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We continue to learn small portions of what the A6 CPU in the iPhone 5 contains, but a recent GeekBench report shows nearly everything about the A6 CPU that we need to know. The benchmarks have exposed a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1 GB of RAM. The iPhone 4S was clocked at 800MHz, just...

When the iPhone 5 was present in the rumour-books throughout August the largest question about the handset was near-field-communication. A handful of followers had faith that Passbook would tag along the feature, while others failed to make sense of the asset. At one period an unknown chip was thought to be NFC-related until Brian Klug from...

Yahoo employees may be jumping in joy today as newly assigned CEO Marissa Mayer is offering nearly every employee a free iPhone 5. An email sent to employees this morning stated they had the choice between receiving five smartphones, including the iPhone 5. The program labeled "Yahoo! SmartPhones, Smart Fun!" will offer employees a smartphone and would...

With over five days until the official iPhone 5 release, Apple already has lines forming at their popular New York city location. Early this afternoon CNNMoney reported that seven people were camping out in lawn chairs outside the Apple store. The line began on Thursday at 8 AM; eight days prior to the upcoming official iPhone...

We've covered lots of iPhone 5 news over the past week, including pre-orders from Apple and our Canadian wireless carriers. Here's a roundup of all the posts in one place so you can easily stay on top of updates (the comments are invaluable to stay in the know!): Launch Day: The iPhone 5 Launches in Canada:...

Back in early August, Apple added Toronto and Montreal to its list of cities with 3D map capabilities. Now, it appears Calgary has been quietly added with 3D maps too. Check out the image below: Here's Toronto and Montreal if you haven't seen them already:   Under Apple's iOS 6 Feature Availability page, Canada isn't...

MTS and SaskTel have noted on their websites the iPhone 5 is 'coming soon', and so has Koodo. Check out the images below... MTS: SaskTel: Koodo: Last year, SaskTel and MTS also jumped into the iPhone 4S game, albeit a two week delay. If we stick to this same delay for the iPhone 5, we...

Earlier this morning, the Telus iPhone 5 pre-order page was updated to note they were sold out. The revised page noted a revised September 28th shipping date, as opposed to the original September 21st ship date. Now, it appears Bell and Virgin have also of iPhone 5 pre-orders as well. Virgin's twitter feed said they...

AnandTech has revealed the new iPhone 5 has 1GB of 1066GHz RAM and a Samsung-built A6 processor. How did they figure this out? They got the information from Apple's A6 keynote slide, where part numbers were clearly visible on the chip: Apple thankfully didn't obscure the details of its A6 slide at the launch event,...

The iPhone 5 is powered by Apple's all new A6 SoC which according to AnandTech, is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design whose core(s) are based on something purely created by Apple as opposed to fully licensed ARM cores which the Cupertino company has always used in the past.   Even though Apple...

Samsung is set to publish a new advertisement that puts the Galaxy S III vs the iPhone 5, reports Business Insider: The ad also sports the tagline "It doesn't take a genius" which is a shot at Apple Store retail employees. Samsung's play is to win the 'spec war' against Apple with consumers. They conveniently...

Rainer Brockerhoff explains: People keep asking why Apple didn’t opt for the micro-USB connector. The answer is simple: that connector isn’t smart enough. It has only 5 pins: +5V, Ground, 2 digital data pins, and a sense pin, so most of the dock connector functions wouldn’t work – only charging and syncing would. Also, the pins...