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📅 August 11, 2013

Apple To Unveil The Next Gen iPhone At Sept. 10th Media Event

A report by Ina Fried of the Wall Street Journal “All Things Digital” blog attributed the September 10 date to unnamed sources.

A report by Ina Fried of the Wall Street Journal “All Things Digital” blog attributed the September 10 date to unnamed sources. That date would occur on the second to the last day of the IFA consumer electronics trade show being held in Berlin, Germany from September 6-11. Samsung is expected to announce its Galaxy Note 3 at the show, and HTC may release its own “One Max” phablet. We will keep you updated. Stay tuned….

NOTE: if you’re wondering about the iPhone above, it’s an iPhone 6 concept featuring two quad-core A7 processors and edge-to-edge display that we presented back in May. Check out the concept here….

📅 April 17, 2013

Why We Use Mobile Media More Than Our TVs [infographic]

What could you do with 144 minutes? Most people in the United States burn that much time, every single day, looking at media on their phones. If that doesn’t seem like much to you, consider this: people in the states only spend 141 minutes per day watching TV on average. That makes the smartphone the most popular multi-media device, today.

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📅 January 8, 2013

Consumer Reports: iPhone 5 Is The Worst Of The Top Smartphones

The iPhone has been such a mind-boggling success that it drives more than half of Apple’s overall profit. And for most of the past five years, Apple has had a lock on the “best smartphone in the market.” In recent years, however, competitors have caught up with the iPhone.

In recent years, however, competitors have caught up with the iPhone. Some reviewers think Samsung’s new phone is superior to Apple’s latest phone. And many people expect Samsung to leap ahead when the new Galaxy S4 comes out this spring.

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📅 February 21, 2012

The U.S. Copyright Office Posts 600+ Pro and Anti Jailbreaking Comments

The list of commenters includes consumers, corporations, and high profile names such as Sony, Mozzila, and Saurik. The big absent from this list is Apple.

The EFF’s efforts for keeping jailbreaking legal are definitely not passing by unnoticed. The U.S. Copyright Office has posted 660+ comments, both for and against extending the exception allowing the “jailbreaking” of smartphones. The EFF is also pushing this year for gaming consoles to join the exception.

The list of commenters includes consumers, corporations, and high profile names such as Sony, Mozzila, and Saurik. The big absent from this list is Apple.

On Friday, February 10, the Copyright Office received approximately 700 comments on the classes of works proposed for exemption from the prohibition on circumvention of technological measure that control access. Links to most of those comments appear below, and links to the remainder should appear by the end of this week (i.e., by Feb. 17, 2011). The Office is also in the process of identifying, for each comment, which proposed class(es) of works is addressed.

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📅 January 11, 2012

Corning Unveils Gorilla Glass 2. Thinner Stronger Phones Coming In 2012 [video]

The new version of Gorilla Glass can be up to 20% thinner than the original and still retain the same strength. Alternatively, manufacturers could continue to use the same thickness, and benefit from greater strength. Manufacturers have already received samples of the new Gorilla Glass so it should start appearing in consumer products in 2012. The additional thinness offered by Gorilla Glass 2 is also said to result in brighter images and better touch responsiveness.

Check out a video of Gorilla Glass 2 in action after the break…

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📅 September 9, 2011

Apple Tops U.S. Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Survey

It’s the sixth time in a row the Cupertino giant has topped this survey. Apple scored 838 points with great marks in all areas, particularly ease of operation and features.

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📅 April 19, 2011

Infographic: How Green Is The iPhone?

Apple pulls in close to 50% of total global cellphone profits by selling only 4% of all cellphones, with that kind of profit and over 100 million iPhones sold Apple is a legitimate gorilla. So just how green is the gorilla’s smartphone?

Check out the full infographic after the break…

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📅 January 27, 2011

Amnesia Connect: Freely Move Content Between iPhone/iPad And A Microsoft Surface Table [video]

A smartphone owner can now move their content freely between two devices by simply dragging content off their phone onto a Microsoft Surface Table and back onto another device instantly.

Following months of research and development, Amnesia Razorfish has replaced the typical ‘send and receive’ interface with a more natural ‘gesture-based’ interface. A smartphone owner can now move their content freely between two devices by simply dragging content off their phone onto a Microsoft Surface Table and back onto another device instantly.

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📅 September 28, 2010

BlackBerry PlayBook: The First Serious Competition For The iPad [video]

Preview of the new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS.

Preview of the new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS. For more info on the availability, specs and features, read the press release after the jump…

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📅 February 17, 2009

Yahoo offers iPhone-like Web for masses

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Yahoo announced a new mobile service on Tuesday that will deliver an iPhone-like experience for people who cannot or will not splash out for the iconic but pricey Apple device as times get hard.

Yahoo Mobile will launch at the end of March in a form downloadable to any phone with a Web browser and from May in custom versions for hundreds of smartphones.

“There is a growing number of consumers out there who are not Apple iPhone users but want a rich starting experience,” Marco Boerries, the head of Yahoo’s mobile division, told Reuters in an interview.

Yahoo will also launch a version of Yahoo Mobile, designed to be a starting point for users to access the Internet, for the iPhone itself at the end of March. A test version for a limited number of public users is going live this week.

Yahoo Mobile offers a front page with colorful, boxy icons resembling the iPhone’s for launching popular applications such as a Web browser, mail, news, weather and social network sites like Facebook.

Users also have the option to easily add any software or Web sites they choose to download on their phones.

The company plans in coming months to promote Yahoo Mobile via a series of 70 major operator partnerships it has struck to reach 850 million mobile subscribers around the globe.

Fifty of those partnerships already offer Yahoo services and the company expects the rest to adopt Yahoo Mobile in coming months, Boerries said.

Yahoo has developed versions that work on hundreds of mid-range and high-end mobile phones from BlackBerry maker RIM, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, as well as phones running Microsoft Windows.”

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