Posted by Calvin Robinson on April 29, 2010 ·
Hosted in San Fran, this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be hosted on June 7 – 11.
It was reported earlier in the month that Apple had reserved June 22 at YBCA, it was rumoured that this may be the date for WWDC, but industry analysts insist this date was too late in the month. Apple tend to host WWDC in early June.
That leaves the iPhone announcement. Could Apple [...]
Posted by A Ocean on April 22, 2010 ·
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Running Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone, what many geeks have been dreaming for over a year is a reality now thanks to David Wang, better known as “planetbeing” , who is a member of the a group called the iPhone Dev Team, Planetbeing sent a Twitter update and uploaded a video Android running on iPhone ( click on the link for the video) [...]
Posted by A Ocean on April 22, 2010 ·
If rumors are to believed there are strong indications that Apple, makers of immensely popular one and iPad are on the verge of accquiring UK based ARM,the leading maker of mobile chips.
ARM’s microchips can be found in most of the world’s mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone. Last year almost 4bn chips based on Arm’s designs were shipped worldwide which talks volumes [...]
Posted by Martin Beauchamp on April 22, 2010 ·
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Earlier this week the next generation iPhone found its way into the hands of Gizmodo , who lovingly took some photos, made a short video and wrote even more about it.
I’m still trying to figure out why none of these pictures show the thing turned on, but hey ho I guess it doesn’t really matter at least for now.
The bloggersphere has been alight with gossip [...]
Posted by Calvin Robinson on April 14, 2010 ·
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So here in the UK we’ve become accustomed what’s known as the ‘Apple tax’. Whenever a product is launched in the UK, we always see a significant price increase compared the US price. It has been argued that our higher prices are down to extra costs, such as customs and VAT. To this way say: nonsense!
As an example, we worked out the cost of an imported [...]
Posted by Calvin Robinson on April 14, 2010 ·
This may come as no shock to you, but Apple have announced today that the International launch of the iPad will be put on hold for another month. Meaning we’ll be receiving the iPad a full 2 months after it’s US debut.
Not even a week ago, during a Q&A session after Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement Steve was asked “Will iPad’s success impact its international [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 11, 2010 ·
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Apple is in the country looking for suitors for iPad’s phone network in UK, this marriage could be as beneficial for the networks as it was for AT&T in US on whose network iPhone was launched exclusively.
According to unverified sources ( rumours ), the three big networks, O2, Orange and Vodafone, will be getting the iPad at launch as Apple is keen to ensure that [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 11, 2010 ·
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HP began to brag about the ability of its forthcoming tablet pc to run Adobe Flash content, a feature which the iPhone never did and iPad will not do. Though HP did not mention the iPad specifically by name, its choice of words and the specific promotion of Flash make it clear that the company is attacking Apple’s iPad and displaying what will HP’s Slate Tablet [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 10, 2010 ·
Steve Jobs has ruled out any possibilities of iPhone-to-iPad tethering which would allow the iPad users to access the internet using iPhone’s 3G capabilities. In fact, the reply from Apple’s top boss was a point blank ‘No’ in an email reply to a query from a Swedish tech blog Slashat.se.
While there are speculations if the email reply was indeed from Steve Jobs, early forensic email [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 8, 2010 ·
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After dragging Nokia to court for patent infringement, Apple has sued HTC over their alleged infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone user interface, architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs who is known for not mincing his words said that HTC is stealing their technology.
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about [...]