Archive for the 'iphone' Category

Possibly Two New Iphones this Fall

Posted by bbwa on June 27th, 2011

Sort of an interesting story from CNN Money, suggesting that there will in fact be two new Iphones hitting the market this fall. The big news will be the Iphone5, which is much anticipated, especially following the release of the iOS5 recently. However, the biggest news may be the IPhone4S, which would be a speeded [...]

White Iphone4 Coming Soon

Posted by bbwa on April 18th, 2011

There has been many rumors about White Iphones, including that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has a white Iphone seen in public recently. Well, it looks like it is finally going to happen, this story says that there will be white Apple Iphone 4s for sale in Italy soon. That’s right, Apple Iphone4 in white for [...]

AT&T Brings Hot Spotting to Android Phones

Posted by bbwa on January 16th, 2011

AT&T has added hotspotting features to it’s Android phones, and it may be adding them to it’s Iphone offerings as well. Hot Spotting allows the smart phone to become a hub for an adhoc wireless network, giving internet access to other devices that connect to it wirelessly. This means that you can use your smart [...]

Android Gaining Ground in the US

Posted by bbwa on July 11th, 2010

While RIM continues to dominate the US market with more than 40% of the phones out there, Android has been coming on strong. At 13% of the market, Android phones are starting to put pressure on Microsoft phones (at 13.2%) and even Apple (at around 24%). The Android increase is 4% in a short period [...]

Iphone4 Users Need To Learn How to Hold It

Posted by bbwa on June 27th, 2010

The Apple Iphone4 has only been out for a very short amount of time, and already problems are cropping up. One of the strangest is reception problems, because of the way the integrated antenna is put in the phone. It seems that if users hold the phone in a certain manner, they can actually attenuate [...]

Apple Iphone4 Upgrade Meltdown

Posted by bbwa on June 20th, 2010

Apple is once again the victim of their own hype and popularity of upcoming products, this time on the Iphone4. A pre-production Iphone4 was found and put online, which only added to the hype around this device. Now comes word that many people who want to upgrade from older Apple phones are discovering that there [...]

Apple Grabs 17% of Worldwide Smartphone Market

Posted by bbwa on November 15th, 2009

Even as overall sales for mobile phones remained flat for the third quarter, smartphone sales continue to show double digit growth—as they have ever since the market was redefined by Apple’s iPhone. Apple’s share of the market continues to climb and is edging close to rival RIM, while market leader Nokia continues its slow decline [...]

AT&T Sues Verizon Over Map Ads

Posted by bbwa on November 4th, 2009

This has got to be one of the weirdest lawsuits I have seen in a while. AT&T and Apple have been running Iphone ads for a while with the tag “There’s an App for that”. Well, Verizon recently started to roll out some new 3G phones, and decides to show how their network has superior [...]

Iphone Doesn’t Hit In China

Posted by bbwa on November 2nd, 2009

The arrival of the Iphone in the Chinese market hasn’t hit exactly with the same fervor that saw it’s release in other countries, according to this story. There are any number of reasons, including that the China Iphone has no WAN support, and is facing stiff competition from grey market phones from places like Hong [...]

Apple 3G on the way out the door?

Posted by bbwa on August 10th, 2009

An interesting article in I4U, wondering what many have been wondering, is the original Iphone3g on it’s way to meet it’s maker? There are plenty of rumors about the Apple4G, including one wild story about a chinese dude jumping out of a window because he lost one of the prototypes. The Iphone 3GS certainly has [...]