A class action lawsuit filed in California by a woman named Christina Grace yesterday alleges that Apple intentionally broke FaceTime’s functions in iOS 6 in an effort to force users to iOS 7. Just a quick reminder: we’re now on iOS 10, but the suit digs back into Apple’s history of FaceTime to suggest that Apple pushed consumers to upgrade to iOS 7 for financial gain....
While ice fishing with a friend last year, Michael Guntrum accidentally dropped his iPhone into the hole he was fishing from. Because of the frigid weather—Guntrum said it was minus 25 degrees—retrieving it was out of the question. Miraculously, his iPhone survived, found earlier this year after the lake was drained. “We were sitting in our portable shanty, and I got a bite on my rod...
Apple is reportedly gearing up to stop supporting several of its older products, according to MacOtakara. The website named several products, including the iPhone 4, the 13-inch late 2010 MacBook Air, the third generation AirMac Extreme and the second generation Time Capsule. Apple actually tends to support its products many years longer than other companies, often issuing major macOS...
Apple is expected to ditch the iPhone's aluminum unibody in 2017 for a new "all glass" design with an AMOLED display. Reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects this year's iPhone refresh to come with a much more familiar form factor. Since it introduced the iPhone 3G in 2008, Apple has launched redesigned models every other year, filling the gaps with more incremental "S"...
The Economic Times claims Apple has resumed iPhone 4 production in response to sliding sales in emerging markets. The Cupertino company will presumably market the device as a low-cost option, and focus on markets such as India, Indonesia and Brazil. Shipments of iPhone 4 models bearing manufacturing dates of December 2013 were reportedly spotted passing through these markets recently,...
Apple is reportedly planning to capitalize on the iPhone 4, a device that made its debut a few years ago, by giving it a fresh breath of life on carriers in India. It's the latest news as the Cupertino-based company tries to fight off rivals in emerging markets, including Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices. Apple's plan for the iPhone 4 in India is rather simple. By selling...
Who spends the most time on their phones? While market share might tell us what phones are the most popular, it doesn’t always reflect which phones people are used for the most amount of time. Now, thanks to a report from Actix, we have an idea of what phones command the most usage time. The study from Actix that was shared with CNET found that consumers spent the most time on the...
A new speed test from our friends over the The Unlockr sets out to figure out once and for all which iPhone runs fastest using iOS 7. While it doesn't come as much of a shock that the iPhone 5s is speedier than any other Apple smartphone, the full results do include a few surprises. The first test involves booting up the five different iPhones. In first was the iPhone 5s, which took...
Sorry for the late notice, but today only, Virgin Mobile is offering 20 percent discounts on all of its prepaid iPhones, dropping the price by as much as $150 on some models. To take advantage of today's deal, head to the carrier's website where you can pick out whichever iPhone you want. Don't worry if you don't see the discount at first, it will appear as soon as you've added the...
The latest lawsuit filed against Apple isn't coming from one of its competitors or the Chinese government, but rather another disgruntled American customer. A Florida woman has filed a $5M class action lawsuit in San Jose, CA against Apple for the faulty power button in her iPhone 4. Debra Hilton has chosen to file for class action on behalf of the "hundreds of thousands of visitors"...