So we’ve gone from the iPhone 5 to the iPhone 4S. M.I.C Gadget today posted two photosof a device they’re affectionately calling the iPhone 4S. Like previous reports, the photos showcase a larger edge-to-edge screen which has been a long rumored feature of the next-gen iPhone. Recently, though, there have been inconsistent reports as to […]
Continue reading...Friday, April 22, 2011
Comments Off on Is this the iPhone 5? A new design and an expanded home area? We’re not so sure.
Some interesting iPhone 5 rumors for a Friday afternoon ya’ll. Joshua Topolsky, who formerly served as the editor in chief at Engadget, writes for This is my Next that he’s received information regarding the next-gen iPhone and its supposed new form factor. As the mockup above indicates, Topolsky writes that the image was drawn up […]
Continue reading...Friday, April 22, 2011
Comments Off on New MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt technology poised for mass production next month
While it was initially unclear if Apple was planning to keep Thunderbolt a technology exclusive to its MacBook Pro line, it’s become abundantly clear that all of Apple’s hardware will be privy to the Thunderbolt treatment. First were reports that revamped iMacs would be coming with Apple and Intel’s jointly developed transfer technology, and now […]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 21, 2011
There have been a number of reports over the past few months suggesting that Apple is planning on completely revamping its MobileMe service to include a digital locker that would enable users to store, and potentially stream, purchased content from iTunes from the cloud – namely, Apple’s large Data Center in North Carolina. Apple, of […]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 21, 2011
Comments Off on Apple provides select game deveopers with A5-based iPhone 4s – Report
Some interesting news from 9to5Mac who reports that Apple has begun providing select developers with iPhones running the speedy dual-core A5 chip already found in the iPad 2. Apple will reportedly be touting huge speed advancements as one of the major selling points of the iPhone 5 and has already begun giving iPhone 4S devices, […]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 21, 2011
Though there isn’t much information out there about what features iOS 5 will bring to the table, there have been rumblings that iOS 5 will be a major update with a particular focus on location-based features. Specifically, it’s been rumored that iOS 5 will incorporate check-in functionality along with the ability for friends to locate […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Comments Off on iPhone 5 to ship in September – Report
Citing people with intimate knowledge of Apple’s supply chain, Reuters is reporting that the iPhone 5 will ship in September. The sources relay that production on the next-gen iPhone will commence in July/August and, corroborating previous reports, will feature the same form factor as the iPhone 4. It’s hard to read too much into this […]
Continue reading...Monday, April 18, 2011
Comments Off on iPhone 5 set for mass production in September; iPhone 6 possible in first half of 2012 – Report
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who was spot on with his iPad 2 predictions, recently issued a new research note fleshing out more details about the iPhone 5. From the looks of it, it appears that the iPhone 5 upgrade will be akin to the iPhone 3G to 3GS transition, namely internal spec boosts. Corroborating […]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 14, 2011
Comments Off on “ix.Mac.MarketingName” shows up in iTunes app descriptions – glitch, or hint at new Apple hardware?
Well this is certainly interesting, especially in light of the fact that it’s now been removed. Earlier today, MacRumors relayed an observation from Panic developer Cabel Sasser who noticed what at first appeared to be an odd but on the iTunes App Store. Specifically, in the section where iTunes lists the hardware requirements for a […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Comments Off on Apple not planning to release iPad 3 this year – Report
Despite rumors and speculative reports that Apple was planning to release two iPad models in 2011 – the iPad 2 this past March and an iPad 3 this September – it appears that that isn’t the case. Citing component partners, Digitimes is reporting that Apple has yet to provide its partners with any manufacturing information […]
Continue reading...Monday, April 11, 2011
Comments Off on Analyst claims iPhone 5 won’t even enter production until September
If there’s one thing we used to be able to count on with the iPhone, it was that Apple was going to release a new model every Summer. Indeed, this has been Apple’s mo since the first iPhone was released in 2007. But the iPhone 5, by all accounts, will be the exception to the […]
Continue reading...Friday, April 8, 2011
Comments Off on Did Apple Ban Best Buy from selling the iPad 2?
There’s trouble afoot at Best Buy. Word on the web is that Apple has forbidden Best Buy from selling the iPad 2 due to some shenanigans from the nationwide electronics retailer. CrunchGear is reporting that Best Buy stores came up with an artificial daily quota of iPads to sell, and once this number was reached, […]
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Comments Off on Purported leaked photos of the next-gen iPhone 5