It's not exactly news that Apple is keen to capitalize on the extensive Chinese mobile market when it launches its upcoming iPhone 5 device. In the latest bulletin of Apple's quest to dominate China, the country's third-largest carrier, China Telecom, has put the wheels in motion for a quarter-billion dollar "Dragon Plan" promotion and ad campaign in anticipation for an October release.
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According to sources familiar with such arrangements, Apple could be preparing a surprise update to its MacBook Pro range. With Intel's next-gen Core i-Series mobile platform not anticipated to arrive until at least Q2 next year, it is thought that Apple will inject some minor changes to keep consumers happy until then.
It's almost a fact of life that no product is complete. one way or the other. Despite some gizmos leading the market whilst others fail miserably, there are still features both the hardware and within the operating system that we sometimes wish were interchangeable.
The ability to change the way a device looks and works gives consumers the ability to add a personal stamp, as well as improve general functionality. This can be achieved in a variety of ways through official as well as unofficial mediums across the board.
For those unfamiliar, CyanogenMod is an aftermarket custom firmware for Android which allows for many of the features not available in the actual firmware releases. These features include FLAC playback, theming, and incognito (or private) browsing.
Love or hate MacBooks, I'm sure most can agree that - cosmetically at least - they do make a statement. Apple has always strived to keep its notebook range as thin, light, and fresh as possible, and that unmistakable glowing Apple situated behind the screen finishes off the MacBook range nicely.
For those hard of vision, the iPod, iPad and iPod Touch devices do provide a certain degree of accessibility options. Nonetheless, reading the small text, particularly on the smaller screen devices, can sometimes be challenging. Sure, you can pinch to zoom, but swiping across three times to read one sentence isn't exactly convenient.
One of the handy things about jailbreaking is that some of the great ideas featured on other smartphone devices can be ported over to iOS, such as Android's connect-the-dots unlocking mechanism, which found a way to iDevices through the AndroidLock tweak.
PocketNow has gotten a hold of an image which was allegedly snapped by an Apple engineer which, when scrutinized, seems to have been taken with a better camera than that of the iPhone 4, despite supposedly being taken by the Cupertino's current flagship device.
Apple Seeds Near Final Build Of iOS 5 To Carriers, FaceTime Over 3G Currently Under Testing [REPORT]
After a near-record seven beta releases, Apple seems to have finally begun to get the wheels in motion towards an official release. Staff members from various carriers retailing iDevices have started training with the new and improved software in an identical sequence of events which led to the release of the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 just last year.
