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Jeremy Horwitz from iLounge has a new report on a couple new features coming for the next iPhone and possibly iOS 6. Horwitz claims their sources have further confirmed the next iPhone dock connector will have 8-pins, instead of the previously rumoured 16-pins or 19-pins: 1. New 8-Pin Dock Connector. According to two sources, Apple’s...

The iPhone was released during a time smartphones were almost unheard of. Sure, there were a few smartphones, such as the BlackBerry, but that was really all there was. Due to the bare smartphone community, Steve Jobs sure did have some doubts regarding his touchscreen smartphone. According to Apple industrial designer Chris Stringer, the iPhone's...

Moscow based company OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTSS), the iPhone’s biggest wireless carrier in Russia, has blamed Apple for not lowering the iPhone's price in the country and being too strict about how it’s sold (via Bloomberg Businessweek). Apple is currently selling the iPhone 4S at $1,000-plus price in the country making it a hard sell in a market where rival...

Apple, just six weeks away from the proclaimed iPhone event date, could be having issues with their display suppliers. According to Digitimes, rumors around the touch-panel industry have indicated yield rates for the next generation iPhone's in-cell touch panel "are too low to generate profits". Japan Display, LG Display, and Sharp are supposedly the three tipped display...

Adam Satariano, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. (AAPL) is preparing to introduce the next version of the iPhone on Sept. 12 in what will be a design overhaul of its top-selling product, according to two people with knowledge of the company’s plans. The people asked not to be named because an official announcement hasn’t been...

Typically when people wish to learn how to code, whether it be CSS or Ruby, a college class would be an excellent choice. But a website called Code School can teach you similar information for a monthly fee of $25.00. Code School's upcoming installment to their course guide will be dubbed "Try iOS". The course...

All those who've upgraded their Macs to OS X Mountain Lion should check out Mountain Tweaks 1.0, a cool application that lets users fully customize their new OS by changing hidden settings. Developed by Fredrik Wiker, the maker of popular Lion Tweaks application, Mountain Tweaks focuses on a user friendly user-interface, even more tweaks and the ability...

While Apple is battling with Samsung in one of the biggest-ever technology patent trials, a Taiwanese university National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has sued Apple for infringing upon two of its voice recognition patents, Reuters reports. The suit was filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas which alleges that the technology found in...

Ahead of potentially multiple product launches including the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, Apple is reportedly securing a lot of component supplies resulting in increased expenses by $1.15 billion sequentially in the June quarter (via Apple Insider). Company's growing prepayments were revealed in the company's 10-Q filing and highlighted on Monday by analyst Maynard Um with Wells Fargo Securities....

Weather apps. If I had a nickel for every weather app on the App Store I wouldn't necessarily be rich, but I'd have a lot of nickels! Into this crowded category comes Solar, a beautiful new weather app from Hollr that stands out from the fray through a combination of an attractive UI, thoughtful implementation of features,...

The Apple and Samsung patent battle is starting to really heat up these days. We've seen a countless number of iPhone and iPad prototypes out of the court documents just in these past few days. This is a case that began in April of 2011 after Apple accused Samsung of copying the iPhone and iPad. Since the...

Coming exclusively from a "reliable source" this morning iLounge has surfaced many new details on Apple's whole product lineup. The iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are all expecting upgrades coming up later this year. So one-by-one we are going to review details iLounge has surfaced on each product. The iPhone Apple's iPhone should be ready to...