If you’ve been wondering what your iPhone 4, or your iPhone 4S, or any other “legacy” device will be missing once you hit the update button to iOS 7, you can rest assured knowing someone else has done the hard word for you and put a lovely chart together, demonstrating all the new features coming in iOS 7 and what your device will or won’t get. Camillo…
As any of you who have broken an iDevice well know, sending a faulty iDevice to Apple for “repair” usually results in Apple simply replacing the device with a brand new one. For us customers, that’s awesome, because all our devices build up the usual catalogue of scuffs, scratches, wear and tear, getting a brand new iDevice, or refurbished equivalent,…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has written to tech giants Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft in a bid to outline efforts to prevent mobile device theft, with a view to ultimately cutting crime in the Big Apple. At the beginning of the month the New York Times reported that a database established to combat mobile phone thefts was utterly…
At first glance the above video is just sort of a fake iPhone 6 commercial using the iPhone 5, however upon a watching further you see it actually is a concept video of what the iPhone 5S/6 could be, if rumors always came true that is. It shows a slimmer profile with a capacitive home button (actually it says the entire bottom is capacitive). You can simply…
Apple has today been granted a rather interesting patent, focused on multi-touch user interfaces on portable devices. The patent, granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office is described as a patent for “Playback control using a touch interface”. It describes a method of user interaction whereby users can input touch gestures whilst no content is…
I know, I know. Another iPhone 5S rumor. But this one is different. This one isn’t about a summer launch date, or a cheaper iPhone, or a device made of fiberglass, this one is about the manufacturing of the device. More specifically, according to this rumor, the iPhone 5S is already being produced at Foxconn to prepare for a summer launch…
If any of you have been watching Apple’s sales numbers, you may know that the iPad mini was a huge success for company. The iPad mini is so popular, in fact, that it has started to outsell its full-sized brother much quicker than Apple had imagined. In December of last year, both tablets sold similar numbers, both around 7.5 million units in the month….
Many government agencies in the United States have been long time BlackBerry advocates. The reason being that,f or quite some time, BlackBerry reigned supreme in terms of security. Nowadays, however, Apple and Google have done a good job at catching up. Something to prove that is the Pentagon’s decision to begin allowing iOS and Android devices run on its…
Just last week, we mentioned that Judge Lucy Koh had grown tired of the patent battles between Apple and Samsung, and she even considered stopping one of the lawsuits between the two tech giants. Well, even though Judge Koh has decided to let the lawsuits proceed for now, she is still saying that she’s tired of the battles, and she wants the lawsuits…
Alongside the iOS 6.1 update today came an update for the Apple TV. What was included? A few things, namely iTunes in the Cloud updates, the Up Next feature from iTunes, and support for Bluetooth keyboards (finally!). The actual changelog for the update, labeled Apple TV update 5.2, was as follows: - iTunes in the Cloud: Browse and play…
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