Let’s jump into the time tunnel and head back to 2005, where we find this beast: an iPhone prototype the size of an iPad. This early iPhone prototype was 5 inches wide and 7 inches tall, measuring a chunky 2 inches thick. A mystery Apple employee reveals the device in photos shown to Ars Technica. …
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The needle is skipping for Apple’s planned music streaming service, as the iPhone and iPad giant struggles to reach a deal with record labels. The purported streaming rival to Spotify and popular US service Pandora, inevitably nicknamed iRadio, was thought to have been planned for early this year. But the New York Post reports that negotiations with record labels over licensing …
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Apple Maps is getting better, even beating Google Maps in an informal race between Silicon Valley reporters — but any improvements are yet to reach the rest of the world. Like a kind of geektastic Cannonball Run, tech expert John C. Dvorak raced Leo LaPorte, Lisa Kentzell, and Glenn Rubenstein from The Week in Tech to Apple’s California headquarters, each …
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Star Trek Into Darkness is beaming down to British cinemas a week before the US release. The release date for the enterprising sequel has been brought forward to give UK Trekkies a full week of Brit baddie Benedict Cumberbatch all to ourselves. The film, directed once again by JJ Abrams, has been brought forward to Thursday 9 May. It debuts …
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Delivery time for the Google Nexus 4 has been slashed to its shortest time ever. Order now and you’ll have the phenomenally popular Android smart phone in as little as three days. And the Google Nexus 7 now has a dock too. After stock shortages saw the Nexus 4 available to buy for just a few hours in its first …
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How long do you spend looking at your phone? More than three weeks a year, according to new figures. Cor, it’s amazing you haven’t permanently cricked your neck. MobileInsurance.co.uk asked 2,314 phone owners how much time they spent each day sending texts, making calls, using apps and games or anything else on their phones. The average answer is 90 minutes …
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The Microsoft Surface is coming to Currys and PC World — but you still can’t try it out, as it’s not coming to your nearest shop, yet. You can only order the Surface online, whether for delivery or to have one sent to a Currys or PC World store for you to collect at your convenience. But don’t think you …
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Rooty-tootly-too — it’s the Samsung Galaxy S4 rumour trumpet! Will today’s spurious rumour about the hotly anticipated sequel to the Samsung Galaxy S3 turn out to be true? Following purported benchmarks and a baffling teaser video, this rumour comes courtesy of what looks like a marketing graphic for the S4, posted on Twitter by EVleaks. The graphic lists some hefty …
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Do you want the short version or the long version? Short version: iPlayer is coming to Windows Phone. Still here? Then here’s the long version. The BBC today announced that Windows Phone would join iOS, Android and BlackBerry as the latest mobile operating system to support iPlayer, via a dedicated live tile. That means you’ll soon be able to watch …
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Before it so much as sets foot in US shops the price of the BlackBerry Z10 has been slashed — just a month after it went on sale in the UK. Carphone Warehouse and Vodafone have both trimmed the price of the Z10, the first smart phone to show off the new BlackBerry software. BlackBerry 10 is supposed to be …
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