woke up this morning overcome with anticipation, just like the 599,999 other people who pre-ordered the iPhone 4. I pre-ordered my phone through Best Buy, and it proved to be a simple and easy process. Obvious “foreshadowing” alert.
Unlike Apple, Best Buy didn’t have any lines wrapping around their store, having staggered their iPhone pickups to [...]
UBM TechInsights has thoroughly torn down the long-awaited Apple iPhone 4 and identified all its key components, including a 3-axis digital gyroscope and accelerometer designed by ST Micro.
“[We disassembled] the device by using our specialized teardown practices and combining that with our reliable and expert lab analysis. We were [then] [...]
If Verizon gets its own version of the iPhone in early 2011, as Barclays PLC is now predicting, it could lead to 9 million new Verizon activations and a switch-over for as many as a million AT&T customers.
James Ratcliffe, analyst at powerful financial group Barclays, said in a statement today that [...]
The saga continues. A reader forwarded us this note he got from AT&T, simply stating that his iPhone 4 preorder had been cancelled, for no apparent reason. And he’s not the only one. Updated: More cancellations, including some from Apple.
Even for AT&T, a company that’s proven itself adept at frustrating its [...]
Apple has updated its OS X malware shield to protect against a backdoor Trojan horse that could theoretically allow hackers to gain control over an iMac, MacBook, or Mac Mini.
The anti-malware update – which was part of Apple’s recently released 10.6.4 operating system build – was reportedly omitted from all upgrade [...]
Apple has introduced an app that allows users to track down their lost or stolen iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches.
Find My iPhone reportedly operates by locating Apple mobile devices via their GPS or wireless chipsets.
Although the app is free, it is linked to an $99 annual MobileMe subscription.
It should be noted that [...]
Are Macs inherently more secure than Well, not according to cybersecurity analyst Hemanshu Nigam – who claims that OS X suffers from just “as many vulnerabilities” as Windows.
“Suggesting Apple doesn’t get viruses gives its users a completely false sense of security. It’s essentially taunting hackers. They’ll take it as [...]
We admit it: due to an editing mixup, our earlier post wasn’t all the way accurate at first. While AT&T’s preorder allocation for launch day (June 24) was all done, Apple was still cruising along. iPhone 4 for all! For… about four hours.
As of a few minutes ago, with some intermittent switching back [...]
The iPhone 4 can multitask, there is no questioning that.
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, has personally shown us, at length in two press announcements, that it can. He demoed the function at the launch of the new iPhone OSand again at WWDC10, and proved that you will be able to switch between [...]
According to Redmond Pie, the iOS 4 for iPhone 3GS gold master has already been jailbroken. A new packet was released by msft.guy — a hacker who has worked with blacksn0w extensively — which will allow you to jailbreak the final pre-release version of the OS.
His description of the bundle:
3GS GM [...]
Only three days before the assumed announcement of the iPhone 4, AT&T has officially stopped selling the two generation old iPhone 3G.
June 4, 2010
iPhone 3G 8 GB is Out of Stock
Effective immediately, iPhone 3G 8GB is Out of Stock. Please refer all customers to iPhone 3GS 16 GB and 32 GB models.
FAQ:
Q: [...]
In order to show the power of HTML5 (and scoff at Flash), Apple has put together a site demonstrating some of the capabilities of the platform. It’s pretty impressive stuff — tweaking videos on the fly, editing text, 3D visualizations. It only works for Safari, but it’s impressive in its smoothness [...]
BGR is generally pretty solid on the rumor front, as they’re the frontline for many sources. However, their newest guess for the launch date of the next iPhone isn’t based on what a little bird told them, but rather their own arithmetic:
We have confirmed with multiple AT&T store reps that their sales [...]
AT&T announced some changes to the iPhone data plans, but iPad 3G owners are affected, too: AT&T is doing away with the $30/month unlimited data plan. Instead you’ll pay $25/month for 2GB:
For new iPad customers, the $25 per month 2 GB plan will replace the existing $29.99 unlimited plan. iPad customers will continue to pre-pay [...]
A concerned reader of Mac Stories — Jay Yarik — contacted Steve Jobs on the subject of the much discussed Foxconn suicides, and sparked a discussion between the two. The writer included a link from LabourStart, and said:
“Steve
Apple can do better!
Sent from my iPhone”
Steve replied:
“Although every suicide is tragic, Foxconn’s suicide [...]
Asus has debuted a sleek Windows 7-based tablet with a 10 hour battery life at Computex 2010.
The 12″ device – which is powered by a CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor – functions as a multimedia player (yes, Flash is supported), e-reader and compact computing device.
As expected, the Eee Pad EP121 is [...]
Skype has updated its iPhone app on Saturday, bringing with it the ability to make calls over 3G for the first time.
The new update, version 2.0, was rolled out on Saturday 29 May and aside from promising to improve start-up time, adds the ability to make calls away from a Wi-Fi connection and therefore save [...]
