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Yes, this is quite a thin rumor, but the folks over at Technabob are suggesting that Apple is working on 3D displays for the next-generation iPod touch in order to stick it to Nintendo and Sony in the portable gaming market. While outlandish, if this rumor came true, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch…
What does the world want? Thinner phones, apparently. The iPhone has already grown thinner than ever, but a new patent application by Apple could mean even thinner devices. When will it ever end? AppleInsider reports: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week revealed a new patent application from Apple entitled “Touch Sensing Device Having…
Yesterday I speculated that the CDMA iPhone would be hitting other carriers in the future since Verizon made it clear that it had a non-exclusive deal with Apple. Lo and behold, the hit-or-miss rumor mill known as Digitimes is reporting today that a CDMA iPhone will indeed ship to other countries and carriers. Although the…
AT&T recently dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone 3GS to just $49 with a two-year contract. That’s not a bad price for a phone that’s still very capable when compared to smartphones on the market today and supports hundreds of thousands of apps available in the iTunes store. Not long after the drop in…
Apple and a handful of iPhone app developers, like Pandora, Paper Toss, the Weather Channel, and Dictionary.com are under legal fire for sending personal information to advertisers without the consent of app users. Jonathan Lalo is seeking class-action status for the suit, which claims that information like location, age, gender, income, ethnicity, sexual orientation and…
The world was in disbelief when Apple took the plunge into the mobile phone market in 2007. That year during WWDC, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, a wondrous little device that made phone calls, surfed the Internet and replaced the iPod – all in one. The initial reaction from competitors, or soon-to-be competitors since Apple…
Unnamed sources have said that Apple has bumped up their Taiwanese iPhone production for the first quarter of 2011 from 19 to 20-21 million units. That includes 14-15 million WCDMA iPhones, and 5-6 million CDMA iPhones due for Verizon. In the last quarter of the year, Apple reportedly pumped out 15.5 million units, resulting in…
While Apple may get a lot of guff over some of the way it treats its iPhone developers, but it has done a lot to help its devices be more accessible to people. A great story out of the Associated Press show how it has worked with the Cherokee nation to deliver some of its…
Seeing this gigantic iPhone composed of 56 Apple iPads could get Apple fanboys as riled up as meat lovers looking at a pig sculpted entirely out of bacon. It’s unofficially the world’s biggest iPhone, mostly because it really isn’t a huge smartphone, but if you stand far enough from the thing and squint your eyes…
Do you like free stuff? Are you an Apple iPhone fan? Do you live in Europe? Well, if you answered “yes” to the three of those questions then you should check out the 12 Days of Christmas (iTunes link) app that was just released by Steve Jobs’ company. The 12 Days of Christmas iPhone app…