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Citadel Securities analyst Shing Yin estimates that the next-gen iPhone will call Sprint home before the end of 2011. From a business standpoint, it just makes sense to do. With AT&T and Verizon sharing the carrier stage in the U.S, Apple is likely interested in expanding to the nation’s third-largest wireless provider. Sprint, much like Verizon runs on a CDMA-network, which can easily be added to Apple’s domestic carrier list – a move that would benefit all parties (except for AT&T and Verizon). “We believe Sprint could capture more than its fair share of iPhone sales,” Yin writes, “especially if it gets the new model at the same time as AT&T and Verizon.”
The analyst believes [...]
Continue reading: Apple Considering Sprint As iPhone 5 Reseller Along With AT&T and Verizon
As Facebook continues its process to spread around the world, HTC has introduced a new phone with a heavy focus on Facebook integration. The phone, known as the Status, as it’s now called (formerly the HTC ChaCha), is a new AT*T phone with many Facebook oriented features, including a dedicated features, such as a dedicated Facebook button, which makes sharing content on Facebook much easier.
In addition to the Facebook button, there are also quite a few exclusive features across the board. The lock screen, for example, has been turned into a launch pad, allowing users to place shortcuts to their favorite Apps right there. The call screen has also been heavily changed to display additional [...]
Continue reading: The Facebook Phone “HTC Status” Announced For AT&T
Some of the leaked AT&T documents from the last of LulzSec’s hacking endeavors ended up revealing information about a potential “4G” LTE-ready iPad 3 and iPhone 5. Despite closing down all hacking activity just yesterday, the group of six anonymous hackers who go by the name of LulzSec are still around in the news. The last torrent they uploaded was full of confidential (and poorly secured) data from the likes of AOL, different gaming forums, EA Games’ Battlefield Heroes’ user database, and of course, AT&T.
The leaked documents reveal all sorts of plans, timelines, milestones, related to AT&T’s rollout of the “4G” LTE network. Nearly all of the information contained within the documents uses highly-technical terms [...]
Continue reading: Leaked Documents Hint At AT&T 4G LTE-Ready iPad 3, iPhone 5
There are new references that were found of an unreleased version of Apple’s iPod Touch, which have turned up in code strings found inside the company’s first beta of iOS 5. The discovery may raise more questions than answers though. A developer over at the ifans.com forums turned up a singular reference to an “iPod 4,2″ while browsing the resources of Apple’s first iOS 5 beta distribution for the existing iPod Touch, references as “iPod 4,1.” The discovery, which was later verified by the folks over at AppleInsider , may be significant in that it suggests Apple’s plan to release an evolutionary refresh to the iPod Touch this year rather than the evolutionary one that would [...]
Continue reading: References To New iPod Touch Found in Apple’s iOS 5 Beta
According to a report on BGR Apple will be announcing a much improved and updated iPhone 5 as early as August.
We have been told by a reliable source to expect a radical new case design for the upcoming iPhone, though we have not been given any additional details surrounding the design of the new iPhone case.
Lots of recent rumors have pointed to Apple releasing a small upgrade form the current iPhone 4; even going so far as to call it the iPhone 4S. Both This is My Next‘s iPhone 5 rumors, and now BGR‘s dispute that. Unless Apple is planning two release (iPhone nano?, someone is going to have to make up their mind [...]
Continue reading: iPhone 5 Rumored To Be Announced And Availabile In August; Brings Major Hardware Update
For those of you who are familiar with the popular iPhone hacker, @comex and his work, there has been some news of JailbreakMe 3.0 and a possibility of it being released being as early as “before next Wednesday.” Comex was behind the JailbreakMe 2.0 userland jailbreak and is currently working on a similar jailbreak for the updated iOS firmware (iOS firmware 4.2.1-4.33). The new release should be somethign similar in terms of ease of use and functionality for the general public and the other big news being, a jailbreak will finally be here for the iPad 2, which up until now has been left behind due to it having an A5 chip instead of the A4 [...]
Continue reading: JailbreakMe 3.0 To Release Before Wednesday
With WWDC 2011 behind us, enthusiasts are starting to look at what’s to come for the next-generation iPhone, which is rumored to be announced in the next few months. A spokesman at Etisalat, a United Arab Emirates-based carrier that currently carries the iPhone 4, mentioned a 4G-based “iPhone 5.”
Chief Corporate Communication Officer at the carrier, Ali Al Ahmad, went as far as saying that there would be an iPhone 5 with LTE capabilities by the end of this year as Etisalat rolls out G in more areas:
Yes, we are in talks with most smartphone manufacturers including Apple on the rollout of the 4G handset, iPhone 5 later this year. As the first telecom organisation [...]
Continue reading: An Apple Carrier Partner In UAE Confirms 4G-LTE Capable iPhone 5
Microsoft is taking some affirmative steps towards unifying their themes and services across different platforms. The first efforts were seen in the form of the Metro design language which started from Windows Phone 7 and then moved on to Xbox Live, Microsoft Office, and Windows 8. Recent news takes this process of unifying a step further: Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming and entertainment service for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 is coming to Windows 8 next year.
The news was revealed recently by the Vice President of Global Marketing at Microsoft, Mike Delman in an interview with The Seattle Times where he said the following:
Interview: Speaking of phone, I was surprised we didn’t hear [...]
Continue reading: Xbox Live To Be Integrated Into Windows 8
The iPad 2 was released more than three months ago and the people who have purchased an iPad 2 and wait to jailbreak it, haven’t been able to satisfy their desire since no iPad 2 jailbreak has been released.
The new Apple A5 processor-based architecture in the iPad 2 is proving to be a difficult issue to overcome. The Limera1n exploit, which worked previously on A4-based iOS devices like the iPod Touch 4G and iPhone 4, is hardware-based and since the iPad 2 is A5-based, the exploit does not work on it. This leaves the community to find an all new exploit for the device.
iOS device hacker, Comex, had his JailbreakMe Tool which utilized the [...]
Continue reading: Comex Releases JailbreakMe Teaser; iPad 2 Jailbreak Imminent
According to the folks over at 9to5Mac, Apple is reportedly recalling Verizon iPad 2 shipments and asking Apple Retail employees to locate certain iPad 2s and send them back to Apple. Apple’s discussion boards recently lit up with the complaints from customers who had their iPad shipments mysteriously sent back to Apple. Sources are now offering a little more information on the situation:
Apple has given all the stores a list of serial numbers to scan, if it’s a match we were told to set aside and ship back to Apple, these are only for Verizon ipads. This was to be done on Monday and continue to scan all shipments thru June 11. I had over [...]
Continue reading: Apple Recalling Certain Verizon iPad 2′s Due To 3G Connectivity Issues
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