China Mobile, the state-owned Chinese phone carrier, has announced it has reached a deal to bring LTE-4G to the iPhone. While that in no way means the next iPhone, allegedly scheduled for September, will include the technology, it shows Apple is interested in developing it. The carrier has refused to elaborate or disclose when we would see an LTE-powered iPhone. That's not surprising, since Apple doesn't comment on future products and stops its partners from doing so.
Rumors have been abound for months now that Apple is looking to get into the online music locker game, and given they recently took over the domain name for iCloud then it's looking fairly certain the Cupertino outfit is planning something in the cloud space. Add the fact we still don't know what their infamous new data center has been built for and all signs point to something big.
When you're beavering away at your computer, the last thing you want to do is break the concentration to find your phone just to fire off a quick SMS. Maybe you want to access the camera from afar? Now thanks to a handy remote app called LazyDroid, you can control your Android smartphone from the comfort of your desk without ever having to lay hands on it.
A recently discovered security flaw that could allow access to Android's Google account authentication tokens by a third party will be fixed for all users soon.
Thanks to the wonderful world of outsourcing, manufacturers, such as Apple, need to order most if not all of their products, such as iPhones, from suppliers, which in turn are responsible for assembling them. And it's now being reported by Digitimes that Apple has ordered slightly fewer for next quarter, roughly 17.5-18 million units, a drop from the 20 million it ordered last quarter. Most units, roughly 16 million, will have GSM chips, while the remaining minority, around 2 million, are set to be CDMA-equipped.
The MacBook Air is Apple's line of slim and compact notebooks that still manage to have nearly the full specifications of a standard notebook. It's now clear, according to Digitimes, that we'll see an upgrade soon, with production beginning in May and shipments starting in June or July, according to suppliers.
In its quest for ever-shrinking hardware, Apple has proposed a new, smaller SIM card for its connected devices according to Reuters. The new design, which is even smaller than the current iPhone 4's micro-SIM has apparently already won the backing of French telecom giant Orange.
It never ceases to amaze us the kind of things developers can get up to when they have a jailbroken iPhone to play with. Granted there are the plethora of themes and notification replacements but every so often we get something that breaks the mold. Something comes along that reminds us of just how talented the iOS development community really is.
Researchers at multiple universities are warning that almost all smartphones running Google's Android software could be allowing third parties access to digital tokens that could allow access to services such as Google Calendar and Contacts.
First we had the leaks showing game art and detailing story plots, then we had an official trailer from the guys behind the game, and now we've got the first pre-order being available for what's sure to be one of the biggest selling games of the year - Modern Warfare 3.
