Mark your calendars, clear your schedule, and ask yourself this: has Apple just set the date for the iPhone 5? If the fruit-flavoured phone maker sticks to past form, the next generation of iPhone could be unveiled to gasps of wonder on 6 June. The boys and girls at Cupertino have set the date for …
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Still excited about the iPhone 5? If the device’s release slips to autumn as is expected, we’ve got months of rumours ahead about Apple’s next-generation smart phone. This weekend, the speculation hotted up again with reports that the device could have a bigger 3.7-inch screen, and a tapered back like the latest iPod touch. Separately, there’s a spy shot of …
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Sony is making image sensors for the iPhone 5, judging by comments made on stage at a US conference by CEO Sir Howard Stringer. His claim that Sony is making cameras for Apple chimed with reports earlier this year that the company has won the contract to make 8-megapixel image sensors for upcoming iOS devices. 9 to 5 Mac and …
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The iPhone 5 will be five alive in September, according to new reports. “Pish and tosh,” we hear you cry. “We’ve heard such predictions before — away with you and your scurrilous scuttlebutt, lest our hopes be dashed by another piece of ill-informed gossipmongering!” But wait! This particular piece of hearsay is fairly credible, given the fact it comes from …
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It’s looking like it may not be an iPhone summer after all. Apple’s announcement that iOS and Mac OS will be the focus at its WWDC show in June has sparked speculation that it will be a software-only affair, while new reports in Japan claim the iPhone 5 won’t contribute to Apple’s 2011 financial year, which ends on 24 September. …
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It’s a “dead cert” that the iPad 3 will have a 3D-capable screen, according to a ‘Hollywood insider’ who spoke to tech blog RCR Wireless. RCR Wireless states the Hollywood source “went on to say that the big film studios were currently running around like blue-arsed flies trying to gear up to release plenty of 3D content in time for Apple’s next launch”. That’s …
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Although we know that nothing in Apple world is true until spoken by the saintly mouth of Steve Jobs, it’s time for another company with a vested interest in the iPhone 5 to speak up. An AT&T minion (sorry, we mean customer care representative) has reportedly told one of MacRumors’ readers that there’ll be no new iPhone released in June …
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Apple’s next-generation iPods could allow you to wirelessly slap music and videos onto them. Such wireless syncing is currently one of the most requested features among iPod users. Cult of Mac reports that Apple is working on adding Wi-Fi syncing to its iPods this year, along with a new carbon-fibre design for the new iPod classic and iPod nano. That said, it …
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Apple may or may not release the iPhone 5 in June this year. Yes, the online jungle drums are beating once more, but this time there are conflicting reports about when Apple will launch its next handset. Korean site ETNews is placing its bets on June. In a report translated by Mac Rumors, it claims that the iPhone 5 will go on …
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Facebook is a great tool for sharing ideas, playing games to waste time, and–oh right–keeping in touch with new and old friends. Syncing contacts from the Facebook app into your contacts is useful to some, but others consider it extra clutter in their contacts area. If you feel that way, how can you remove the link between Facebook and your …
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CHICAGO–Cable operators say they are happy to compete with Netflix. But they think the high cost of sports and live programming will ultimately keep Netflix out of the game. During a panel discussion here today at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show, Robert Marcus, COO of Time Warner Cable, and Michael Wilner, CEO of Insight Communications, a cable …
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The Alcatel VM665 is from a simpler time, when neighbours chatted over the fence, kids pushed bread-laden bicycles up hills, and phones were as simple as dirt. To return to this bucolic past, you have to invest a mere £29.99 with Virgin Mobile on pay as you go, plus top up with £10. For that paltry sum, you get a …
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Daily deals are big business, and an opportunity that T-Mobile is grabbing with its new More for Me application. Beginning today, Android smartphone owners can download the T-Mobile More for Me beta app from the Android Market. Groupon competitor LivingSocial is one deal broker supplying the app’s offers, along with Tippr, Goldstar, and other social coupon services. Just like other …
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The iPhone 5 could see the handset’s camera flash relocated to a position further from the lens, according to component pictures on Taiwanese site Apple.pro. Rumours have it the processor may also be upgraded from the A4 to the dual-core A5, as found in the iPad 2. Apple placed the iPhone 4‘s LED flash right next to the 5-megapixel camera …
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Sprint made its mark at the annual CTIA show last March when it introduced two new Android devices, the Evo 3D smartphone and the Evo View 4G tablet. Though both devices are built on previous HTC products, they brought new features to the table, like glasses-free 3D video (the Evo 3D) and support for Sprint’s 4G WiMax network (the Evo …
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