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Earlier this week Apple showed off the next version of their mobile operating system, iOS 6. It has a ton of tiny features that will probably add up to an impressive update, but there aren’t any stand out features that you can point to and classify as “magical”. Personally, I’m disappointed that multitasking wasn’t addressed…
Apple’s event yesterday started at 20:00 for me here in Helsinki, which means as soon as it was done I went straight to bed. Now that I’m awake again, and working while New York and California are asleep, I’m surprised that none of the major websites have bothered making a video demoing what’s new in…
ETradeSupply, a mobile phone parts maker, allegedly has gotten its hands on the next-generation iPhone’s back casing. Rumors have circulated for a while that the new iPhone will get an updated hardware design with a slimmer profile, metallic back, and a larger display. More recently, some leaked images suggest the headphone jack will move to…
Digging far down into the latest beta of iOS 6, 9to5Mac was able to uncover some new information about the next iPhone model and Apple’s rumored 3D Maps app. The hints were found in layers of code, so it’s about to get very geeky. First, a new iPhone model running iOS 6 contains references to…
Meet Nelson. Nelson seems like a pretty nice guy. He works on the Disney Wonder cruise ship and has a girlfriend and plenty of friends. He also has an iPhone. Oh, but he didn’t buy it. He stole it from passenger Katy McCaffrey. She now knows all about her iPhone thief thanks to the photos he…
October is five months away, which means we’re going to hear rumors about the next iPhone for the next 20+ weeks. Please bear with us. Today there’s a new scrap of information from the folks at 9to5Mac. They have it on good authority that Apple is currently testing two new iPhones, one with model number…
Most handset vendors have a portfolio of devices that spans across multiple points. Said portfolio gets refreshed every 12 to 18 months. Apple on the other hand, they come out with one phone a year. Their “midrange” device is the iPhone from last year. And their “low-end” device is the iPhone from two years ago.…
Apple’s going to release a new iPhone this year. Everyone knows that. According to several anonymous sources who have spoken to Bloomberg, the sixth generation iPhone was one of the last things Steve Jobs worked on before he passed away last year. The exact quotes from the piece: “Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had worked closely…
Analyst Shaw Wu issued a note to investors yesterday that says according to his sources, Apple is going to make between 20% and 25% less iPhones in Q2 2011 because the company is preparing their factories for the upcoming sixth generation iPhone. Should we believe Shaw? Absolutely. Apple shipped 35 million iPhones during the first…
It’s been rumored for a couple of years now, but it looks like Apple is finally cutting cords with the competition. 9to5Mac has uncovered that in iOS 6, Apple will ditch Google Maps in favor of a custom-tailored Maps application of its own. Apple is working on a mapping database so it will no longer have…