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We’ve come to expect a new iPhone from Apple every year around June or July. Like clockwork, since June 2007, a new model iPhone has been launched every single summer. However, there is word that this year might be a little different — we might not see a new version of the Apple smartphone until…
IHS has just published some research on much revenue was made through the Android Market, iPhone App Store, Nokia Ovi Store, and BlackBerry App World in 2010. Predictably, the iPhone App Store is still the king of the hill with $1.7 billion in revenue, but they’ve lost some market share since 2009 (82% vs. 92%).…
Let’s say you own one of those super-cool lookin’ iPhone docks. As a matter of fact, it looks so cool that you want to give it a prime space in your living room, far away from your computer. Moreover, you may have it connected to your audio system and use it to play sound around…
Imagination Technologies is a little company that most people don’t know about, but they make some of the best graphics processors on the planet. We’re not talking about desktop gaming here either, we’re talking mobile. Their PowerVR SGX 535 is inside Apple’s iPhone and iPad and now Imagination is talking up the SGX543MP, SGX544MP, and…
During a presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that platform-specific app stores like Apple’s AppStore and Google’s Android Market are bad for consumers. Before you slap us with some serious hate comments (which BTW I can understand), read these words from Mr. Stephenson first: “You purchase an app…
The Verizon iPhone was expected to be a huge and dramatic hit by many analysts, journalists and even AT&T, but so far it doesn’t seem to have the gravity we’d all been anticipating. According to Instapaper founder, Marco Arment, the lack of a huge spike in Verizon iPhone sales might be because of those who’d…
When you think about all the amazing things one can achieve today using a device that so easily slips into your pocket, it’s pretty hard to believe all that is being done on a battery smaller than your credit card and no thicker than a few stacked on top of one another. Smartphones, no matter…
What can brown do for you? Well, if you live in Canada, brown can now calculate shipping rates, track shipments and more, right from your iPhone. Yes, as you can probably guess, the UPS Mobile iPhone App is now available in Canada. This is a welcome addition to the Apple App Store for Canadians packing…
We’ve heard of exploding or fiery iPods and iPhone handsets before, usually resulting in little or no injury, but none have perplexed us as much as this particular case. Why on earth would you put together a video montage of the destroyed iPhone with cheesy flames and explosions around them set to Bruce Springsteen’s music?…
On-demand social music service Rdio, which comes from the founders of Skype, released an updated iPhone app that feels like it’s has been revamped from the ground up. The first thing you’ll notice is a brand new user interface, which organizes all of the app’s features in a “springboard” dashboard, eliminating the tabs along the…