Onboard storage of SIM cards & eject tool. Use any standard credit card or membership card as a stand. Sleek, low profile design.
I love the fact that it has storage for SIM cards. This is perfect if you travel and swap out your SIM in other countries.
Leap isn’t selling as many iPhones as it expected to. But it has to be Apple’s fault, right?
A little while ago I sarcastically asked on Twitter how the Wall Street Journal could take good news about Apple and turn it into bad news. Well, they did it. I can’t even link to them, but Gruber noticed it too.
Apparently, a glitch in the update is erasing the user’s entire book library from their iOS device.
Brutal update.
Come on Samsung, can you at least try not to be a bunch of assholes.
This quarter’s report showed a clear preference for iOS devices, which accounted for 77 percent of all activations and captured eight of the top ten spots on the most popular device list this quarter. While Android activations dropped 6.3 percent as compared to Q4 2011, they still accounted for 22.7 percent of all activations for the quarter, which were primarily driven by Android tablets. Windows Phone devices came in a distant third for the quarter, capturing just 0.5 percent of overall activations.
The iPhone 5 was the most popular device activated in Q4 2012.
Rene Ritchie compares six podcast apps for iPhone users. Personally, I use Apple’s podcast app.
Mozilla’s CEO feels that the user base of mobile handsets is large enough to give his company room for its Firefox OS among Android, iOS and other competitors.
Om Malik:
Apple is enamored with China — and rightfully so. However, in not paying attention to India, it has allowed world’s second-largest mobile market to become a mostly Android phenomenon, leaving upper end of the market to Samsung. Wrong strategy, if you ask me.
The difference between the first exploit and this one is how it can make the iPhone screen go black, allowing an attacker to plug the device into a computer via USB and access the user’s data without having their PIN or passcode credentials.
I don’t know how they find this stuff, but Apple has to get this fixed.
Good tip. I wonder how often spammers change the number they’re calling from though.
After helicopters picked him up, medics inspected his injuries. They cut off his clothes and went through his pockets. There, they found his iPhone — with a bullet hole through it. “The medics would come up to me and say, ‘this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.’”
Stubleski wasn’t carrying it for calling or texting. He said he used it as a camera or for music. The doctors told him how lucky he was that the bullet didn’t hit the femoral artery. They said that the iPhone probably changed the trajectory of the bullet, making the wound shallower in his flesh. The protective cover he had on his phone made it so the glass didn’t shatter, making his wounds worse. He and his friends joked they should replace their body armor with iPads.
Great story.
Samsung attacks Apple’s VoiceOver feature.
Great story. […]
Apple’s iPhone 5 became the best-selling in the world in Q4 2012, outselling Samsung’s Galaxy S3, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. […]
A release that “fixes an Exchange calendar bug that could result in increased network activity and reduced battery life.” You can download the update by checking for software updates on your device.
Everyone wants Apple to release a cheaper iPhone, but there are some realities in building and bringing a device to market. Benedict Evans takes a look at it.
“We think it’s time to shake things up in the smartphone space,” Mike Woodward, President of HTC America, told ABC News in an interview. “We have decided to come out and reinvent the smartphone.”
HTC is using “Generation Feed,” or those of us keep looking at out phones.
Apple’s revenue [19.9%] easily beat out rival Samsung, which came in second with 9.3 percent, up from 7 percent in 2011. The rest of the top five saw their share of revenue fall in 2012: HP dipped from 8.9 percent in 2011 to 8.2 percent last year, while Sony and Dell both slid to 4.4 percent and 3 percent, respectively.
That is an incredible number.
Reports of a bug in iOS 6.1 that would allow users to gain access to an iPhone by entering certain keys on the device have come out over the past couple of days. Apple responded on the issue today. […]
Yesterday, Jailbreak Nation highlighted a bug with iOS 6.1 that allows users to bypass a passcode lock on an iPhone to access the phone function and contacts on the device. While the bug allows only limited access to the device and can require several attempts to achieve the correct timing to exploit, it is gaining significant attention today.
Having this kind of bug in the OS is certainly not good and Apple needs to fix it ASAP. I still don’t understand how do people figure this stuff out?
Worldwide cell phone sales were down in 2012, but strong demand for Apple products enabled the company to hold the third place spot for cell phone sales worldwide.
The update ” fixes an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S.” Check software update on your iPhone.
From the Nike Support Twitter account.
@mkoyerp Right now, we’re focused on iOS and web. We’re not working on an Android App.
— Nike Support (@NikeSupport) February 10, 2013
The New York Times posted a story on Monday about Samsung and its mobile phone business. Some sections seemed odd, so I thought I’d translate them for you. […]
Two cell service vendors in Europe have asked customers with the iPhone 4S to hold off updating to iOS 6.1 for now until Apple releases a fix for 3G connectivity issues.
I saw a number of these at NAMM in LA a few weeks ago. Everyone loved them and they looked really cool.
Here are 33 tips compiled by Dan Moren and Lex Friedman.
Sprint added 2.2 million iPhones in its fourth financial quarter for 2012, according to the company’s latest earnings report.
Marcus Mendes, who lives in Brazil, posted his thoughts on the “iPhone” situation.