Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

Kickstarter is full of great projects trying to get off the ground, and a lot of them are iPhone related. Today we are taking a look at a new iPhone case that has a polarized lens add-on for your iPhone's camera. The case is called the Trygger Camera Case. The case is nicely designed with...

Here's a surprising story from my neck of the woods that shows just how attached some of us are to our Apple devices. In Saanich, BC, on Vancouver Island, a man was attacked for his iPad as he exited a bus. I live in Saanich as well--not too far from where this happened. Saanich News...

BitTorrent downloading has been around for a long time, and is an easy way to share files between your peers. Even though this technology is great, it comes with negative connotations, as it is often related to piracy, and illegal downloads and uploads. Installous also comes with negativity in the jailbreak community, as it can be...

  Vonage is an IP based telephone service that has been popular in the home, and has recently released an iOS app called Vonage Mobile. It allows for free talk and text to other devices that have the app installed. You can also buy Vonage credit, via in-app purchase, to call and text numbers not...

  Security has always been a huge issue in iOS. Anytime you want to purchase something in iTunes or the App Store, or even download something for free, you have to put in your Apple ID password. When installing updates from multiple accounts, you have to do this multiple times. Personally, I wish there was...

9to5Mac has discovered that the next iPhone could come with a new WiFi chip that supports dual band WiFi with WiFi Direct that could allow for AirDrop to be supported in iOS. The new chip, the Broadcom BCM4334 is built on a smaller, more efficient 40nm process. The WiFi chip in current models of the iPhone...

  Anyone who jailbreaks their iDevice is probably familiar with iFile. It is a full featured file browser for iOS. It allows you to view any file on your device, with full cut/copy/paste options for these files. With it's web server capabilities, it is perfect for installing new themes or deb files, or for another...

Today Apple published a detailed PDF security guide for iOS. The guide outlines the security architecture, encryption, and data protection features found on iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. While the published document was released quietly, this guide may suggest that Apple is looking to be more open with technical details...

Ever since the launch of mobile companies such as WIND mobile and Mobilicity, the biggest challenge has been competing against Canada's Big Three wireless brands Rogers, Telus, and Bell. While these new, smaller carriers provide competitive offers, their service coverage areas are plagued with blackouts and dead zones. In Vancouver, WIND mobile and Mobilicity struggle...

As reported today by The Verge, the European Telecommunications Institute (ETSI) announced that it has adopted a standardized design for next-generation SIM cards. In this instance, next-generation SIM cards will be "nano-SIM" cards that are approximately 40 percent smaller than the current micro-SIM card found in the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The driver behind approving...

In a new report from iDB, a source deep inside Apple has said that iOS 6 will not have any major UI changes or new features, but all the core apps will be rebuilt from the ground up. We had already heard that iOS 6 will abandon Google Maps, in favour of Apple's own in-house...

The latest untethered jailbreak has not only benefited Apple's mobile devices, but it has benefited the Apple TV2, as well. Firecore released an update to their Apple TV jailbreak tool, Seas0nPass, not too long after the release of Absinthe 2.0. Jailbreaking your Apple TV2 allows you to install 3rd party software, that Apple doesn't offer....