May, 2012

• 29 May

  iPhone 5 casing snaps tip striped back, taller device

  

  Leaked snaps purporting to show the rump of the next iPhone have cropped up online, hinting Apple’s new blower will have a taller frame and a bigger screen. 9to5Mac was sent an image reckoned to show the iPhone 5’s back plating by gadget repair site iFixyouri, which the phone-fixing site claims is a new part …

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• 29 May

  Sprint sets sunset date for Nextel network

  

  Sprint Nextel set a firm date on when it will kill off the Nextel part of its business. The carrier said today that it would completely shut off its Nextel network, which uses a technology called iDEN best known for its walkie-talkie capability, on June 30, 2013. The company will begin alerting customers on Sunday. The date marks the end …

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• 29 May

  Polarize your iPhone photos with Trygger

  

  Trygger I had the opportunity to check out the Trygger iPhone Camera Case for iPhone 4/4S firsthand a couple weeks ago in Portland, Ore. Its co-creator, Joel Kamerman, and I sat down to test the prototype and I was immediately blown away. As a fashion photographer in my spare time, the benefit of having the Trygger case secured to my …

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• 29 May

  Otterbox Armor Series: New waterproof iPhone 4/4S case coming soon

  

  Otterbox has a teaser video out for a new iPhone 4/4S case that it says is the toughest case the company’s ever made. Set to ship June 24, the Armor Series case is dust proof, drop proof, waterproof, and apparently crush proof. No word on how much it will cost, but I’d been hoping Otterbox would have something new that …

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• 29 May

  Samsung Galaxy S3 suffers huge shortage of blue models in UK

  

  Have you pre-ordered the new Galaxy S3 in the silky-looking pebble blue colour? Bad news, chum — it looks like the UK is going to be extremely short on supplies of this particular model when the phone goes on sale this week. I spoke to a trusted telecoms industry insider who confirmed to me that the blue model is suffering …

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• 29 May

  Nokia Lumia 610 can’t install Angry Birds, Skype, and more

  

  Nokia and Microsoft have run into problems with the new Nokia Lumia 610. While trying to avoid the fragmentation issues faced by Android, Windows Phone has properly shot itself in the foot — with a catapult and an Angry Bird. The budget Lumia 610 is the first phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone software to arrive with just 256MB of …

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• 29 May

  Dates surface for T

  

  T-Mobile is slated to shine this summer with one of the hottest Android smartphones of the year, according to new details from TmoNews. The blog has obtained an alleged release calendar for a number of upcoming handsets, including the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III. Should the information hold true, the first day of summer, June 20, will be hot for …

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• 29 May

  Samsung Galaxy S3 blue due ‘in some regions in 2

  

  The blue version of the Galaxy S3 will be delayed by at least two weeks, Samsung has confirmed, following reports of manufacturing problems that resulted in Samsung throwing out over 600,000 blue cases. “Samsung’s Galaxy S3 Pebble Blue version comes with a newly invented blue colour and special hyperglaze material,” the company said in a hard to understand statement. “In …

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• 29 May

  How to send large batches of photos from your iOS device

  

  Problem: You just snapped dozens of wedding/vacation/rave photos on your iPhone, and now you want to share them with friends and family members. But iOS limits you to five photos per e-mail. Now what? Fire up Kicksend. This free app lets you send big batches of photos, plus documents or video, to an individual or group. Update: Talk about timing …

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• 29 May

  RIM may write off its inventory, report says

  

  Research in Motion may need to write off more than $1 billion in inventory, Bloomberg reports, in another sign that the company continues to lose ground to Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system. That staggering inventory value is up from up from $618 million a year earlier, illustrating the difficulties that the company has had in selling its products. …

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