The more we live our lives on our smartphones, the more we are beginning to realize that we spend the vast majority of our time sat looking at whatever home screen adorns our devices. Whether your particular poison is Android, iOS or Windows Phone flavored, the chances are you spend a fair chunk of your time navigating the pile of icons, widgets or tiles that make up your home screen.
The excitement and adrenaline that surrounds the release of any new or upgraded Apple product is something that manages to take hold of the technology loving world every time the company decides to push out a new or updated piece of kit. We may feel frustrated for allowing ourselves to get so excited about a gadget or a smartphone release, but for reasons known only to themselves, a lot of people have a strong emotional attachment to Apple's kit.
TechCrunch is the latest to throw its hat into the ring with the claim that Apple's 30-pin dock connector is no more, with the iPhone 5 set to feature an all-new 19-pin solution. We're now just a few months away from what everyone in the technology industry almost universally agrees will be an iPhone launch. Whether the device is called the iPhone 5, or whether Apple does indeed drop the number and simply go with 'the new iPhone,' one thing is beginning to appear to be a dead certainty - the iconic dock connector is set to see a revamp.
Foxconn's Chairman, Terry Gou, has waded into the ongoing iPhone 5 conversation by claiming that the yet unannounced, and entirely rumor-filled handset will put the competition to the sword. Specifically, Gou believes that Samsung's Galaxy S III will feel the heat when put up against Apple's iPhone 5.
If you happen to be one of the many individuals that are involved in development for one of Apple's extremely popular platforms then you will no doubt be thoroughly enjoying things at present thanks to the recent release of iOS 6 beta and the fourth developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion. Although still in beta stages, the releases offer developers the chance to not only interrogate their own software and apps but to also inspect the builds for bugs and potential showstoppers.
Before the leaked parts surfaced which supposedly offered a clear representation of Apple's upcoming iPhone, many reckoned the Cupertino company would make use of its exclusivity over the heavily-lauded Liquidmetal formula.
The tech world seems pretty assured as to what the next iPhone will look like, and based on leaked parts, many mock-ups have been created by the talented designers out there. One point said designers have neglected to heed, however, is that the iPhone comes in two colors, and while we've seen numerous realistic shots of how the black "iPhone 5" could look like, we can now reveal how that design might turn out in white, thanks to these simply wonderful renders created by a Gizmodo reader.
After including major missing features in iOS 3, 4 and 5, iOS 6 has turned out to be more of an incremental update than anything else. Other than Maps, there are no downright mind-blowing features. Everything iOS 6-related announced by Forstall at WWDC 2012, we’ve seen in one form or another whether as a Cydia tweak or a minor feature on other platforms.
We get through many impressive iPhone concepts here at Redmond Pie, and the most recent has already gained a significant amount of views on viral video hunt YouTube. Elegant and perfectly polished, it offers essentially everything one could require from a smartphone, and although it's most certainly not real, it makes the preexisting iPhone range look comparatively bland.
One of the great things about Apple as a company is that you can never really be sure of what they are going to do or try next in their pursuit for excellence across their extremely popular consumer technology product ranges. Apple is one the only few companies across the world who have the financial might and status to be able to lazily play around with ideas and hobby projects that may not term into long-term products or even make it to the market place.
