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Jony Ive and Apple’s entire industrial design team attend D&AD Awards
The London Evening Standard reports: Apple has been named the best brand and the best design studio of the last 50 years at the D&AD Awards, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for advertising and design. Sir Jonathan Ive, the company’s design guru, who usually eschews publicity, came to collect the awards, which were […]
Continue reading...Browsing on the iPhone 5 is faaast
20. September 2012
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The iPhone 5 is faaast.
Continue reading...Apple releases iOS 6, get it while it’s hot
19. September 2012
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MacRumors reports: As expected, Apple has just released iOS 6 to the public, making the download available to users of recent iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch models. Users can obtain the update either by connecting their devices to iTunes and clicking the “Check for Update” button or checking for over-the-air updates on their devices via […]
Continue reading...iFixit tears down Apple’s new EarPods
19. September 2012
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Check out what Apple’s new EarPods look like from the inside out, you know, if you’re into that sort of thing over at iFixit.
Continue reading...About that Apple designed A6 chip
19. September 2012
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An interesting article over at The Linley Group discusses Apple’s work in churning out the A6 and how they got there. It’s a great read and well worth checking out. Although Apple has been licensing cores from ARM for its previous processors, the company’s interest in CPU design dates back to its $278 million acquisition […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 says on launch weekend to hit 8 million units says Analyst
19. September 2012
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In the wake of Apple processing over 2 million iPhone 5 orders in the first 24 hours of availability, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has upped his projections for iPhone sales on launch weekend which is just two days away. Given the 2 million pre-orders, we remain confident that Apple can deliver 8 million (range […]
Continue reading...Samsung is quick to run anti-iPhone 5 ad
19. September 2012
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BusinessInsider reports: Samsung just sent me an ad that it plans to run in national newspapers tomorrow comparing the iPhone 5 to the Galaxy S III. The ad breaks down some key specs of the two phones, but it’s also a bit misleading. Samsung lists a lot of Galaxy S III-specific software features like sharing […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 has 1GB of RAM
19. September 2012
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Apple doesn’t ever disclose some of its internal specs because they like consumers to focus on the user experience rather than abstract numbers. That notwithstanding, enterprising folks have discovered that the iPhone 5 is sporting 1GB of RAM, a solid boost from the 512 MB of RAM that came with the iPhone 4 and iPhone […]
Continue reading...Apple’s incredibly large data center, photos from the sky
19. September 2012
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Check out photos here at Gigaom.
Continue reading...RIM gets the shaft as Yahoo offers employees the iPhone 5 and other smartphone choices
17. September 2012
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With Marissa Mayer now firmly entrenched as Yahoo CEO, the changes keep on rollin’ in. Most recently, Mayer announced a new program whereby Yahoo employees can get iPhones, and other smartphones, for their day to day work activities. While that may not seem like big news, it’s certainly rather telling for a company that had […]
Continue reading...Apple’s A6 uses in-house CPU design
17. September 2012
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So it turns out Apple’s vaunted A6 is not based on the ARM Cortex A15 processor. Rather, it’s based on Apple’s own design. AnandTech writes: Prior to the announcement we speculated the iPhone 5’s SoC would simply be a higher clocked version of the 32nm A5r2 used in the iPad 2,4. After all, Apple seems […]
Continue reading...Apple boasts: 2 million iPhone 5 pre-orders in 24 hours
17. September 2012
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The iPhone 5 is already an absolute monster, shattering previous sales records by quite a large margin. Apple today issued a press release announcing that they’ve already ran through 2 million pre-orders, and that was just in the first 24 hours of availability. Absolutely unbelievable. Apple today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 5 topped two […]
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20. September 2012
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