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Apple isn’t going about this event invite the way it did with the original iPad launch with splattered art work and vague remarks. Nope. This time it’s plain and simple: there is an iPad peeking out from the invite, and a huge, prominent number “2” right on the invite for both the date of the…
We’ve come to expect a new iPhone from Apple every year around June or July. Like clockwork, since June 2007, a new model iPhone has been launched every single summer. However, there is word that this year might be a little different — we might not see a new version of the Apple smartphone until…
Hold your horses! After a morning filled with rumors that the iPad 2 was going to land in June instead of the expected March, AllThingsD chimed in with their own “sources close to the situation” that claim Apple is gearing up to unveil the iPad 2 at an event on March 2. Earlier this month,…
When Apple rolled out its App Store subscription service last week, there was a lot of concern that the 30% cut could crowd out many innovative and well-liked services. Well, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has clarified what services will have to give the company a cut … maybe. Companies like Rhapsody expressed concern about the…
Imagination Technologies is a little company that most people don’t know about, but they make some of the best graphics processors on the planet. We’re not talking about desktop gaming here either, we’re talking mobile. Their PowerVR SGX 535 is inside Apple’s iPhone and iPad and now Imagination is talking up the SGX543MP, SGX544MP, and…
A new Amazon Kindle commercial has just the webs and it takes another jab at the Apple iPad as an e-reader. The Amazon Kindle commercial that is embedded below is actually pretty well done, if a bit skewed toward the hipster demographic. One of the main selling points of the commercial is a scene where…
The Verizon iPhone was expected to be a huge and dramatic hit by many analysts, journalists and even AT&T, but so far it doesn’t seem to have the gravity we’d all been anticipating. According to Instapaper founder, Marco Arment, the lack of a huge spike in Verizon iPhone sales might be because of those who’d…
When you think about all the amazing things one can achieve today using a device that so easily slips into your pocket, it’s pretty hard to believe all that is being done on a battery smaller than your credit card and no thicker than a few stacked on top of one another. Smartphones, no matter…
Wondering what’s the difference between the iPhone 4 offered by AT&T and the one Verizon sells? You may know that the former runs on GSM, whereas the latter on a CDMA-based network, but what that means exactly? For one thing, you can’t get simultaneous voice and data with Verizon’s iPhone, meaning that your app updates…
According to a report from the New York Times, Apple is not working on a smaller iPhone. This new is contract to a recent report from Bloomberg that suggest the Cupertino company is working on smaller and cheaper version of the popular smartphone. A source from the NYT claims the production of a smaller iPhone…