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A rumor from Japanese Nikkei newspaper suggests Softbank won’t be the only carrier to exclusively offer the iPhone for so long. Starting from next year, KDDI will join the party too, offering the latest (and greatest) version of Apple’s handset – iPhone 5. KDDI is obviously super-interested in a deal with the Cupertino-based company, considering…
9to5Mac spilled the beans on the plentiful amount of new features coming in the iPhone 5, which they seem to have confirmed with sources. There’s a lot we already expected, but the big news of the leak this morning is a voice-controlled Assistant. Apple acquired Siri back in 2010, and up until now we haven’t heard…
Before Apple announced the iPhone back in January 2007 (can you really believe it’ll be 5 years since that happened in just 3 short months?!) there existed an iconic handset that most people didn’t enjoy using, but they had no shame carrying it around since it defined what a sleek and sexy mobile phone should…
Apple is preparing to launch the Newsstand service, offering newspapers and magazines to its iOS device users. Most likely it will be folks with iPads that will be interested to use it, but I can easily envision people accessing the same content both from their iPhone and iPad. The “default” deal the Cupertino-based company is…
Under layers of source code, the fate of Apple products has been discovered. Right now the fastest processor in an iOS device is Apple’s 1 GHz dual-core A5 chip, which is found in the iPad 2. The company is expected to unveil the iPhone 5 soon — say, October 4th — with that same processor.…
I wonder if anybody reads these articles and thinks “Wow, I’m honestly shocked!” anymore. Yes, Samsung is adding even more lawsuits against Apple to its list. This news comes just ten days after we reported the previous suit. The main goal is to ban Apple from selling iOS devices in the Netherlands, particularly the iPhone…
Mobile Q&A company Opinionaided conducted a small survey between September 7, 2011 and September 13, 2011, asking its iPhone users whether they’ll upgrade to the iPhone 5. 1,011 people responded, with 49% of them saying “I do.” 😉 Of course, we shouldn’t make general judgments from such a low sample. Then again, let’s play with…
Verizon has some interesting statistics on the success of in-app purchases on iOS. So are they successful? In a word, yes. In fact, Verizon has revealed that 72 percent of revenue from iPhone apps comes from in-app purchases. This is based on the 200 highest-grossing applications in the app store as of July 2011. Only 4…
It’s no surprise that Apple has a large loyal following, something other companies probably cry themselves to sleep at night over. But just how large and loyal is this following? Statistics for the iPhone are in, and they’re huge as always. It turns out Apple has an astounding 89 percent retention rate, according to a…
Reports from anonymous sources “close to the matter” claim Samsung is getting ready to block sales of the iPhone 5 in Europe, though they haven’t quite settled in which countries they’ll be launching legal action. South Korea is a natural choice, but Europe is apparently in discussions, and would put a significantly larger wrench into…