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Steve Jobs: Apple Could Reconsider Flash, But…

June 3, 2010

Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) spoke at the D8 conference a few days ago where he’s quoted to be saying:
“Some things are good in a product, some things are bad. If the market tells us we’re making bad choices, we’ll make changes. We’re just trying to make great products.”
“We just made a technical decision. [We] told [...]

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Must-Have iPhone Applications in the UK

May 30, 2010

In just a few short years the iPhone has completely changed the way that people look at mobile phones. Apple’s smartphone introduced the world to the idea of downloadable applications which meant that phones were no longer home to static content, but could be updated with new software and features from third party developers at [...]

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iPhone 4G: 24 Million Units To Ship In 2010

May 23, 2010

Foxconn will manufacture 24 million iPhone 4G’s during 2010, says Ming-Chi Kuo, a senior analyst with Digitimes. Foxconn is the company that actually makes the iPhones for Apple and according to Ming-Chi Kuo, they will make 4.5 million of the new generation iPhone during the first half of 2010 (which ends soon) and another 19.5 [...]

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Apple Posts “Thoughts on Flash” – by Steve Jobs

April 29, 2010

Apple just posted an open letter called “Thoughts on Flash” and signed by Steve Jobs himself.
The letter answers the “why not?” questions and covers six topics: Openness, the full web, security and performance, battery life, touch and drawbacks of relying on third-party development tools.
You can read the full letter from the link above or you [...]

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Next iPhone To Be Announced June 7th?

April 29, 2010

Apple just announced the date for their next World Wide Developers Conference, WWDC 2010, which is June 7th. The two latest iPhones, 3G and 3GS, were first shown by Apple to the public at WWDC in 2008 and 2009 – which is why the media now speculates that we will see the next iPhone at [...]

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Three New iPhone Ads – Backpacker, Dog Lover & Family Man

April 22, 2010

Three new iPhone ads have come from Apple this past week, “Backpacker”, “Dog Lover” and “Family Man”.
Backpacker
The “Backpacker” ad shows a college graduate making a trip to Spain and we get to see how iPhone apps assist him on his trip. The app that translates spoken English into spoken Spanish seems very cool, it’s called [...]

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Steve Jobs Responds to Gizmodo iPhone Leak [Fun Video]

April 21, 2010

Hey, did you hear about the new iPhone yet? The one found at a bar? Then suddenly in the hands of Gizmodo? And next it was all over the news and the Internet? Yeah, that’s the one. iPhone 4G or iPhone HD, whatever it will be named.
Well, Apple sent a letter to Gizmodo, few days [...]

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Revealed: The Next iPhone (4G? HD?) – Here It Is!

April 19, 2010

This is a Gizmodo exclusive so I’m just going to post the highlights and let you head on over to Gizmodo to read all the juicy details – and there’s a lot of information to be found, though not too many technical details.
This iPhone was reportedly found in a bar and came with a case [...]

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iPhone 4G To Be Announced June 22nd? And 8MP Camera Next Year?

April 15, 2010

Just as I was starting to think Steve Jobs wasn’t going to let me buy a new iPhone this year, it has now come to light that Apple booked the same conference center in San Francisco for June 22nd, as they used to announce the previous three versions of iPhone.
The media seems to think [...]

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Apple Surprisingly Approves Opera Mini for iPhone

April 13, 2010

It took Apple 20 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes to approve Opera Mini in the App Store for iPhone, iPad Touch (and maybe iPad, in the future?), according to a countup timer on Opera’s website.
I don’t think anybody – except Opera themselves – expected their browser to be approved, as Apple has previously been [...]

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Apple Releases Thre New iPhone Ads: “Commute”, “Concert” & “Shopper”

April 7, 2010

Apple has released two three new iPhone ads. Last week, we saw “Commute” and this week a new one has aired, called “Concert” (and yet another one, “Shopper”).
The girl in the “Concert”-ad has some serious impulsive buying issues – going from listening to a good song to instantly buy their entire album and go on [...]

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iPhone Hacked In 20 Seconds – Text Messages Exposed

March 26, 2010

Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann spent 20 seconds yesterday on the first day of Pwn2Own “hacker” conference in Canada, to hack an iPhone and steal all the text messages (SMS) in the phone, including sent, received and even deleted messages.
They also said it was possible to get your contacts, e-mails and pictures, using the same [...]

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Opera Mini 5 for iPhone Submitted to App Store – Don’t Hold Your Breath!

March 24, 2010

Norwegian software company, Opera, now has a Opera Mini 5 version ready for the iPhone. It has already been submitted to Apple for approval in the App Store, but I wouldn’t hold my breath to see it being approved anytime soon. I seem to remember having read that Apple doesn’t want applications that duplicates [...]

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iPhone OS 4.0 With Multitasking Support This Summer

March 12, 2010

Sources with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances, told AppleInsider that Apple has developed a “full-on solution” to multitasking on the iPhone OS, but offered no specifics on how the technology would optimize resource conversation and battery life – two of the most critical issues surrounding the matter, alongside security.
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Report: Initial iPad Demand Greater Than iPhone’s

February 25, 2010

TUAW reported yesterday how a report indicates the initial iPad demand to be greater than iPhone’s. It’s Mike Abramsky from RBC Capital Markets who conducted a survey of 3,200 people and found that 13% are likely to buy the $499 iPad. The interest for iPhone was at 9% prior to it’s launch in 2007.
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Future Of Flash in iPhone/iPad? “Old Technology”, Says Steve Jobs

February 20, 2010

Yada yada yada, the iPhone doesn’t support Flash. Everybody knows that by now. If you follow Apple, or just tech news in general, you will also know that their new soon-to-be-released iPad doesn’t support Flash either, as Steve Jobs (by accident, I guess) demonstrated during the iPad keynote presentation.
Personally I don’t care about Flash. I [...]

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iPhone Users “Downloaded” Flash 7 Million Times in December

February 11, 2010

By now it’s no surprise to anybody that the iPhone doesn’t support flash and that the new iPad is not going to do so either. Steve Jobs even demonstrated it (by accident?) at the iPad presentation keynote when he browsed to a newspaper website (I can’t remember if it was WSJ or NYT) and flash [...]

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iPhone OS 4.0 On Wednesday? Multi-tasking?

January 20, 2010

You are probably already aware of the Apple event on Wednesday the 27th of January. Lots of rumors going around on what to expect from the event and the only thing Apple is telling us, is “come see our latest creation”:

The site, BoyGeniusReport, claim to have received a screenshot from the new iPhone OS 4.0, [...]

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New for iPhone/iPod Touch – Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

January 18, 2010

GTA, Chinatown Wars, just hit the App Store and is available for iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a $10 ‘investment’ that will guarantee you some interesting game time.
I bought it and tested it – just so you wouldn’t have to in case it sucked. So far, it’s really great and worth every penny. In my [...]

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Facebook For iPhone Updated To 3.1 With Push Notifications

January 8, 2010

One of the most popular applications for iPhone and iPod Touch, Facebook, has just been updated to version 3.1 and now includes the long awaited Push Notifications.
Receiving the push notifications on your iPhone does not necessarily require that you have “Push” enabled, as this usually drains your battery rather quick. I have mine set up [...]