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The iPhone 4S is barely a month old, yet rumors about its successor are already cropping up. According to an “insider” from LG, who is supposedly an executive according to Boy Genius Report, the 6th generation iPhone will pack a 4 inch display. Said screen will have the same resolution as the current 3.5 inch…
When iOS 5 was released a few weeks ago, iPhone users quickly complained about the damage it did to battery life. iPhone 4S owners seemed to be the most vocal, so many believed that it had something to do with the new hardware. Never mind the fact that Apple explicitly mentioned that the iPhone 4S…
Whenever Apple comes up with an idea, they patent it. Whether or not they’ll use that idea in a future product is a totally different question, but let’s pretend for a minute and say that the Apple patents that have been published today will eventually come to fruition. First up, there’s the “swipe then hold”…
Apple released the iPhone 4S unlocked and contract-free today in the United States as promised, but you’ll have to dump the piggy bank if you want to get your hands on one. The 16GB version goes for $649, 32GB is $749, and 64GB is a whopping $849 — $20 more than the top-of-the-line 64GB 3G…
When Apple released both iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4S last month, they probably weren’t anticipating that they’d be putting some of their customers through a world of pain when it comes to battery life. Many folks have been reporting over the past few weeks that their iPhone loses about 10% worth of charge…
If your battery life sucked on the iPhone 4S or iPhone 4 with iOS 5, you’ll be happy to know that Apple has pushed out iOS 5.0.1 and it promises to fix the “bugs affecting battery life.” Best of all, this update can be had over-the-air. I’m downloading it as we speak, so I can’t…
Apple’s baked some things into iOS 5 that they’ve yet to turn on, but thanks to the hacker community we now have access to two unannounced features: panorama mode in the camera application and an Android like keyboard that suggests the correct spelling of a word you’re having difficulty with. Panorama mode works exactly how…
Well, we can add that to the virtually infinite list of squashed Apple rumors. Siri will not be coming to the iPhone 4, iPad 2, or any iOS devices older than the iPhone 4S. Apple shot down that rumor today in an email to one hopeful iOS user who suggested Apple charge a fee of…
Even though the iPhone 4 came to Verizon as an alternative carrier in February, the iPhone 4S was the first phone to launch without exclusivity to AT&T. AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all carry the iPhone 4S nationwide — well, at least when it’s in stock — and even with all the complaints over the years,…
Amazon has reportedly acquired Yap and this could be the beginning of it creating a voice-recognition system that will take on Siri. The Atlantic dug through an SEC filing which shows that the company “Dion Acquisition Sub” purchased the speech recognition company Yap and Dion just happens to be located in an Amazon building. Yap…