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Were you getting tired of iPhone 5 rumors, too? Apple has finally given us a date to look forward to, not just to hear about its new smartphone, but a day to look forward to the end of all those ridiculous rumors. One iPhone model, or two? Radical new design, or minor upgrade? A major…
Smartphones with curved glass displays are nothing new. Dell used curved glass in their Windows Phone that no one really remembers, Samsung used it in the Nexus S, the question is when the technology go mainstream? According to Digitimes, our favorite Taiwanese rumor site because they have an incredible knack for getting things right, the…
A rumor from Japanese Nikkei newspaper suggests Softbank won’t be the only carrier to exclusively offer the iPhone for so long. Starting from next year, KDDI will join the party too, offering the latest (and greatest) version of Apple’s handset – iPhone 5. KDDI is obviously super-interested in a deal with the Cupertino-based company, considering…
Update: The JP Morgan report doesn’t take into account a new plant going up in Brazil, which may off-load Foxconn’s production by around 25%. Apple is allegedly cutting orders for iPad 2 parts by as much as 25% for the fourth quarter, says one report from JP Morgan, which indicated parts suppliers received fewer orders…
9to5Mac spilled the beans on the plentiful amount of new features coming in the iPhone 5, which they seem to have confirmed with sources. There’s a lot we already expected, but the big news of the leak this morning is a voice-controlled Assistant. Apple acquired Siri back in 2010, and up until now we haven’t heard…
Apple is preparing to launch the Newsstand service, offering newspapers and magazines to its iOS device users. Most likely it will be folks with iPads that will be interested to use it, but I can easily envision people accessing the same content both from their iPhone and iPad. The “default” deal the Cupertino-based company is…
Under layers of source code, the fate of Apple products has been discovered. Right now the fastest processor in an iOS device is Apple’s 1 GHz dual-core A5 chip, which is found in the iPad 2. The company is expected to unveil the iPhone 5 soon — say, October 4th — with that same processor.…
I wonder if anybody reads these articles and thinks “Wow, I’m honestly shocked!” anymore. Yes, Samsung is adding even more lawsuits against Apple to its list. This news comes just ten days after we reported the previous suit. The main goal is to ban Apple from selling iOS devices in the Netherlands, particularly the iPhone…
Mobile Q&A company Opinionaided conducted a small survey between September 7, 2011 and September 13, 2011, asking its iPhone users whether they’ll upgrade to the iPhone 5. 1,011 people responded, with 49% of them saying “I do.” 😉 Of course, we shouldn’t make general judgments from such a low sample. Then again, let’s play with…
Verizon has some interesting statistics on the success of in-app purchases on iOS. So are they successful? In a word, yes. In fact, Verizon has revealed that 72 percent of revenue from iPhone apps comes from in-app purchases. This is based on the 200 highest-grossing applications in the app store as of July 2011. Only 4…