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During Apple’s fourth-quarter conference call yesterday, CEO Steve Jobs ripped into the competition. In particular, he criticized Google Android for being too fragmented and said the “open” label doesn’t mean a thing if it means that end users and developers have to suffer through a poor experience. Google’s Andy Rubin, who is a key figure…
Aye, the Irish eyes be smilin’ upon ya my boy, my friends down under at foof Bags have released some new sleeves for the iPhone and iPad made of Irish Tweed. Actually, to be more specific these new sleeves are 100% wool Irish tweed, and are built to hug the shape of your iOS-powered device…
The Verizon iPhone rumor just won’t stop and now we’re hearing reports that Apple is in the late-stage testing for its smartphone on the largest mobile operator in the United States. The Boy Genius is reporting that Apple has a CDMA smartphone which in in “AP” testing mode, which is the last stage before a…
Steve Jobs jumped into the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call today and didn’t sound too impressed with the potential iPad competitors. The company shipped more than 4.1 million iPad units this last quarter and this was still below what analysts were expecting. Perhaps that peeved Steve Jobs off a bit, as he tore into the potential…
By most common-sense accounts, Apple had a strong fiscal fourth quarter with $20.3 billion in revenue and more than $4.3 billion in profits. The company did sell more than 14 million iPhone units and more than 4.1 million iPad devices but some of these marks were below analysts’ expectations. “We are blown away to report…
This doesn’t quite stack up to my Michael Jackson “Beat It” parody standard set by both Weird Al Yankovic and some creative Team Fortress 2 modders, but it’s still pretty funny for those in the mobile space. Tweet It takes rival gangs of iPad owners and iPhone owners, and pitches them into an unlikely battle…
Fans of Consumer Reports will be pleased to know that a brand-spanking new Consumer Reports iPhone app has been released. The Consumer Reports Mobile Shopper allows you to access ratings and reliability data while you’re out-and-about doing your shopping. Very convenient (and useful) to say the very least. Key features found within include: Scan barcodes,…
Have you ever caught yourself wondering what your iPhone might look like in an x-ray scan? I know I haven’t. That said, almost every time I go through airport security I’m curiously fascinated by the monitors that display the x-ray images of carry on items. With that in mind, the quick video you see above…
Cue the city dwellers who say “OMG I love NYC,” or “Only in New York” every time someone here in Manhattan sneezes: an iPhone-toting band just killed it on the B train. Atomic Tom, the band you’ll see in the video below, just had their instruments stolen (so the story goes). But that isn’t going…
The last we heard from EA Mobile, they were announcing their support for the Windows Phone 7 platform when it’s released on November 7th. It looks like they haven’t forgotten about the iOS platform as they recently revealed two of its upcoming big name titles are coming to both the iPhone & iPad during a…