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Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon COO Lowell McAdam confirmed that the Verizon iPhone will be offered with an unlimited data plan costing $30 per month. This move by Verizon is designed to entice AT&T customers who, unless they are grandfathered into an unlimited plan, can only choose from data plans that limit usage…
Near Field Communication, or NFC, is expected to really take off in 2011, and rumor has it that the next iterations of the iPad and iPhone will accommodate NFC technology. The technology has recently been included in the Google Nexus S, but we’ve yet to see it in real action or in newer handsets. NFC…
This may or may not surprise you, but Apple doesn’t build their own hardware. No sir, they rely on cheap Asian labor for that, and rumors according to Digitimes say that Pegatron, who traditionally makes notebookes, has been tapped to produce between 10 and 12 million CDMA iPhones, and at least 10 million units of…
The iPhone and iPad had been relatively secure device – if we don’t count that huge exploit in which tens of thousands of e-mails were compromised via AT&T’s network – but they could still use a bit of work. So, Apple has employed former NSA analyst, David Rice, to help bolster security and give Apple…
Apple surpassed its 10 billion App Store downloads today and awarded its $10,000 iTunes gift card to Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. The mother of two teenagers, Davis won with the download of the free Paper Glider app which was closed the contest at 9.30AM UK time, or 1.30AM PST/4.30AM EST. The app was…
The ever elusive white iPhone 4 has been making strange appearances in different retail systems lately, and now it looks like it’s up on AT&T’s online account manager, too. We initially thought that the ivory Apple smartphone would become available for Verizon since it was up on the carrier’s site the day it was announced.…
If you live in, or are planning to travel to San Francisco in the near future, the Time Shutter San Francisco is a new app you’ll want to have on-board. What does Time Shutter San Francisco do? It lets you take a look at how San Fran looked a century ago, and makes it easy…
Sure, in the past we’ve all had our choice of white or black when it comes to our favorite iOS powered device. With the iPhone 4, we haven’t been so lucky. For one reason or another, the white variant (the one I’ve always wanted) has been MIA, and from the factory, black is all that…
The Apple iPad 3G has received the stamp of approval from the Chinese regulatory bodies and this potentially opens up a huge market for the touchscreen tablet. As you’d expect, the Apple iPad 3G is the company’s tablet but with integrated mobile data radios inside. China has been notorious for not allowing certain technologies in…
Last week we saw the unveiling on the new iPhone 4 made strictly for Verizon. The CDMA Apple smartphone is nearly identical to its GSM cousin in every way, except for two things – it doesn’t have a SIM card slot for obvious reasons, and the seams of the antennas are different, pushing the silent…