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iPhone 5 Rumors: 4-Inch Screen?

According to rumors, Apple is looking at increasing the screen size for the iPhone 5 to 4-inches. It’s that wonderful time of year again where rumors begin to circulate about what we might see from the next version of Apple’s iPhone.  According to DigiTimes, Apple is testing a new version of the iPhone 5 with

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Apple Said To Be Working On Smaller iPhone

Reports indicate that Apple is working on a smaller iPhone that could be as little as half the size of the current iPhone 4. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is readying a new version of the iPhone that will be smaller and cheaper than its current iPhone 4 model and

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iPad 2 Announcement Possibly In March

The iPad 2 unveiling is now said to be happening in March. Originally rumors circulated that we would see an announcement on Feb. 1st, matching up slightly with last year’s Jan. 27th premiere, but when that date slipped past, it left everything up in the air. AppleInsider is reporting that Macotakara, a Japanese blog with

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Apple Changes Water Damage Policy

It appears that Apple has loosened its policy on how much water damage prevents you from having your iPhone replaced. Water. Two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen has always been the kryptonite to iOS owners and their devices. The smallest amount of moisture can spell doom for your warranty, and Apple has made that perfectly

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Is This The iPad 2 LCD?

Could the iPad 2 LCD screen been revealed in leaked photos? The iPad 2 rumors are going to come at us fast and furious the closer the anticipated April 1 release date draws close. We’ve heard there will be a SD card slot, then no card slot, we’ve heard camera, both front and rear, bigger

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Rumor: iPhone 5 to Have A8 Processor

The Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, other than Macworld all is quite on the trade-show circuit here on the west coast. It seems as if the high tech party of the year is winding down and we will have to wait for the next big bash. Ah, but there is the after party,

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Rumor: webOS Tablet Images Leak Out Prior To Feb. 9th Event

HP is holding a webOS-centric event on Feb. 9th (which we’ll be at) where it is expected the company will unveil a slew of new webOS products.  A move that has been a long time coming since HP bought Palm last year, so it’s going to be to nice to finally see what the company

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Rumor: iPad 2 To Contain Vibrating Motor

In yet another of the seemingly endless rumors about what new features Apple will include in the iPad 2, MacRumors has uncovered that GlobalDirectParts, a well-known parts supplier for Apple replacement parts for third-party vendors, has added a listing for an OEM Apple iPad Vibrating Motor. Seeing as the original iPad doesn’t have any sort

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Apple Teases iWork ’11

Despite recent leaks, Apple is notoriously tight lipped about its product releases, both software and hardware.  Whenever those tidbits of information do become public, it’s usually via a blurry-cam photo, not Apple’s own website.   Presumably, some graphic designer jumped the gun, and iWork ’11 is clearly listed on Jobs & Co’s own downloads page.  As

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Sprint. Feb 7th. 3D Phone? WiMax Tab? iPhone? Or …

You already know Sprint’s holding a shindig in New York on February 7th to announce “Yet another industry first.” You also already know that we’ll be live on the scene bringing you the scoop on whatever they’ve got up their sleeves. You probably also know that if I had a quarter for every time a

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Rumor: White iPhone Coming To Rogers In Canada

The white iPhone 4 has become like an urban legend. Apple announced it at the same time that the black version was unveiled last summer, but then it disappeared from Apple’s site some time later, never to be heard from again. Every so often a rumor pops up that it does indeed exist, but then

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Rumor: Sony To Unveil PSP 2 In Tokyo On Jan. 27th

Sony has sent out an invitation to the media in Japan for an event on Jan. 27th that is labeled to be a “business overview and strategy meeting”.  However, some sites such as VG247 are claiming that is actually going to include the launch of the PlayStation Portable 2. Also known as the PSP 2,

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Rumor: BlackBerry Dakota Gets Specs And Picture

Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the BlackBerry line of phones, are busy with prepping the PlayBook tablet for release, but that doesn’t mean they are ignoring the need for new versions of its popular line of smartphones. To that end, meet the new BlackBerry Dakota. The folks over at Boy Genius Report got

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Rumor: Apple Looking To Remove Buttons From iPad And iPhone

It is well known that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is obsessed with simplicity in design, and he has an aversion to buttons. He hates them, he thinks they are evil and bad. So, is anyone surprised he may have decided one button was too many? Mr. Jobs has touted the simplicity of iOS devices for

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The Facebook Phone is Coming

Out with one wave of phone rumors, in with another. The intrepid sleuths at Pocketnow have unearthed a Bluetooth filing revealing what appears to be the long rumored Facebook phone.  This Android powered social networking featurephone phone is described as the ‘INQ Cloud Touch:’ “INQ Cloud Touch is an Android smartphone built to make messaging

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White iPhone Coming To Verizon Soon?

Now here’s a topic we haven’t talked about…no, seriously.  The elusive white iPhone seems like it will be coming to Verizon, if not immediately in the near future. It seems Verizon does show a white iPhone version on it’s website as seen in the photo below. According to BGR it is a single image buried

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Rumor: Android 2.4 “Ice Cream” Coming This Summer

Remember how excited we all were when Android 3.0 Honeycomb demoed last week as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)? Everyone got all worked up and couldn’t wait for it to be released. Pfft, Honeycomb is SO yesterday. Pocket-Lint is reporting that while playing with a sample Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc at CES, they spotted that

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Rumor: iPad 2 To Be Announced By Feb. 1st

Kevin Rose, one of the co-founders of social news site Digg, has a track record of being one of the first to break Apple rumors.  It has usually been about iPods, but there’s no reason that he wouldn’t occasionally get some leads on the next generation of the iPad. Rumors of the iPad 2 have

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Rumor: Apple To Release Three Versions Of The iPad 2

We haven’t even flipped the calendar over to 2011 yet, but the rumors of the iPad 2, which many believe will go on sale in April, are coming at such a fast furious pace that you can barely keep up with them. Lets just do a quick rundown of what we have heard already: List

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Rumor: iPad 2 To Have Flatter Back Panel, Larger Speaker

The Christmas holiday is almost upon us, but Santa has come a few days early to bring us a bag full of new iPad 2 rumors.  Apparently he didn’t know about that one thing I did back in June, otherwise I would have just gotten a lump of coal … again. We’ve already had a

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Verizon iPhone w/ 4G Coming Next Month?

A report from MacDailyNews claims that a version of the LTE 4G iPhone 4 is being prepared for announcement and launch in January by the folks at Verizon. This report discusses that: “• Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week • Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions

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Rumor: Microsoft May Announce New Tablet Computers At CES

Microsoft has tried numerous times over the years to release some sort of tablet form factor devices. Ten years ago it was Bill Gates trying to promote a tablet computer that was a laptop with a swing around screen. This was followed up a few years ago about the overly hyped UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs)

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Are These Cases For The iPad 2?

It is not unprecedented for case manufacturers to spoil some of the features of future Apple products.  Prior to this year’s iPod announcement cases pretty much told us everything we needed to know about the new iPod Touch and iPod Nano, but a full four months before the suspected release of the iPad 2 seems

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Rumor: Apple Orders Backlights For iPad 2, Sticking With LCD

One of the biggest complaints about the iPad has been the fact that its screen is an LCD, making it impossible to use in direct sunlight.  This has been a popular point now for companies such as Amazon to poke fun at by showing how the Kindle e-reader can be used anywhere.  With the iPad

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Best Buy To Offer Free 3GS

Just the other day we reported that Radio Shack was offering some killer deals on iPhones, well it seems as if Best Buy didn’t want to be upstaged. Boy Genius Report states that Best Buy will offer new customers, additional line sign-ups and those wishing to upgrade an instant rebate on the 8GB iPhone 3GS.

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