It has happened on so many occasions before, and it's always entertaining when it does. Celebrities ranging from chat show host Oprah Winfrey to tennis starlet David Ferrer have all been caught promoting Windows Phone and Android products from their beloved iOS devices, but now, an actual rivaling company to Apple has shot itself in the foot. BlackBerry, a Canadian firm that once dominated the smartphone arena with an iron fist, has tweeted out to its followers using none other than Twitter for iPhone - a fatal error that isn't going to have consumers swarming back to BlackBerry any time soon.
You may have seen some strange stuff people tend to smuggle across countries through customs, often wearing the contrabands on their bodies. A man in China has definitely caught our attention with his creativity and thought process, where he shows us how you can smuggle 94 iPhones across borders all while wearing them on your body. Head on after the break, to read about this craziness.
Apple, like any mobile manufacturer, is always seeking new ways to improve its range of products, and of its expansive line-up, the iPhone remains the focal point. Thus, despite a radical redesign allied to some major enhancements under the hood with the iPhone 6, the company is already looking ahead to what's new, and where the Mac maker has stuck faithfully with LCD IPS displays - despite the market trend of using variants of OLED - it now appears that Apple is ready to make the jump.
The iPod Classic may have been discontinued, but its legacy still lives on, and whilst Apple fans now focus their attentions on the latest iPhone or iPad, plenty still hold the vintage music player in high regard. One designer has dreamt up a very interesting smart cover concept that essentially turns your iPhone into an iPod Classic, and if the iOS interface ever permitted, we'd definitely consider purchasing the real thing.
You all know how it is. Christmas comes around each year and you have to find a way of entertaining yourself when you're stuck with a house full of your nearest and dearest. What could possibly make that fun?
The iPhone is known to be found in odd places, doing a bunch of weird and rather cool things. For its latest feat, Apple's prised handset has found itself a new job, and it involves sorting out M&Ms by color. More details and how the contraption works can be found after the break.
Using a case with your smartphone is all well and good, mainly because it should help to protect your pride and joy from any unsightly bumps and scrapes during the course of its working life. If you choose the right one it might even keep your phone safe from some more severe treatment, but the thing about keeping phones in cases is that we rarely take them out, if at all.
Here's a step-by-step guide on how to record FaceTime video calls from iPhone to your Mac for free. Head past the jump for more details.
As far as the evolution of the smartphone is concerned, manufacturers have begun to hit a bit of a brick wall. Every high-end handset is packed with the latest features, and release cycles are occurring more regularly than the exciting new technologies within them can be evolved. As Amazon has already demonstrated with the Fire Phone, 3D display tech. could well be the next big thing as far as the mobile world is concerned, and a new patent given the green light by the United States Patent and Trademark Office indicates that Apple is also considering such a move.
You may or may not be in favor of the idea of jailbreaking your iOS device, but irrespective of your personal position, it cannot be denied that the tweaks in Cydia push the boundaries far beyond what's capable at stock level. Allowing a user to download torrents, change their default browser or adjust the theme are traits typical of the jailbreak scene, but while catching thieves isn't a pastime we typically associate with jailbreaking, one quick-thinking victim managed to retrieve a lost handset using a tweak designed purely for this purpose.
















