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Apple is crazy about the design… in a good way. I’m sure they hate the holes they need to included in the iPhone design to make space for camera, flash and various sensors. According to the new patent we caught, those holes may not be needed in future iPhones thanks to the use of polymer-dispersed…
Holy crapple Maps, Batman! Apple’s Maps application is frustrating users and befuddling Batman as it navigates the super hero through a crowded tunnel, a mall and more. Besides this entertaining Dark Night-themed parody, the Movieclips Trailers’ YouTube channel also has two other parodies that feature The Hunger Games and the classic horror movie, The Shining.
It’s always interesting when stories pop up pitting Apple’s flagship iPhone 5 against Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III device. This time it’s web traffic volume between the two devices. The iPhone 5 has been out for a little under a month now, and in fact Apple announced it one month ago from today, but in…
“Oops!” That’s what a worker at Walmart is probably saying right now after finding out he or she sold an empty iPad box to a unsuspecting buyer. Well it wasn’t exactly empty, but there sure wasn’t an iPad inside that box. Instead, the customer went home to give the iPad to her daughter as a…
John Paczkowski ofAllThingsD reported on Friday that Apple will hold an invitation-only event on October 23rd to announce the iPad mini. Details on the event’s location were not available, but Paczkowski believes the event could be held on Apple’s Cupertino campus at the company’s town hall auditorium. Sources told him the iPad mini will include…
Though he doesn’t work there anymore, the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, has never been known for biting his tongue when he wishes to criticize the technology giant and it doesn’t look like he’ll be starting any time soon. In a recent interview with African tech site TechCentral, he went as far as to call…
Last year, Verizon Wireless changed its privacy policy and started anonymously tracking mobile phone usage among its customers. All new customers, including iPhone 5 owners, are automatically opted in to this program when they activate a line of service with the carrier. The anonymous tracking collects information like the URLs of websites that you visit…
With the launch of the iPhone 5 last month, Apple also unveiled a revamped iPod Touch and iPod Nano, which have both started making appearances in some Apple stores around the world this morning. The iPod Touch comes complete with the elongated 4″ display and most of the innards found in the latest iPhone, sans…
Apple issued a support document on Monday that addresses the purple flare issue noticed by iPhone 5 owners who take a photo with a out-of-scene bright light source in the frame of the shot. Apple implies this is a common problem and says that “most small cameras, including those in every generation of iPhone, may…
Well, well, well; look what we have here. It’s the two phones that everybody loves to hate, the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III. Android lovers usually despise the iPhone 5 and iOS lovers usually despise the Galaxy S III. We’ve pitted them head to head to determine which of these devices…