Remember last year when we published a report on Apple’s plans on making the Ultimate SIM card? Back then, the company had filed for the patent regarding an embedded SIM card for their popular iPhone series of smartphones, but today, according to reports, it has been granted! Read the details after the jump!
Aside from the seemingly endless list of superlatives used to describe new products as they are announced, Apple is also building a reputation for filing patents on a regular basis.
Deceased Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been nominated for TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year award, Redmond Pie has learned.
Ever since Apple dropped its exciting system-wide voice activation Siri along with the release of the iPhone 4S, many have questioned as to why it is exclusive to the company's latest and greatest smartphone offering.
Siri was announced as one of the three major features of the iPhone 4S back on October 4th at the Let’s Talk iPhone event. It is a personal assistant of sorts, which can take input in the form of voice to perform a wide variety of tasks including things like sending emails/texts, setting reminders/alarms, playing your favorite song and answer other queries with help of services like Wolfram-Alpha, Yelp, Rotten Tomatoes and Google.
Consumer Reports - a nonprofit consumer protection organization - today published their thoughts on the iPhone 4S, which you can check in detail after the jump!
In many ways they are extremely similar, but the news that Steve Jobs coached Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg still comes as a surprise, with the revelation coming as the Zuck was interviewed for a TV show by Charlie Rose.
Those who like to follow Apple's keynotes - and let's be fair, we all do - may well remember the company showing off iOS 5 earlier this year, and mentioning a new panorama mode that would be coming to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with the impending update. We sure do.
We reported just last week of Apple's purchase of 3D mapping innovator C3 Technologies in an overt attempt to branch away from the dominant Google Maps - prevalent on pretty much every smartphone - including iOS.
With the iPhone 4S selling in droves across the world, it was almost inevitable that Hong-Kong would follow suit, and pre-order figures did not disappoint.
