Stories by Gary Ng

The latest iPhone 5 rumour is that Apple will bring an aluminum back casing to the next iPhone, along with a major antenna redesign. This comes from a Chinese source at the Taiwan Economic Daily news, translated by Macotakara.jp: According to a Chinese source, Apple seems to change back form factor of iPhone to aluminum...

The iPhone 4 battery life is pretty decent, but it could be better. If you've been thinking about getting a backup battery, this could be the deal for you. Last December we posted about a killer deal from RichardSolo for the 1800 (RS001). The best-selling 1800 battery is now back on sale until March 31s,...

iOS 4.3 isn't arriving until next week on March 11th, but it appears replacement iPhone 4 units have already started to come shipped with the latest iOS. iPhoneinCanada.ca reader Arif emailed us that his replacement iPhone 4 from Fido came with iOS 4.3 pre-installed. He also mentioned Personal Hotspot works great on Fido. Currently, the...

Update: Rogers contacted us to say this forwarding has stopped. Let us know if you see these changes. We just got a tip about a weird change to the way Rogers handles 404 errors over the 3G network. If you're in Mobile Safari and visit a webpage that is down, you'll get the following message:...

Update 1: More info via this CTV news article. Looks like Telus cut her off, then she called to get it turned back on. Ouch. But Telus spokesman Shawn Hall says that the phone company noticed a spike in Fero's data use almost immediately after she left Canada. The company cut off her service, and...

The Internet got a little worked up today over news that AT&T was apparently "limiting" Personal Hotspot from iOS 4.3 to three WiFi connections. However, it is apparent that AT&T wasn't at fault, but the limiting to three WiFi connections is part of iOS 4.3, as clearly stated on Apple's website. Here is the description...

Justin Luey and I discuss Steve Jobs’ iPad 2 keynote on Episode 29 of The iPhone Podcast. Listen in if you want to hear a breakdown of the keynote and our thoughts on iPad 2! Please rate us in iTunes! Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on...

Update 1: YouTube embed now available. We were one of the first to post about this on the web, and no YouTube rip was available. Enjoy.   Conan O'Brien is awesome. TeamCoco made a hilarious video mocking the iPad 2 launch. Now, they have managed to play a round of life-sized Angry Birds right on...

Some notable updates in the App Store today to twitter, Skyfire, and Simplenote. Twitter for iPhone got a new addition called the Quick Bar that shows trends and adds autocomplete for usernames and hashtags. What's New In Version 3.3 - Quick Bar, shows trends and other important things without leaving your timeline! Swipe the Quick...

Did you update to the latest iPhone version of twitter? Then you probably noticed the new Quick Bar. Personally, I don't like it. The bar gets in the way of scrolling for tweets and reduces the size of my timeline. iOS developer @chpwn appears to have felt the same way. He just created a tweak...

Canadians are now complete. All of our iPhone carriers have confirmed they will support the Personal Hotspot feature coming next week in iOS 4.3. First it was Rogers/Fido, then Telus, and now Bell/Virgin. It's true--our telecom giants do like to make moves in unison. Our friends at MobileSyrup received confirmation from Bell: “Yes, we will.....

Yesterday, Apple announced that iOS 4.3 would be released next week on March 11th along with iPad 2. Today, 4.3 GM has been seeded to developers. This release is build number is 8F190. iTunes Home Sharing and Personal Hotspot are some of the most anticipated features. From a developer email: Get your apps ready today...