With Red roaming already available for the UK, the US and New Zealand, Vodafone adds 34 European countries for customers looking to use the AU$5 per day international roaming offer. Paint Europe Red with Vodafone.(Credit: Vodafone) Vodafone has announced that its AU$5 per day international roaming offer has now been extended to include Europe. Once …
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The Chipworks teardown of the A7 chip in Apple’s latest iPhone, the 5s, shows not only the announced 64-bit CPU, but also the not-so-public arrival of a quad-core GPU. Apple’s A7 chip with quad-core GPU in the lower right. (Credit: Chipworks) Apple boasted that the A7 chip featured the first 64-bit CPU in a smartphone. While another new arrival may …
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Channel Ten has given its catch-up service an overhaul with TenPlay, available to iPhone, iPad and Sony Bravia TVs. Android support is coming “later this year”. TenPlay available on the web, iOS and Sony Bravia. (Credit: Network TEN) This week, Network Ten launched an updated catch-up TV service, TenPlay. The service is available on the web, to iOS devices and …
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An Apple TV “touch-to-set-up” option using Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) shows that Apple has well and truly moved beyond ever adding near-field communication (NFC) to the iPhone. Tap your iPhone to the Apple TV? Like NFC without the actual NFC. (Credit: Apple) Apple has added a new set-up feature to Apple TV that makes the experience look an awful lot …
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Apple has broken analyst estimates and reported a record-breaking 9 million iPhone 5s and 5c models sold in the first weekend. Plus, 200 million users upgraded to iOS 7. Nine million new iPhones sold on launch weekend. (Credit: Apple) In a statement released on Monday in the US, Apple announced it has sold a combined 9 million units of its …
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The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c are now available in Australia, with fans lining up just as eagerly as ever to snap up a new phone as quickly as possible. So, which are Australia’s favourite colours? Jimmy Gunawan buys the first iPhone 5s from Apple’s flagship Sydney Apple Store. (Credit: Dave Cheng/CNET) Real fans were out in force this morning …
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Apple’s biggest iOS revision since the beginning of the universe is now available to upgrade iPhones, iPads and iPods. Tim Cook at the iPhone 5s announcement in Cupertino.(Credit: CBSi) Apple has gone live with the iOS 7 update and it should now be available via iTunes and direct download to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch. The new update is a …
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iCloud Keychain has shifted to “coming soon” in iOS 7 at launch. The feature could make Apple’s fingerprint technology turn all passwords into a simple tap of the finger. iCloud Keychain + Touch ID = revolution? (Screenshot by Seamus Byrne/CNET Australia) Apple’s new fingerprint-scanning technology in the iPhone 5s, Touch ID, will only have two functions at launch: to unlock …
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Over the weekend, Telstra also announced its contract plans for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, coming in a little behind the value on offer from Vodafone. Telstra’s iPhone 5s launch site. (Credit: Screenshot) Telstra announced its range of iPhone 5s and 5c plans late on Friday. The plans show the iPhone 5c coming in at only slightly lower prices …
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Join CNET Australia for live coverage of Apple’s event on 11 September from 2am AEST at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. We’re expecting new iPhones, and maybe more. Our own Seamus Byrne will be on the ground alongside the US CNET team.
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