If you've been longing for the immensely cool and "futuristic" ability to charge your iPhone wirelessly, you may be waiting a while for an official solution from Apple. However, a tinkerer who goes by the name of Tanveer took apart a wireless charging case for the iPhone and installed its components into the iPhone 4S chassis itself. If you have a bit of patience, a lot of soldering skills, sufficient knowledge of the iPhone's internals to disassemble, modify, and reassemble, and you don't fear breaking your iPhone by mistake, then this would be a fun project of you. The entire process is briefly touched on in a three minute video released by Tanveer.
If it's not the new iPad, it's rife rumor regarding the upcoming next-gen iPhone that's keeping Apple in the news just now. The device, which is thought to be receiving a longer screen, will also be getting a mighty quad-core processor, if a report originating from DigiTimes is to be taken as Gospel.
You don't need to be an expert to know that relations between both Samsung and Apple are at an all-time low. With the blocking of Galaxy Nexus sales in the United States and a collection of other legal battles between the two, it is clear that the two companies both believe that the other has copied ideas in order to make their own smartphones better. Whether you believe that or not is almost as complicated as asking you about religion or politics. Needless to say, we'll leave it there.
Next-Gen iPhone Display Leaked Again, 4-Inch Diagonally In Size, Utilizes In-Cell Technology [IMAGE]
Apple has, since the introduction of the very first iPhone in 2007, been happy to stick religiously with its 3.5-inch display, but with the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One X making the iPhone look comparatively minute, the consensus with regards to the next iPhone seems to be that the Cupertino company will finally break from the mold and increase the screen's real-estate.
Since the announcement of Google's Nexus 7 tablet, the speculation regarding Apple's purported smaller iPad has been incessant, and to add to the increasing tally of rumors and reports, The Wall Street Journal believes the fruit company has prepared component suppliers for large quantities of specific parts in preparation for the device.
On the heels of various analysts coming out and stating that Apple is working on a smaller iPad with a 7-8" (diagonally) screen, Bloomberg has just published its own report claiming that they're hearing the same from their sources. Rumors about such a device have been plentiful for quite some time now. But, why would Apple want to create a smaller iPad?
With Microsoft's Surface tablet not yet even slated for a release date or given a public price, one of the company's co-founders has claimed that the upcoming tablet may lead Microsoft to re-think its tablet strategy. In fact, the one and only Bill Gates believes that Apple may even need to make its own Surface in order to compete.
Steve Jobs once professed to have "cracked" three markets he deemed to be key in Apple's progress. One was the textbook market, which has already become a reality with iTunes U. The next was the television market, which is hotly-rumored to be in the works for the not-so-distant future, while the third area was the photography market, which although affected by both the iPhone and iPad, has yet to be attacked by Apple in a manner which would back up Jobs' claims.
While most consumers only pay attention to an iOS software update when it pops up on their device or in iTunes, the lengthy beta process beforehand is when said firmware version is perfected. With new features come new compatibility issues, which frequently see a beta release revised several times before eventually reaching the end-user. One iOS enthusiast by the name of Will Hains decided to dig deep, creating a breakdown of each iOS iteration from its inception as the old iPhone OS back in 2007 up to the present day.
All talk of the purported iPad Mini has been relatively quiet during the past month or two, but with Google announcing its Nexus 7 tablet at the I/O fanfare last week, more information appears to be surfacing with regards to how Apple plans to tackle the very powerful, inexpensive device.
