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iPhone 4S Bluetooth hints at new accessories
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Want more proof the iPhone 4S isn’t anything like the iPhone 4 on the inside? Take a look at its Bluetooth specs. Apple’s new baby supports Bluetooth 4.0. The ultra-low power wireless system is also found in the latest MacBook Air and Mac Mini, but hints at a whole new range of accessories for the iPhone 4S.
See, Bluetooth 4.0 can pulse once a second, sending updates or receiving data from accessories without so much as tickling the iPhone’s battery life. A single watch battery would keep a Bluetooth 4.0 signal running for years on end. With the power of an iPhone behind it, the impact of wireless data for things like pedometers, proximity sensing or medical accessories is negligible.
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The iPhone 4S Camera Upgrade Explained
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It may be that the most compelling new feature of the iPhone 4S isn’t iOS 5 or the A5 processor, but the new camera. I’ve given phone cameras a lot of guff for the generally poor image quality that results from a small sensor and bad glass, but this really is a problem that camera-makers have been trying to alleviate. And the iPhone 4S is looking like the best effort yet.
Why should you care about the iPhone’s new camera? Let’s go down the list and make sense of the new features.
8 megapixels. Well. This one is self-explanatory, but really the least important. Other phones and small cameras have high megapixel counts, and really, you don’t want or need that many. The thing is all those tiny ...
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HTC Explorer is set to arrive in the UK on October 31st
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Very recently, the HTC Explorer made its official debut as a budget conscious Android powered smartphone that packs all the functionality of its siblings – while rumored to cost somewhere below the $290 mark.
Unfortunately, there was no mention about its actual release date, but rather, we were given the tease of it launching sometime in Q4 in markets like Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. However, we’re able to get find a firm release date of October 31st thanks to online retailer Clove. As much as some will accept a concrete date, we’re still in the dark when it comes to pricing.
Nevertheless, it shouldn’t be too much of a bother after taking into consideration its entry-level off...
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What can dual-core do for you: a course refresher what the A5 chip will bring to the Apple iPhone 4S
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Apple just announced the iPad 2's dual-core A5 chip going into the newest iPhone 4S as well. If you are a current iPhone 4 owner, that would be the sole main reason to get the latest edition. Thus, we are reposting our article on the advantages of multicore platforms below, in order to gauge the possibilities this SoC brings to the fifth generation of the acclaimed handset from Cupertino. Besides the obvious 1080p Full HD video recording advantage, Apple also announced Infinity Blade 2, which will be optimized for the iPhone 4S, and also a beta of Siri, the voice command assistant, whose integration wouldn't be possible without the A5. And that's just a start...
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Our Apple iPhone 4S coverage. In one place.
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Now that Apple announced the iPhone 4S and the dust has settled, we managed to out quite a bit of coverage around the new Apple pride and joy. But with so much posts and articles, one can easily lose track of everything. That's why we decided to have this post - giving you easy access to all of our iPhone 4S coverage from a single place.
First of all, however, we'd like to quickly recap all the important information about the new iPhone 4S here. So, for those who missed the news, the iPhone 4S will keep the same exact appearance of the iPhone 4, but will feature a number of improvements on the inside. For starters, it will have the dual-core A5 chip, present in the iPad 2. Then, there's the ...
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Apple's iPhone 3GS drops to free on contract, iPhone 4 now $99
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Apple announced during its press conference in Cupertino, California on Tuesday that its iPhone 3GS smartphone is now available for free on contract. The company did not not clarify whether it will continue to build new supply or if this is a limited time offer while Apple and its partners burn through remaining inventory. Apple also said that its previous-generation iPhone 4, soon to be replaced by the iPhone 4S, will drop to $99 on contract.
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iPhone 4S release date sneaks out early onto Apple site
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Eager to hear about Apple’s iPhone announcement today? So are we, and so are some of Apple’s Japanese webmasters, by the looks of things. Official information about Apple’s Ginza store in Tokyo is announcing the iPhone 4S will be available starting 8:00 AM local time on October 14. That’s a date we’ve been hearing a lot about, and it’s likely to pan out for the U.S., and hopefully many other international markets on the same day.
We’re eager to hear more about specs for the 4S, and if it will be accompanied by a higher-end, potentially Sprint-exclusive iPhone 5, but with the announcement only 15 minutes away, we won’t have long to find out what’s going on. At least now y’all can start schedu...
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Samsung Nexus Prime first image surfaces: 4.6” display with impressive 720 x 1280-pixel resolution
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The Samsung Nexus Prime might have just spoiled a part of the iPhone day - the handset heralding Google’s latest Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, was spotted and it packs quite a punch in the form of a 4.6-inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. This gives an impressive pixel density of over 320ppi. And don't worry about the fact that the screen shows 720 x 1184 pixels, as it's simply not counting the status bar and the on-screen key area.
Now, there’s one key factor to be considered - is it going to be a pentile screen or not? If it is, then the quoted pixel density won’t be comparable to phones with RGB screens as the pentile organization includes only two subpixels ra...
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O2 UK now offering the BlackBerry Curve 9360
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Then entry level BlackBerry Curve 9360 from RIM that is powered by OS 7 is now available for purchase on O2 UK and can be had for free with a monthly plan of £21.50 per month.
In addition to featuring OS 7, which is the newest version of the BlackBerry operating system that is also found on other devices, the Curve 9360 packs a 2.44-inch display and is powered by an 800MHz processor and 512MB of RAM.
On the back of the smartphone is a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash. Although there is no touchscreen on this device, which is the case with some of the other new BlackBerry handsets, there is still an optical trackpad to make navigating the device easier.
The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is ava...
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LG Optimus LTE officially official: 4.5 inches of 720p goodness
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A couple of weeks ago we brought you news of an upcoming and as yet to be launched LG device called the LU6200. We said it would ship with LTE support and a 4.5 inch 720p resolution screen. Today the LU6200 is no more, it now has an official name: the LG Optimus LTE. Inside this beast is a 1.5 GHz dual core processor. Who makes it? No idea. There’s 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of internal memory, and it’ll ship with a 16 GB SD card in the box. The thing that makes the Optimus LTE stand out is of course the delicious 4.5 inch 1280 x 720 pixel screen. Said display will be the first to make use of brand spanking new AH-IPS technology; it was recently rated as being superior to Samsung’s Super AMOLED Plus ...
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HTC Titan and Radar available in Switzerland also
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Digitec.ch, an online phone retailer, is offering the HTC Titan and HTC Radar in Switzerland unlocked, or subsidized by Orange, Sunrise or Swisscom.
The HTC Titan is retailing for 599 CHF unlocked, while the HTC Radar in silver is going for 399 CHF unlocked.
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Vodafone UK's "Data Test Drive" helps smartphone users determine their mobile data needs
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Vodafone UK is running a neat campaign, helping smartphone users determine their mobile data needs. Under the scheme, new and upgrading pay monthly subscribers will get unlimited data connection for three month, after which the Big Red carrier will tell them how much data they used and recommend a plan that suits their needs.
During these 90 days, users are free to play with their new smartphone, downloading and using apps, surfing the web, sending emails and even connecting other devices to the internet (tethering).
The first new device to launch on Data Test Drive is the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S. The service will be available on all future smartphones and can also be used by enterprise c...
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64GB iPhone 4S and 8GB iPhone 4 Show Up on Vodafone Germany's Site
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Well the cat's just about out of the clear plastic shrink-wrap bag on the iPhone 4S. Giz Brazil had exclusive photos of Apple's new iPhone 4S over the weekend, and now Vodafone Germany's listed the iPhone 4S and a new 8GB iPhone 4 on its official site.
The Vodafone site lists 16, 32, and 64GB models of the iPhone 4S, and 8, 16 and 32GB models of the iPhone 4 on multiple accessory pages. We've heard about the 8GB iPhone 4 previously, and of course the 64GB iPhone has been rumored for years. With iPhone Day coming tomorrow, this seems like it's probably a little more than gum flapping and guesstimating by Vodafone, but it could just as easily be a dummy listing installed ahead of tomorrow to r...
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Nokia Ace: The third Nokia Windows Phone surfaces
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We’ve already heard that Nokia might be launching not one but two Windows Phone 7 smartphones at the end of October; however, we're now hearing rumours that Nokia could be planning a third handset as well.
Over the weekend spec details leaked out for the Nokia Ace thanks to MyNokiaBlog.com.
Sent in by an anonymous tipster, so the information has to be taken with a pinch of salt, the new phone will supposedly come with better specs than the already rumoured Sea Ray (yes it’s all a bit wishy washy isn’t it).
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The Crazy 64-Core Processor That Wants to Be in Your Smartphone
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Chip company Adapteva has a crazy notion: Let's turn our smartphones into veritable supercomputers. And the way to do it? Up the ante in processing power. Not with just dual-core or quad-core processors. No, their Epiphany IV chip has a monstrous 64 cores.
The Epiphany IV isn't a system-on-a-chip like, say, the Apple A5 or even the new NVIDIA Kal-El chips. Rather, it's a co-processor that'll work alongside the chips that already power our phones to provide up to now unheard of power. The idea is to accelerate and enhance processes like gesture recognition and facial recognition, and perhaps create a few new experiences in the process.
Some perspective. The iPad's A5 provides roughly 1.5 giga...
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