If there’s ever been an indication that Apple really needs to release that long-rumored “budget iPhone” it’s the latest set of statistics from IDC. The company monitored shipments of the first quarter of this year, and although iPhone shipments went up from 35.1 million to 37.4, its share of the market dropped to just 17% from 23% in the year ago…
When you think of iPhone charging battery packs, there’s one name that’s become synonymous with that line of accessories: Mophie. Simply put, it’s the industry leader. The company, today, announced a new iPhone 5 case which has more power and faster charging speeds than either the Juice Pack Air or Helium. Mophie’s Juice Pack Plus features a 2,100…
1. App Store hits 50 billion downloads Apple’s been counting down to the 50 billion download mark for a few weeks now, and it finally reached it. We don’t yet know who the lucky downloader is, but we probably will soon – he or she has won a $10,000 App Store gift card! Could you imagine winning 10 grand for downloading an app!? So awesome. 2. New Google…
According to a new report from Politico, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook will testify at an upcoming Senate hearing focused on Apple’s offshore tax practices. The Politico report explains that, recently avoided paying as much as $9.2 billion in taxes by buying back stock with debt instead of offshore cash… Apple has a reported $100 billion in offshore…
When it comes to battery packs for iPhone you normally have one of two choices: either the backup battery incorporated in to a case of some sort, or separate block of various sizes. Both – however great – have their own compromises. The battery case requires you to have a usually quite chunky case permanently attached to your iPhone. The other requires…
According to Apple’s website, iOS customers have officially downloaded 5o billion applications! As of now, there’s no detail on what the 50 billionth app was or who downloaded it, but that person will receive a whopping $10,000 App Store gift card. Apple’s also giving each of the next 5o customers following the 5o billionth download a $500 App Store…
If you currently aren’t a smartphone user, and instead still use one of the older “feature phones,” as they are called, then you may be interested in this deal. For those feature phone users that are looking to get into the smartphone market, Verizon is doing a special deal for users in the last 2 months of their contract or that are off-contract. These…
Apple and the iPhone seem to get blamed for everything. This now includes the claim that the iPhone could indirectly be the reason Facebook Home is unpopular. The report, from TechCrunch, is saying that because most of Facebook’s employees and testers of the Home application that is available for Android were, in fact, iPhone users, they were unable to…
Google Maps has been on iOS for a good time now following the release in the App Store after Apple changed to its own in-house mapping application with the introduction of iOS 6. Now, however, Google is to the point where it is ready to begin updating it with some awesome new features. Some of these new features include deeper integration with the reviews…
Siri has been seeing some server side updates recently, and here is a new one. Now when you ask Siri to tell you a joke, there’s a possibility you will get back what is in the screenshot above. That’s right, Siri will laugh at her/himself. Jokes have never been Siri’s strong suit, and this doesn’t really make it any better. Oh well, everyone’s sense of…
As you all know, Google is kicking off its annual I/O conference today, and has announced a whole host of exciting new products and services. However, few of them impact iOS users like ourselves. One which certainly does is the new cross-platform Hangouts service. Hnagouts will be launched as a native app for iOS, and will give Google+ users the…
If you’re looking for a little more customization on your iPhone’s Home Screen, but you don’t want to jailbreak your device, then this little trick is right up your street! Following lots of testing from App Advice, a method has been devised to make the trick as simple as possible, so watch the video below! It’s very important that you follow all…
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