Rumors leading up to the announcement of the iPhone 4S had us looking forward to all kinds of weird and wonderful hardware. A brand new, tear-drop-shaped chassis was mooted at one point, along with a larger screen. While all the rumors were flying around though, there was one constant, one feature that we could all pretty much agree on.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Google, you just can't argue that the search giant doesn't touch our lives in more ways than we probably realize. If it's not our Android smartphone, our Android tablet - some people bought one of those, right? - or the way we live in Gmail, the chances are you still find yourself hitting Google.com at least once a day.
Last week, when Apple announced its iPhone 4S, many had been expecting fireworks in the hardware department. Tear-drop shaped chassis, larger screens and all kinds of weird and wonderful rumors had been swirling for months, and by the time we'd finished, anything could have happened when Tim Cook took to the stage.
For those who have been waiting for a low cost way of installing homebrew Windows Phone 7 apps on their smartphones, the wait could be finally coming to an end.
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S, one of the few hardware aspects to change was the increase in the number of megapixels the in-built camera packs. By taking the iPhone 4's 5 megapixel shooter, and upping it to the 8 megapixel part in the iPhone 4S, Apple not only managed to improve the quality of photographs the camera takes, but also to bump the video resolution from 720p to 1080p.
How's your iPhone 4S release day going so far? Did you get the iPhone you wanted, were you disappointed, or did you decide to skip this release entirely? Some people had decided that the iPhone 4S just wasn't a huge enough leap over their existing iPhones, to warrant the considerable outlay that would be needed if they were to bite the bullet and jump to an iPhone 4S.
You can't really be a geek and not have played one of the super-popular and mega-successful Grand Theft Auto games. Even back in the day when the title brought top-down action and a spot of attitude to the table, the Grand Theft Auto franchise was one revered by fans.
As if there weren't enough apps and operating system updates already today, Apple also pushed a new version of its web browser, Safari, into the public domain. Coming packaged as part of the OS X Lion 10.7.2 update as well as being available as a separate download, Safari 5.1.1 features a host of new updates and changes, with iCloud support front and center.
We're now just a few short days away from getting our hands on Apple's latest smartphone, and iPhone 4S hysteria is reaching fever pitch!
Microsoft is now accepting applications from potential beta testers for its fall Xbox 360 Dashboard update, according to reports.
