Would we care about Android if it weren’t for HTC? Perhaps not. The HTC Desire was an early poster boy for Android, a genuinely great design that squared up to Apple’s all-conquering iPhone and suggested it step outside.
The HTC Desire remains at the top of our Best Mobile Phones in the World Today [...]
I don’t know how long the lines were at your local Apple Store yesterday, but TUAW is getting word that a lot of locations sold out of the most popular models very quickly. Taking a look at the online Apple Store, shipping dates for current purchases are now in the 3-4 week range. So, [...]
Did you buy an iPad 2 at launch? Is this your first iPad? If you answered yes to both those questions, then you are similar to most people buying the iPad 2 according to Piper Jaffray analysts. Results from an informal survey of 236 people waiting in line suggests 70% of those customers purchasing [...]
Here’s an idea: How about we stop focusing on livers for a second and look at the good, bad and as he might put it, “insanely great” parts of Steve Jobs life so far?
Foreword (It’s long. You can skip this if you want.)
The timeline itself is made from a half dozen books, which I’ve [...]
MintyBoost was a terrifically handy DIY USB charger, housed in an Altoids gum tin. It worked great, until Apple changed the way it charged devices, gimping third-party chargers. But have no fear! The MintyBoost team is on the case. What they found, and what’s enumerated in detail in the video below, is that Apple puts [...]
A new update to Pulse News Reader for iPad now lets you mash up your own mix of news for others to subscribe to. The update to version 1.1.4, which went live last evening, provides each user with their own “pulse” if they so desire.
What’s a pulse? It’s actually a Posterous blog (with a pulsememe.com [...]
Citigroup issued a warning today noting that there were some security loopholes in its mobile banking iPhone app, and also released an update that patches the hole.
Citi said that the app saved personal information about users, such as security codes, account imformation, and transaction details, to a remote file on the iPhone’s internal memory. That [...]
Don’t think this means Apple is going to fix the antennas with the white iPhone, or that Apple is racist, but it has yet again delayed the availability of the white iPhone.
“White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they [...]
When I ordered my iPhone 4 on June 16th for delivery in July, one of the features that I was intrigued about was FaceTime, Apple’s Wi-Fi video calling application. Sure, other phones have had this feature for a while, but for me this was going to be something new.
After an abortive attempt at my first [...]
The UK retailer expects that this busy back to school season will get just a little busier as Apple plans to refresh their iPod lineup which will include features that will entice young kids and teens into buying this multimedia device.
Here are the features that we can expect to see in the new iPod lineup:
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The MacRumors forums are abuzz with users comparing their recent upload speeds. TUAW reader Becca Holmes tipped us that iPhone users are experiencing uploads that appear to be capped at 100 kbps rather than the 1.6mbps that was a previous norm. Users have been comparing rates captured with tools like Speedtest.net’s [...]
I wouldn’t have called July 4th weekend as a great time for releasing studies about in-depth App Store information, but it was certainly that, as quite a few studies came to light this weekend about how the Android and the Apple App Stores compare. First up, App Store HQ has released [...]
Apple has issued an official statement rebuffing claims that its popular iPhone 4 shipped with a faulty antenna design.
However, the Cupertino-based company did acknowledge a “dramatic drop” in reception bars for some iPhone users and described the phenomenon’s root-cause as both “simple and surprising.”
“We have gone back to our labs and retested [...]
Steve Jobs is known for being a prolific emailer, but it seems he’s not quite as prolific as some people have been making out.
Reproachful public relations staff have been telling journalists that a widely-reported exchange of views about the iPhone’s reception problems is actually a fake.
Yesterday, Boy Genius Report published a [...]
The path to ActiveSync nirvana for iPhone 4/iOS 4 users has not run all that smooth over the past couple of weeks. There were dramatic slowdowns for Google Apps and Exchange users who tried to synchronize calendar and mail data, although matters improved after the first day or two. [...]
Apple has released a statement on its US public relations site, revealing that the white iPhone 4 is going to be delayed until mid-July.
“White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected”, it says. “And as a result they will not be available until the second [...]
Apple has released the iPhone user guide for iOS 4 software. It’s a 17MB, 244 page PDF designed to walk you through everything from syncing to using the default apps. The 28 chapters cover the Phone, Mail, Safari, iPod, Messages (SMS/MMS), Calendar, Photos, Camera, YouTube, Stocks, Maps, Weather, Voice Memos, [...]
