Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Next Gen iPhone to Come With 5MP Camera?

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 10:41 AM PST

Could the next generation of iPhone come with a 5 megapixel camera? Taiwanese publication DigiTimes apparently thinks so. In an article published today, the website cites industry sources to claim that CMOS image sensor (CIS) manufacturer OmniVision Technologies has secured a contract to deliver 5MP CIS to Apple. Here is...


Nescaline - Nintendo Emulator iPhone App Removed from App Store After Brief Appearance

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 10:11 AM PST

For a brief couple of hours yesterday, Nintendo fans were offered a fully functional Nintendo emulator on the Apple App Store. Just as the blogosphere caught up to it, Apple realized that it was a blunder and pulled the iPhone app away from the App Store. The iPhone app, called...


More Evidence Of Next-Gen iPhone OS - iPhone OS 4.0

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 06:08 AM PST

By now, it is pretty clear that a new iPhone will be launched next year. While from one perspective, that is no surprise given that Apple has anyway launched a newer version of its iPhone every year since its debut in 2007, this time things are getting interesting especially since...


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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Vodafone UK's iPhone Pricing Plan Disappoints Customers - How Will US Market Behave When Exclusivity Ends?

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 12:14 PM PST

Earlier this year, we had written about Vodafone's announcement to start selling iPhones in the UK from 2010. Back then, we had expected a lot of competition to kick in which could possibly end in price wars. This week, Vodafone finally unveiled their pricing plans for the iPhone and no...


French Carriers Announce Major Price Cuts for iPhone

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 11:47 AM PST

Happy times for French shoppers planning to buy iPhones this holiday season. Competition among carriers is already starting to benefit the customers as the market is seeing massive price cuts by carriers trying to out-do each other in attracting Christmas time shoppers. After announcing the end of their exclusive partnership...


AT&T Is Indeed The Nation's Fastest 3G Network!

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 08:21 AM PST

Luke Wilson should feel vindicated. Despite the never-ending complaints from customers and ridicule from competitors, AT&T has managed to edge out Verizon in Gizmodo's annual test to measure the nation's fastest 3G network. Folks at Gizmodo conducted a 3G data test across 12 cities in United States. Five locations in...


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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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ProSwitcher: Multitasking iPhone App for Jailbroken iPhones is Now Available

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 10:51 AM PST

Remember ProSwitcher? We had written a few days back about this upcoming multitasking app for jailbroken iPhone users that was not only free and open-sourced, but was also better than its competitor Multifl0w; which sold at Cydia for $5, in a lot of ways. Good news is that ProSwitcher is...


iPhone Users On O2 Suffering Long Data Access Failure [Updated]

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 10:05 AM PST

Quite a few iPhone users in UK are experiencing problems accessing internet on the O2 network. Telegraph is reporting that most of the one million iPhone users on the O2 network in the country are being shown the message "Could not activate cellular data network" when they try accessing internet...


AT&T Network Woes: Company Claims Infrastructure Spending Not the Cause

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:00 AM PST

Satirist blogger Daniel Lyons' 'Operation Chokehold' did not choke Ma Bell's network after all. But this has brought back the focus on how bad the AT&T network is and what the company should be doing in order to improve their service levels. One of the main points put forward by...


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Monday, December 21, 2009

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Has the iPhone Changed the Landscape Of Holiday Shopping?

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 08:57 AM PST

It was not long ago when online commerce was touted as the best thing to have happened for shoppers - It was not only easy to shop from the comfort of your home, but also with the ease with which you could compare prices, it was an effective way to...


MacStories Christmas Apps Tree Giveaway - $10,000 Worth Of Mac and iPhone Apps to be Won

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:35 AM PST

Christmas is less than a week away and is a special time of the year for all of us. If you were hoping for Santa to gift you something that would cater to your iPhone crush, here is something that will please you. Folks at MacStories have announced a special...


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Sunday, December 20, 2009

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Turn Your iPhone Into a Universal Remote Control With Rē

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 03:30 AM PST

The annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that is scheduled to be held in a couple of weeks from now will see an interesting exhibit from Portland based NewKinetix called the Rē. Rē is an IR based universal remote control plug-in accessory for the iPhone that can substitute every other...


AT&T Dismisses Speculation of Usage Based Pricing

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 01:17 PM PST

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega recently stirred up a hornet's nest by explicitly suggesting that usage based pricing could soon kick in as a means to counter the high bandwidth consumption by smartphone users who have played a big role in congesting the AT&T network infrastructure. According to...


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Saturday, December 19, 2009

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Gmail for iPhone Now Loads 2 to 3 Times Faster

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 11:45 PM PST

Gmail for iPhone is one of my favorite iPhone web apps. So it was good to hear that their engineering team was working for the past few months to make it faster as they were unsatisfied with Gmail's performance on the iPhone. They have released an optimized version of their...


Verizon Prepared for the iPhone; Network Capable of Handling Extra Traffic

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 01:39 PM PST

In an interview with BusinessWeek, Verizon Wireless' Chief Technology Officer, Anthony Melone said that his company is prepared for the iPhone. Melone said: "We have put things in place already. We are prepared to support that traffic." Does that mean iPhone will be coming to Verizon soon? We have heard...


SHAPE Announces Big Holiday Sale for Some of Their iPhone Apps

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 12:20 PM PST

Folks at SHAPE Services, developers of popular instant messaging iPhone app like IM+ dropped us a line to tell us about the Big Holiday Sale for some of their iPhone apps. They are offering discounts ranging from 66% to 80% during this holiday promotion. If you are looking to buy...


Apple Files Patent Which Could Allow You to Control Your Computer Remotely Using iPhone

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:30 AM PST

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is not new on the iPhone. There are several popular apps like WebEx PCNow, Jaadu VNC and Mocha VNC that let iPhone users access their desktop computers remotely with their iPhones. But now, it looks like Apple wants to make VNC a core component of future...


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Friday, December 18, 2009

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“AT&T is firing us as iPhone users”

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 11:08 AM PST

Verizon created a huge controversy with their 'There's a map for that' ad campaign targeting AT&T's poor 3G coverage. Ask Penny and John Alexander from Dadeville, Alabama about it and they would be quick to retort that the ads are indeed misleading - because it is not just the 3G...


Redesigned iTunes App Store - How Do You Like It?

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 07:48 AM PST

In the past few days, you might have noticed that Apple has redesigned the individual app pages on App Store. Most of the work has apparently been in refurbishing the layout so that iTunes users can access information that they need quicker while making the whole look and feel all...


Morgan Stanley Report Claims Apple Is In 'Pole Position' In Mobile Internet Computing Race

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 06:57 AM PST

Earlier this week, Morgan Stanley conducted a seminar on 'The Mobile Internet' which was basically about how the industry is evolving and where we go from here. One of the main highlights of the seminar was the contribution of Apple to this evolution. According to Katy Huberty, analyst at Morgan...


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