Sprint Looks At Three-Tier System For iPhone Service

Sprint Looks To Stoplights To Name Three-Level System For Levels Of iPhone Service, Green, Yellow & Red
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

You heard here, just four days ago, from our own Chris Smith who told you how Sprint wouldn’t be offering up phone insurance any more, but rather an AppleCare+ alternative instead. Well, we’ve just got fresh word in today that expands on that a bit, and says that there will [...]

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iPhone 4S Teardown by iFixIt

iFixIt Tears Down iPhone 4S, Reveals Dual-Core A5 Chip, 512MB RAM, Upgraded Qualcomm Chipset & More Goodies From its Innards
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

iFixIt has just finished doing a teardown on Apple’s latest iPhone 4S. From the teardown, iFixIt has found several interesting tidbits of information, such as the expected dual-core A5 processor chip, amount of RAM, plus a few new chips and components upgraded from the previous iPhone release.

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Samsung (Galaxy) Nexus Prime Event Confirmed for October 19; Release Date Still Scheduled for Early November?

Samsung & Google to Host Joint Nexus Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Smartphone Event Next Week
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

Earlier this week a rumor suggested that Samsung and Google will unveil the Nexus Prime and the new Android mobile operating system dubbed as Ice Cream Sandwich during a special event scheduled for October 19.

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Sigma SD1 DSLR Gets Surprise Modification

The Sigma SD1 Still Offers An Impressive Spec Sheet, But Now Offers One Very Unexpected Bonus In The Design
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

You know, I’ve seen a lot of cameras. It’s hard not to; you go into any Best Buy or similar electronics store, even a lot of office supply stores, and they’ve got just rows of them sitting out. But one thing I generally do not hear when it comes to [...]

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EcoATM Makes Appearance At 2011 CTIA Show

EcoATM Gives You An Easy Way To Get Cash For Used Devices, Gets Debut At CTIA 2011 Show
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

Maybe you’ve been having something of a quandary lately over what to do with your iPhone 4. And why not? Seems like everybody and their mother is offering you some kind of trade-in cash on the deal as long as you buy a new iPhone 4S with them. But now, [...]

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Blackberry Service Now Fully Restored, With Explanation Of Outages

Reports Emerge From RIM Saying That The Network Is Fixed & Fully Operational, Even Explaining Just What Happened
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

A lot of you out there–if the comments sections on the various pieces we did about the RIM network outage–noticed when Blackberry service went down over the last few days. But now, the service has been thoroughly restored, so say the reports from RIM, and we even now know just [...]

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Samsung Stratosphere Now Available With Verizon Wireless

Verizon Officially Launches The Samsung Stratosphere Smartphone; Brings A 4" Display, 5MP Camera, 4G LTE & Android 2.3 With An On-Contract Price Of $149.99
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

It was not all that long ago when Verizon announced the Samsung Stratosphere, however as we had expected to happen today — the handset has come available for sale. In other words, those who were holding out and waiting for the first 4G LTE smartphone with a hardware QWERTY keyboard [...]

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Impressive iPhone 4S, iPad 2 & Lion Convince Tim Cook to Award Extra Thanksgiving Vacation

Apple Announces Extended Time Off With Pay for All Employees This Thanksgiving
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

Another company-wide email sent by Apple’s fresh CEO, Tim Cook, has leaked to the media. This time around Cook is talking about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, which Apple will extend for three extra days, complete with pay, for all employees.

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Box.net Announces 50GB Of Free Storage For iOS Users -- For Life

Box.net Announces iOS Promotion, Download The Latest Box iOS App & Get 50GB Of Free Lifetime Cloud Storage
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

It was not all that long back when Box.net announced that they were going to be giving 50GB of free cloud based storage to all those who purchased an HP TouchPad. And well, needless to say, there was probably at least a few other users who were a bit jealous [...]

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iOS 5 Update Traffic Compared to “Major Sporting Event,” Unprecedented for Software Upgrades

Apple’s iOS 5 Release Is Another Success, “Error 3200” Likely Not to be Encountered Anymore
By on Thursday, 13. October 2011

Apple released iOS 5 yesterday and the new mobile operating system was a total success considering the traffic generated by the millions of iOS device owners interested in upgrading their devices. Many of them encountered a non-fatal but temporary-device-bricking iTunes error, “error 3200,” as their iDevices struggled to get a [...]

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