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Uh oh, Samsung’s being a poor sport. The company is appealing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban in Australia. This comes two weeks after a court ruled in favor of Apple effectively preventing all sales of the tablet in the country/continent for infringing on Apple’s patents. The evidence it presented in court regarding Samsung’s two patent…
One of the new and neat features in iOS 5 is keyboard shortcuts, something BlackBerry users are very familiar with. Basically, you just enter a shortcut – like using “ty” for the phrase “Thank You” – and the smartphone does the rest for you. But first, you actually have to set it up. See the…
An LTE iPhone has been on customers’ wish lists for the past year due to the influx of Android devices that have added 4G support. Now, Apple may finally be preparing to release an LTE offering for 2012. DigiTimes reports that as the competition gets more fierce, “Nokia, Apple, RIM and Sony Ericsson are expected to…
Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011. Less than 10 days later, Matt Bors made the comic you see below that had me laughing out loud, but I thought it was too soon to share it with you guys. Now that it’s been nearly 3 weeks, and his authorized biography is out, I think…
Apple’s iPhone 4S, which broke the 12 month product cycle previous iPhone models have maintained and also let down many hardcore nerds who were expecting to see a new design featuring a larger screen, has easily become the most successful smartphone to ever be released. Just 3 days after going on sale, Apple announced that…
Earlier this week our very own Marin Perez demonstrated, on video, how easy it is to access Siri on the iPhone 4S despite the device being locked. It’s a very easy problem to fix, just change a setting, but by default your iPhone 4S is open to anyone who has enough malice in their system…
Samsung managed to ship over 20 million smartphones in Q3 2011, one report says, and this means it shipped more smartphones in that quarter than any other company, including Nokia and arch-nemesis Apple. The two latter manufacturers cranked out 16.8 million and 17.1 million smartphones last quarter, respectively. Samsung has proven itself to be the…
What you’re looking at below is an image from a patent that was filed by Apple in 2006 for a device that looks like your typical feature phone. We like to think of it as the iPhone nano that failed to make the transition from a mere sketch done by an Apple engineer to a…
In a relatively rare occurrence, it looks like Apple has underperformed analysts’ expectations with its fourth quarter results. Apple is still doing quite well with its $28.27 billion in revenue and quarterly net profit of $6.62 billion but its iPhone and iPad sales numbers weren’t as high as some predicted. The company said it sold…
In June of this year we published a story that said Apple was considering switching from Samsung to TSMC for future processors. Note that while yes, Apple designs their own chips, they depend on companies who have fabs, slang for semiconductor fabrication plants, to make the little chips that power your iPhone, iPod touch, and…