China Unicom, the carrier expected to offer up the iPhone in China, has officially denied the report that they’ve ordered 5 million iPhones from Apple. Yi Difei, China Unicom’s spokesman, officially said that the rumors are “not true” but affirms that talks between the two companies are still on-going. Tiffany Yang, meanwhile, speaking on Apple’s [...]
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China Unicom denies ordering 5 Million iPhones
August 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Apple Rejects Google Voice
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Google Voice won’t be making an appearance on iPhones any time soon after Apple rejected it from the App Store. The reasoning behind the decision was that it duplicated existing functionality i.e. making calls, etc. It’s certainly a blow for iPhone users given that Android and Blackberry users can both use Google Voice. It also [...]
O2 to Loose iPhone Exclusivity?
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
O2’s long hold over the iPhone in the UK may be about to come to an end if the latest round of speculation proves true, T-Mobile UK has confirmed that they are currently in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in the UK. It doesn’t stop there though because rumour has it that Orange [...]
Tags: Apple · O2 · T-Mobile · iPhone
Push Notification Doesn’t Work on Hacked iPhones? UPDATE.
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Apple’s apparently taken a stand against ‘hacked’ iPhones. Czech-based company PoweryBase, makers of the NotifyMe application, have just found what looks like evidence of Apple trying to stymie hackers. They noticed that users of hacked iPhones, who make up 5% of their app customers, also made up 80% of their customer support requests. NotifyMe is [...]
Verizon to restrict devices to its own app store
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Verizon has disclosed a number of details regarding its upcoming app store, including plans to prohibit handset makers from shipping devices with their own app portals, according to GigaOM. The restrictions will prevent immediate access to the BlackBerry App World or Windows Mobile Marketplace, although users will be permitted to add the stores manually.
Tags: Android · Apple · BlackBerry · Industry Q&A's · Verizon Wireless · Windows Mobile 6
iPhone 3G S battery life sucks
July 8th, 2009 · No Comments
though Apple is boasting that the iPhone 3G S comes with an improved battery, it appears that users aren’t exactly reaping the rewards of extended battery life. In fact, the new power source on the iPhone 3G S can’t even provide a day’s worth of battery life. A quick autopsy of the iPhone 3G S [...]
Tags: Apple · Battery · iPhone
Sony PSP2 to surpass iPhone 3GS in graphics?
July 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A leak today hints that a true second-generation PSP is in development that could have graphics better than the iPhone 3GS and last-generation consoles. The Spanish branch of Eurogamer claims to have internal Sony information that the next handheld will use a PowerVR SGX543MP4 graphics core closely related to the SGX535 found in the iPhone [...]
Tags: Apple · Gadgets · Portable Gaming · Sony
iPhone 4.0 OS preview: Automatic is the Future
July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Want to a peek into the crystal ball and see what the future holds for you iPhone owners out there? Well, read on and be amazed at these potential iPhone 4.0 features that may soon be available in a firmware update down the road.
Discovered in a bunch of pending patent applications, this first one is [...]
Obama Administration - White House News app
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Obama Administration - White House News is a new app to keep up to date with President Barack Obama and his Administration.
This app will bring you daily blog entries from the Official White House blog, photos from the Official White House photographers, plus weekly video addresses by President Obama, videos of Press Briefings, Tweets from [...]
Tags: Apple · Software · iPhone
Apple Offers iPhone Developers a New SDK
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Apple recently made a new software development kit available to those writing applications for the iPhone. iPhone SDK 3.1 has lots of new tools for developers to take advantage of. Some of the changes include better control over the iPhone’s video editing software which preserves the original recording. Third party applications have also been given [...]
Tags: Apple · Software · iPhone
iPhone 3GS narrowly leads Consumer Reports ratings
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
The iPhone once again leads Consumer Reports’ smartphone ratings, beating competing products such as the Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm. The organization considered Apple’s new 3GS handset to lead in categories such as battery life, multimedia, navigation and Internet browsing, while integrating a superior display.
Although the iPhone took the top rank and showed strengths in [...]
Tags: Apple · BlackBerry · Palm · Samsung · Verizon Wireless
First Adult App in the App Store: $1.99 to See Boobies
June 30th, 2009 · No Comments
The iTunes store has approved its first adult application; ‘Hottest Girls’. You won’t be surprised, after reading that title, to learns that it features pictures of naked women. The app, priced at $1.99 for anyone who doesn’t know that porn can be found free on the internet, is trailblazing as we are some to see [...]
Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
June 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
With Steve Jobs’s consent, the Memphis hospital that conducted his liver transplant two months ago issued a statement denying he received any special treatment, classifying him as “the sickest person on the waiting list.”
Presumably in response to the New York Times‘ speculation that Jobs’ wealth and influence helped him secure a liver sooner than he [...]
Tags: Apple · In The News
2G iPod Touch Redsnow Jailbreak is here, Works with iPhone 3G too
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
The wait is finally over! The iPhone Dev Team has just released redsnow, a jailbreak and unlock (orig iPhone only) that works not only on the iPhone 3G and 1G iPod Touch, but more importantly, on the 2G iPod Touch as well. It works similar to QuickPwn so the whole process should be pretty easy. [...]
Review: HTC Magic and T-Mobile myTouch 3G
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
HTC’s first Android phone, the Dream (or T-Mobile G1), was ostensibly pitched as an “iPhone killer” but was really an alternative to a legion of lookalike Windows Mobile phones. The Magic — called the myTouch 3G in the US — encroaches much more directly on Apple’s territory. It’s thinner, sleeker and the first Android device [...]











