Verizon just don't seem to be able to keep a lid on it these days, with executives leaking information about smartphone left, right and indeed center. The latest comes courtesy of CFO Fran Shammo with the news that Apple is planning to bring a world phone to market.
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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.
Rumors have been abound for months now that Apple is looking to get into the online music locker game, and given they recently took over the domain name for iCloud then it's looking fairly certain the Cupertino outfit is planning something in the cloud space. Add the fact we still don't know what their infamous new data center has been built for and all signs point to something big.
When you're beavering away at your computer, the last thing you want to do is break the concentration to find your phone just to fire off a quick SMS. Maybe you want to access the camera from afar? Now thanks to a handy remote app called LazyDroid, you can control your Android smartphone from the comfort of your desk without ever having to lay hands on it.
A recently discovered security flaw that could allow access to Android's Google account authentication tokens by a third party will be fixed for all users soon.
In its quest for ever-shrinking hardware, Apple has proposed a new, smaller SIM card for its connected devices according to Reuters. The new design, which is even smaller than the current iPhone 4's micro-SIM has apparently already won the backing of French telecom giant Orange.
It never ceases to amaze us the kind of things developers can get up to when they have a jailbroken iPhone to play with. Granted there are the plethora of themes and notification replacements but every so often we get something that breaks the mold. Something comes along that reminds us of just how talented the iOS development community really is.
Researchers at multiple universities are warning that almost all smartphones running Google's Android software could be allowing third parties access to digital tokens that could allow access to services such as Google Calendar and Contacts.
First we had the leaks showing game art and detailing story plots, then we had an official trailer from the guys behind the game, and now we've got the first pre-order being available for what's sure to be one of the biggest selling games of the year - Modern Warfare 3.
The wish list for iOS 5 just keeps on growing. We've already had umpteen concepts showing just how Apple should improve the iOS notification handling and now we've got a brand new video, but this time showing el-Jobs and co. how their mobile operating system should be handling voice recognition.
Jailbreakers are an impatient bunch, so it's perhaps no great surprise to anyone that the lack of a jailbreak for Apple's iPad 2 is starting to make some fans of the dark side a little antsy. Hopefully though, help will be at hand sooner rather than later.
