A new statistic came out today regarding iPhone upgrades that I found rather surprising. Apparently a whopping 42% of iPhone 4S customers broke a carrier contract to obtain Apple's latest gadget. What's more, 19% of iPhone buyers actually upgraded from an iPhone 4! Now, personally I think this is kind of crazy. I mean, iPhones are great, but the amount...

Some very interesting data regarding iPhone sales has just been released. It seems that, of all the Americans who sprung for a new smartphone in the last three months, 44.5% of them bought iPhones. This is huge for a couple reasons. Firstly, this is obviously great news for Apple. But more importantly, this impressive performance has helped close the...

iOS is awesome, as are pretty much all devices loaded with it. At least, that's what I think.  iTunes now coupled with iCloud now makes Apple's ecosystem and brilliant hardware almost impossible to resist. And, despite not being the highest-specced, super-duper-turbo charged powerhouses on the market, Apple products still remain the standard that every...

Even if you don't particularly care for the iPhone, you can't deny that it's a great device. It's sleek, fast and fun to use. And, unlike Android and Windows Phone 7, there's really only one new iOS device at a time. This means that the latest hardware and latest software are optimized for one another, creating the best user experience possible. After...

There have been countless comparisons done between the iPad 2 and competitors like the Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook, but I've never seen anything as extensive as Dr. Raymond Soneira's tablet display shootout. Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation of Amherst, New Hampshire, made it his goal to find out which consumer...

When any new company launches a device, it always sets itself up against some competition. In order to boast of its benefits, companies normally resort to having a sly dig at the market leader. In the technology world, that standard is usually Apple. BlackBerry Playbook ads took aim at the iPad's inability to play Flash content. The recent Samsung...

Today was a good day for Siri. Firstly, thanks to a new feature in the Wolfram Alpha search engine, Siri (which calls on Wolfram Alpha for information) now has access to Best Buy's public APIs. This means that your favorite digital assistant can give you help and advice on all of Best Buy's 35,000 consumer products, and all you have to do is...

My love affair with the iPhone has developed over the past few years. I'd actually owned both BlackBerries and an Android phone before trying my first iPhone: the 3G. Initially it was a loan from a friend, it took me a while to get used to not having a home screen wallpaper, and the lack of customization was not something I enjoyed. But, the way it...

This Week on TiP (Dec 11-18): Rumors are buzzing about an iPad Mini to be sold alongside the full-size model, Apple releases iOS 5.1 beta 2 to developers, the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 is now compatible with all A4-equipped devices. - Galaxy Nexus vs iPhone 4S: http://tinyurl.com/82xzqzx - iPad Mini rumors: http://tinyurl.com/7bbrfp8 -...

The Galaxy Nexus finally launched in the US this week, around a month later than the UK release. Since I'm based in England I got my hands on the GSM version on the first day and wrote up some comparison pieces. Granted, the Verizon model is LTE 4G capable and so will be much quicker at downloading. Apart from that and the slight difference in...