Stories by Gary Ng

The Promenade Temecula Apple store in California was robbed last week in what seems to be a smash n' grab attempt. Details were scarce at the time, but with the surveillance video below we learned that a BMW crashed through Apple's front-plate glass of the store and the burglars within quickly grabbed a few iPhones and iPads. Apparently the burglars expected...

With iPhone 5 pre-orders set to take place just after midnight PDT tonight on Apple.ca, the 'Big 3' carriers will soon follow afterwards as their landing pages are already up. One major change with the iPhone 5 is the new smaller nano SIM, and MobileSyrup has posted images of the Rogers and Fido nano SIMs,...

ZAGG has launched a new screen protector, the invisibleSHIELD EXTREME and it's available for the new iPhone 5 (and iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S): Introducing the invisibleSHIELD® EXTREME, a patented award winning, protective film for gadgets. Delivering the same premium quality as the original invisibleSHIELD, this exceptionally tough, and virtually indestructible film features a new...

All current & upcoming Virgin Mobile carrier users may want to feast their eyes on this plan. MobileSyrup is reported that Virgin Mobile launched a new plan labeled "Smartphone 73 - 6 GB" today, September 13th. The plan is for all new & existing postpaid customers. This plan is strictly a "hot exclusive limited time...

The iPhone 5 was announced yesterday and its news is taking the world by storm. Jimmy Kimmel played a pretty hilarious prank yesterday--he showed members of the public an iPhone 4S, but told them it was an iPhone 5. Watch the reactions below, and tell me what you think: Thanks everyone for sending this in!

To all the Canadians, there really isn't many websites offering trade-in programs for smartphones. Sometimes the best way to receive top dollar when selling a smartphone is to sell on Amazon or eBay. That can be a tricky task for first time sellers, so allow us to explain an alternative program offered by eBay. Since January of...

Over the course of the past few weeks we have provided you with estimates of what the iPhone 5 would sell during its opening weekend. Mainly, analysts had estimated anywhere between 5 and 6 million devices. Now that the iPhone 5 has been confirmed, those estimates are still holding strong. We knew what the iPhone...

After Apple uploaded their full keynote to their website during the early evening yesterday, many noticed the quality wasn't very great. The pixelation and loading issues seemed never-ending for some. So to fix those issues, Apple has uploaded it to iTunes as a podcast, as they do every year. Users will have two choices, you can...

As usual, Apple has kept quiet about the internals of the iPhone 5. We know that Apple has upgraded to an A6 processor, yet we aren't even sure if it's a dual-core or quad-core yet. To shed some light onto the situation, AnandTech speculates the A6 performance gains are due to ARM Cortex A15 cores:...

At yesterday's highly anticipated iPhone 5 event, Apple introduced a new panorama feature. With this, an iPhone's camera can snap nearly 240 degrees of scenery by moving the device horizontally. Apple labeled that these panoroma photos can contain a resolution of up to 28 megapixels. Despite the iPhone 4S lacking the much faster A6 processor,...

Amidst the iPhone 5 hoopla yesterday, Telus announced the launch of its 4G LTE network in Medicine Hat, Alberta, with expansion to additional communities in the coming months, part of the company’s $2.8 million investment in the city. By the end of 2012, Telus aims to have 80 percent of Alberta's population covered with 4G...

You've seen the new iPhone 5 and what it's all about. Pre-orders start on Friday and availability is next week on September 21st in Canada. Let's make this quick and simple--are you buying the iPhone 5? Vote in our poll below (if you're reading this via RSS, you'll need to visit the site to vote):...