Every year it's the same rumour: "the new iPhone will have a 16:9 display." It even circulated before the first iPhone came out, and happened with the iPad too. This year isn't different. But does it make sense? Would the next iPhone really have a 16:9 screen? Read More >
Featured comment by cooldude255220:
""Games, which are the apps that are more similar between platforms—are easily adaptable for both aspect ratios."
How is a game anymore adaptable ..." More »
This week, IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT's Technology Review that Siri, best pal of Zooey Deschanel and oft-snarky gal-Friday of the iPhone, has been banned from the company's internal networks, over concern that spoken queries might be stored somewhere. Read More >
Sometimes, even the science and studies can be wrong. Not because of an error, but because you didn't dig deep enough. About a dozen years ago we had some discussions at Apple about the placement of the logo on the back of Apple's laptops. As you can see in this Sex and the City scene, the Apple logo is upside down when the lid is opened. Read More >
Rumour has it that Sony is set to be one of the manufacturers to make the next-gen, bleeding-edge in-cell displays that are reportedly going to be used in the brand-spanking new iPhone. Production of these displays is set to occur near the end of May, alongside four other companies. Read More >
Featured comment by Nielo TM:
"Since when Sony stared producing LCD? They never produced their own LCD display. The S-LCD was a joint venture where Samsung did all the work.
Ev..." More »
Featured comment by Glenbot3000:
"I've messed around with the SDK on Eclipse also, and I haven't come across the need for device-specific code (you have to cater for 4 different resolu..." More »
Best Buy has put the MacBook Pro on sale: $100 off every model. If that's not the clearest sign that the next generation MacBook Pro 2012 is around the corner—probably for WWDC 2012 on June 11—I don't know what is. Read More >
Featured comment by Dotter:
"If it was Apple themselves, then fair enough, it probably would be an indication of a new release.
As it's a third party, they're probably just tryin..." More »
Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung will meet in San Francisco today to discuss a potential settlement in the all-out patent battle the two companies are currently engaged in. Read More >
Remember the giant spaceship campus Apple's building in Cupertino? The people who live in the neighbourhood where Apple's mothership is landing definitely do. So Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer sent out a packet to neighborhood residents pumping up the virtues of the new campus—in a decidedly Apple way. Read More >
Apple's Mountain Lion might already be in "beta", but its still getting a few tweaks to make it even more like iOS. The latest is an auto-download option for Mac App Store apps -- buy on one Mac and automatically have it pushed to your other Macs (you do own more than one Mac, right?). Read More >
There's no getting around the fact that Apple accessories are expensive. But instead of assuming that price meant quality, Ken Shirriff decided to tear an iPhone charger apart—and what he found justifies the expense. Read More >
With my loved ones long away from me, I have missed the ability to use my iPhone's FaceTime over 3G a few times. Even if the quality would have been bad. Well, it seems that Apple may be testing it or getting ready for it, according to this screenshot. Read More >
Yes, these Mac Pro updates are not what you and I were expecting, but they are the only updates you are going to see in a very long time. Or ever. Read More >
Yesterday, Apple caused a little bit of a storm by censoring the word "jailbreak" in the US iTunes Store, making many jailbroken users slightly paranoid about the state of their phone. Read More >
Featured comment by markcgrant:
"Jobs said a lot of things, most of it is marketing hype, I believe he was trying to get gullible people to give him some money - to a large extent it ..." More »
Over the past few months, Apple, Nokia, RIM and Motorola have all been getting very worked up over something rather boring: SIM cards. After Apple's attempt to capture the market, there's finally a new proposed design—which might actually find its way into your next phone. Read More >
Featured comment by Happyal:
"We need a count down clock, if it reaches 0 and nothing is agreed the whole world will end........
OMG will someone think of the children." More »