Stories by Gary Ng

Pics Reveal White iPhone 4 to Sell on April 27 in Europe?

More white iPhone 4 news coming your way (oh yeah!). According to pictures sent to Engadget, a 16GB white iPhone 4 has landed into the hands of a customer via Vodafone UK: As the story goes, the salesperson rang it up as a black iPhone to help facilitate the transaction, and shortly after the sale...

[Update] iPhone 5: Larger Screen, Home Button, Thinner Design?

Update 2: MacRumors has received a tip from a reliable source that says this story is not true (I think we all could've figured that out by now). Update 1: Here's a better mock up provided by Corey Daniels (@CDugD), with a more unibody look: Joshua Topolsky, the former editor from Engadget claims sources have provided...

Electronic Arts 99 Cent iOS Easter Weekend Sale

Electronic Arts is having another Easter sale on its iOS games for the iPhone, with some big titles for 99 cents. One of the highlights include Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12. At 99 cents, this is a steal (I called this sale!). Here's the full list: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Dead Space FIFA 11 Fight...
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The Globe and Mail News iPhone App Now Available

The Globe and Mail has been releasing its own dedicated iPhone apps recently, compared to the first collaboration with Spreed. A previous edition we've looked at was the Politics edition. The latest to hit the App Store is The Globe and Mail: News edition, which went live today. The layout is simple and easy to read,...

[Update] Apple Cloud Music Service Set to Launch Ahead of Google

Update 1: According to ATD, Apple has already signed deals with two of the major record labels (unlike Amazon): And sources tell me that Apple has already procured deals from at least two of the big four labels (Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony and EMI) within the last two months. One source tells...

Apple Surpasses Nokia as World’s Largest Handset Maker By Revenue

With yesterday's Q2 2011 earnings call by Apple, another milestone has been reached by the surging California-based company. Apple is now the world's largest handset maker by revenue. Apple’s revenues from the iPhone: $11.9 billion for the quarter Nokia's revenues from all phones: $9.4 billion for the quarter Apple iPhones shipped: 18.6 million Nokia's handsets...

[Sponsor] MOBiLE CLOTH Microfibre Cloths Promo Offer

MOBiLE CLOTH™ is made of a high tech split microfiber material, designed to cleanyour mobile and touchscreen devices without any spray or chemicals. It works effectively to remove fingerprints, smudges, bacteria, and germs from screens. MOBiLE CLOTH is washable and reusable, starts at just $2.99, and has a 30 daymoney back guarantee. iPhoneinCanada.ca RSS subscribers only: You will receive a bonus 2-Pack ($5 value)...

Verizon: The Next iPhone Will be a ‘Global Device’

During today's earnings call by Verizon, it was revealed by their CFO that the next generation iPhone will be a world-capable phone, as in working with both GSM and CDMA networks. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo: The fluctuation, I believe, will come when a new device from Apple is launched, whenever that may be, and that...
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Gruber: iOS Location Storing is a Bug, Will Be Fixed in an Update

Yesterday news broke that our iPhones have been saving our location info secretly since iOS 4, unencrypted. A temporary fix is available via Cydia, but we're all still waiting to hear from Apple. John Gruber's sources tell him that this tracking is in fact a "bug" and will be fixed in an update: The big...

Untrackerd: Stops iOS From Tracking Your Location [Cydia]

Earlier today it was revealed that since iOS 4, your location has been tracked and saved on your iPhone in an unencrypted file. There hasn't been a way to stop this--until now. Canada is here to save the day, via iPhone developer Ryan Petrich, from Edmonton. He has created a tweak called Untrackerd that will...

[Update] Apple Q2 2011 Earnings: Over $24 Billion in Revenue

Update 1: Here are some more details from the conference call, via the WSJ: On iPhone sales: "We saw stunning iPhone sales," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer On how the disaster in Japan: "Apple employees have literally been working around the clock with our supplier partners in Japan and have been able to...

Facebook Update Brings Find Your Friends Feature

As if there weren't enough ways to share your location with friends (think Foursquare, Facebook Check Ins, Google Latitude), it's now even easier with the new Facebook feature Find Your Friends, that unleashed today via an update. What's New in Version 3.4.1 - Find your Friends on Facebook using your phone - Add your phone...