Playboy magazine has arrived the iPad, at last, fully uncensored for your reading, and I guess viewing, pleasure. As with all good things in life, the app won't come for free: $7.24 a month if you commit to buy a yearly subscription, $17.95 a month for a monthly subscription and a whopping $0.95 if you just want to try it out for 3 days. No, there is no free trial.
China Mobile, the state-owned Chinese phone carrier, has announced it has reached a deal to bring LTE-4G to the iPhone. While that in no way means the next iPhone, allegedly scheduled for September, will include the technology, it shows Apple is interested in developing it. The carrier has refused to elaborate or disclose when we would see an LTE-powered iPhone. That's not surprising, since Apple doesn't comment on future products and stops its partners from doing so.
Epic's blockbuster slasher Infinity Blade has received a one-on-one multiplayer option as well as new single player loot, according to the company's blog.
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.
The last few months have been quite a PR disaster for Sony: last month, the system got hacked for the first time, and information leaked, including emails, passwords and even credit card numbers. Then, after a period of downtime, the system gets hacked again, multiple times, and just after it was just starting to be phased back in, behold: an unresolved exploit has been publicized.
Thanks to the wonderful world of outsourcing, manufacturers, such as Apple, need to order most if not all of their products, such as iPhones, from suppliers, which in turn are responsible for assembling them. And it's now being reported by Digitimes that Apple has ordered slightly fewer for next quarter, roughly 17.5-18 million units, a drop from the 20 million it ordered last quarter. Most units, roughly 16 million, will have GSM chips, while the remaining minority, around 2 million, are set to be CDMA-equipped.
Another day, another iPhone tweak. This time we have a genius little tweak called PictureMe, bringing both timer and rapid shot functionality to the iPhone's camera app.
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.
Now that we're firmly in iPhone 5 rumor season, we're seeing reports both for and against Near Field Communication being present in Apple's next smartphone. While Google's Nexus S currently sports the spangly new payment method, NFC has been slow to catch on outside Japan. Perhaps though, BGR has received the biggest tip yet that Apple is taking the NFC bull by the horns with news the company could be bringing the technology to its Apple Stores.
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.
