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Hardware expert Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, believes the WiFi issues some owners of the new iPad are reporting aren’t a hardware problem. Instead, they could be quickly fixed with a future software update. Apple acknowledged the problems a few days ago and started looking into them. “Symptoms can include, but are not limited…
After giving in to the pressure from consumers, AT&T finally started unlocking contract-free iPhones as of April 8th. Well for once, AT&T is actually going above expectations to make the process easier. You don’t even have to visit your local AT&T store to unlock the iPhone; you can do it online right from home. First…
Some things just don’t go together. Peanut butter and broccoli. Beer and cereal. Grandparents and skinny jeans. Polarized sunglasses and iPads. Wait, what? While attempting to do his best Corey Hart impression, ZDNet’s Jason D. O’Grady quickly found out that the iPad (all variants) go completely black in portrait mode when you attempt to view the iPad…
BlackBerry PlayBook owners will soon lose the ability to sideload applications onto their tablets. RIM will be pushing an update to all existing PlayBooks that will remove this option to prevent application piracy. RIM’s VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders broke the news via Twitter, stating that the move is geared at curbing application piracy,…
The Nokia Lumia 900 officially became available yesterday and some of the early returns look promising. The folks over at Laptop Mag noticed that the flagship Windows Phone climbed to the top of Amazon’s sales list, ahead of some high-end Android devices. No doubt, the price has to help as you can get the Lumia…
Despite the release of the Lumia 900, industry analysts are still painting a dark picture when it comes to Windows Phone’s 2012 outlook. Market research company ABI Research claims that the Windows Phone platform will only account for 2% of the estimated 36 billion applications downloaded in 2012. Though this represents nearly double Windows Phone’s 2011…
Samsung’s flagship device this year is going to be the Galaxy S III. HTC has the One X. Nokia has the Lumia 900. And Apple will have whatever they end up calling the next iPhone. But what about LG? At Mobile World Congress in February, the South Korean company announced the “world’s first” quad core…
You’ve heard it here before and now we have the dates to share. The popular shooter with Bullet Time effects is heading to the two most popular smartphone platforms – iOS and Android. Those of you with Apple-branded devices will get Max Payne first on April 12, while folks with smartphones and tablets running Google’s…
You’ve probably heard folks have problems with GPS on their Asus Transformer Prime tablet turned netbook. Moreover, you probably already know the Taiwanese company acknowledged the problem and has tried fixing it with software updates. That, however, hasn’t solved the issue and now they’re going for the hardware fix in a form of the GPS-improving…
Hipmunk updated its iOS and Android apps to make them even smarter. Thanks to the new calendar integration, the application knows your schedule and will include that information in the flight and hotel booking process. So when you conduct your flight search, calendar events will appear as vertical lines under the flights that conflict. Moreover,…