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Apple consumers are mainly happy with the iPhone 5; from the taller display to even the faster hardware. But one of the largest complaints about the device is the two-toned anodized aluminium finish added to the back-plate. People are receiving the iPhone 5 and scratching the aluminium in their pocket, on the table, etc. Various...

Another week has flown by and Starbucks continues their 'Pick Of The Week' promotion, and this time around we have a song. The song choice is 'Live and Die' by The Avett Brothers. This is off their new album called 'The Carpenter,' released on September 11th, 2012. The album contains a mix of rock, folk,...

When the iPhone 5 was released, Steve Wozniak was waiting in-line as he typically does. The Apple co-founder probably could just walk into the Cupertino base and grab a device early, but he enjoys the experience, as he has said in the past. With the iPhone 5 also came his first impressions of the new...

Apple had released a press release yesterday morning stating that five million iPhone 5s had sold over the weekend.  Many people expected more out of the Cupertino giant, including myself, but they just broke another record, you can't ask for too much out of them. Then later on surfaced a report where analyst Gene Munster...

We speculated last week that a Google Maps application was in the books and waiting for Apple's verification. Well, that rumour was more than wrong as Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has revealed his thoughts on the iOS 6 Maps transition. Schmidt at the press conference via Reuters: "We think it would have been better if they had kept ours....

Consumer Reports has published (via AppleInsider) their initial review of the iPhone 5, and so far they called it a positive upgrade: By boosting screen size, thinning its profile, and adding 4G LTE access, among other features, his newest iPhone shows every sign of being the most compelling yet. And even its biggest drawback, its...

A translated report this afternoon from etnews reveals that AuthenTec, the company acquired by Apple in July, will soon cease sales of their fingerprint sensor offerings. Current customers, including Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung were notified that the technology will not be offered beginning in 2013. As etnews states, these companies are in a state of panic...

Apple announced this morning 5 million weekend sales for the iPhone 5 (earlier they announced 2 million pre-orders in 24 hours). With the official launch in Canada on September 21st, it appears some iPhone 5 units have arrived with scuffs and scratches right out of the box. Now, of course yield rates are never perfect,...

In almost all the recent smartphone performance tests, iPhone 5 has been put head-to-head with Samsung's flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III and once again, both devices go head on in yet another performance test. DisplayMate Technologies, the global leader in video diagnostics and test patterns for calibrating, optimizing and evaluating displays, reveals that iPhone 5's display is...

Apple can't seem to catch a break these days. It has gone from the iOS 6 Maps issues, to scuffgate, and now what is called a 'light leakage' issue. This problem isn't anywhere as huge as the others, but involves light leaking from between the glass display and aluminium antenna. The photo above highlights the area of...

Apple's main supplier, Foxconn, will be halting production over the next few days after a huge 2,000 employee brawl broke out last evening. The specific location is in Taiyuan, where 57 million iPhone 5 units are set to be produced each year. This isn't very great news for Apple, who is already experiencing supply constraints...

We reported earlier that the iPhone 5 had sold five million units during launch weekend. This figure was significantly less than what analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray had predicted just days prior to the iPhone 5 release. With the sales figures being made public, Munster has stated that the Cupertino company's limited supply couldn't...