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Sunday, March 17, 2013

CEO Tim Cook may have to testify in Apple e-books case

CEO Tim Cook may have to testify in Apple e-books case

(Reuters) – Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook could be deposed in the government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-setting in the e-book market. In a one-page order, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote on Friday said she will hold a telephone conference on March 13 to consider the government's request for Cook's testimony. (http://r.reuters.com/xur56t) Apple is the sole remaining defendant in the lawsuit brought against the iPhone maker and five other publishers last April for allegedly conspiring to raise prices of e-books to challenge the dominance of Amazon.com Inc. …

Apple Extends New TV Ad Campaign to iPhone With ‘Brilliant’ and ‘Discover’ Spots

Apple tonight posted two new television spots for the iPhone on its YouTube page. The ads, entitled ‘Brilliant’ and ‘Discover’, highlights some of the more than 700,000 apps available on the App Store, using a variety of words to describe them.

Previous ads in the series include ‘Alive’, ‘Together’, and ‘Hollywood’, all for the iPad.

Apps shown in the ads include Cards, Mike V: Skateboard Party, Starbucks, iBooks, MyScript Calculator, Philips Hue, GarageBand, The Elements for iPhone 4, Apple Maps, Infinity Blade 2, Cleartune, iPhoto, Yelp, and Shazam.

Phil Schiller Goes on Offensive Against Android and Samsung

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller went on the offensive against Android in a unusually forthright interview with The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of world-wide marketing, also said that Android users are often running old operating systems and that the fragmentation in the Android world was “plain and simple.”

Samsung Announces New Flagship Galaxy S 4 Competitor to Apple’s iPhone

Samsung tonight announced its flagship iPhone competitor, the Galaxy S 4, at an event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The new smartphone is set to launch in April on all four major U.S. carriers.

The new phone gets a slight screen size increase to 5″ from 4.8″, with a 1080p display at 441 pixels per inch (compared to iPhone 5′s 326 ppi) that Samsung is calling “Full HD Super AMOLED.” The phone also houses 2 GB RAM, a 2600 mAh battery, a micro SD card slot for expanded storage (in addition to the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB variations) and a rear 13-megapixel camera. There is also a front-facing camera that can record 720p video.

Supply Chain Hints Suggest Retina iPad Mini Could Debut in Second Half of 2013

Supply Chain Hints Suggest Retina iPad Mini Could Debut in Second Half of 2013

Paul Semenza, an analyst at market research firm DisplaySearch, tells CNET that an iPad mini with Retina display could debut in the third or fourth quarter of this year.

“We’re seeing potential in the third quarter of panel production for a higher-resolution iPad Mini,” DisplaySearch analyst Paul Semenza told CNET today.

“When would the Mini be available? Could be third quarter or fourth quarter,” he said, adding that the speculation is DisplaySearch’s best guess based on supply chain data.

Unsurprisingly, Semenza tells CNET that his data points to a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels for the Retina display iPad mini, giving it the same number of pixels as the full-size iPad but at a higher density of 324 pixels per inch. He goes on to note that it would be a challenge for Apple and its display partners to pair that kind of display with the current iPad mini chassis at just 7.2 mm thick, hinting that the company may need to increase the device’s thickness somewhat as it did when the full-size iPad moved to a Retina display.
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How to Factory Unlock iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS on iOS 6.0.1/6.0

How to Factory Unlock iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS on iOS 6.0.1/6.0

Last month, Apple released iOS 6 along with brand new iPhone 5 which is taller, thinner and lighter as compared to previous iPhones. Did you just get your iPhone 5 or recently updated your iPhone 3GS, 4 or 4S to iOS 6? As we know that there updating iOS 6 will also upgrade your basebands so your unofficial SIM card will not work on the iPhone. What to do in such situation? Don’t worry, the guys over MyIMEIunlock has the optimum solution for these cases.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Apple iPhone 5 Review

The iPhone 5. As in five million units sold over the course of a … weekend. Can't say no to that. This is the latest installment in the smartphone series that changed the mobile phone industry and we can understand people couldn't wait. Now, what is it they couldn't wait for? The Apple iPhone 5 brings the long anticipated larger screen and more capable internals that we already know are ready to trade blows with the most powerful chipsets out there.

Apple iPhone 5 official photos There's also the new slender, slimmer body that no photos really do justice to. If all of Apple's claims are true then the iPhone 5 is a real engineering masterpiece - double the performance in a more compact package without sacrificing anything in terms of battery life. They could've done worse. A lot worse. But this is Apple telling you to prepare to be wowed. So you have every right to play hard-to-please.

Key features

Quad-band GSM and quad-band 3G support with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
LTE support where carriers support it and CDMA support when sold by CDMA carriers
4" 16M-color LED-backlit IPS TFT capacitive touchscreen of 640 x 1136px resolution
Scratch-resistant screen glass, fingerprint-resistant coating
1.2GHz dual-core custom-designed CPU, PowerVR SGX543MP3 GPU, 1GB of RAM, Apple A6 SoC
iOS 6 and iCloud integration
8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and touch focus
1080p video recording at 30fps
1.2MP secondary front-facing camera
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
GPS with A-GPS connectivity; digital compass
16/32/64GB storage options
Accelerometer, proximity sensor and a three-axis gyro sensor
Active noise cancellation with a dedicated secondary microphone
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack, stereo Bluetooth v4.0
Excellent audio output quality (though worse than 4S)
Apple Maps with free voice-guided navigation in 56 countries
Voice recognition, Siri virtual assistant
Supports HD Voice (needs carrier support too)
FaceTime video calls over Wi-Fi and cellular
Impressively slim and light
Great battery life

Main disadvantages

Aluminum body looks cool but is easy to scratch
Proprietary connector, incompatible with previous-gen accessories (needs adapter)
The new display is not proportionally bigger, but only taller
Unadapted apps run letterboxed due to the unusual resolution
nano-SIM support only
Apple Maps app not up to scratch
No USB Mass Storage mode
No FM radio
No stereo speakers
No microSD card slot
No NFC connectivity (though that may be nitpicking)
Stuck with iTunes for loading content
Mono audio recording in videos

Should the iPhone 5 be worried about not doing quite enough in terms of new design and features? That question sounds ridiculous considering the sales numbers. But there's a long-term perspective that goes beyond a record-breaking opening weekend.

The Apple iPhone 5 live photos People who thought the iPhone 4S was a half-hearted effort, are rightfully expecting the iPhone 5 to be the real upgrade of the brilliant iPhone 4. In the end, though, there's more to a smartphone's real worth than dry specs. Apple has, on multiple occasions, been able to produce devices that are better than the sum of their parts and few will be surprised at the iPhone 5 pulling off a similar trick.

We also took the Black and Slate version for a spin There's no time to waste, so follow us to the next page for the unboxing and hardware inspection of Apple's latest. We'll also take a close look at that sweet new display and see whether the claims about it being the most advanced in business hold water.