Dec 22
Evasi0n today has released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 7. But before you read any further, understand that jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad is legal, but it will void your … Continue reading
Dec 20
This article was written on July 30, 2007 by CyberNet.
For those of you who bought an iPhone, do you feel misled over the battery and the fact that you must send your phone off to Apple when the battery needs replaced? There’s a group of people who feel that Apple didn’t make it clear that the built-in battery can’t be replaced by the customer until after the phone launched. One person in particular, Jose Trujillo of Cook County Illinois, has filed a class-action lawsuit. Is this just another frivolous lawsuit that is so common these days, or a legitimate concern?
The battery replacement process is by no means cheap or convenient. It will end up costing users $79 for the replacement battery along with a $6.95 shipping charge. Then if you want a loaner phone while your battery is being replaced, you’ll have to pay an additional $30. In the lawsuit, the claim is that the battery will be completely dead at 300 charges, however, Apple says that the battery will last much more than 300 charges. In fact, Apple says that the battery “is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity after 400 full charge and discharge cycles.”
The fact that the iPhone hasn’t even been out for 300 days tells me that there’s no way to know if the phone will be completely dead after 300 full charges and discharges as the lawsuit claims. It’ll definitely be interesting to see what the judge says about this one. I still am wondering though, why on Earth didn’t Steve Jobs think to design a phone with a battery that could be replaced by the user. I’d think there’d have to be a good reason, but I haven’t heard it yet. Any ideas?
Source: Beta News
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Dec 19
While smartphone displays were always important, it is safe to say that after the Retina Display that debuted on the iPhone 4 that things really began to kick off, with different tech companies competing against each other for the best display, the display with the highest resolution, and displays that could pack the highest pixel density. Android manufacturers have been making pretty big strides in that area, featuring Full HD displays to even 2K displays, which to date has left Apple pretty much in the dust. Of course there are other factors apart from resolution, such legibility in sunlight, color reproduction, and etc., and thanks to an Apple patent discovered by Apple Insider, we might have an idea of what to expect in future iOS devices.
The patent covers a display that makes use of quantum dots, which according to Apple Insider, has been described as nanocrystals, which are “in some cases smaller than a virus – made from various semiconductor materials that exhibit special quantum mechanical characteristics.” Apple Insider goes on to note that quantum dots are “Of interest to display makers, as well as other industries in the optics field, are QDs’ light-emitting properties. Specifically, the material can be “tuned,” or manufactured, to emit very narrow spectrums of light.”
We’re not sure what the end result of such a display could look like, but we reckon it’s about time that Apple did something about its iPhone displays. What do you guys think? Will we be seeing a big change in display come the iPhone 6?
Future iPhone Displays Could Feature Quantum Dot Technology original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 19
Let’s face it, while the iPhone is not the first touchscreen device to hit the market, it was probably the smartphone that helped kick off the smartphone revolution and made touchscreen devices a lot more desirable than back in the day. While it might be presumptuous to assume that Apple was the only company working on a smartphone back in the day, it seems that whatever they did was enough to make the competition stop and think about the direction that they were headed, which is exactly how some folks at Google felt.
According to former Apple engineering lead, Chris DeSalvo, who was also an early Android team member, it seems that when the iPhone made its debut back in 2007, it was enough to blow them away to the point where Google had to re-evaluate where Android was headed. Speaking in an interview with Fred Vogelstein for an upcoming book on the origins of the Android versus iPhone war, DeSalva was quoted as saying (via The Atlantic), ”As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over,’”
Android’s co-founder Andy Rubin echoed those sentiments as well when he was reportedly quoted as telling a colleague, “Holy crap, I guess we’re not going to ship that phone,” after seeing Steve Jobs’ presentation for the first iPhone. Vogelstein’s book, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution is available on Amazon for $17.92 for the Kindle version.
Original iPhone Launch Sent Google Back To The Drawing Board original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 19
Over the past several weeks we’ve gone through a surprisingly simple process with the folks at WOODCHUCK with some premium customized wooden bits for some of our favorite devices. What … Continue reading
Dec 19
One of the nifty features of the Moto X is the fact that the phone is “always listening”, meaning that you will be able to speak to it and command it even when it is locked. This is versus Android 4.4 KitKat in which the phone needs to be unlocked before one can voice activate “OK Google”. These are some pretty cool Android functions and if you were hoping the iPhone would get something similar, well, for now Shazam’s latest update for the iPhone is probably the closest we will be getting. The app has recently been updated with a feature called Auto Shazam. This is a feature that has been available for the iPad but has only recently made its way onto the iPhone.
When the feature has been activated, you can close the app and even lock your phone and the app will still be able to listen out for songs, and if you enable push notifications, it will notify you when new songs have been identified. Great for driving and you want to know what songs were playing on the radio, or at the club when you’d rather dancing than be Shazam-ing. The update is currently available for download and the app itself is free, so hit up the iTunes App Store for more details.
Shazam For iPhone Updated, Now It Is Always Listening original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 19
Every iPhone, Ranked
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Buying an iPhone is not confusing. You have a 50% shot of getting it right (unlike the 100% success rate you’d had a few months ago). But if you still need help in deciding which iPhone is best, here’s how we would rank them all.
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Dec 19
MyGlass, an app that pairs Google Glass with iOS devices, is back on the App Store after briefly app
Posted in: Today's ChiliMyGlass, an app that pairs Google Glass with iOS devices
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Dec 19
Google has released the MyGlass for iOS app, giving iPhone users the same navigation and other functionality with the Glass headset as their Android counterparts have, after prematurely setting it … Continue reading
Dec 19
You probably know your phone can pinpoint your location for GPS, local search, or the weather. Hopefully, you also know that means your phone keeps track of everywhere you go, all the time. Don’t be alarmed—it’s the trade you make for the features you get. If it makes you uncomfortable, here’s how to opt-out.
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