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Apple addressed the iPhone 4 antennagate/Death Grip issues in a press conference Friday and CEO Steve Jobs admitted there was a problem but insinuated it was being overblown by the press. Still, the company will be giving out free bumper cases to all impacted users. The company reiterated that the reception issues weren’t exclusive to…
It hasn’t even been a month since the iPhone 4 went on sale, and Apple has managed to sell 3 million units already. In case you didn’t notice, that’s quite about a million per week since its release, and it still seems to be sold out everywhere. Of course, the iPhone 4 isn’t without its…
Just two weeks after it was officially announced, Firefox Home is now available for the iPhone through the iTunes store. What does it do? Well, if you’re an avid Firefox user and you wish you could just take all your bookmarks and open tabs with you when you leave your computer, you can. The app…
So, iOS 4.0.1 is out. Will talked about the release yesterday, but I simply had to get my two cents in. I can’t help myself. As you can see from the screen capture above, the update is for the 3G, 3GS and iPhone 4. The main purpose of the update is to ‘improve the formula…
Apple is holding a press conference tomorrow morning to presumably address the iPhone 4 reception problems and a source tells the Wall Street Journal that the company will definitely not issue a recall. Furthermore, the WSJ report said that Apple was aware of the reception glitch prior to the launch but Apple CEO pushed forward…
We all know Apple will hold a last-minute press conference Friday and it will probably address the “Death Grip” issues with the iPhone 4. We have our suspicions about what will happen but we want to know what you think. The stainless steel band of the Apple iPhone 4 doubles as the antenna for cellular…
Apple and Research In Motion reportedly tried to buy Palm before Hewlett-Packard (HP) won the rights to the smartphone pioneer, according to a report. We had previously known that there were other bidders for Palm but sources definitively told Business Insider that Apple and RIM were major suitors. The report said that Apple offered up…
All of the fuss about the iPhone 4 antenna issue should already be a pretty good indicator of how serious the problem is, but now we have a real, solid authority voicing his concerns on the matter – Steve Wozniak. The Woz. Our geek of geeks. Apparently, when Woz is in a fringe coverage area,…
It looks like the iPhone isn’t the only Apple device getting some update love, as the iPad has also received a new iOS version today. If you think this update marks the arrival of iOS 4.0 on the iPad, I regret to inform you that it is, in fact, not 4.0. The update is for…
By now it’s clear that Apple isn’t taking this iPhone 4 “Death Grip” antenna reception problem lightly – despite Steve Jobs’ initially dismissive attitude towards reports that holding the iPhone 4 in a specific way can cause the phone to lose all signal reception. Apple is even planning to hold a press conference tomorrow to…