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Sprint says iPhone 4S is more data efficient than other smartphones
Sprint needed the iPhone badly. The company was hemorrhaging money and was finding it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to compete with the likes of AT&T and Verizon who not only boast more subscribers, but also carried the marquee smartphone on the market – the iPhone. It’s well established that Apple’s iPhone fundamentally changed the […]
Continue reading...Apple to completely overhaul iPhone, iMac, iPad, and MacBook Air lineup in 2012
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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The iPhone 4S didn’t usher in a new iPhone form factor but the next-gen iPhone is poised to change all that according to a recent report from Digitimes. What’s more, the report notes that Apple has plans to completely overhaul its entire product lineup in 2012, meaning we can expect to see revamped iPads, iMacs, […]
Continue reading...iPhone to launch on C Spire Wireless on November 11 with ultra-cheap data plans
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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C Spire Wireless announced back in October that it would become the fourth carrier in the US to carry the iPhone and now comes word that it will officially launch on November 11.
Continue reading...Siri hacked to run on the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch
Monday, October 31, 2011
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Developer Steven Troughton was successfully able to port Siri to the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. Siri as you probably now is currently an iPhone 4S exclusive. Some have speculated that this is on account of Siri needing the processing power of the A5 found in Apple’s latest iPhone. In other words, previous hardware wasn’t […]
Continue reading...Apple releases 3 new commercials for Siri, iCloud and the iPhone 4S camera
Monday, October 31, 2011
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Apple on Sunday released three new advertisements highlighting some of newest features in iOS 5 and the iPhone. First up we have a new Siri commercial titled “Snow Today”. This is Apple’s second Siri oriented commercial and highlights even more real-world uses for Apple’s voice recognition software. Second we have Apple’s iCloud commercial which highlights […]
Continue reading...Samsung becomes the world’s top smartphone vendor in Q3 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
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Perhaps due to the delayed launch of the iPhone 4S, or perhaps the result of flooding the market with handsets, Samsung over the past quarter moved past Apple to become the largest smartphone vendor in the world. During the third fiscal quarter of 2011, Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones, enough to garner it a 23.8% […]
Continue reading...US Dept of Veterans Affairs seeks security clearance for the iPad and iPhone
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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Apple hasn’t typically earned too much scratch selling its devices in bulk to Government agencies, but that may be changing soon as the iPad continues to make inroads into all types of employment and management positions. Not wanting to be sitting firmly behind the technology curve, the US Department of Veterans Affairs is looking into […]
Continue reading...Gazelle says BlackBerry trade-ins reach all-time high in wake of iPhone 4S release
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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Just a few years ago, Blackberry was synonymous with smartphone. The profits at RIM were plentiful and Blackberry devices were considered the creme de la creme. And then along came the iPhone and completely turned the smartphone market upside down. In one swift stroke, Apple redefined the very notion of what a smartphone looked like […]
Continue reading...Sprint pays Apple $200 more per iPhone than AT&T and other carriers
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Update: Our apologies. In our haste we misread the blurb from Dan Hesse. The subsidy Sprint pays Apple is not $200 more than AT&T pays. Rather, the subsidy it pays to Apple is $200 more it pays for other devices. Shortly before Apple officially announced the iPhone 4S, a report emerged claiming that Sprint was […]
Continue reading...It’s this type of design/usability detail that sets Apple apart from the competition
Monday, October 24, 2011
It’s the little things, really. It’s not uncommon to hear, when people describe what they like about Apple products, that devices like the iPhone just seem more elegant than the competition. Typically, these conversations center on differences in software design, but the unparalleled attention to detail that Apple pays to its products can also be […]
Continue reading...Siri was behind the delayed launch of the iPhone 4S
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Apple is a company that likes routine refresh cycles. Every September it releases new iPods. Every April is poised to be time for a new iPad. And every Summer, Apple releases a new iPhone. This Summer, however, things didn’t go as planned. Apple’s next-gen iPhone release was pushed back a full three months and now […]
Continue reading...Android’s new font, Roboto, looks awfully similar to Helvetica on the iPhone
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Google’s new premier smartphone – the Galaxy Nexus – features a new font dubbed Roboto. Now we’re not saying that Android derives a good deal of inspiration from iOS, but folks with a keener eye for fonts than we possess noticed that Google’s new system-wide font is awfully similar to Helvetica, the font Apple initially […]
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
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