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  • iOS 4 now available for your iPhone 3G, 3GS, newer-generation iPod touches

    iOS 4 now available for your iPhone 3G, 3GS, newer-generation iPod touches

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iOS_4_now_available'; Right on time, Apple has unleashed iOS 4 for owners of the iPhone product codes 1,2, 2,1, and 3,1 -- in other words, the 3G, 3GS, and yet-unreleased iPhone 4. Owners of more recent iPod touches are also in luck. Interestingly, the build is 8A293 -- the exact same that was released to developers before as a GM seed -- so Apple apparently found no showstoppers pressing enough to necessitate a new build before pushing it to the public at large. It's coming up in iTunes now, so go on -- what are you waiting for?

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    iOS 4 now available for your iPhone 3G, 3GS, newer-generation iPod touches originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Hey, what about OS X?

    Hey, what about OS X?

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s interesting that this WWDC keynote was all about mobile. Obviously he had a big reveal this year – last year was all about the 3GS and Snow Leopard – but there was a decided lack of desktop talk this year. iOS looks like the horse Apple is betting on, at least this year. The uptake [...]

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  • Opera Mini for iPhone gets 2.6 million users in 2 weeks

    Opera Mini for iPhone gets 2.6 million users in 2 weeks

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Safari on the iPhone is by no means a bad mobile browser — in fact, it’s arguably the best one out there. Just because people have something good doesn’t mean they don’t want to peek at what else is out there, though. Even if someone’s dating the finest supermodel in all the lands, they’ll still [...]

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  • IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google

    IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Get ready to rumble, the latest Gartner and IDC smartphone numbers are out to give us a pretty good idea of how things shape up globally. Remember, IDC measures vendor shipments while Gartner measures actual handset sales to end users. So what does the data tell us? Well, to start with, in terms of smartphone devices, Gartner claims a 48.7% increase in smartphone sales of 54.3 million units in Q1 2010 compared to Q1 2009 -- IDC pegs growth at 56.7% on 54.7 million units for the same period. Both estimates easily outpace the 17% or 21.7% growth in worldwide units of mobile phones moved according to Gartner and IDC, respectively.

    IDC's list of top 5 smartphone device makers (pictured above) has Nokia at the number one spot repeating its 39.3% share as it did in Q1 of 2009 while RIM is down slightly from 20.9% in 2009 to a 19.4% market share in 2010. Apple (up from 10.9% to 16.1%) more than doubled its device shipments in the last year as HTC (up from 4.3% to 4.8%) and Motorola (up from 3.4% to 4.2%) all managed to increase their shares on higher volumes.

    Regarding smartphone OS market share, Android's global numbers echo its success in the US jumping from a 1.6% market share to 9.6% in just one year. Gartner claims that sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year to displace Windows Mobile in the top 5 for the first time. Apple's iPhone OS also saw growth from 10.5% in 1Q09 to 15.4% in 1Q10 as both RIM (down from 20.1% to 19.4%) and Symbian (down from 48.8% to 44.3%) dropped. See the OS numbers broken down into a no-nonsense table after the break.

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    IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 04:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Rhapsody App for iPad, iPod touch, & iPhone lets you download music now, no Internet connection required

    Rhapsody App for iPad, iPod touch, & iPhone lets you download music now, no Internet connection required

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Rhapsody, the digital music service, has released an updated App for the iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone. It's free to download but requires a subscription to use. The big deal here is that not only can you listen to your Rhapsody playlist while connected to the Internet, but you can also download individual songs to local storage. Yes, that means you'll be able to listen to your favorite song—Rhapsody has a catalog of more than 9 million songs—while in areas without Internet access, such as the subways of New York. It marks the first time that Apple has allowed a third-party music subscription App to be able to download songs in the U.S. Yes, it's a reasonably big deal.

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  • How the iPad, and the slate computer, will evolve in the next two years

    How the iPad, and the slate computer, will evolve in the next two years

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    With the iPad hitting pre-order in two days and shipping in April, it’s important to think about when and why to buy the iPad. Based on our understanding of the product lifecycle and expected moves by Apple’s competitors, we foresee big changes in the ultraportable landscape with the ultraportable/netbook as we now know it mutating [...]

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  • Explicit category could bring sexy back to Apple’s app store

    Explicit category could bring sexy back to Apple’s app store

    Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Another fire erupted amongst developers and consumers when Apple decided to pull the plug on apps that contained content of questionable nature. This isn’t the first time Apple has done this, but with the pulling of Wobble iBoobs from the app store came a surge of app killings and everyone said they’d had enough. Despite all [...]

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  • Public Service Announcement: Holiday Shipping Deadlines

    Public Service Announcement: Holiday Shipping Deadlines

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    The fine folks over at dealnews and Dealhack have put together a list of shipping deadlines for popular online retailers so you can make sure to get that special gift sent out on time. Here are some of the more gadget-oriented retailers for your reference. The dates below are to ensure delivery by December 24th. Amazon.com Free Shipping [...]

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  • Phil Schiller Grants Interview About Apple’s App Store, Claims Devs Actually Like Approval Process

    Phil Schiller Grants Interview About Apple’s App Store, Claims Devs Actually Like Approval Process

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Phil Schiller, Apple's SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, is back on his one-man crusade to defend the App Store from the latest wave of criticism pointed in its direction. This time, Apple is having to battle the news of Facebook's all-star developer Joe Hewitt quitting the platform, more high profile app rejections, and the rise of Android as an increasingly viable alternative to the iPhone. Schiller has granted BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl what the publication says is his first "wide-ranging interview on the matter". Unfortunately, Schiller doesn't really say anything to quell the growing unrest in the developer community — instead, he's offered some finely-tuned PR-speak that will placate the vast majority of iPhone users, who are only vaguely aware of the App Store controversies and just need a reminder that Apple is still one of the good guys. But it may only make developers angrier.

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  • Preview: Snow Leopard (10A432)

    Preview: Snow Leopard (10A432)

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    scaled105579_boxWe're a few weeks away from the official release of Snow Leopard and I'm here to tell you things are really heating up in the realm of Exchange Support, OpenCL, and being able to click on an icon to make all of its windows appear. Sorry. I'm just a crank. Every time Apple comes out with a new version of OS X I expect bells, whistles, and dancing dogs. This is an incremental upgrade, as we described it back at WWDC, and it's a strong one. However, it's not nearly as exciting at first blush - at least visually - but it does give countless IT guys some serious tentpole action especially considering built-in Exchange support. This review is based on the purported Gold Master, 10A432, the version that will be shipped to stores world-wide this September. It may or not be the official final version but I've been using versions of Snow Leopard for about two months now.

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  • Apple films commercial in diner for new product: Yeah, right

    Apple films commercial in diner for new product: Yeah, right

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Apple has just filmed a new commercial in a california restaurant Jax on the Tracks. It is a commercial for a new, yet-unnamed device. The owner of the restaurant, Bud Haley, said "Apple found us, they’re trying to show us as a hip and cool spot for the 20-something crowd.”

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  • School-Shooting iPhone Game Removed From App Store

    School-Shooting iPhone Game Removed From App Store

    Posted on July 20, 2009 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/School_Shooting_iPhone_Game_Removed_From_App_Store'; Update 3 p.m. PDT: Developer Retarded Arts posted a statement regarding the removal of Zombie School: “Zombie School is not promoting school shooting; it’s rather promoting elimination of zombies to protect the humans.” Apple appears to have banned Zombie School, an iPhone game that involved shooting zombie students on an infected campus. This morning, Zombie [...]

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  • Child Porn App Disappears from iTunes App Store

    Child Porn App Disappears from iTunes App Store

    Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
    BeautyMeter, the app which managed to sneak “child pornography” onto the iPhone, has been pulled from the iTunes App Store. The application lets users upload pictures of themselves and then other people vote on their face, body and clothes (or lack thereof). The internet was set afire yesterday when it appeared that a 15-year-old girl had [...]

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  • AT&T Screws Up iPhone Launch, Apple Cleans Up Mess with $30 iTunes Credit

    AT&T Screws Up iPhone Launch, Apple Cleans Up Mess with $30 iTunes Credit

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Apple must be sick of constantly apologizing for the bad behaviour of its iPhone business partner AT&T. Time after time it messes up — no tethering or MMS on the 3GS launch day, a botched 3G launch a year ago — and Apple has to mop up after it. If this were a family, AT&T [...]

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  • Buyer’s Remorse: 5 Gadgets We Should Never Have Bought

    Buyer’s Remorse: 5 Gadgets We Should Never Have Bought

    Posted on June 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Buyer’s remorse. It’s been around forever and is especially rife in the gadget world, where every year there is a smaller, faster or cuter version of every device you own. But where a product’s life used to be measured in years, now it can be just months. In the cellphone market, this is particularly dangerous: [...]

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