Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2010 ·
iPod touch
The rumors of an upcoming september release of the iPod touch are going strong. Apple will most likely not disappoint fans and release a new wave of iPod models with new hardware, a front-facing camera, and even HD video recording capabilities. It may carry the same A4 chip that Apple loves.
What backs the rumor, are the pictures circulating the Internet which are purportedly [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2010 ·
ComScore, which is an Internet marketing research company has released a report, which shows key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry from February to May 2010. According to the report, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) with 22.4 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, up one percentage [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2010 ·
Fring
Apple has approved the new Fring app for iOS4. In the new release, Fring has enabled cross platform video chatting that allow users to conduct two-way video conversations between smartphones with front facing cameras, that means you can have a video call between an iPhone 4 and an EVO 4G or a Nokia N 97. No one was sure whether Apple was going to approve third-party video calling apps [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 7, 2010 ·
AppStore HQ developers directory which claims to have a complete listing of all 50,000 plus developers whose apps are currently available in the Apple App Store or Android Market,shows that 43, 185 coders have apps on Apple store ,and 10,199 develop for Google’s Android Market with 1412 of those develop for both the platforms.
It’s apparent that single-platform development is the [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 5, 2010 ·
App Store
Forty one different books on the “Top Books Paid Software” listing of Apple’s online store were created by a publisher named “mycompany/Thuat Nguyen.” and for many of these titles there are no ratings or reviews. If reports are to be believed a app developer hacked iTunes users accounts and has purchased their own apps using those accounts – making [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 4, 2010 ·
Steve Jobs at the WWDC
Central to the issue of Steve Jobs and Apple’s snub at users reporting iPhone 4’s signal issues were the reports published by the gadget rumor site Boy Genius Report (BGR) who posted email exchange between Steve Jobs and a iPhone 4 user , in which Jobs told an angry iPhone 4 customer complaining about the iPhone 4’s antenna problems to “calm [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 3, 2010 ·
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The reported emails sent by Steve Jobs to some iPhone 4 users have attracted a lot of criticism on Internet and spilled over to the extent of customers filling lawsuits against Apple and AT &T. An Apple spokesman has now said that the entire e-mail exchange being attributed to the CEO did not actually take place the way it has been reported.
Supposedly [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 3, 2010 ·
Nokia might have had a laugh at Apple expense for iPhone 4’s “death grip” woes, nevertheless, as it was pointed out in the same article Nokia phones are not immune to the issue and various videos and pictures have been circulating supporting the claim, a report from Consumer Report further strengthens the claim.
In a study carried out by Consumer Report, it has been pointed [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 3, 2010 ·
iPhone
Couple of days after the lawsuits started trickling in, Apple has given a press release stating that iPhone 4 reception problem is a software issue, until now Apple had indirectly blamed the user for holding the device in a particular fashion which interfered with the cellular signal. Apple will be releasing the software fix in few days.
The issue according to Apple is that the device [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 1, 2010 ·
Apple
Apple is used to getting acclaim and accolades for all the iPhone series launches since Apple iPhone debuted in 2007, this time around Apple and its mobile carrier in U.S. AT & T is in for a rude shock. Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc faces a number of lawsuits over reports of reception and signal problems found in the iPhone 4’s new wraparound antenna, with consumers accusing [...]