies big and small started admitting that they've been doing... |
16 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Apple reported 37 million iPhones shipped last quarter, when the company posted record revenue of $46.33 billion, and record net profit of $13.06 billion. Tim Cook, the company's CEO, thinks the numbers are “decent.”
Discussing Apple’s enormous growth in the smartphone segment, Cook admitted t... |
15 February 2012
04:23 GMT |
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It looks like more US-based carriers are forced to increase prices of their services. The majority have one thing in common, they have one of Apple's iPhone into their portfolios. Rumor has it that no carrier that considered itself lucky to offer an iOS smartphone had anything to gain from the deal other than su... |
11 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Kickstarter has been making waves for the past couple of years or so, but it is now living one of its biggest days yet. The service enables creators, which can mean pretty much anything, to seek funding for their projects from the people that would become their customers.In the past, it has been used to fund independ... |
11 February 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Apple is getting sued yet again, this time by SmartData, adding to the long list of courtroom tussles that the Cupertino company is involved in nowadays.
The patent infringement lawsuit is aimed at the Apple iPhone, AppleTV and the Apple Remote.
SmartData claims that those products infringe their patent 7,158,757 a... |
10 February 2012
09:13 GMT |
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Ade Barkah, the researcher that not long ago proved that the media album of a locked iPhone 4 could be easily accessed by leveraging a simple bug, returns with new findings to show that not only the device’s address book is easily accessible, but that the video call feature is as well.
Without jailbreak or any... |
9 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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This is not the first time a research firm calculates Apple’s Q4 smartphone share for 2011 to put the iPhone on top, but it can’t hurt to have The NPD Group confirm the numbers.
According to the firm, Apple beat Samsung and LG to become the best-selling U.S. handset maker in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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6 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Apple is no longer listing an estimated shipping date for iPhone 4S orders placed through its international online stores. Instead, the company simply states “in stock”.
Apple’s "In stock" listing means the device will get to your door in 24 hours or less. Regardless of the model you choose - white... |
31 January 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Sky Go, the application that allows SKY TV customers to watch their favorite shows on the go at no extra charge, will soon be available on a selection of Android smartphones. Currently, the application is only available for iPhone and iPad users, but starting next month, the team behind the popular Sky Go app ... |
31 January 2012
05:13 GMT |
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After postponing the iPhone 4S launch in China because of scalpers, Apple has decided to implement a system that requires full details of the customer, including a government-issued photo ID. The name and ID number must match as well.The system is accessible only a few hours every day and it appears that customers mu... |
30 January 2012
10:53 GMT |
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Before the latest iPhone 4S was released, iPhone 5 scams were not uncommon. Now, many users are complaining that these types of schemes are making a comeback, even to the point of being sent via text messages, apparently coming from numbers used by legitimate institutions.
Sophos experts came across another variant ... |
30 January 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Strategy Analytics has issued the results of its latest research on global smartphone shipments, naming Apple the top dog of smartphone vendors in Q4 2011.
Handset shipments grew 54 percent annually to reach a record 155 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, said the firm. “Apple reclaimed top position ... |
27 January 2012
09:33 GMT |
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A recent study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) reveals what iPhone models people bought the most during Apple’s last fiscal quarter.
And it’s not surprising that the iPhone 4S accounted for 89 percent of all the iPhones sold since the beginning of October, which also justifies those ste... |
26 January 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Galaxy S II is the hottest smartphone from Samsung at the moment. The South Korean mobile phone maker is aware of that and is set to let us know it as well.
Thus, it published a new video as part of the latest marketing campaign for the mobile phone. The same as the previous video ads for the Galaxy S II, the new ... |
21 January 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Google’s Android operating system has managed to take over the US smartphone market a while ago, and the platform remains on top for another quarter, the latest data from Nielsen shows. On the smartphone segment, Android was leader with no less than 46.3 percent of all smartphones in the US in Q4 2011, the rese... |
19 January 2012
11:26 GMT |
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There is now a way to get some of the best iOS 5 features on your old iPhone or iPod touch, complete with a built-in jailbreak and even a carrier unlock. There’s a single download to be made, and it’s not an application, but a custom IPSW file.
Whited00r brings much of the iOS 5 goodness to your original... |
19 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak may be a die-hard Apple fan, but he still believes his iPhone falls short of a few capabilities. And even more so, compared to his Android phone, he said. Dan Lyons of the Daily Beast interviewed the Woz on the topic of which smartphone is best. "My primary phone is the iPhone," the W... |
17 January 2012
12:11 GMT |
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A training document sent out by RadioShack reveals that the retailer is still stocking some of the discontinued 16GB iPhone 4 models. The phones sell for $99 with a new, two-year contract.
While you can get an iPhone 4 directly from Apple for the nice sum of $99, the Cupertino company will only hand you the newer, 8... |
13 January 2012
08:41 GMT |
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A Morgan Stanley analyst issued a note this week with projections for Apple’s first and second half of 2012, including prognostications for an iPad 3 and the much-anticipated iPhone 5.
Katy Huberty, of investment bank Morgan Stanley, said (among other things) "Apple will also launch iPad 3 in H1 and a slimmer ... |
13 January 2012
03:23 GMT |
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T-Mobile's Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray has revealed in an interview that his company is ready to support the next-generation of iPhones, should Apple decide to add another carrier to its growing list of wireless partners.
T-Mobile’s head says they use a unique band of spectrum called AWS (Advance... |
12 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Wall Street analyst Gene Munster, with Piper Jaffray, has raised his estimates for iPhone sales forecasting that Apple will have sold roughly 30 million handsets in fiscal Q1 2012 (ended December).
Munster raised his iPhone numbers from 26 million units previously estimated for fiscal Q1 2012, and he also reiterated... |
12 January 2012
05:07 GMT |
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A late December survey by ChangeWave looking at smartphone demand trends has found that demand for Apple’s iPhone remains “incredibly strong more than two months after the iPhone 4S release”.
Better than one-in-two (54%) respondents planning to buy a new smartphone in the next three months said the... |
9 January 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Canonical proudly unleashed yesterday, January 5th, their second iOS app, Ubuntu One Files, available for the popular Apple iPhone device. The Ubuntu One Files app for iPhone is free and lets users manage and secure their files and photos directly from the iOS device, from anywhere in the world.Ubuntu One Files is li... |
6 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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After upgrading his iPhone to the latest iOS 5, Canadian technology consultant Ade Barkah noticed that if the device's clock is rolled back, all the images with a newer timestamp than the current one are accessible, even if the apparatus is locked with a password. The first thing Barkah noticed was that the cam... |
5 January 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Apple has just announced that China will be getting its newest and most amazing iPhone yet, next Friday, January 13. Additional territories are scheduled to receive shipments as well.According to the official announcement, “…iPhone 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, will be available in China and 21 additi... |
4 January 2012
09:10 GMT |
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There has been a lot of chatter surrounding Bill Gates’ ban on iProducts in his house. While the Gates family never confirmed such rumors, Bill can’t be too happy that the paparazzi managed to snap a photo of his daughter, Phoebe, carrying what looks a lot like an Apple iPhone.
Via TMZ comes this photo o... |
30 December 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Argentina has undergone rough changes during the last few years, as the country’s economy collapsed in December 2001 due to 1999’s recession that caused high interest rates and capital flight. The Argentinian government took several decisions meant to make its currency more competitive and the first to be... |
28 December 2011
03:46 GMT |
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Apple’s next iPhone will have a completely redesigned body, according to a person with alleged knowledge of Apple’s plans.BGR says their source is close to the blog. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s just as close to Apple as well. But the information dished out in the report sure sounds inte... |
28 December 2011
03:02 GMT |
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A new iPhone app could revolutionize the way we do business nowadays. Forget about the pen left at home, the tons of paper manufactured and distributed annually and the millions of hectares of forests destroyed over this cause. Due to an innovative Adobe EchoSign application, users can sign important documents dire... |
22 December 2011
09:58 GMT |
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