iPhone and iPad 3G have been secretly keeping a database of all of user’s locations
Apple has been tracking every user of an iPad 3G or iPhone’s location since that person has upgraded to OS 4.0. Some security researches recently discovered that each device has a secret database of user positions and timestamps, kept on the user’s mac or pc that he syncs his Apple device with. The researchers also [...]
Official White iPhone 4 running on OS 5.0?
We have just received word that the infamous leaksters over at Tinhte have uploaded a new video of a white iPhone 4 that Apple supposedly gave them. An interesting note that Tinhte said was that the white iPhone 4 also is running on a “test version” of iOS that no one else has seen yet. For all [...]
Apple sues Samsung for imitating the iPhone and iPad designs
It seems like everyday we hear about a new lawsuit being filed against one of the big mobile companies, and we got yet another one. All things D has news that Apple is suing Samsung Electronics for imitating the “look and feel” of Apple’s iPhone and iPad. This lawsuit mostly pertains to the Samsung Galaxy [...]
iOS/ iPhone 5 to get pop-up radial menus?
Basically unchanged since it’s introduction in 2007, Apple’s iPhone/iOS user interface is still the best in class today, almost four years later. It now runs on more then a hundred million devices, have been jumped up to a much bigger iPad form factor, and only required minor tweaks and changes during it’s 4 year tenure. Well, in [...]
Will iPhone/iOS 5 get real world multi-player gaming APIs?
Multiplayer real life/augmented reality gaming on mobile devices is not a very new thing these days. Foursquare started it’s business on it. There are also quite a few iPhone games, like Gunman, that let’s you do some sort of Augmented Reality gaming with your mobile device. But Gunman, and other games like this have to rely on their own [...]
Apple’s got a hardware fix to iPhone 4 antenna problem
Aren’t you a bit tired by now of all the hoopla about iPhone 4 antenna problems? Me? No way. It’s a real fun to watch Apple’s arrogance taken down a notch, but this antenna debacle. It was fun even when only us, tech geeks, were talking about it. And when Apple had the gall to try to [...]
Apple on iPhone 4 reception. It’s better then fine. We only had a bad bar calculation formula…
The reception issues on iPhone 4, and advice on how “to hold it the right way”, has become the joke of the week around internet. Almost every competitor with a grudge against iPhone had to chime in with their own version of “you can hold our device anyway you want and it still works” quip. Looks like [...]
Verizon iPhone 4 coming in January?
A lot of people must be tired by now from all these iPhone is coming to Verizon rumors. After all, Verizon iPhone has been rumored to happen for several years now, and nothing ever came out of it. Sorry, can’t help you. CDMA iPhone 4 on Verizon rumors, will only get more loud and frequent in [...]
iPhone 4 launch day craze: AT&T sold out, Orange FR has 20K units on 600K demand, O2 limits sales to current customers
If you really truly want to get your own iPhone 4 on day one, and haven’t pre-ordered it yet, be ready to spend some real quality time waiting in line. Just don’t go to your local AT&T store, to get one. AT&T has just announced that they won’t have any iPhone 4s for walk-in sales until [...]
Apple is looking into local contextual advertising engine for it’s iAd platform
Right now, the newly launched Apple’s iAd adverstising system might be only interested in big brand advertisers, who would be able to shell out $1 million or more for an ad campaign. But everyone needs to start somewhere. It seems, that Apple has been looking into possibility for it’s own mobile contextual advertising solution long before [...]
China Unicom to offer amnesty to jailbroken grey market iPhone owners
China Unicom will start selling iPhones in China already next week. And it has already made them available for pre-order since the beginning of October. But, at prices ranging from $730 for Wi-Fi less iPhone 3g 8GB, to $1000+ for an iPhone 3Gs 32GB, unsubsidized, it does not seem that China Unicom was happy with [...]
China Unicom to launch iPhone on Oct. 15th. $293 for 8G, $439 for 16G on a 2 year, $27 a month contract
The talk about when Apple’s iPhone is getting into to China has been going on almost since the day of the launch. And last month Apple finally managed to clinch the deal with one of the smaller (for China) operators, to start selling it. But no shipping date or price info has been made official [...]
Apple’s device abuse detection system and the stupid exploding iPod story
An interesting Apple patent became public today on USPTO website. It’s called “Consumer abuse detection system and method” and is meant to help Apple service reps to see whether the broken device you brought in was your fault or Apple’s. To do that, Apple proposes placing a number of sensors that can detect liquid, thermal changes, [...]
Next in your iPhone OS: live object identification, face recognition, text filtering, smarter messaging, voice alteration
Apple guys do keep themselves busy thinking up new ways how to improve their iPhone OS software. And Apple’s patent applications give us a glimpse of how they may go about it. Last we told you about event based modes, intelligent and scheduled communications that could come with your new iPhone 4.0 or 5.0 OS. [...]
iPhone 4.0 OS: event based modes, intellingent and scheduled communications
Now that with 3.0 OS iPhone has basically caught up with the traditional smartphones in functionality, it may be time to look how Apple can make the next generation devices even smarter. We’ve already seen some of the things, like integration between Mapping and Calendar app in recent Apple patent filings. Some new patent applications from [...]
Russian operators unable to sell iPhone. May be liable for $1 billion in fines to Apple
Russian mobile and business sites have been abuzz about state of the iPhone in Russia these past few weeks. Turns out the Apple phone is not too hot over there. But that is not the biggest problem. The worst part is that swayed by the lure of iPhone 3G last fall, Russian mobile operators bent [...]
Apple is thinking about having water exposure detector in iPhone
What is one of a pretty frequent reasons for your shiny new iPhone, or any mobile phone for that matter, to go bad? I’d say spilling a coffee on it, or dropping it into a water somewhere. We all know that water is bad for electronics, but this sh$#& happens quite often. Then, we may [...]
Homade’s ChocoCase for first-gen iPhone
We know the iPhone is already pretty delectable without having to put it in a fake jacket that looks like chocolate, and I for one wouldn’t even think of buying something like this, unless I am giving much more importance to protection than style. Made from regular silicone, the ChocoCase from Homade sure can protect [...]
T-Mobile Sues Starbucks Over Wi-Fi iPhone Deal
T-Mobile USA has decided to step forward and press charges against Starbucks, the internationally infamous coffee and coffeehouse chain, claiming that they secretly colluded with AT&T to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access in its cafes. The problem with this is that T-Mobile and Starbucks had already made an exclusive agreement for this matter, with T-Mobile [...]
Softbank Get iPhone in Japan
The SoftBank Mobile Corporation announced earlier today that they have signed an agreement with Apple that involves bringing the iPhone to Japan later this year. We already discussed the past rumor of DoCoMo bringing the iPhone to Japan and most of us thought this was a sure thing, but with this announcement there are sure [...]