The iPhone 5s and 5c have managed to capture the attention and affection of millions of users since launch in the third quarter of last year. However, while both models are powerful devices in their own right, they both represent only slight evolutionary improvements over the previous iPhone 5. The iPhone 6 is Apple's chance to change things. To once again try and invigorate and pump some innovation into the smartphone industry. As expected, interest in the purported iPhone 6 is extremely high, with a number of designers putting together the obligatory concept designs of what we could be about to receive.
There's nothing worse than being out somewhere far away from a charging facility with a mobile device about to cease functioning through lack of power. As such, most of us make provisions for this common eventuality, be it in the form of a spare battery, a USB cable, or a power pack that enables us to rejuvenate our mobiles by adding a few emergency droplets of juice. A new Indiegogo campaign offers a slight twist on the usual external charging hub with a peripheral that not only generates its own energy through your natural movements, but also keeps a log of how much you're burning off.
As Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference fast approaches the speculation and rumor mill surrounding potential future products and updates goes into overdrive. The iPhone 6 could potentially prove to be one of the most important product launches in Apple's recent history meaning that interest is at an all time high. With that interest comes leak after leak claiming to show the actual form factor of the device. One of the most credible leaks of the last few weeks is now back, this time showing the "iPhone 6" side-by-side with what will be its main rival; the Samsung Galaxy S5.
The jury has finally reached a verdict in the round two of Apple vs Samsung trial and has found Samsung to have infringed on two out of five patents of Apple. As a result, Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple around 120 million dollars ($119,625,000 to be exact) in damages, a far cry from $2.2 billion which Apple asked for.
Gestures make the world of touch-based devices just that little bit nicer. In fact, gestures not only promote better functionality and generally enable us to get done things quicker, but also, they're pretty cool with it too. On no occasion has the cool factor of gestures been better exemplified than with SmartTap, a new tweak authored by seasoned developer Elias Limneos that allows you to perform gestures even when your display is turned off and in sleep mode.
Just when you think you've heard it all, a company comes with through with a new mobile case that helps to deal with the issue of "selfie arm." If you've never heard of this recently-coined phrase, it's used to describe the visible arm in self-shots, or selfies, taken with a mobile device, and the Selfy case looks to, ahem, arm you against this unsightly intruder with the assistance of a remote Bluetooth shutter control.
If you've been skeptical of the iPhone 6 leaks and information that has surfaced so far, perhaps today's very plausible leaked mockup of the forthcoming handset in silver will pique your interest. Sure, with so many months to go until the purported release of the handset, we cannot be entirely sure of what's in store, but given how lifelike this particular leak appears to be, it's also hard to ignore the fact that we may already know what Apple has its up its sleeve.
Panoramic, 360-degree photo and video has become increasingly popular as both the hardware and software of our mobile devices has continued to evolve, and although it's still rather difficult to perfectly capture the moment from all angles, many of us continue to enjoy the process of creating these kinds of images and clips. Now, though, a new product by the name of the CENTR Panoramic Video Camera, developed by ex-iPhone engineers, has sought to take this segment of the point-and-shoot market to the next level, having just thrown up a Kickstarter campaign for the compact, feature-rich gadget that touts a high-quality 360-degree video experience.
The Beats brand, which started out as a line of headphones dreamed up by hip-hop mogul Andre "Dr. Dre" Young and fellow producer / entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine, now spawns several product categories, and more recently, evolved into a music subscription service by the name of Beats Music. Now, the Beats Music app for iOS has just been bumped to version 2.0, offering native support for the iPad. Check it out after the fold.
Social apps often overlap each other. It's the nature of the beast that if one service implements a useful new feature, several others will follow suit. On a day that has already seen Snapchat go all instant-messaging on us, Foursquare has announced Swarm, an app that helps you find close-by friends and discover things to do. The app represents a departure from the company's check-in ways, and also throws down the gauntlet to a neat little feature that Facebook added to Paper only a week or so ago.
