Archive | September, 2012
Hilarious iPhone 5 Parody Video – This is how it’s done!
Now THIS is how you make an iPhone 5 parody. Eat your heart out, Conan. This is legit. And the accent and delivery of Joe Bloggs is just so spot on and Ivy-esque. “iPhone 5 is more comfortable to use and reduces scrolling fatigue while reading long documents.”
Continue reading...iPhone 5 photos vs iPhone 4S photos
22. September 2012
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When Phil Schiller began showing off the iPhone 5, he conceded that making a phone thinner is typically not what you want to do when you’re trying to improve a device’s camera. But Apple’s vaunted engineering team put in a lot of work to create a camera that’s markedly better than the iPhone 4S. Looking […]
Continue reading...Apple releases 4 new iPhone 5 ads
22. September 2012
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While watching some crappy TV yesterday (Mob Doctor, anyone?) I happened to see two new iPhone 5 ads. And lo and behold, it turns out that Apple released 2 additional iPhone 5 ads to make a grand total of 4 new commercials. The first one, dubbed “Thumb”, touts the iPhone 5’s bigger screen while highlighting […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 does well in drop test against Samsung Galaxy S3
21. September 2012
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You can’t have a new iPhone release without some fools dropping it down on the ground to see how durable it is. To that end, check out this drop test comparison between the recently released iPhone 5 and the popular Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone. The iPhone does, in the words of Larry David, pretty pretty […]
Continue reading...The Verge’s monster iPhone 5 review
21. September 2012
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Josh Topolosky doesn’t dissapoint with this monster iPhone 5 review. The short of it? They like it, they really really like it. The iPhone 5 is unquestionably the best iPhone ever made, and for the mass market, it’s the best smartphone, period. Between the new design, blazing fast LTE, and excellent battery life, there’s little […]
Continue reading...iFixit tears down the iPhone 5
21. September 2012
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The iPhone 5 is now on sale across the world and it didn’t take iFixit anytime at all to get their hands on one and get to work. Check out their teardown process here. Because the iPhone 5 is opened front-to-back, replacing a cracked screen is going to be easier than ever. Thank you, Apple! Compare […]
Continue reading...Apple talks Maps complaints as Mapping team remains “under lockdown” to address problems
20. September 2012
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Apple’s new Maps app has already received a lot of criticism and iOS 6 is barely 24 hours old. To that end, Apple released a public statement via All Things D where it essentially calls Maps a work in progress. Customers around the world are upgrading to iOS 6 with over 200 new features including […]
Continue reading...Apple’s Maps app in iOS 6 criticized, now the butt of jokes
20. September 2012
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Well, Apple’s Maps experiment seems to be off to an interesting start. While Flyover is certainly a sexy feature, there has been no shortage of folks who are already pining for Google Maps, arguing that for day to day use, Apple’s Maps effort has a lot of holes. From what we can gather, the bulk […]
Continue reading...Google purchases Nik Software, development house behind Snapseed
20. September 2012
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Highlighting Google’s ongoing attempts to shore up and drastically improve on the core Android user experience, the search giant announced this past Monday that they were acquiring Nik Software, the development house behind a number of different photography apps including Snapseed for iOS, a mobile app which won Apple’s 2011 iPad App of the year. […]
Continue reading...Amazon’s Kindle strategy as compared to Apple’s iPad strategy
20. September 2012
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John Gruber had a great piece up last week comparing Amazon’s general strategy as it pertains to its Kindle hardware and its accompanying media content with Apple’s own strategy with respect to hardware. Amazon’s approach to selling media is in many ways platform agnostic. You can read Kindle books not just on Kindle hardware, but […]
Continue reading...Apple’s bet on Maps
20. September 2012
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iOS 6 is now out and ready for download, and while the reviews are overwhelmingly positive, Apple’s new Maps app has been subject to a little bit of criticism, with some saying it’s a clear step backwards compared to Google’s own offering which previously came built into iOS. Business Insider reports on an interview it […]
Continue reading...About the iPhone 5’s lack of NFC
20. September 2012
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The iPhone 5 is hitting stores in just a day, and though it has a bevy of new software and design features, some folks are still yapping away calling it a boring upgrade. One “shortcoming”, if you want to call it that, is the iPhone 5’s lack of NFC support, you know the technology that […]
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22. September 2012
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